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Salah Saouli: Birds' Symphony - Canticle of the Birds

June 25, 2022 12:00 - 22:00

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Installation with 4-channel sound

As suggested by the 48 hour Neukölln festival theme “kafayı yemek”, the work Birds' Symphony – Canticle of the Birds aims to question the current moment when everything seems to be upside down. How do we as humans relate to the current situation? Rather than bemoaning the loss of our former “normal” (which, in fact, has long been neither “normal” nor conducive to humans and other species), the project invites audiences to seek new ways of building knowledge and communities.

The installation takes the poem “The Song of the Birds” by the 12th-century Persian Sufi poet (mystic) Farid ud-Din Attar as a metaphor for the need to seek knowledge and find new ways of life in the present moment. The poem tells the story of the journey of the birds of the world to spiritual knowledge. Each of the birds featured in the poem represents a human error that stands in the way of true enlightenment. While many birds perish along the perilous journey, true knowledge is bestowed on those who reach the goal.

The installation Birds' Symphony - Canticle of the Birds shows a colony of birdhouses placed in an enclosed space, surrounded by the songs of a variety of birds coming from four different directions at different rhythms.

The houses form a rhizomatic web that seems to use every possible niche as a site for a new existence. As in the dense settlements of urban environments, they adapt to the available space. At a time when nature is increasingly being pushed back by human planning and profit, animals are often forced to find new territories, whether in previously unfamiliar natural environments or even in the midst of harsh, urban spaces.

The work Birds' Symphony – Canticle of the Birds becomes a metaphor for the need to search for new forms of knowledge that are better adapted to the environmental changes we are experiencing. Nature has a remarkable ability to adapt to new conditions provided human intervention does not cross certain red lines. The work thus represents a poetic invitation to reconsider our knowledge of and relationship to other species, and to work towards a new understanding of space as an environment that allows humans, animals and plants to coexist.

The installation is part of 48h Neukoelln.

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Date:
June 25, 2022
Time:
12:00 - 22:00
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Website:
https://48-stunden-neukoelln.de/

Venue

Oyoun
Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32
Berlin, 12049 Germany
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