Seda Mimaroğlu – Ağıtlar
Friday, 18 September⋅9:45 – 10:30am
At 9.45am Seda Mimaroğlu presents ‘Ağıtlar’ (Laments) – a piece that weaves together voice, music, and field recordings composed across different times and geographies.
Seda is an artist and poet from Istanbul, now based in Berlin, working across text, sound and image. Her practice moves between poetry, performance, and research, thinking about language, translation, mythology, and historical crises.
‘Ağıtlar’ began from a moment of dissonance in the northern Aegean: a radiant landscape overshadowed by nearby forest fires, with planes passing overhead to drop water. The piece holds this simultaneity of beauty, threat, grief, attachment, and lamentation. It reflects on destruction, care and on the fragile persistence of memory tied to places.
The composition combines newly recorded material with earlier recordings and fragments. One segment includes “Orman,” a track by the duo İkili (her collaborative project with Andreas Reihse), originally contributed to a forest-aid compilation. Soundscapes are from the Aegean coast, California, Berlin, New York, Istanbul, Naples, Romania, and Southeast Anatolia. Conceived for radio, the piece draws on lament as a vocal tradition, sending fragments of loss and care into a shared but unseen listening space.