New Alphabet School: #Healing

This edition of the New Alphabet School will focus on afro-diasporic or folk healing practices, therapeutic or shamanistic modes of cure and restoration and Indigenous, decolonial and feminist practices that hold a transformative power.

The Current – Mississippi. An Anthropocene River

The Mississippi river landscape is a textbook example of how geological and settlement history, politics and economics, the bio- and technosphere interlock in the Anthropocene. As part of The Shape of a Practice, an installation shows field research by artists, scientists and activists who are developing local approaches to today’s planetary crises along the river.

The Broken Archive: Black Italy

Traces of the African diaspora have been disregarded in the canon, they remain mute in museum collections. With other experts, the artist and initiator of Black History Month Florence, Justin Randolph Thompson, discusses how Blackness can be made visible in the self-image of the Renaissance city and the art collection of the Uffizi Galleries.

Education Shock

Rethinking spaces for learning: The Education Shock exhibition and two publications take a look at the unparalleled utopias and global developments of the 1960s and 1970s and rediscover them as resources for current debates.

Politics of the Dance Floor: Reset

Neoliberal structures dominate the music industry; large corporations hold the monopoly. How can the gatekeepers’ power be redistributed? The third episode of the podcast, Reset, is about the economic aspects of club culture.

HKW Friends

Free admission to exhibitions, discounted tickets for selected events, previews and looks behind the scenes: HKW Friends explore the present together and get up close to contemporary art production. Become part of the community or gift a membership!

Animism

Animism is the belief that all things in nature are animated. The 2012 exhibition by Anselm Franke suggests the revision and decolonization of the traditional understanding of animism. It can now be seen as a digital exhibition on e-flux.

Institute of the Cosmos

The ideas of the cosmists live on: In Art Without Death, HKW looked at the Russian cosmism movement, which called for immortality for the living, the resurrection of the dead and travel into space. Approaches from the exhibition and conference have now been incorporated in a digital platform that brings together historical material and contemporary essays, videos and printable 3D sculptures. The many contributors include Boris Groys, Hito Steyerl, Trevor Paglen and McKenzie Wark.

Internationaler Literaturpreis

Literature can change how we see and conceive the world. It can help to translate and augment reality – especially in times of crisis. The Internationaler Literaturpreis annually awards an outstanding work of contemporary international literature and its first German translation. Publishing houses can submit current or upcoming books until January 31.

Education Shock

New Alphabet School

Schools of Tomorrow

The Whole Life: An Archive Project

Gezeitendenken

Edited by Katrin Klingan, Nanna Heidenreich and Rana Dasgupta, 2020
What forms of political organization are possible beyond national structures? The final volume of the 100 Years of Now Library questions the nation state system, investigates how its mechanisms structure today’s world order and encourages looking beyond its boundaries.

Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – The Original

In the 1920s, Aby Warburg created his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne which in the modern art and visual studies has taken on mythical status. The volume gathers the 63 plates – newly photographed from the original images, along with essays by Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil, Bernd Scherer, Bill Sherman and Claudia Wedepohl.

New Alphabet School

How does language influence thought? How can we develop other forms of learning and acting? From the politics of translation to practices of weaving: Speakers and workshop participants from the New Alphabet School share their questions, observations and studies on solidary practices of knowledge production on the blog.

Wörterbuch der Gegenwart

Ed. by Bernd Scherer, Olga von Schubert and Stefan Aue, 2019
What comes after universalism? The volume uses key words such as Thing, Justice and Body to ask about ways to redesign the world linguistically and visually. With new and historical contributions by, among others, Philippe Descola, Nikita Dhawan, Liz Johnson Artur, Achille Mbembe, Sarah Sharma and Wole Soyinka.