Sensing Sites – Decolonial Memory Search

Sound sculpture and performance Duration: approx. 30 min. The Incautious Gaze class="std_grid_8"> The Incautious Gaze is part of " Sensing Sites–Decolonial Search for Memory ", a citywide programme that runs from 23. October to 29. November and deals with colonial traces, cultures of remembrance, and the question of how (histories of resistance and emancipation) can become visible, audible, and tangible in public space. Artistic works, performances, talks, films, walks, and other formats open up different perspectives on colonial continuities and decolonial forms of remembrance. The Incautious Gaze sound sculpture by Orkan Aydin, Doğukan Pahsa and Perfin Hozatlıoğlu Performers: Tarik Moussaid and Álvaro Rentz What does it mean to find oneself when gazes from outside "make the self feel alien"? "The Incautious Gaze" takes up an allegorical engraving by the Flemish artist Theodoor Galle from 1601 and transforms the "head house" depicted in it into a sound sculpture. Two performers explore the installation in approx. 30-minute performances, encounter a gaze upon foreign worlds, and enter a world of sound between seduction and disquiet. Music and performance become a poetic spectacle in the collage about perception, desire, and the exhausting confrontation with the power of the gaze. The installation can be seen in the atrium of the Lenbachhaus from 1. November to 6. November. The performances take place on …