freisprechanlage. staging opinion
July 13, 2011 to July 24, 2011
The festival freisprechanlage. staging opinion asks Munich for its opinion: the interdisciplinary art project features the manifold ways of making freedom of expression audible and visible in Munich - accompagnied by an artistic conversation with Cairo.
During the festival, different events and formats will bring together the performative, the political and the poetic. Bi-, tri-, multilingual. A positioning, an identification, a delineation.
Dates:
July 13 to 21, 2011: Complaints Choir Workshop. PLATFORM3
July 20, 2011, 8pm: Redefreiheit! Poetry Jam. IMPORT EXPORT, Goethestr. 30
July 22, 2011, 9pm: Choir Project Performance and Soundcollage/Party. PATHOS TRANSPORT THEATER, Dachauerstr. 110d
July 24, 2011, 7pm: Closing event: Audio, Film and Talk. IMPORT EXPORT, Goethestr. 30
Kindly supported by Ausländerbeirat München
Freedom of opinion means that anyone can express their opinion openly. This assumes, however, that one actually has an opinion, and it also includes the right to abstain from making a statement. How does this 'freedom' manifest itself in Munich? What happens when opinions are given center stage?
With a Complaints Choir Workshop, a series of different events and formats, a film work and installations in public space, the festival will stage opinion being voiced and examined with a critical eye. It will take free speech literally and will make opinions visible and audible, which also means to open the term 'freedom' up for discussion. In this context the festival will draw the connection from Munich to Cairo and the so called 'Generation Tahrir' (an allusion to the main site of the Egyptian Revolution), where the term 'freedom of expression' has recently taken on a whole new meaning.
Conceived and curated by Sara Duana Meyer (PLATFORM3)
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More about the events and happenings:
Freedom of Speech!
Poetry Jam with the Expressbrassband
Festival opening: July 20 | 8pm | IMPORT EXPORT, Goethestr. 30
A Poetry Jam starts off the festival freisprechanlage. staging opinion with a literary take on: well-known poets, writers and Spoken Word Artists from Munich and Cairo will perform literary opinion pieces and demonstrate how they understand freedom of speech.
Supported, accompagnied and followed by equally well-known musicians who will convey their opinion in their own and unmistakeable expressive way.
Bi-, tri-, multilingual. The spoken word holds.
Christine Auerbach, www.write-club.de
Daniel Graziadei, www.danwillschreiben.de
Franziska Holzheimer, www.franziskaholzheimer.de
Salam Yousry, www.evelyn-bassem-salam.com
www.expressbrassband.de
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Freedom to listen, hear and move!
Choir Project Performance / Live-Stream Soundcollage / Party
Juli 22| 9pm | PATHOS TRANSPORT THEATER, Dachauerstr. 110d
The Choir Project performs the results of the workshop – in German, English and Arabic.
Afterwards Munich goes face to face, or rather, ear to ear with Cairo: soundartists from Munich will interact and jam live with the audience in Munich and soundartists in Cairo via live-stream. DJ Dompteur Mooner adds tracks and tunes to this virtual soundcollage. Listen, speak up, and dance!
Sound:
Marcel Ralle, Munich (Kidstardust)
Adham Hafez, Cairo
DJ Dompteur Mooner, Munich
Visuals:
VJanes zoo.pks and NEONouveaux
The Egyptian filmmaker Ahmed Zeidan shows another part of his ongoing video project WHAT YOU MUST NOT HEAR
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Expressing opinion between Munich and Cairo.
Audio, film, talk.
Final Event: July 24 | 7pm | IMPORT EXPORT, Goethestr. 30
Concluding this festival, the participating artists and guests will be asked to voice their own opinions in a podium discussion. Film and audio tracks will document the festival and present works created during the festival period.
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WHAT YOU MUST NOT HEAR
Documentary and film work
July 13 - 24, 2011
The Egyptian film maker Ahmed Zeidan will document the festival by taking on a (seemingly) exterior viewpoint on how freedom of expression is being voiced in Munich. His work will contribute a narrative and aesthetic strand to the theme by collecting 'confessions' by random people. What you never dared to say loud - here you can voice it. Recorded without sound, by someone who doesn't speak your language. To participate call 0151-43511542.
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SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU. SPEAK UP
Installation and Intervention
July 13 to 24 | ART BABEL, Dachauer-, Augusten-, Karlstraße
The Munich-based artist Anna McCarthy creates a wall mural: the work in progress visualizes the arbitrariness of what is heard by whom - before it will be painted over again shortly after being finished.
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In collaboration with:
www.thechoirproject.webs.com
Special thanks to:
Stefan Winkler, Ghada El-Sherbiny and Goethe-Institute Cairo
IMPORT EXPORT
Expressbrassband
Caram Kapp and OMRAS
Greta Hoheisel
