Exhibition / Taming the City — Local Stories by Özcan Ertek and Bea Targosz at Errant Sound

Poster: Miłosz Szczęsny @szszszcz

Exhibition: Taming the City — Local Stories by Özcan Ertek and Bea Targosz.

Opening:
5.12.2024, from 18:00, multichannel live performances by Max Joy and cem ç at 19:30
Exhibition Opening Times:
6–12.12.2024, daily, 16:30–20:30

The exhibition by @ozcanertek and @beatargosz focuses on non-human actors of the city network. Two sound installations presented in the exhibition are dedicated to common urban animals: pigeons (Columba livia domestica) and firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus). 
Both species are known for their preference to live in cities. Staying in humans' nearest surroundings, they become some of our closest neighbors and active participants in the urban environment. They find their paths within infrastructures and architectures created after ISO standards, measurements and DIN regulations based on human scales, preferences, and organisms. As beings of different scales, animals find their own ways of approaching and using these structures, and by misusing them, they provoke new, different sounds. 

In their projects, the artists analyze, record and wonder about animals’ activities, paths, rhythms as well as their non-obvious sonic presences in the urban environment with an attempt to shift the perspective on the local infrastructures, participants and actual soundscape. They bring forth sounds that have been or could be produced by non-human citizens. 

Finissage:
12.12.2024, from 18:00
Performance by Roberta Busechian & Catalyst students at 19:30

Address:
Errant Sound @ Miss Read
Gerichtstrasse 45/Backyard
13347 Berlin Wedding

@beatargosz
@ozcanertek
@maxjoymusic
@robertabusechian@ossagrosse__
@cemcakmak.works
This exhibition is kindly supported by @adam_audio
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Poster: Miłosz Szczęsny @szszszcz