https://danieldominguez.cargo.site danieldominguez Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:52:26 +0000 https://danieldominguez.cargo.site en https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/image-1 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:45:04 +0000 danieldominguez https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/image-1 https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/text-copy Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:52:26 +0000 danieldominguez https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/text-copy 2 Minutes 40 Seconds (2025) | Sound installation This sound installation revolves around an extraordinary audio recording lasting 02:40min. It was recorded on May 26, 2025, in Gaza. A group of young people sings a cover of “Hallelujah” (Leonard Cohen). Amidst a genocide, they create a brief moment of peace – the singing of these young voices is delicate yet powerful, warm, loving, hopeful, and comforting. They are accompanied by Ahmed Muin on guitar. During the expulsions, he founded “Gaza Birds Singing,” a musical support group. Together with his colleagues, he sings and plays for children and young people and teaches them to play various musical instruments. I juxtapose the singing with everyday sounds from Hamburg. Positioned in a row, three smartphones play these Hamburg-sounds at low volume, creating a background hum that fills the room with a strange tension. The fourth smartphone in the row is connected to a pair of headphones, through which the singing can be heard in isolation, as described above. The austere, almost technocratic arrangement of the installation stands in stark contrast to the emotional voices of the young people from Gaza. As the flashlights from the smartphones dazzle the eyes when sitting down, I also turn the gaze toward us, the viewers in Germany: we have been following the complete destruction of Gaza on our smartphones. The four lights illuminate the darkened room all at once, and when viewed from a distance, they almost seem like glimmers of hope in a jaded world. Listen –> “Hallelujah“ by Gaza Bird Singers <–  Part of the group exhibition “…and yet we are here.” at Frappant Galerie Hamburg, 15. - 24.08.25.With Ayse Ates, Alisa Tsybina, Daniel Dominguez Teruel, Nader Hamzeh, Jenni Schurr, Yi-Jou Chuang Curated by Jenni SchurrPhotos: Ayse Ates, Jenni Schurr https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/image Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:45:21 +0000 danieldominguez https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/image https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/text-4 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:56:09 +0000 danieldominguez https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/text-4 BELLA! NON PLUS ULTRA – Greetings from Heidelberg (2024) | Performance, public space The ruins of Heidelberg – non plus ultra! – an incomparable idyll of German romanticism. Tourists admire the ruins, pigeons inhabit them. Both tourists and pigeons are magnetically attracted to these ruins, the eternal postcard motifs of Heidelberg, the infinitely beautiful selfie spot. Pigeons follow their instincts, tourists follow Google Maps. Pigeons bring droppings, tourists bring money. This  performance in public space encircles the question Where is (my) space? and explores themes such as German identity, social belonging and division. BELLA! NON PLUS ULTRA! views human civilization through the mask of a pigeon. Pigeons largely lead an ostracized existence in western societies and are unwanted, displaced creatures. The performance connected Heidelberg's tourist mile with BELLA PARK. An impetuous place that is not intended to be a tourist attraction. On the contrary. Far away from the tourist hotspot of Heidelberg's old town, some people would prefer it to disappear, along with all those people who are not intended to be part of the romantic postcard image of Heidelberg. Accompanied by musical interventions, a.o. a choir, an eight-meter-tall, green inflatable pigeon was carried in procession from the Heidelberg's old town to BELLA PARK – posing selfie-like from one postcard motif to the next. Watch –> Video excerpt <– (vimeo) Produced by Verein gegen Müdigkeit, Völkerkundemusem Heidelberg. Concept, director, costume: Daniel Dominguez Teruel Performer: Julia Huss, Helena Sander, Daniel Stehle, Nikolai Schuchna, Jasper Schmidt, Felix Abel, Elhem Boubaker Trumpet: Kirt Dallaway Voice: Nouri Violin: Kamil Zawadzki Cello: Pawel Mirowski Choir: a.o. Studierendenchor Heidelberg e.V. Choir director: María Rodríguez Luengo Camera: Johannes Lörz, Benjamin Hotz Colour Grading: Sergi Sánchez Rodriguez Sound: Schubi Müller Contributors a.o.: Peter Anthony, Marcel Back, Jakob Empacher, Shooresh Fezoni, Andro Gegidze, Mariam Gegidze, Jürgen Greul, Anna-Larissa Hoffmann, Manfred Kern, Steven Michael Kuschel, Dorothe Lenz, Freya Magnet, Knut Orawa, Maria Pandalis, Ursula Rimbach, Ute Seitz, Madia Souare, Alban von Stockhausen, Julius Thullner, Moses Tsehaye, Max Wagenmann, Janina Wurbs.Photos: Shooresh Fezoni https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/images-2 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:55:56 +0000 danieldominguez https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/images-2 https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/text-3 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:56:46 +0000 danieldominguez https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/text-3 MEHR ALS NUR EIN LIED / More than just one song (2024) | Concert, public space Part 3 of the performance series “How to Listen to Monuments and what to Listen to when Everything is Meeting?” What songs are there to sing in a time of division, right-wing politics and war? “Mehr als nur ein Lied” is a site specific performance in two movements. The first movement  juxtaposes the German national anthem a.o. with “Das Moorsoldatenlied” (The Moor Soldier’s Song). It was written and sung in 1933 by prisoners of the Börgermoor concentration camp as a protest song against the bestiality of the Nazi regime. “Das Deutschlandlied” (“Song of Germany”), that became in 1922 the first German national anthem, was sung publicly for the first time in 1841 at Jungfernstieg Hamburg. On the 8th may 2024 (“Liberation day WWII) a large a cappella choir sang there “Das Moorsoldatenlied” as an acoustic monument. In the second movement the choir sang a cacophony of 80 alternative hymns, all sung simultaneously. The songs were chosen by the singers themselves. Watch –> Movement I <– (vimeo)Watch –> Movement II <– (vimeo) Co-production Kampnagel, Ratschlag 8. Mai. Funded by Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg. Concept, director: Daniel Dominguez Teruel Choir director: Eva Spaeth Choir a.o.: Joelle Steurer, Dor Aloni, Nouri, Josephine Auvray, Ann-Kathrin Quednau, Dgamr von Renner, Tina Burova, Stefan Wirblatt, Avraham Rosenblum, Mehrnoush Sharifi, Maike Majewski, Alice Barkhausen, Howard Bridges, Johanna von Renner, Jetzmann, … Performance: Timoleon Papadopoulos Drone/Camera: Geerd Jacobs Camera: Jacob Petersein, Saman Maeruf, Artur Brückmann Color Grading: Sergi Sanchez Rodriguez Press: Apricot ProdcutionPhotos: Geerd Jacobs (video stills) https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/images-1 Thu, 06 Apr 2023 13:30:15 +0000 danieldominguez https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/images-1 https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/text-2 Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:36:10 +0000 danieldominguez https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/text-2 VOICES (2023) | Music theatre, performance Premiered at Kampnagel Hamburg 2023, VOICES was an immersive choral-polyphonic work that created alternative and personal hymns with 35 Hamburg (amateur) singers in many different voices. The monolithic idea of national anthems was split into infinity and a cosmic perspective was taken. The choir was arranged like a maze. Singing very different songs simultaneously, individual voices came into focus, overlapping and mixing with other voices to form a kaleidoscopic soundscape. The songs that were sung were suggested by the singers themselves, that I composed into a piece according to a curatorial principle. The audience moved freely through this labyrinth of voices. The theater as an old place of listening became a place of “other listening”. Watch –> Trailer <– (vimeo) Dates29.03.-01.04.23 Hamburg, Kampnagel09.06.24 Hamburg, Fringify Festival Co-production Kampnagel. Funded by Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Rudolf-Augstein-Stiftung, Dachverband freie darstellende Künste Hamburg. Concept, scenography, director: Daniel Dominguez Teruel Performance by and with: Luka Lenzin, Timoleon Papadopoulos, Joelle Steurer, Frauke Aulbert, Ioulia Spanou, Hicham ElMadkouri, Israel Akpan Sunday Choir: Mascha Umbach, Solisten des Hamburger Knabenchor (Enno Gerhardt, Carl Liebig, Henrik Dreier), Tina Burova, Stefan Wirblatt, Solomiia Dyshliuk, Oumarou Neumann, Avraham Rosenblum, Peter Ruljevic-Oldak, Mehrnoush Sharifi, Julia Marie Englert, Maike Majewski, Alice Barkhausen, Ada Grüter, André Mulzer, Howard Bridges, Johanna von Renner, Junie Kuhn, Arnika Kuff, Walter H. Reynolds, Carlos Martínez Zapata, Annett Assmann, Jetzmann, Liv Neumann, Franziska Chokheli, Lukas Möller Choir director: Eva Spaeth Drone: Christoph Bernhard Production/Technical director: Florian Vitez Sound engineer: Benjamin Kurz Production assistant: Leonie Kellein Design: Friederike WolfPhotos: Marianne Menke https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/europa-images Sat, 20 May 2023 18:25:44 +0000 danieldominguez https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/europa-images https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/text-1 Sat, 20 May 2023 18:39:58 +0000 danieldominguez https://danieldominguez.cargo.site/text-1 europa (2022) | Sound installation europa is a sound installation, concerning the pre existing and permanently installed light sign "EUROPA" on the roof of the Kraftwerk Bille Hamburg. From there, it shines brightly over the roofs of Hamburg since 2019 and, illuminating the darkness, is intended as a “reminder of the EU’s fundamental values such as human dignity, freedom, equality and democracy.” (link) Tho this image, Daniel Dominguez Teruel added a loudspeaker. In 1985, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” - without lyrics - was declared the official anthem of the EU. But if we listen closely to Europe, we hear them singing an old oriental song. The EU is not the same as Europe. The mythological figure of Europa is, at its core, a millenia-old tale from the Orient that tells of the meeting of different cultures, including today's Turkey, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Crete. With the sound installation europa the public space around PARKS becomes an associative space for the identity crisis of the EU with its domestic and foreign policies in relation to the symbol of Europa as a bringer of culture. Text: Almedina Cuevas –> Listen <– 09.09. - 01.10.22 touch don’t touch - Collaborative practices as a sculpture park (link) 09.05.-11.05.23 Alles ist schon da – Performing Urban Curating Now (link) A production by Daniel Dominguez Teruel and HALLO: Verein zur Förderung raumöffnender Kultur e.V. / With funds of Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg Concept: Daniel Dominguez Teruel Voice: Nouri Photography: Edward Greiner Design: Friederike Wolf