Duration
8.5.25, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
Personaleingang
Admission
Free
Info
step through is a performance series by TAF (Turkish-Armenian Friendship), developed within Gülbin Ünlü’s commission Nostralgia at Haus der Kunst. Each 30-minute performance weaves sound, movement, and image into a slow transformation – part concert, part apparition, part interruption.
It begins behind closed doors: a flicker, a sound, a shadow. Figures emerge like scenes from a fading film, barely perceptible, moving through the building’s sealed thresholds. The staff entrance becomes a live portal where fiction and presence collide. Neither fully inside nor out, the performers move through shifting states, connecting the enclosed architecture with the English Garden beyond.
Each performance becomes a surreal passage confines of the building to the openness of the outdoors. The transformation is physical, emotional, symbolic: from interior to exterior, from grayscale to full spectrum, from encoded histories to the unstable terrain of collective becoming.
TAF was founded in 2022 by Gülbin Ünlü and Veronica Burnuthian, later joined by Erol Dizdar and a shifting circle of collaborators. In dialogue with Ünlü’s broader commission, the band treats sound as a portal—like the sealed doors that gesture toward alternative narratives and unrealised realities. Within this framework, TAF becomes both a sonic and performative response: a refusal to remain locked inside imposed histories, a movement through and beyond the occidental gaze.
Referencing DAF (Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft), but rerouting its lineage, TAF blends post-SciFi Orient beats, diasporic residues, and contemporary pulses. Each performance is a new configuration—new rituals that insist on transformation.
TAF moves in between: languages, scenes, systems. Not seeking resolution, but resonance. As Gülbin Ünlü reimagines the sealed doors of Haus der Kunst as openings into parallel realities, during each Open Haus, TAF extends the invitation: step through.
Nostralgia by Gülbin Ünlu is supported by SAHA.