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 Surreal Continuum: Revisiting, Remapping, Reimagining Surrealism festival programme.

Donte Collins, ‘Rehearsal’
© The artist

Elke Erb, ‘Selbstgespräche sind nur Meeresrauschen’
© Akademie der Künste, from: Elke Erb. Mensch sein, nicht (Schupfart:Urs Engeler Editor, 1998). Audio production: Lyrikline/Haus für Poesie, 1999.

Ted Joans, ‘Jazz is my Religion’
© Ted Joans, ‘Jazz is my religion’(1964). Excerpt from Jazz and Poetry (1964), a film by Louis van Gasteren. Courtesy of Eye Filmmuseum.

Ghérasim Luca, ‘Ma déraison d’être’
Original: From: Ghérasim Luca, Héros-limite(Saint-Denis: éditions Corti, 1995).
German Translation: © Mirko Bonné.

Joyce Mansour, ‘Trous Noir’
Original: © 1986 by Cyrille Mansour for the Estate of Joyce Mansour
English Translation: © 2023 by Emilie Moorhouse. Reprinted with the permission of City Lights Books, www.citylights.com.

‘Ogoun’, Jean Métellus
From: Au pipirite chantant, © Paris: éditions Maurice Nadeau (1978).

Meret Oppenheim, Untitled
From: Meret Oppenheim, Husch, Husch, der schönste Vokal entleert sich. Edited  by Christiane Meyer-Thoss. © Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin, 2015. All rights reserved by Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin.

Bert Papenfuß-Gorek, ‘Die Verendung zum Besten’
From: Bert Papenfuß-Gorek. Dreizehntanz (Berlin and Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag, 1988). © Aufbau Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin. 

Nicanor Parra, ‘TEST’
English Translation: © 1972 by Nicanor Parra and Miller Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Shang Qin, ‘Giraffe’
English Translation: © 2023, Michelle Yeh und Frank Stewart.

Kamala Surayya Das, ‘A Hot Noon in Malabar’
© Jaisura Das, 1965, reproduced with permission from Penguin Random House India.