Description
“Prishtina is Everywhere” begins with an episode about radio. The Lawyer, activist and publicist Diana Malaj based in the Albanian City of Kamza presents the power of the medium to produce meaningful collective experiences even under the conditions of authoritarian regimes.
In conversation with Diana Malaj you will hear Lushi, an anthropologist and artist, living in Kukës, a small city in the northeast of Albania, talking about his childhood memories that were formed through listening. A process in which Radio Prishtina played a genuine part forming almost a kind of counter history, and the memory of a generation and the city of Kukës itself.
For this episode, Ardit Hoxha, artist and writer based in Auckland, New Zealand, created a radio play that recounts the enclosure of the commons with adaptations of Albanian folktales. Voiced by Lily Worrall, Nurhan Qehaja and Ardit Hoxha. The music is by Tetris.
Published 11/03/22
This episode focuses on the poetry series ’Kosovo Fugue in Seven Parts’ written between April 7 and April 29 1999 by American poet, activist, educator and architect June Jordan. In these poems Jordan weaves together the events of the war in Kosovo, her personal moments in Brooklyn and the...
Published 10/20/22