My Mother's Tongue
„This performance came about due to my longing for my mother tongue and because I have never been able to speak it freely.„
Sultan Çoban is a famous singer.. She has come to Freiburg from Amsterdam for this concert. The concert starts but the vocals don‘t enter. The singer listens to the intro of the song for 17 minutes and prepares to enter with her vocals, but the note she is waiting for never comes. This site-specific performance/installation takes place inside an imaginary television set. The garage the performer is in is an old tube television. The doors open after the music starts and close before the music ends. The live audience never witnesses the whole performance, the whole version is only seen in the documentation. What remains of the performance is a video recording that has been made for the installation, and so is the microphone and the spotlight. Her earrings, sunglasses, fragrance, and pocket mirror are displayed on red-velvet draped shelves the artist made for this exhibition. Additionally, there is a separate monitor in the exhibition space that shows the singer’s thoughts as subtitles in video form with a blank black background.
Site-Spesific Performance & Installation, 17“ Minutes Loop
Elements: Self-constructed and Draped Red Velvet Shelves, Microphone, Projection, Musk
Golden Earrings, Sunglasses, Pocket Mirror, Monitor with subtitles, Spotlight
Curated by: Valentina Ehnimb & Tuula Rasmussen / Exhibited in November 2023 at Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany as part of group show TREASURE for Regionale24
