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Can the ethnographic gaze be “given back,” restituted? The exhibition takes up topics related to writer and traveler Hubert Fichte (1935-1986), from Hamburg’s gay 1960s subculture to arts and religions of the African diaspora and a utopia of sensitivity. With works by Kader Attia, Papisto Boy, Renée Green, Euridice Kala, Tiona Nekkia McClodden and many others.

Nov 21-24

Right the Right. Ideas for Music, Copyright and Access

Copyright is in crisis. Technologies are transforming power relations, practices and access to music and media culture. Right the Right investigates the problems with and alternatives to music copyright. With concerts by Chicks on Speed, Hermeto Pascoal, Howie Lee, talks with Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst and many more

Until Nov 2019 | Field Notes

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River

On their River Journey, researchers, artists and activists are investigating Anthropocene changes throughout the various river regions. The participants post their impressions and research data in the Field Notes. The journey leads them to a one-week River Campus in New Orleans.

Until Jan 6, 2020

Spectral-White. The Appearance of Colonial-Era Europeans

Julius Lips aimed to refute colonial myths of white supremacy. The ethnologist collected portrayals of Europeans as “exotic” foreigners. Based on Lips’s work, the exhibition raises questions about the power of the gaze and its reversal, but also about the problematic role played by ethnology.

Until Nov 17

Afro-Sonic Mapping

What sonic affinities are there between music scenes in Luanda, Salvador da Bahia or Lisbon? The exhibition Afro-Sonic Mapping follows the traces of African diaspora sounds. Finissage with sound performances and talks with Greg Tate, Fred Moten and Satch Hoyt.

Journal 100 Years of Now

Schools for Future

How can we imagine schools that take part in shaping a desirable tomorrow? Educational theorist Keri Facer examined already in 2017, in the context of the HKW program Schools of Tomorrow, the challenge of rethinking the relationship between schools, society and the future.

Nov 30 & Dec 1

Education Shock

Where does knowledge originate? How can places of learning be designed to be more social? The conference will discuss the spatial and educational policies of the 1960s and 1970s and their relevance for the renewal of today’s schools, academies and other places of education. Participants include Elke Beyer, Catherine Burke, Ola Uduku and Francesco Zuddas.

2016–2019

Kanon-Fragen

With Kanon-Fragen, since 2016 HKW has been developing research-based exhibitions that grapple critically with the canonization of modernity. In the fall of 2019 Love and Ethnology, Afro-Sonic Mapping and Spectral-White address anticolonial thinking from German history and how even it reproduces colonial formulas.

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For further reading

Publication

100 Jahre Copyright

Ed. by Detlef Diederichsen and Lina Brion
How do rights determine the frame conditions of music culture? The publication 100 Jahre Copyright (100 Years of Copyright) examines the evolution of copyright since the emergence of the cultural industry and discusses concepts used to protect and promote artistic creativity. With contributions by Monika Dommann, Jessica Litman, Larissa K. Mann, Aram Sinnreich and Ravi Sundaram, among other.

Publication

Schools of Tomorrow

Ed. by Silvia Fehrmann
How can schools become places where alternative designs of the future are created? The volume Schools of Tomorrow examines how experimental practices of the past can be applied to today’s learning and provides access to the latest educational theory approaches. With contributions by Gert Biesta, Catherine Burke, John and Evelyn Dewey, Keri Facer and Luis Armando Gandin, among other.

Website

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

The research platform Anthropocene Curriculum explores novel epistemic, aesthetic and educational challenges of the age of humankind. Currently the digital platform also serves as a research tool, discussion forum and public portal for the transdisciplinary research project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.

Blog

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.

Online journal

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

The international exhibition project Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology is being accompanied by the web journal projectfichte.org. It offers insights into the writing of Hubert Fichte (1935–1986) in German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Wolof and English. The writer and ethnologist is considered a poetic and documentarian realist precursor for new disciplines in Germany such as Queer Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

Publication

Love and Ethnology

Ed. by Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke and Haus der Kulturen der Welt
From „Baroque“ to „Vodou“ to „The Gayification of the World “: The publication brings together essays, artistic text contributions and a glossary that explains Hubert Fichte's theoretical vocabulary. These are supplemented by statements from the project stations in Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Dakar, New York and Lisbon, as well as extensive photo series depicting the artistic works from the exhibition at HKW.

Blog

Afro-Sonic Mapping

What musical patterns have been preserved in the sounds of the African Diaspora, thus defying time and forced migration? Satch Hoyt follows their traces in today’s postcolonial metropolises like Luanda, Salvador da Bahia or Lisbon. He documents his research in an English-language blog.

Right the Right

Love and Ethnology

Spectral-White

Afro-Sonic Mapping

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

Afro-Sonic Mapping

Love and Ethnology

Spectral-White: The Appearance of Colonial-Era Europeans

Guided Tour for Families

Curator-led tour

Afro-Sonic Mapping: Closing Talks

Love and Ethnology

Right the Right. Ideas for Music, Copyright and Access

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River

Spectral-White. The Appearance of Colonial-Era Europeans

Afro-Sonic Mapping

Schools for Future

Education Shock

Kanon-Fragen

HKW Newsletter

For further reading

100 Jahre Copyright

Schools of Tomorrow

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

New Alphabet School

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

Love and Ethnology

Afro-Sonic Mapping

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