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title: "Klasse Wermers | 5 Tracks – Sound Traces of Migration in Urban Space"
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# Klasse Wermers | 5 Tracks – Sound Traces of Migration in Urban Space

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 "This is a recurring scene from my teenage years: we would turn up the music in the car, roll down the windows and drive through the city at night. The bass vibrated through the streets, as though we were trying to announce our presence to the city through decibels alone. The music we played in the car wasn't played in any club — and besides, we couldn't get into the clubs anyway; we had the 'wrong' names and passports. We wanted to be heard – there was no doubt about that. What we didn’t know was that our parents (the so called „Gastarbeiter“) also tried to be heard through their music. This lecture explores the acoustic strategies used by both generations to claim public space through five tracks.

  

 Dr. Gürsoy Doğtaş is an art historian and curator working at the intersection of institutional critique, structural racism and queer studies. He (co-)curated the exhibition 'There is no there there' (2024) at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, 'Annem İşçi – Who Sews the Red Flags?' (2024) at the Museum Marta Herford, and 'Gurbette Kalmak' (Staying in Foreignness, 2023) at the Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol in Innsbruck. He also co-curated the 'What Would James Baldwin Do?' festival. (2024) in Berlin, and the symposium 'Public Art: The Right to Remember and the Reality of Cities' (2021) in Nuremberg. In 2022/23, he was a visiting professor at the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 2024, he was appointed as the QuiS Visiting Research Fellow at the Städelschule and the Goethe University in Frankfurt."

  

 This event is part of the exhibition and research project *Social Class & Landscape* by Klasse Nicole Wermers. The talk will be held in English.


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**Künstlerinnen (m/w/d):** Dr. Gürsoy Doğtaş | Vortrag

**Vortragende:** Dr. Gürsoy Doğtaş 

**Datum & Uhrzeit:** 2025-06-10 16:00:25

**Ort:** Akademie der Bildenden Künste München | Akademiestr. 2

**Raum:** Altbau | A.O2.33

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