Intangible Sound of Contact - Istanbul
Intangible Sound of Contact investigates the history of contact between distinct groups of people at the beginning of the 20th century. Based on the history of the Blumenau family, it addresses the German presence in Brazil and Turkey during the so-called new colonialism at the beginning of the 20th century.
The project considers listening as a phenomenon that relates artistic experiences to a specific territory.
Text: Laura Mello
Speakers: Aaron Snyder, Laura Mello, Petra Nachtmanova, Zack Hart
Music: Laura Mello, Petra Nachtmanova, Çağrı Bangevaz
Acknowledgments: Çiğdem İksilik, Lena Alpozan, Pia Entenmann, Sinem Tekel, Jutta and Hans-Joachim Blumenau-Niesel, Cathrin Hermann, Klaus Wolf, Wolfgang Musil.
Funded by: Alumnifonds Tarabya Cultural Academy, Goethe Institut Istanbul, German Minister of State for Culture and Media (Program Neustart Kultur).
Sources:
German Political Archive of the Foreign Office (References: RZ 201/13529 RZ 201/13530, RZ 201/19177, RZ 201/19015, RZ 201/21068, RZ 201/21069).
Veit Veltzke „Unter Wüstensöhnen. Die deutsche Expedition Klein im Ersten Weltkrieg" (Berlin 2014)
Sean MacMeekin: "The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918" (Penguin, UK, 2011)
To discover the brazilian side of this history listen to the Audiowalk O Som Intangível do Contato under this link:
https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/ECqtvt88m7O4kwYK
