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how to live

Annika Kahrs

how to live in the echo of other places

a project by IMAGINE THE CITY

01 Jun–04 Sep 2022

 

Opening

01 Jun 2022, 7.30 pm

 

Schuppen 29, Baakenhöft, 22457 Hamburg

 

Free entry

 

 

Now open to the public for the first time since 2017: in HafenCity’s last unrenovated warehouse building, Annika Kahrs presents how to live in the echo of other places, a two-part exhibition that alternates a ‘concert within the space’ and a large complementary video projection on the façade. Throughout the summer, the artist will use the special atmosphere of Schuppen 29 at Baakenhöft to make other people’s fleeting experiences palpably accessible to visitors. Referencing personal stories she explores the peculiarities of acoustic and visual recollections and how they relate to particular places. For this spatial installation, ten Hamburg musicians have composed their own works in dialogue with Annika Kahrs. To this end, each musician spoke at length with someone to whom they felt a particular attachment about places with personal memories. Short pieces were created on this basis, which Kahrs then translated into a spatial arrangement with the assistance of composer Louis d’Heudières.

 

 

With Ferdinand Försch, Douniah, Louis d’Heudières, TINTIN PATRONE, Tam Thi Pham, Jesseline Preach, Carlos Andrés Rico, Freja Sandkamm, Nika Son and Derya Yıldırım.

 

 

The video installation is based on short texts about memories of a particular place during a sunset, which musicians, friends and colleagues sent in to Kahrs for the purposes of this work. The artist, for her part, looks at the question of whether and how intense visual impressions can be bound to specific locations in our memories. The anonymised material is projected word for word onto a digitally created sunset in a non-specific location. In the course of the loop, the scenes – some of them special, others all too quotidian – are gradually assembled in the minds of the viewers.

 

 

OPENING HOURS:

Sound installation: 

Thu and Fri 5 pm to 8 pm

Sat and Sun 2 pm to 8 pm

for different opening hours imaginethecity.de

 

Video installation:

Thu–Sun from sunset to sunrise

 

 

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silence is the sound of a missed opportunity – Annika Kahrs
 

YELLOW SOLO

April 17 – May 16, 2021

 

The project is the first part of the series entitled MUSIC WITHOUT MUSIC, which will be presented by Yellow Solo in 2021 and 2022 with the participation of the following artists: Annika Kahrs, Dani Gal, Arnold Dreyblatt, Anri Sala, Hassan Khan, Song-Ming Ang and Ari Benjamin Meyers. 

 

 

 

“silence is the sound of a missed opportunity” is a new work by Annika Kahrs, and it is also a claim made by marketing companies advertising for on hold music to fill seemingly empty waiting time on the phone.

 

In Annika Kahrs’ work four musicians, on hold themselves, are not only waiting but simultaneously creating and recording their own on-hold music. The score is written by composer Louis d’Heudieres and is loosely based on the classic lightweight structure of on-hold music. The musicians are waiting for roughly an hour for an unknown connection that may never get resolved. The waiting experience is a friendly one, it is tailored to human needs, and adresses the existential questions that may creep up on you while in the limbo of a waiting line. With no need for a space filler or a time killer, the passive sphere of waiting turns into an active commitment. The musicians are playing for themselves while waiting, without knowing the overall listening experience that is only later accessible for the spectator.

 

 

ANNIKA KAHRS – silence is the sound of a missed opportunity.

Multichannel sound installation, 49 min

Open: April 17 – May 16, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00 – 18:00

Listening to the piece requires a prior email registration for a one-hour time slot and a same-day certified negative test result. Only one person can be in the installation space at a time, we provide hygienic conditions as well as adequate ventilation.

Registration: contact@yellowsolo.de

 

 

ANNIKA KAHRS – Please Hold

Live performance via phone call 

May 2, Sunday, 12:00 – 18:00

Performed by Laura Schuller and Phuong-Dan

The number to call will be provided soon.

 

 

Works streamed online by ANNIKA KAHRS

April 12 – May 16, 2021

the lord loves changes, it’s one of his greatest delusions

2018, 15:48 min

Infra Voice

2018, 10:35 min

Strings

2010, 8:20 min

NO LONGER NOT YET

2019, 17:23 min

 

 

 

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sesin melodim, seslerin yankım benim (tu voz es mi sonido es tu ruido es mi eco)

 

MIND the GAP, Hamburgo

21.10 – 13.12.2020

 

Instalación sonora de Annika Kahrs en colaboración con el músico Derya Yildirim.

 

 

 

La base de la instalación de sonido de 7 canales son las entrevistas que Kahrs y Yıldırım realizaron con los miembros de la familia de Yıldırım, sus padres, hermanos y primos, en Hamburgo. En las respectivas conversaciones se intercambiaron historias personales, específicamente preguntado sobre recuerdos sonoros y personalidad acústica. Estos se tradujeron luego en una compleja instalación de sonido en el estudio de sonido. La música se entiende aquí como una puesta en escena portadora de la memoria y un vínculo intergeneracional: qué canciones juegan un papel importante dentro de la familia, se transmiten a las siguientes generaciones y se reinterpretan, qué sonidos recuerdan los padres de su infancia en Sivas (Turquía), o los hermanos en Hamburgo.

 

sesin melodim, seslerin yankım benim (tu voz es mi sonido es tu ruido es mi eco) invita a los visitantes a acercarse a estos pensamientos y a escuchar el retrato de la familia de una manera temporalmente lineal y espacialmente vertical: cada piso representa a un miembro de la familia.

 

 

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