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Project Lead:

Nandini Das, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture

Exeter College

About the project:

In 2020, TORCH supported the ERC-TIDE project as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme to bring together an extraordinary creative team to produce the TIDE Salon. 

TIDE Salon is an interactive multimedia collaboration facilitated by TIDE, the award-winning novelist Preti Taneja, six extraordinary sound and spoken word artists curated by creative producer Sweety Kapoor, and critically acclaimed filmmaker Ben Crowe/ ERA Films, which began just as the country and the world went into lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Using TIDE’s research, our musicians and spoken word artists engaged in a unique collaboration online, as they explored these terms and concepts through words and music, asking:

- What do those words mean to us now?

- How does knowing their meaning and migration, change our social world?

- Can we communicate across form, distance and time to explore the politics of translation and its lived realities?

TIDE Salon will take its users on a journey through this collaboration, beginning in Tudor England, and opening up a conversation in England here, and now:

https://www.tideproject.uk/tide-salon/

Transcript:

Click HERE to access the TIDE Salon Transcript

Collaborators:

TIDE project: www.tideproject.co.uk

Professor Nandini Das: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/nandini-das

Preti Taneja: www.preti-taneja.co.uk

Ben Crowe, ERA Films: www.erafilms.org

Sweety Kapoor, Curator / Creative Producer: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sweety-kapoor

The Musicians

1. Steve_Chandra_Savale - Guitarist / Founding Member of Asian Dub Foundation

2. Sarathy Korwar - Tabla & Drums / Critically acclaimed Jazz Music Artist / Trained in Indian Classical.

3. Shama_Rahman - Sitarist, Vocalist, Music Artist / PHD in Neuroscience of Musical Creativity.

4. Ms. Mohammed - Trinidadian-Indian Music Artist / Guitarist / Lyricist/ Singer / Music Producer.

The Poets / Spoken Word Artists

5. Sanah Ahsan – Award-winning Spoken Word Artists / Published Poet / Psychologist

6. Zia Ahmed – Award-winning Spoken Word Artist / Playwright / Young Poet Laureate for London.

Music & Spoken Word Collaborations:
Steve Savale and Zia Ahmed: ALIEN/STRANGER
Ms. Mohammed and Sarathy Korwar: SAVAGE

Sanah Ahsan and Shama Rahman: TRAVELLER