REST AS RETURN
GENERAL INFO
- FORMAT
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Embodied Listening
- LANGUAGE
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English
- YEAR
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2025
- COLLABORATOR
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Radio Relativa
- EPISODE BY
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Julian Rieken, Vika Privalova, Yoojin Lee
- SOUND IDENTITY
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Tom Fischer (Action Pyramid) and Simon Williams (Sunny Graves)
We move through a soundscape woven from breaths, silences, and the emotional textures of rest. Rest as resistance. Rest as space, body, and environment. For twenty months, the world has ended and cruelly continued. Julian explores rest not as escape, but as political refusal — walking, mourning, and pausing as acts of presence. Vika invited people to share sounds that feel like rest: not narrative stories, but ambient, intimate fragments — personal, political, embodied. Together they form a collective sonic pause. Meanwhile, Yoojin tends to a compost heap in northeast London, where stillness meets movement in layers of decay and renewal. Across these practices, rest is not an end — it’s a becoming. A slow revolution. A lingering. A refusal to vanish.
With deep gratitude to all who have walked, wondered, and worked alongside:
Salma Al ayoubi, Olfa Arfaoui, Hailey Basiouny, Mahmoud Darwish, Tamara Kalo, Bakr Khleifi, Yoojin Lee, Haytham El Wardany, Uwe Rieken, Raja Shehadeh
Thank you to everyone who shared their sounds of rest:
Teona from Kyrgyzstan, Diana from Germany, Nastya from Ukraine, Yuriy from Brazil, Evgeniy from Ukraine, Alla from Siberia (my mom), Lelya from France, Said from Iran, Jonathan from England, Maria from Switzerland, Dima from Spain, Evelina from Mexico, and the anonymous contributors.