Dreams of a Sovereign Citizen – Istanbul / The Backroom Community (sings for the shaken)

What type of acoustical force can be heard against and above a prevailing system of silencing and censorship? How might one shift the tones of domination, which work to capture the multiplicity of social becoming within its frequency?

The counter-tonalities of escape, and of refuge;
And the orchestration of alternative volumes;
Around which they and them may tune to other social constructs.

Based on an audio diary in which all sounds are recorded continuously over the course of five-days in Istanbul, the investigation takes shape as an amplification procedure: a room fitted with loudspeakers that play back the daily accumulation of audio. Including the input from a diversity of participating contributors (working within the academic system, and who are subjected to current governmental oppressions) – who undertake to record everything they do and everyone they meet, the presentation performs as an auditory assemblage or “sonic block” of life lived.

As a sound system, the presentation aims to perform an interruption onto the invasive silences derived from principles of domination and that work to draw closed one’s lips, reducing the joyful expressivity of life and the erotic sharing of togetherness.

Monday, May 1 – Friday, May 5, 2017

Halka Art Project
Caferaga Mah. Bademalt¦ Sok. No: 24/1
Kad¦köy 34710 Istanbul

In collaboration with Jeremy Woodruff and the Istanbul Technical University.

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