Echoes

“Time passes.
Another catastrophe.
A crater in our consciousness.

And we begin making up the world again.”
—Himali Singh Soin, As Grand As What

An echo, a sound wave reflected from a distant surface, connects different places and times. Fragmented reverberations transmitted from afar mingle with noises of the present and mutate current socio-economic constructs.

Echoes is a group exhibition of performances, screenings, workshops, and artist talks that unfolds over 10 days. This experimental format introduces a new model that redefines exhibition and programme making for Haus der Kunst, while setting out to transform the ways in which art history is considered. The exhibition brings together artistic practices that respond to ongoing politics of de-historicization and cultural forms of amnesia, as well as focus on the passage of time and the inevitable transformation that comes with it.

Ain Bailey, Lamin Fofana and Abdullah Miniawy investigate how the affective medium of sound carries personal and collective memory and how practices of collective listening become both a site for remembering and redefining the present. Audiovisual works by Onyeka Igwe, Christelle Oyiri and Tarek Lakhrissi tackle the fiction of linear historiography, shaped by Western domination through a sensual and auto-fictional layering of narrative strands. Lafawndah & Friends’s collaborative sound performances unfold as a contemporary epic through the juxtaposition of many voices, whilst Hylozoic / Desires’s (Himali Singh Soin & David Tappeser Soin) multi-media performance explores the role of rituals for notions of time that are responsive to their surrounding ecosystems. Contemporary rituals of dance and performance and dynamic states of witnessing that resist archival processes are also central to the works of Michele Rizzo and caner teker.

Feeding on personal origin stories with historical sources, rites, and ancestral mythologies, the artists explore the ruptures both in collective and individual memories and propose a coexistence of multiple temporalities. Sound, movement, and non-linear storytelling form the means with which they conceive memory as a dynamic, embodied experience that permeates the complex layers of the present.

“X is reinvention.” —Christelle Oyiri in Love Mathematics

Curated by Sarah Miles, Elena Setzer and Sarah Johanna Theurer

Echoes Programme
March 3, 2022, 7:30pm
Abdullah Miniawy and Justin Urbach
Film screening: I Am In The Sea Now

March 3, 2022, 8pm
Abdullah Miniawy: concert with Peter Corser

March 4, 2022, 7pm
Abdullah Miniawy: artist talk

March 4, 2022, 8pm
Abdullah Miniawy: concert with Carl Gari

March 5, 2022, 4pm
Onyeka Igwe & Christelle Oyiri: film screenings and artist talk
the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered;
Collective Amnesia: In Memory of Logobi

March 5, 2022, 8pm
Lamin Fofana: sound performance
Here Lies Universality / Unfinished Elegy

March 9, 2022, 6pm
caner teker and Michele Rizzo: artist talk

March 9, 2022, 8pm
Michele Rizzo: performance
Higher.xtn

March 11, 2022, 8pm
Lafawndah & Friends: sound performance
Fanfare for the Warriors

March 12, 2022, 8pm
Crystallmess: sound performance
Godspeed

March 13, 2022, 8pm
Hylozoic / Desires: film screening with sound performance
As Grand As What

March 13, 2022, 2–7pm
Ain Bailey: workshop
What Does Your Life Sound like?

March 3—13, 2022
Tarek Lakhrissi: film screening
Spiraling

March 3—13, 2022
caner teker: poster installation
Anarchiving (Echoes)

All times in CET.

For more details on the programme, please visit hausderkunst.de.