SAHA supports Banu Çiçek Tülü’s new project titled Aural Flesh at The GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen between 31 August 2024 – 5 January 2025.
Banu Çiçek Tülü uses sound as a medium and method to draw attention to things that often elude our ears. In Aural Flesh she addresses the relationship between memory and sound as well as the role of hearing in the context of orientation and asks about their physical implications. What do we perceive when we listen with our whole body? To what extent does a medical operation turn a body into a non-human object? In what ways do inside and outside relate to each other in different rhythms and through sound? For Aural Flesh, new works are being created that focus on the migrant body and transform the exhibition space into a hearing body interior: hand embroidery and hand knitting hang from the ceiling, veins of fabric and a sculptural sound installation run through the room - an organic-technical hybrid is created.
Banu Çiçek Tülü (1984, Adana) is an artist, music producer, DJ and researcher with a background in urban design, ecology, feminism and queer theory who uses artistic, cultural and political imagination as tools for social change. Between techno and experimental electronic music, Banu Çicek Tülü creates astonishing experiences in her DJ sets while designing a clear transition between music and sound art. The lecturer in the Sound Studies program at UdK Berlin and guest lecturer in the music department at the College of The Arts in Windhoek, Namibia, believes in the political possibilities of sound and music, using both as a means of empowering diverse communities and minority groups. She lives in Berlin.
About GAK
The GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (Society for Current Art) dedicates itself to the production, presentation and mediation of international contemporary art. The art association was founded in 1980 and ranges among the most important institutions for contemporary art in Northern Germany.
GAK’s premises are located on an island in the river Weser in the center of Bremen, sharing the building with the Weserburg Museum für Neue Kunst. Since its foundation GAK has presented more than 200 solo and group exhibitions as well as projects in public space alongside a broad series of events including lectures, performances, workshops, screenings and talks. The institution has been offering a platform for many artists putting their work up for reception and debate before they became known internationally.
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