In the experimental audio visual performance “ctrl.xx.tension”, funded by the “Senate for Culture and Europe”, the audience will be taken on a 75-minute live musical exploration of the image of women as shaped by female pop icons, united in a dance performance that makes visible the experiences of discrimination.
The performance features different female* BPoC musicians based in Berlin:
๐๐๐๐๐๐ (Turkey / Germany) – producer & musical director
๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง (Egypt) - performer
๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐จ๐ฏ๐ (Italy) - ney
๐๐ฒ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ข (Algeria) – violin
๐๐ณ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ข (Iran) – santur
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The idea originated in RUSNAM's favorite songs from her youth.
She works through the pop music of female performers at the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2000s, which both shaped her, but in which she was simultaneously excluded as a queer, Turkish-German Berlin musician with Arab roots. Her goal is to reflect these images & to deconstruct their songs to recreate their music, free from stereotypes.
The personal discrimination experiences of all musicians participating play an important part in shaping this project.
Detached from the stereotype of the pop icon beyond the borders of our origins. With BPoC women* who are different and ambivalent, united in a musically experimental performance in which there is not THE woman.
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We reclaim space, especially in popular music,
which has also shaped and influenced our audience.
*All project participants have been affected by discrimination on different levels.
"Ctrl.xx.tension" works through experiences of discrimination and reinterprets roles.
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