You'll find an overview of the current events in our online calendar.
July 7 - 'Drifting through the Archipelago' visits 'Kunsthaus Reading Club'
5pm
Exhibition visit, Tour and Reading Group
Kunsthaus Hamburg
Sign up via e-mail to register@kunsthaushamburg.de.
This event will be held in German, the Artwork uses English.
How can marginalised individuals emancipate themselves from the prevailing cultural norms and identities? The Cuban-American theorist José Esteban Muñoz answers this question in the book Disidentifications: Queers of Colour and the Performance of Politics (1999) with his concept of "disidentification". The introduction to this seminal text for queer studies was first published in German translation in 2023.
The multimedia work [After her Destruction] by Lila-Zoé Krauß tells the story of Girl and her search for possibilities of identification beyond restrictive social norms. Girl finds answers after travelling through her mind with the computer program The Art of Mind, in her imagination and the "performances" of the queers she encounters there.
On 17 July, the reading group "Drifting through the Archipelago" will visit the Reading Club at Kunsthaus Hamburg. There we will experience the work of Lila-Zoé Krauß, curated by Anna Nowak, receive a guided tour and then discuss excerpts from Muñoz's text in the context of the artwork.
Registration and text via the Kunsthaus.
5pm
Discussion and Reading
ArchipelagoLab (C5.225)
This event will be held in English.
How do theories of race, gender, class and postcoloniality intersect in the Archives and how can we bring them to light in a creative way?
Together with Yvette Christiansë, we will explore how the Archives can be used in poetic ways. Her research has taken her to archives in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, in the USA and within Africa. She currently teaches poetics and creative writing with a focus on the African diaspora and the former English colonies.
As part of this event, Yvette will read from her poetry, and all students are welcome to bring any troubles, insights and questions they have regarding their own reading and writing to the talk afterwards.
Yvette Christiansë is a Professor of Africana Studies and English Literature at Barnard College, poet, novelist and librettist and currently Public Fellow at the LIAS, Leuphana.
Organized by Linn Felgendreher.
May 7 - Critical Whiteness in Film as Decolonial Strategy?
6.30pm
Discussion and film excerpts
ArchipelagoLab (C5.225)
Using film excerpts, we want to discuss if and how the concept of Critical Whiteness can be productively applied in documentary and artistic-essayistic films. To what extent are Critical Whiteness approaches in film suitable for anti racist and decolonial image politics?
Organized by Leon Follert and Julian Volz.
*Event Note*
7.30pm
Video Installation + Talk with Artists
Colectivo Penitente
Avenir Rösterei (Ilmenaugarten 137c, Lüneburg)
This event will be in English.
Colectivo Penitente is a Colombian interdisciplinary art collective. Their video project approaches the concept of abandonment, combining visual arts and dance. The realization of the four chapters dance series was supported by the Colombian Government and enrolled more than fifteen dancers in a collaborative and performative process.