HKW | Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Archives are the memory space of a society. How can marginalized realities be included in them? Based on this question, a congress will explore the Archiv der Avantgarden of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Master’s and doctoral students from the arts, humanities and sciences, as well as artists, activists and experts from collections can apply to take part in the accompanying Whole Life Academy offering archive viewings, workshops and excursions.

Jan 10, 2019 — Jan 13, 2019

The New Alphabet – Opening Days

Are binary code, algorithms, and DNA the alphabets of today? The current explosion of knowledge is accompanied by the segmentation of the world into the smallest units. The binary code – with only two elements the greatest abstraction of the alphabetical principle – makes the polymorphism of the analog calculable.

Until Dec 14, 2018 | Jan 9–13, 2019

Humanity at Work

Creativity strategies, self-presentation, and management: What knowledge, what skills make people valuable to the labor market? With their solo exhibition Romana Schmalisch and Robert Schlicht draw a portrait of a society that measures its wealth by the work it performs.

100 Years of Copyright

Larisa Kingston Mann: Rude Citizenship

Jamaican musical practice is collaborative and undermines conventional copyright principles: in her keynote, Larisa Kingston Mann examines possibilities for autonomous cultural practice and how the law and media shape them. The video and other audio recordings are now available in the Mediathek.

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

Freedom for the arts! With the declaration, the association Die Vielen e.V. distinctly articulates unity and solidarity in the arts and culture as parts of civil society standing against right-wing populist and nationalist leanings. Haus der Kulturen der Welt has signed the Berlin Declaration of The Many and, together with many other cultural institutions, stands up for unity.

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Online journal

100 Years of Now Journal

The journal explores ideas generated during the course of the transdisciplinary project 100 Years of Now (2015-2019) in greater depth. Artists, scientists, and observers will throw new light on global political conflicts, supposed side scenes of history, and on the planetary entanglement of technological, human, and natural forces.

Publication

The Most Dangerous Game

Ed. by Wolfgang Scheppe
The Most Dangerous Game documents the activities of the Situationist International (S.I.), who, from 1957 until 1972, offered a fundamental critique of the consumerist society. The two volumes reconstruct Guy Debord’s and Asger Jorn’s Bibliothèque Situationniste de Silkeborg in its entirety for the first time and assemble The Archive of Last Images with works of all of the artists of the initial S.I. period. With texts by Wolfgang Scheppe and Roberto Ohrt. (In German)

Online journal

bauhaus imaginista Journal

The online scientific publishing platform bauhaus-imaginista.org is home to details of the research processes and results of bauhaus imaginista.

Online magazine

Technosphere Magazine

Research pieces, essays, artistic and experimental approaches to the technosphere: Which are its organizing principles? How is it inscribed into individuals and how does it shape entire societies?

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.

Website

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

As a collaborative experiment the Anthropocene Curriculum explores the novel epistemic, aesthetic, and educational challenges of the age of humankind. Its online platform Anthropocene-Curriculum.org gives voice to an evolving worldwide network of researchers, artists, and local communities, while inviting engagement and participation in transforming our common knowledge baselines.

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 metropolises Luanda, Kinshasa, Salvador de Bahia, and Lisbon. He documents his research in an English-language blog.

More about the project

Humanity at Work

The New Alphabet – Opening Days

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

Humanity at Work

Humanity at Work

LISTEN [Miyagi Haikus] – Phase I

From Zed to Omega

Humanity at Work

The Discrete Charm of the Alphabet

The Whole Life Academy: Open Call

The New Alphabet – Opening Days

Humanity at Work

Larisa Kingston Mann: Rude Citizenship

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

For further reading

100 Years of Now Journal

The Most Dangerous Game

bauhaus imaginista Journal

Technosphere Magazine

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

Afro-Sonic Mapping

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