LTPK is a project that aims to create encounters for producing spoken words and soundtracks within site workstations in three cities: Johannesburg, Cairo, and Geneva, where local artists, performers, musicians, and writers meet and engage in both production and process through close jamming sessions to explore the particularity of sound elements and languages of each locality, engaging with the LTPK proposition, concept, and concern of social justice and its relationship to language.
LTPK carries a cluster of questions that intend to resonate: How does social justice or inequality embody language and sound? Is the notion of justice relative regarding geography, history, and social context? If this relativity is inevitable, how can we find common ground to discuss it? Since we all have a larynx and still can shout, these questions and others need to be addressed via our artistic and social apparatus. The project intends to respond to these questions through discussion, writing sessions, recordings, and performance nights that take different phases from online processes and platforms to site-specific work.
LTPK started as an initiative by three artists: Gilles Furtwängler, spoken word and visual artist (Lausanne); Mohamed Abdelkarim, performer, visual artist, and filmmaker (Cairo); and Thsepang Ramoba, musician (Johannesburg).