Thomas Burkhalter - Anthropologist, Multidisciplinary Artist + Writer

Thomas Burkhalter

Anthropologist, Multidisciplinary Artist + Writer

Music: Melodies In My Head (2025)

Curation: Director/Founder Norient (since 2002)

Workshop: Goethe Institut Sri Lanka, 2022

Local Music Scenes and Globalization. Transnational Platforms in Beirut. Book about alternative music in Lebanon. By Thomas Burkhalter

«Clash of Gods» is theatre, dance, DJ-set and audio-visual media collage. The performance by Thomas Burkhalter and Christophe Jaquet leads midst into the battle for cultural, political, moral interpretations and definitions of our world.

Book: Transnational Platforms in Beirut, Routledge (2013)

Theatre: Clash Of Gods (2018)

Podcast: Long Take: Life as an Artist (2024)

In zwölf kurzen Podcasts stellen Studierende der Universität Fribourg zwölf promovierte Ethnolog_innen und Sozialanthropolog_innen vor. Ein Seminar von Dr. Thomas Burkhalter

Film: Contradict (2020)

The Arab Avant-Garde - Music, Politics, Modernity. Edited by Thomas Burkhalter, Kay Dickinson and Benjamin J. Harbert.

Teaching: University of Fribourg (2021)

Book: The Arab Avant-Garde, Wesleyan University Press (2013)

The Norient exhibition Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World showed and discussed contemporary video clips, tracks and sound art from around the globe. Curated by Thomas Burkhalter, Theresa Beyer and Hannes Liechti

Exhibition: Seismographic Sounds, Norient (2015-2017)

Norient Festival Bern - The former Norient Film Festival was founded 2010 by Thomas Burkhalter and Michael Spahr in Bern, Switzerland

Book: Home is Where the Heart Strives (2025)

NAIROBI'S NEXT GENERATION MUSIC PRODUCERS AND PERFORMING ARTISTS SPEAK OUT. A podcast about alternative and underground music in Kenia by Thomas Burkhalter

Curation: Norient Festival (since 2010)

The second Norient book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» introduces you to a contemporary world of distinct music, sounds and music videos. Edited by Theresa Beyer, Thomas Burkhalter, and Hannes Liechti.

Podcast: Timeszones - Nairobi (2021)

«Sonic Traces: From the Arab World» offers music, sounds and noises from the Arab World: Propaganda music by political groups and clans, psychedelic Arabic Rock from the late 1960s and 1970s, the noises of bombs and machine guns, ...

Book: Seismographic Sounds, Norient Books (2015)

Performance: Sonic Traces From the Arab World (2013)

January 2025, Melodies In My Head album shoot with Daniel Jakob

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