Soundscapes of Intersectional Encounters: Exploring Identity Through Sound
The exhibition and educational project Soundscapes of Intersectional Encounters: Exploring Identity Through Sound deals with the production of sound – from popular and artistic music productions to oral narratives – which are identity-forming for diasporas and intersectional communities.
Popular and artistic sounds, music and narratives in particular are often representative of an imagined sense of togetherness. This encompasses far more than regional and mostly fictionalized particularities and contexts, – even though these sounds stand as binding and as self-understanding-generating for a larger group, a group that defines itself purely through media experiences rather than through real, verifiable biographical dependencies. Sound moments and soundscapes can often be perceived as an image of diaspora belonging and emancipation. These collaborative auto-ethnographic media forms, the independent categorization and description of group histories, differs greatly from the expected image of diaspora as a closed, regionally bound group of experiences. This exhibition project therefore aims to present narratives through digital media contributions that reflect the language of auto-ethnography and ultimately make it usable and understandable for a larger public. The aim is to create a pidginized exhibition space that will enlarge and grow audibly and visibly during the exhibition through the program and educational events.
with contributions by: Brishty Alam, Salah Ammo, Zehra Baraçkılıç, Luiza Furtado, Studio Hassan, Ursula Hemetek, Hopscotch Reading Room, Simon Inou, Janine Jembere, Roshini Kempadoo, Stephanie Misa, Hosam Omran, Ruby Sircar, Deniz Sözen, Sakina Teyna, Sinthujan Varatharajah
Public Program with: Salah Ammo, Luiza Furtado, Seba Kayan, Hopscotch Reading Room, Hosam Omran, Studio Hassan, Sakina Teyna, Sinthujan Varatharajah
Curators: Ruby Sircar and Zehra Baraçkılıç
Exhibition Design: Studio Hassan, Zehra Baraçkılıç, Ruby Sircar
Opening Performance by Luiza Furtado and Seba Kayan
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Soundscapes of Intersectional Encounters: Exploring Identity Through Sound
The exhibition and educational project Soundscapes of Intersectional Encounters: Exploring Identity Through Sound deals with the production of sound – from popular and artistic music productions to oral narratives – which are identity-forming for diasporas and intersectional communities.
Opening
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Schillerplatz
Exhibit Gallery
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Soundscapes Curators Tour
and talk with Janine Jembere
Three teachers and educators, curators and artists: Janine Jembere, Zehra Baraçkılıç, and Ruby Sircar will talk about voices, sound, music, lyrics, creating audible texts and discussing the possibilities of teaching emotions as academic techniques and accepting didactics to be still colonized – how to change them? And is it possible to teach non-linear narratives?
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Schillerplatz
Exhibit Gallery
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Sakina Teyna X Salah Ammo
Concert, lecture and talk with Zehra Baraçkılıç
What happens if your home and homeland are just imaginations that have been gambled away by colonial powers – from the Osman Empire to the British and French repression to Turkish, Iraqi, and Syrian denial? How to communicate the beauty of one’s own voice when one has never heard it in public?–
Schillerplatz
Exhibit Gallery
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Hosam Omran X Dalia Hassan
Concert, lecture and talk with Zehra Baraçkılıç and Ruby Sircar
Inviting different generations to the project and exhibition space is important to show the commonly understood narrative offered by various diaspora and migrant communities. We thus cover a timeline from the late 20th century to contemporary productions while the stories and biographies represented go far beyond it – being caught in the onslaught of the aftermath of colonial and economic propositions that might even be unwanted.
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Schillerplatz
Exhibit Gallery
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(Cancelled) Simon Inou X Course Participants
Workshop hosted by Zehra Baraçkılıç and Ruby Sircar
Simon Inou will help participants of the course to realize their projects as podcasts by offering an introduction to consciously using media and radio programming to create intersectional narratives and allow a rethinking and undoing of privileges that are not blessings but rather disguised hindrances to create future linearities.
Workshop
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Schillerplatz
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Can you speak Emotions? Curators Tour
We create space for communication every day, here we learn, unlearn and relearn. We try to create visibility for decolonial thinking, anti-racism, emotions and intergenerational perspectives.
Guided Tour (German)
Schillerplatz 3
1010 Vienna
Exhibit Gallery, 1.floorExhibit Gallery
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Hopscotch Reading Room
Bookshop, discourse platform, political centre, community space: The Hopscotch Reading Room is the first book and reading space in the German-speaking world that, as an intersectional space, helps to make visible groups that have no right to speak, diaspora communities, migrant literature and unpublished political and poetic thoughts.
Lecture
Schillerplatz 3
1010 Vienna
Exhibit Gallery, 1.floorExhibit Gallery
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D-Arts - Impulse lecture - Diversity in the Austrian cultural landscape?
As a project co-operation partner of the exhibition project Soundscapes of Intersectional Encounters: Exploring Identity Through Sound, D/Arts is an important contemporary input provider at a local level. The exchange between the academy, as a generator of knowledge, other cultural organisations and groups that are not at the assumed centre of a cultural landscape is exciting and will be discussed here.
Lecture
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Schillerplatz 3
1010 Vienna
Exhibit Gallery, 1.floorExhibit Gallery