COSMOS returns to the Refuge Worldwide booth. This month we're emerging ourselves in a Moroccan film music special, and a re-run of Tabideee’s primer to Sudanese electronic music.
Tune in via Refuge Worldwide on Monday, 13 April, starting at 5PM CET.
Balkis Guetta is a filmmaker and curator of North African descent. With a background in sociology and cinema, she has worked as a programmer at the multidisciplinary art centre LE 18 Marrakech, a former COSMOS Embassy. She is also the co-founder of Film W Glissa, an independent film festival in Marrakech, which aims to promote emerging and independent cinema from the so called ‘Global South’. She’s now part of the SoundSisters Morocco collective, an all-female DJ group based in Marrakech.
Tabideee is a DJ, researcher, and archivist exploring the critical contributions of Black communities across the continent and diaspora to electronic music. Her sound pays tribute to Afro-Arab electronic productions, specifically exploring her Sudanese heritage and neighboring influences.
Through this, she has developed an archival practice documenting music that moves beyond traditional institutions — drawing from platforms like YouTube, SoundCloud, cassette mixtapes, phone recordings, and personal fieldwork. This evolving archive serves both as a method of documentation and sample pack – a palette of sounds used in her sets, soundscapes, audio lectures and her own productions.
Next Sunday, we will send out a newsletter interview with Tabideee to learn more about her archival practice. Subscribe here.
