Yara Mekawei's "Sonic Map" project presents a sonic tour of Stuttgart, translating the city's industrial pulse, multicultural neighborhoods, and the subterranean tensions of projects like Stuttgart 21 into resonant soundscapes. This auditory journey invites listeners to critically engage with Stuttgart's layered identities, hidden narratives, and power dynamics through the act of deep listening.
Participants should bring headphones and a phone with mobile internet.
Part of Yara Mekawei’s global "Sonic Map" series, this project explores sound as a tool for urban storytelling and social reflection. It examines Stuttgart as a sonic crossroads where tradition meets transformation. Through site-specific recordings — from construction sites to immigrant cafés — the project maps hidden narratives, blending past and present, power and resistance. Using contact microphones, binaural arrays, and hydrophones, it captures the city's acoustic identity, revealing layered histories and suppressed voices. Presented as an interactive "Sonic Map", it challenges conventional urban soundscapes and invites listeners to engage in auditory archaeology. This work reframes cartography as a critical, listening-based practice that questions who shapes a city’s sounds.
Registration required. A maximum of 10 people can take part.
A few days before the event, you will receive an e-mail informing you whether you have been admitted to the event.
Wednesday – Sunday: 12.00 – 18.00
Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays.
Free admission
The ifa Galleries in Stuttgart and Berlin present contemporary art from a global point of view. The work of the ifa Galleries is based on seeing the world from a diversity and plurality of perspectives, discovering new stories, and shaping emancipatory processes, interactions, and artistic spaces. Our focus is on long-term relationships with artists, partners, and visitors, and our exhibitions and education programmes are developed through practices of collaboration that trace global entanglements and piece them together in new forms of narrative.
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ifa Gallery Stuttgart
Charlottenplatz 17
D-70173 Stuttgart
