​​​​​​​Annika Kahrs: how to live in the echo of other places

Annika Kahrs: how to live in the echo of other places
Schuppen 29, Baakenhöft, 20457 Hamburg
Entrance on north side, please follow signs
1.6. – 4.9.2022

Presented in partnership with Imagine the City
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how to live in the echo of other places is a two-part multimedia installation by Annika Kahrs for Schuppen 29 on Baakenhöft in Hamburg’s HafenCity. The project consists of a sound installation and a video projection that transfer subjective memories acoustically and visually into the Hamburg present. For the exhibition, the artist cooperates with ten Hamburg musicians.

For the walkthrough sound parcours inside the shed, each musician asks a person to whom they feel connected about personal places of memory. On the basis of these conversations, short compositions are created that interact with each other in the space during the day. In turn, Kahrs asks the musicians themselves to tell of memorable experiences. These are translated by the artist into video sequences that are projected on the outer façade during the nighttime in a continuous loop that is visible from afar.

In this way, the former “Cocoa Warehouse” becomes the site of a web of memories made up of images and sounds, which visitors help to create through their movements. This last remnant of Hamburg’s former free port in HafenCity enters into a spatial and temporal dialogue with its ambivalent history on the occasion of this polyphonic activation.

Artists: Annika Kahrs with Ferdinand Försch, Louis d’Heudières, Douniah, TinTin Patrone, Tam Thi Pham, Jesseline Sarkodie Preach, Carlos Andrés Rico, Freja Sandkamm, Nika Son, Derya Yıldırım.

Curated by Ellen Blumenstein.

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