VOICES, VOICES… INEXPLICABLE MACHINERY! is a performance, exhibition and publication project. The sound performance took place at the site where, at the Saxon-Thuringian Industrial and Commercial Exhibition in 1897, black people were put on display in the reconstruction of a colonial setting. The energy and sounds of the performance space are intertwined with compositions and narratives that commemorate the oppressed, crossing temporal and spatial boundaries. Listening together is understood as an exercise that broadens the scope of historical transmission and future perspectives.

Following the performance, the exhibition opened in the showcase of the New Building of the GfZK, including six drawings that were created as sketches for the performance, a spatial intervention, and the sound recording of the performance.