Longing for Community

DJ and Artist Seba Kayan usually works with sounds that she collects, creates, resamples, rearranges, reinterprets, redifines and remixes. Her project "Genesis of a Sound Teller" brings together those who are passionate about techno and those familiar with the Anatolian soungs. On a dance floor, she usally gives both groups the possibility to meet, dance, and learn from each other. Here, she shares her collection fo sounds inspired by her Kurdish-Anatolian heritage, uses songs by musical storytellers called dengbejis and introduces them to the world of techno. 

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How do we gather? What kind of communities do we form? As new encounters and gatherings become more difficult and are even considered a threat to our mutual well-being, during the Covid pandemic, the exhibition explores forms of artistic exchange in public or virtual space. Be it an invitation to have tea together in public, a quest for a common non- verbal language, a reflection on the dialectal expressions of collective activities or an encounter between two music genres and their audiences, the participating artists present ways of being together in a time when community is in question. Language and action-based communication open up further exchanges, meetings or assemblies, which may take place in physical or digital spheres and imagine a possible, alternative institutionality.