20 Sunsets

In the exceptional time of the pandemic, the arts are leaving interior spaces. They are rediscovering the outdoors. For the festival, HKW invites the city to its rooftop terrace. On six weekends there will be concert sets, films, readings, and talks by and with Berlin’s international artists and cultural professionals.

A Slightly Curving Place

Can sound take you to another place – or to another time? The exhibition centers on a polyphonic, spatially staged audio play: A dome made up of 21 loudspeakers creates a three-dimensional sound space and unites literature, dance, music, and sound design. Contributors include Padmini Chettur, Alexander Keefe, and Uzma Z. Rizvi

The Disappearance of Music

“Traditional” instruments are losing their importance; tracks can be made digitally and easily on laptops and smartphones. How does this change music, how does it change the live experience? And how are musicians dealing with the disappearance of concerts during the pandemic? In the run-up to the discursive music festival in November, Lucrecia Dalt, Barbara Morgenstern and many others will document how a new piece of music is produced with a new “making of” every week.

Letters to Joan

A correspondence on the care discourse during the pandemic: Artists and scholars write to Joan Tronto, a chief representative of care ethics. Contributions by Patricia Reed, Edna Bonhomme, and Johanna Bruckner span genealogical, political, and planetary approaches – from the co-dependency of knowledge and care to a litany for surviving the Black Death to caring constellations in the earth’s atmosphere.

River Memory

From floating casinos on the Mississippi to advancing industrialization along the river or the pushback [of/by] environmental initiatives: A podcast series gathers the memories of residents from St. Louis and East St. Louis and makes their stories, marked by the Anthropocene, audible.

Dictionary of Now

Democracy Lectures

The New Alphabet

The Anthropocene at HKW

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. The HKW exhibition on Warburg’s Bilderatlas has been postponed to fall 2020.

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.

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

The research platform Anthropocene Curriculum explores novel epistemic, aesthetic and educational challenges of the age of humankind. The global network of initiatives is engaged with developing experimental and experiential approaches to co-learning and co-producing knowledge in a rapidly changing planetary situation.

Wörterbuch der Gegenwart

Ed. by Bernd Scherer, Olga von Schubert and Stefan Aue, 2019
What comes after universalism? The final volume of the 100 Years of Now Library 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.