objects of the wind II
Mira Mann
Performance with Domi Chansorn, Sascha Kunz, Yoo Ka Kim, Yeong-Cheol Jang, Han Kyul Limb, Sunjeong Park, Irene Markert, Hwa Cha Pak, Soo Ja Chung, Young Woo Lee, Kum Sun Kim, Ok Hi Kim & Chung Soon Lee
20 Jul 2024, 20:00 Free admission
Mira Mann, objects of the wind, in the frame of Circulating Copies, IMAI 2024, Photo: STUDIO PRAMUDIYA / NPI.
Mira Mann’s performance objects of the wind II revolves around questions of transcultural relationships and the resulting ruptures between experience and memory, reality and fiction. The performance uses percussion sounds as a form of musical storytelling: drum sounds meet Korean pungmul drums and create multi-voiced soundscapes that tell of abandonment, sorrow, devotion and transformation.
Mira Mann interweaves drum rhythms, Korean pansori motifs, traditional dance and call-and-response elements to create resonant spaces for collective memory, diasporic experience and mythological narrative. Rhythm, song and movement are used to imagine spaces where different temporalities come together.
In addition to percussionist Domi Chansorn, Mira Mann works with two Berlin percussion ensembles, including the Verein Koreanischer Krankenschwestern, -pfleger sowie Krankenpflegehelfer*innen. Founded in 1972, the association is one of the oldest migrant self-organisations in Berlin, founded by nurses from Korea who initially came to Berlin as contract workers. An additional ensemble playing samulnori, a genre that developed as a stage form from pungmul and consists of four percussion instruments that symbolise the four weather elements rain, wind, lightning and clouds, will complement the performance.
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