Exhibition
Burka Band
Music Videos
Recorded on the streets of Kabul, the Goethe-Institut in Exile is showing three music videos by the Burka Band - probably the "bravest band in the world". Among them is the video for the catchy hit "Burka Blue", which can not only be read as an ironic response to Western superstar and girl group images, but also cheerfully and self-ironically paints the counter-image of a world that, then as now, is seen as primarily war-torn and inhuman. The videos created in 2002 testify to recuperative potentials that shake stereotypical assumptions or at least call them into question.
There were two concerts and a workshop on pop music instruments and modern recording techniques. In the course of this, the first Afghan women's pop band was formed: the "Burka Band", three women in typical national clothing, the full-body veiling burka.
Burka Band - Burka Blue
Details
Kunsthaus ACUD
Veteranenstraße 21
10119 Berlin
Price: free entrance
Part of series Festival Goethe-Institut in Exile Afghanistan