06.10.2021
(Into and) Out of This World images
Exhibition imagery, all photos by Viktor Knötzel:
Performance by Melodi Soltani:
On the occasion of (Into and) Out of This World musician Melodi Soltani created a sitespecific performance piece that investigates the connections and boundaries between self, mother and foremother.
With her performance Soltani wants to investigate the connections and boundaries between the spaces that are inhabited by yourself, the one that gives birth to you, the one who gave birth to the one birthing you, and so on moving back through your genealogy. The work is an embodied and auditive examination of heritage and an eager attempt at finding common ground, when cultural, linguistic and earthly/mortal borders create disruption and limits. In her identity - and ethnicity-seeking performance, Soltani will channel elements from her foremothers through her own body and through a computer. Processed rhythms from a passed grandmother’s daf-drum and words from a mother in a mother tongue that is also a second language, are the keystones of the work’s soundscape; and elements that have not before met. The performance took place in the window of Annual Reportt facing the street. Here, the viewer will see and hear it amidst the street noise, separated from the artist, on the other side of the glass.
With her performance Soltani wants to investigate the connections and boundaries between the spaces that are inhabited by yourself, the one that gives birth to you, the one who gave birth to the one birthing you, and so on moving back through your genealogy. The work is an embodied and auditive examination of heritage and an eager attempt at finding common ground, when cultural, linguistic and earthly/mortal borders create disruption and limits. In her identity - and ethnicity-seeking performance, Soltani will channel elements from her foremothers through her own body and through a computer. Processed rhythms from a passed grandmother’s daf-drum and words from a mother in a mother tongue that is also a second language, are the keystones of the work’s soundscape; and elements that have not before met. The performance took place in the window of Annual Reportt facing the street. Here, the viewer will see and hear it amidst the street noise, separated from the artist, on the other side of the glass.