{"id":43220,"date":"2025-08-29T11:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/?p=43220"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:59:09","slug":"memory-as-a-living-playful-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/memory-as-a-living-playful-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory as a living, playful tool"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[357],"project_type":[807,725,735,739],"class_list":["post-43220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-solitude-blog","project_type-studio-visit","project_type-formats","project_type-spheres-of-practice","project_type-visual"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"The First Third \u2026 And So Many Beginnings<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\nI\u2019ve just wrapped up the first third of my residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude. The start has been full of encounters, coincidences, and ideas racing through my mind. In the middle of all that, I completed and showed my interactive project Numbers and Squares<\/em> at the summer edition of Open Solitude \u2013 a project I brought here as a well-formed idea and finished on site, ready for people to experience."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":false,"img":[43452],"img_gallery_format":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"In Numbers and Squares<\/em><\/a>, an old recording becomes the seed for an interactive installation that blends play with personal archive. Visitors step into a retro-styled grid of numbered squares, each hiding a question, a word, and a fragment of the artist\u2019s family history. Layer by layer, these unlocked memories reveal everyday life in exile, filmed by family members and woven with reflections on cultural identity, longing, and resilience. Developed at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2025 with programmer Lena Irmler, the work invites audiences to explore how memory can be both a game and a living archive."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":true,"img":[43460,43464,43456,43462,43458],"img_gallery_format":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"An Archive That Came Back to Me<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\nShortly after my journey to Akademie Schloss Solitude, I had a real scare. My bag of Hi8 tapes \u2013 the ones I brought to keep working on my family archive \u2013 got lost at the airport. For a moment, it felt like a piece of memory I depend on had just slipped away. A few days later, it arrived in the mail, like the thread of the project had been put back in my hands. I also had with me a bag of cassette tapes with recorded family phone calls. As I digitized and revisited these sounds and images, new layers of the story began to surface. Then, in a flea market in Stuttgart, I stumbled upon a family photo album that looked uncannily like my own family\u2019s album. That strange resemblance sparked the idea for a project connecting two memories \u2013 one I know by heart, and another that\u2019s a mystery \u2013 yet somehow, they look almost the same.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"img_gallery":false,"img":[43467],"img_gallery_format":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"A Project Waiting for Winter<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\nBefore arriving, I had started Inside the Box<\/em><\/a>, a project about how an entire place could be built from the archive \u2013 from photographs, phone calls, and videos. Here at Schloss Solitude, I'm not building it yet. Instead, I'm diving into the cassette tapes that made their way back to me, digitizing them and uncovering new threads for the story.\r\n\r\nAlongside this, the flea market album I found has sparked a different idea \u2013 a separate work that could bring it together with my own family album, and possibly photographs from other families who wish to participate. For now, my focus is on preparing the next iteration of Inside the Box for the winter edition of Open Solitude."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Plans and Open Horizons<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe next two-thirds of my residency feel like two open horizons: finishing the projects that have started taking shape here, and welcoming new ideas that keep emerging. I\u2019m also trying to give a clearer path to ideas that have been with me for a long time: Should I continue my academic studies, or keep going with my journey of research and experimentation through art residencies that give me the joy of discovery and the freedom to create?\r\n\r\nBetween all these questions, I\u2019m mapping out how to share these projects in ways that invite the audience to step into them \u2013 to explore, to interact. For me, my personal and family archive isn\u2019t just raw material. It\u2019s a space for research and experimentation, one that can open readings that stretch from the intimate and personal to the political and historical. And I\u2019m looking forward to opening it up even more \u2013 to collaborations, to exhibitions, and to letting these works live fully in the hands of an audience and out in the world."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"has-bg-grey","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Hiba G. Isleem<\/span> is an architect, researcher, and filmmaker, residing in Salfit\/Palestinian Territories. As a storyteller, she uses experimental videos and films to explore the complex fabric of Palestinian culture. Her works address themes of displacement, daily struggles, and identity, employing symbolism and abstraction to offer nuanced perspectives."}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43559,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43220\/revisions\/43559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=43220"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=43220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}