Political scientist and researcher Aslı Polatdemir and Corinne Lembe Mayunga, who is a singer-songwriter and systemic coach, will pick up on Banu Çiçek Tülü’s exhibition Aural Flesh, and engage in a conversation on Body and Pain. Guided by Corinne, we will be starting off with some subtle exercises that circle around different tones and voices in a room. Afterwards Aslı and Corinne will introduce their reflections on the exhibition in regards to the interconnectedness of memories, emotions, disease, sound and collectivity in a lecture performance before inviting both the audience and Banu Çiçek Tülü into a joint conversation. Aslı Polatdemir and Corinne Lembe Mayunga both engage in community building and resilience in their work, investigating the possibilities of connecting means of expression with empowerment. During the talk their respective perspectives from both theory and practice will be brought into dialogue with the works that comprise Aural Flesh.
Banu Çiçek Tülü’s installation traces processes of pain and powerlessness while facing wounds and how these can be transformed into electronic sounds while grieving and subsequently healing. It shifts listening towards the inside of the body, emphasizing the physicality of listening.
Banu Çiçek Tülü (*1984, Adana/Turkey, lives in Berlin) is an artist, music producer, DJ and researcher who uses sound as both a medium and a method to make things perceptible that often elude our ears. In Aural Flesh she picks up on the relationship between sounds and memories as well as the significance of hearing in relation to our orientation, questioning their bodily implications.
Aslı Polatdemir is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bremen, and doctoral research scholarships from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, DAAD, and FAZIT Foundation have supported her doctoral research project. She completed her M.A. in Political Science with the accompanying subject of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Heidelberg University as a DAAD scholarship holder (2013). She worked as a researcher and coordinator in the project “Comparing women’s movements in different cities in Turkey” (University of Bremen) and as a researcher in the project “Gender equality actions in Turkey’s higher education” (RWI and SU Gender), served as co-coordinator for the project “#GenderStruggles: Building community resilience via creativity and digital media” (RWI, SU Gender, and CCRD Berlin). In Germany, Polatdemir teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on feminism, women’s movements, and digital feminist activism at various universities.
Corinne Lembe Mayunga is a French-Congolese singer-songwriter and coach with a communication and community-building background. She believes that expressing our truest self allows us to reclaim our creative power, and uses music and coaching to create spaces that foster personal and collective change.
In 2020, she released her first EP The Stories I Told Myself under the artist name of ARA, which explored the power of vulnerability and forgiveness as sources of empowerment. Her artistic self-exploration furthered her interest in the healing arts and led her to obtain a Jungian coaching certificate from the Jungian Coaching School in 2023. Corinne now lives in Hamburg where she is completing a training in systemic coaching at the Paradigm Academy. She combines her passion for sound and coaching to help her clients reconnect with their intuition and move more freely in the world.