The Tanbur concert with Asya Özer explores the relationship between sound and healing. The tanbur is a Mesopotamian long-necked lute that plays a specific role in traditional Mesopotamian medicine, which is based on the similarity of its sound to the human voice. In Aural Flesh, her current exhibition at GAK, Banu Çiçek Tülü traces processes of pain and powerlessness while facing wounds and how these can be transformed into electronic sounds. In the installation Tülü also refers to the Tanbur. The event Healing the wound further explores the relationship between sound, listening, pain and healing. The concert at 6 pm is a listening session for FLINTA* people1 only, everyone is cordially invited to the concert at 7 pm.
Asya Özer is a singer, instrumentalist, and music teacher. In 2008 she completed her undergraduate studies at the State Conservatory of Dicle University with first degree honors. In 2015, upon completing her master’s degree in musicology at the Institute of Social Sciences of Erzurum Atatürk University, she began her doctoral training. Her main fields of activity in Turkey have been youth welfare and social work and teaching. She has always accompanied the people living in Kurdish areas with music and learning, and along the way often had the opportunity to support and encourage them in solving their sociopolitical issues.
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1 FLINTA* includes all those who identify as women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender persons. The * includes all people who do not identify with these labels and are marginalised because of their gender identity.
18 h FLINTA* only
19 h open for all
An event within the framework of the exhibition Banu Çiçek Tülü: Aurel Flesh