'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' presents ?on Sunday 20 and 27 October 2013, ?2pm - 9pm
on the fixed ohrenhoch loudspeaker installation "Bassbox":
Ich und …?
a tape piece (2008)
Idea, text, voice: Narges Hashempour
Tape composition, mix: Knut Remond
Starting from Maulana's mystic parable "The Elephant in the Dark" a change of perspective is made now. The mystic Maulana (1207-1273 n. Chr.) speaks up for humility in demanding religious truth, and thus speaks up for religious tolerance. Maulana's elephant parable is about the search for truth and knowledge of God. In the dark, several participants touch and examine the unknown beast, each one believing to be able to identify the beast. Depending on which part of the elephant's body they touched, they consider the part as the whole.?The tape piece "Ich und ...?" proceeds with this parable. This time it is a woman who, identifying with the elephant, struggles against a power of knowledge which makes out of her just an object of male self-assertion. She tells her story of how she was taken captive.?
Narges Hashempour
For the tape piece "Ich und ...?" I recorded the voice of Narges Hashempour with the text. The text with the voice of Narges Hashempour is in German, and I consciously taped and composed the recording rawly, unvarnishedly and directly. "Ich und …?" was presented at the opening of the exhibition 'Transcultural Paranoia' at Gallery Artneuland in Berlin in 2008, and from a closed box in fact.?The noises and sounds from "Ich und …?" are a mixture or modulated with electroacoustic and synthetic pixels. My idea and approach was that the sounds experience haziness and brittleness, and that the voice together with the sounds with the words is quasi tattooed, forever burnt into the skin.?
Knut Remond 2013
Narges Hashempour
Born 1967 in Teheran, Iran. Lives in Germany since 2005.
Studies: Arabic Language and Literature at Allame Tabatabaei University of Teheran, 1990; Acting and Directing at private theatre school (Qanune Teatre ba Novan), Teheran, 1992; M.A. in Theatre at Azad University of Tehran, 1994; Ph.D. at Freie Universität Berlin 2013 (Theatre Studies) Title: Being Traditional and Modern: Iranian Theatre Culture and Gender Performance.
Since 1991 projects as actress, director, writer, curator and dramaturge in various theatres, films and radio plays.
Grants and Fellowships: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 2005-2006; DAAD, Berlin 2007; Erasmus Mundus ECW, Berlin 2009-2012; International Research Training Group InterArt Studies, Berlin 2012.
Member of Iran Theatre House 1999-2005, member of Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Geschlechterforschung at FU Berlin since 2012.
Knut Remond
Born in Basel, Switzerland. Lives in Berlin.
Founder, art director and curator of the sound gallery 'ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop', and motor for the school 'ohrenhoch-Kids' and 'ohrenhoch-Kids Youngsters' for sound installation and mixed media.
Composer, sound installer, performer and movie sound maker.
Sound formations: 16/17 (1983-94), Voice Crack + Borbetomagus (1988-97), TV-Totem (1982-88), UnknownMix (1983-86), killamor (since 2011).