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SECOND LANGUAGE by BODUR
Step inside a song before it exists and experience sound being born in real time
Over three days between the 10th and the 12th of December, join visionary artist BODUR as she breaks open the studio and invites you inside her creative world. A boundary-pushing voice whose debut album explored the Arabic maqam system to reclaim heritage and rewrite pop. This isn’t a performance—it’s a live installation where composition happens before your eyes, your presence becomes part of the song, and music becomes the universal language that connects us all.
BODUR will be turning the creative process into the show. For three days, you’ll observe as she and her ensemble of musicians and producers respond to the space in Gallery 2, co-creating in real time with you. No barrier, no hidden back-room, just your energy shaping the songs that will eventually become her next project, SECOND LANGUAGE.
On Saturday 13 December at 18:00, the process culminates in a live performance in the Collections Hall. The first full realisation of what you helped make. Surrounded by the archive, a new language will be written in sound.
Header image: BODUR in front of Le Train Bleu in gallery 2, photographed by Morrigan Rawson