Gunta Stölzl Foyer (Phone Booths)
Wed.–Mon. 12:00–19:00
Extended opening hours during evening programmes.
Free entry

The audio installation A Chorus of Tongues in the Gunta Stölzl Foyer is an exploration into the relationship between oraltures and spatiality, highlighting the malleability and different forms that literary interventions assume. Originally conceived as part of Middle Ground: Hargeysa International Book Fair, the installation allows audiences to immerse themselves in the work of different poets through a dial-in phone that leads to poems in various languages.

This iteration of A Chorus of Tongues expands upon the programme Plural Citizenships: Belonging as Becoming.

Dagmara Kraus, ‘Çatodas’
© Dagmara Kraus, reproduced with the permission of the artist
Audio Production: Lyrikline/Haus für Poesie

Safia Elhillo, ‘How to say’
© 2017 by Safia Elhillo, reproduced with the permission of the artist

Athena Farrokhzad,‘[Min familj anlände hit i en marxistisk idétradition]’
In: Athena Farrokhzad, Vitsvit (Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2013)

Athena Farrokhzad, ‘[My family arrived here in a Marxist tradition]’
In: Athena Farrokhzad, White Blight (New York: Argos Books, 2015)
English translation by Jennifer Hayashida
© 2013 by Athena Farrokhzad, reproduced with the permission of the artist and the translator
Audio Production: Lyrikline/Haus für Poesie

Julia Cimafiejeva, ‘Mother Tongue’
Original: © Julia Cimafiejeva, reproduced with the permission of the artist
German translation: © 2022 by Uljana Wolf. Published in: Der Angststein (Berlin: Edition FotoTapeta, 2022)
Reproduced with the permission of the translator and the publisher
Audio Production: Lyrikline/Haus für Poesie (Original)
Audio Production: Uljana Wolf (German translation)

With thanks to Lyrikline for their support