FAMILY RESEMBLANCE 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN
As part of “Fiction makes me nauseous” by Kira Dell and Laura Seidel at the Neukölln Speicher.
Fiction Makes Me Nauseous is a project curated by Kira Dell and Laura Seidel at Neukölln Speicher, combining an exhibition with a performance series across the 48 hours of the festival. In collaboration with scenographer Franz Thöricht, a spatial setting is created for ten artistic positions that interweave personal narratives, theoretical thinking, and social questions: Mina Amiri Kalvøy, Lena Ditte Nissen, Felix Deiters, Agnė Jokšė, Areez Katki, Alexey Kokhanov, Julie Legouez, Melanie Jame Wolf, Mila Panić, and Helena Uambembe.
Increasingly, visual artists are drawing on methods of autotheory, autoethnography, and biomythography to connect personal experience with broader social concerns. Why is social analysis from a first-person perspective relevant – and how is the personal interior entangled with a larger exterior?
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In FAMILY RESEMBLANCE, Alexey maps the emotional landscape of his childhood journey to Uzbekistan. Video projections of Uzbek landscapes and landmarks, along with processed field recordings from the trip, serve as the framework for his vocal performance. He combines original compositions, diary excerpts, and interpretations of songs to create an autoethnographic space of memory.
FAMILY RESEMBLANCE acknowledges that personal remembrance is inseparable from the political. The work reveals how the comfort and security promised by empire are ultimately illusory.
