Name: Songs for Captured Voices
Start: 2022-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Künstlerhaus

Artist

Admin

Singer

Elaine Mitchener

Voice

Stage director

Philipp Bergmann

Thea Reifler

Künstlerhaus Besitz- und BetriebsGmbH

ingelesa

Juan Sebastián Cáceres Lara

Songs for Captured Voices

Vienna

Austria

Künstlerhaus

Public

Approved

The performance "Songs for Captured Voices" features the voices of soldiers from the British and French overseas colonies who were interned in the Brandenburg prisoner-of-war camp Wünsdorf during the First World War. Hiendl, Knak, Reifler and Bergmann worked with sound recordings made at the time by linguists for pseudo-scientific purposes, which are accessible in what is now the Lautarachiv of the Humboldt University in Berlin. While little is known about the individuals whose voices were recorded, vocal archives of the present serve to establish their identity with more precision. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF – Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge) started using voice recognition software to determine the origin of refugees in 2017. This involves the recognition of dialects, creating racist attributions that have political consequences for the asylum seekers. In this project, the artists trace the history of the racialized classifications of body and voice, and the property relations associated with them. While detainees were literally stripped of their voices in order to create a racially based vocal archive, the patterns of classification derived from this are now translated into digital tools that perpetuate the racist colonial order of the past in a migratory regime. "Songs for Captured Voices" will be performed by Elaine Mitchener, an experimental singer, dancer, and composer.
 
In cooperation with Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.

English

Songs for Captured Voices by Hiendl, Noiztik (2022/2022), Zuzendaria Philipp Bergmann, Thea Reifler,, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

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