NKR Call #2: Expanded Turn

Nour Sokhon & Jilliene Sellner

Opening: Sep 09, 2021, 7:00 pm
Duration: Sep 10, 2021 – Oct 10, 2021

Photos: the artists

In their project Expanded Turn, sound artists Nour Sokhon (Beirut, Lebanon) and Jilliene Sellner (Hastings, UK) explore the universality of sonic realities unfolding during the Corona Pandemic. They juxtapose the experiences of geographically distant people and places through different research methods. By collecting interviews, sonic and visual experiences, Sokhon and Sellner bring to life cultural assumptions, prejudices, understandings and commonalities.

»In keeping with the upheaval of the last 18 months, at the moment it is likely that the exhibition will take place in our absence. We are sending you sonic messages that open emotional borders towards listening, sharing and care emerging from the experiences of 2020.

If you are in Düsseldorf, visit the sonic exhibition Expanded Turn at NKR. You can move through the space and experience a scoundscape of interviews, field recordings and reflections. In response to the ongoing work you are invited to share your own thoughts and feelings via a tape recorder that is installed in the exhibition space. The material will be added to Expanded Turns archive and will transform into different artistic translations in the coming months.

This is an invitation for you to send us your personal experiences during this uncertain time. You can participate online at any time. Record a voice message describing what you see, hear, smell, feel. Share your recordings of the soundscape that surrounds you. Send us photos of the view from your home or your home from outside. We are looking for contributions from people of all ages and genders from Beirut, and Hastings.

Send us photos, recordings and voice messages to: expandedturn@gmail.com«

Nour & Jill

Program

Workshop | September 10, 5 - 8 pm
On September 10 from 5 pm to 8 pm, we have invited artist and filmmaker Lena Ditte Nissen to interpret the work with a tour and a workshop. You can share your own thoughts and feelings via taperecorders or on paper. A registration is not required.

Talk | September 23
Together withDr. Linnea Semmerling (intermedia art institute Düsseldorf) and Anne Schülke Nour Sokhon and Jilliene Sellner will reflect on their process and talk about public and artistic archives, deleting archives, grief and lost time and mental health during the pandemic. The talk will be held in English and will be moderated by Lena Ditte Nissen.

The talk will be pre-recorded and shown on the NKR-website from September 23.

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A project by Nour Sokhon & Jilliene Sellner
Sound Mixing and Mastering: Ziad MoukarzelI
Illustration (Project): Hassan Issa
Illustration (Map): Ellie Jewell
Workshop and Talk Moderator: Lena Ditte Nissen

Expanded Turn Workshop

On September 10 from 5pm to 8pm, we have invited artist and filmmaker Lena Ditte Nissen to interpret the work with a tour and a workshop. You can share your own thoughts and feelings via taperecoders or on paper. A registration is not required.

»In this workshop, we will first visit the exhibition by Nour Soukon and Jiliene Sellner, follow the sound works into the public space and create sound collages from voices and field recordings together. Listening becomes a performative act here, as we then reflect on the past one and a half years ourselves and record these reflections in different forms and languages. The results of the workshop will be incorporated into the exhibition and the artists' archive, and thus become an integral part of their ongoing project.«

A project by Nour Sokhon & Jilliene Sellner
Sound Mixing and Mastering: Ziad Moukarzel
Illustration (project): Hassan Issa
Illustration (map): Ellie Jewell
Workshop and Talk Moderator: Lena Ditte Nissen

Expanded Turn Talk

Nour Sokhon, Jilliene Sellner, Linnea Semmerling, Lena Ditte Nissen, Anne Schülke

Nour Sokhon and Jilliene Sellner, together with Dr Linnea Semmerling (intermedia art institute Düsseldorf) and Anne Schülke, reflect on their process and talk about public and artistic archives, deleting archives, grief and lost time and mental health during the pandemic. It is about sonic realities, contact between geographically distant people, interviews and messages that emotionally convey the experiences during the Corona pandemic and present an acoustic commentary on the life-changing situations we all experience.

The conversation was held in English and was moderated by Lena Ditte Nissen.