The exhibition
Virtual reality, art and photography commemorating the Yazidi genocide
Nobody’s Listening is a virtual reality experience and touring exhibition that commemorates the genocide committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people in Sinjar, northern Iraq, in August 2014.
More than ten years on, survivors are still waiting for justice. Many Yazidis remain displaced, families are still searching for missing relatives, and the call for recognition and accountability goes on. The exhibition looks forward: at what needs to happen next, and at what each of us can do.
At its centre is The Forgotten Voices of Sinjar, a 12-minute virtual reality film that takes visitors to Kocho village. Around it, paintings, drawings and photographs by Yazidi, Assyrian and Christian artists, survivors and photojournalists record what happened and what was lost. Above all, Nobody’s Listening pays tribute to the courage and determination of survivors, and gives them a space where they can be heard by people around the world.
Main exhibitions
Select an exhibition to see the poster, photographs and films from each venue.
Also shown at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo to mark the tenth anniversary of the genocide, at the Iraqi Parliament and across Iraq, and at universities, schools and conferences in Europe, North America and Australia. See every venue.
Inside the exhibition
What people say
“Nobody’s Listening is a moving exhibition that pays tribute to the courage of the survivors of genocide and amplifies their call for justice.”Amal Clooney, barrister
“The Nobody’s Listening exhibition is an important way to remind people of the horrors of ISIS, but also to inspire action to ensure this never happens again to Yazidis, Christians or any other Iraqi community.”Ivana Waleed, Yazidi activist and survivor
Nobody’s Listening is an Upstream XR project. The exhibition was designed and produced by Easy Tiger Creative, in collaboration with the Society for Threatened Peoples and the Institute for Transcultural Health Science at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University. It was first shown at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, funded by the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg and under the patronage of Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg.
Bring Nobody’s Listening to your museum, university, embassy or school, as a full exhibition or a VR screening with a talk.
Host the exhibitionNobody’s Listening is produced by Upstream XR · See the project at upstreamxr.com