Installation
Begüm Erciyas: Voicing Pieces

Fri, 18.10.2019 -
Sun, 20.10.2019
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, The Lab

In Voicing Pieces, your own voice is staged to become the protagonist. In the intimacy of an isolated sound booth, guided by a simple score, you become spectator of your own voice.

Aren’t our own voices always inauthentic and uncanny? Who is speaking, when your own voice speaks? Rather than recognizing yourself in the stranger, Voicing Pieces is an invitation to recognize the stranger in yourself.

Concept - Begüm Erciyas Realisation - Begüm Erciyas and Matthias Meppelink Dramaturgy - Marnix Rummens Live-operation - Eric Desjeux, Marc Melià, Begüm Erciyas Text - Matthias Meppelink, Begüm Erciyas, Jacob Wren Set Realisation - Tim Vanhentenryk, Lena Buchwald, Barbara Greiner Artistic Collaboration - Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias Production Management/ PR - Barbara Greiner Production - Begüm Erciyas, Platform 0090 Co-production - wpZimmer (Antwerp), STUK (Leuven), Tanzfabrik Berlin/Tanznacht Berlin Research support/residency - Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk), Q-O2 Workspace for experimental music and sound art (Brussels), FrankfurtLAB, Tanzrecherche NRW, Villa Kamogawa, Goethe-InstitutSupported by  - Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin

"It is a long journey, although it lasts only half an hour, which eventually brings you back home to yourself, to your own voice. And it will never sound the same again. Magical."
– deMorgen
 

© André Wunstorf

Begüm Erciyas is a performance artist born in Ankara, Turkey working across various disciplines - most prominently dance and performing arts. Her works have been internationally performed, for instance at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Kaaistudios (Brussels), iDANS (Istanbul) and the Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna) amongst others.