Nobody’s Listening: An Immersive Exhibition Promoting Justice for Iraq's Forgotten Genocide
Press conference: Thursday, 30.09.21, 11 am CEST, ZKM Museum Balcony and online at 3 pm CEST (in English only) via Zoom.
Press conference participants will be able to visit the exhibition at 11 am before the opening, do interviews with the people involved and try out the VR tour on site. Online participation will also be possible in the afternoon. The digital press conference will be held in English and translated into Arabic and Kurmanji on Zoom.
Hybrid Exhibition Opening on Friday, 01.10.21, 6 pm CEST, ZKM Media Theater and online.
On October 1, 2021, the immersive art and virtual reality exhibition »Nobody's Listening« will open on the Museum Balcony of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The first presentation of works by Yazidi artists in this exhibition uses virtual reality technology to take museum visitors through the destroyed houses in the Iraq town of Sinjar and confronts them with the devastating consequences of the genocide against the Yazidis which was perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State (IS) on August 3, 2014 in northern Iraq. Under the patronage of Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of the State of Baden-Württemberg, this exhibition was organized by Yazda, the international advocacy organization for Yazidis, in cooperation with the Society for Threatened Peoples and the Institute for Transcultural Health Research at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, and will be on view at the ZKM until January 9, 2022.
Press Release
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Hala Safil, Yazidi activist© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Photo: Felix Grünschloß -
Lamiya Aji Bashar, Yazidi human rights activist, Sakharov Prize laureate© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloß -
Curator of the exhibition (l.); Haider Elias, President of Yazda (r.)© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloß -
Co-curator Teresa Retzer explores the virtual reality portion of the exhibition.© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloß -
A view into the exhibition »Nobody's Listening« at the ZKM Karlsruhe© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloß -
View into the exhibition »Nobody's Listening« at ZKM Karlsruhe© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloß -
The panel participants of the opening at the ZKM Media Theater© ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloß -
Hala, Yazidi activist and genocide survivor (Beserve IDP Camp)© Hala, Photo: Hailey Sadler -
Berseve IDP Camp 2019, Photo: Hailey Sadler© Photo: Hailey Sadler -
Woman in Mosul, Photo: Mario Pimnenta© Photo: Mario Pimnenta -
Children fleeing Sinjar, Photo: Zmnanko Ismail© Photo: Zmnanko Ismail -
Children fleeing up mount Sinjar, Photo: Zmnanko Ismail© Photo: Zmnanko Ismail -
Sadiq Khedar »Fleeing from death«, Oil on Canvas© Sadiq Khedar -
Jamil Soro »Yazidi Girl in Traditional Robes«, Oil on Canvas© Jamil Soro -
Salam Noh »The Darkness is covering me«, Oil on Canvas© Salam Noh -
Suhalia Dakhil Talo, Untitled, Oil on Canvas© Suhalia Dakhil Talo -
Ivana Waleed, Untitled, Acrylic on paper© Ivana Waleed -
Nahrin Malki »Sales of Women«, Mixed Media on paper© Nahrin Malki
