Memories in motion

An evening filled with a potpourri of sounds, songs, dances, and scents. Memories of home and childhood, prompting the question: what significance do they hold today? This evening will showcase four individual perspectives, shaped by political and systemic circumstances and realities that grapple with the understanding of traditions, memories, and homeland. These four young emerging artists express personal reflections and emotions through dance, sound, text, food and installations. What unites them all is a critical reinvention, an opening of new thoughts and spaces.

What do one’s own memories sound like? With this question, the piece explores one’s mind with old memories and the soundscape created by the imagination. In a self-experiment, particular memories of mine are recreated, differentiated, defined, and deconstructed. A process that our brain performs with memories is taken into the hands of compositional tools and influences. Combined with sounds from a simulated past, neurological and physiological components are translated into artistic expressions – neuronal noise becomes noise music, brain waves become sub bass carriers. A dive into a perspective coming from a diasporic identity is being sonified- diaspora and brain sounds, as soundscapes and dream tent. A soundscape creation that has never taken place in the exact form somewhere around me but in my own thoughts. As far away as possible but as intimate as if it’s whispering into the ear.

Realities collide and redefine an emerging imaginary soundscape. Thinking back and thinking anew. Changing and yet reminiscing.

Drag Dinners is a series of works, in which a different type of restaurant is imitated each time.

The aim is to adopt the aesthetics and food style of these restaurants without reproducing the hierarchical, exclusionary and exploitative structures of restaurants.

A dance installation about porous traditions.

My body remembers. where do they stick, these traditions? i will sit here with them, with you. between the memory and the momentary experience. rhythm is a memory in the now. “zwüsche dä hüglä& between the hills” is a performance about forgetting, repressing and remembering again. through an old song, the imaginary story of vreneli and an unusual musical instrument, lea samira seeks to queer these traditional elements and make them permeable.