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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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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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Annika Kahrs

Achim, Germany, 1984

Lives and works in Berlin

 

 

Annika Kahrs is a Hamburg-based artist who primarily works with film, performance and photography.

 

In her work Annika Kahrs examines representation and interpretation; she is interested in both social and scientific constructs, as well as evolved organic relations such as those between humans and animals. Her films oscillate between obvious staging and documentary-like observation; a distinctive implication in Kahrs’ videos is that she never hides herself in the film, even if her presence is only unveiled in a short glance from an actor to the director, it reveals a singular approach to her environment almost guided by a mathematical process.

 

Kahrs’ videos are like composed choreographies. Music often plays a role in her films, not only presented pictorially or on the audio track, but converted into image; through her selection and the ensuing adjustments during the process of editing partitur turns to film, and, subsequently, this film as partitur can turn into another film in the viewer’s mind.