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Right the Right

Ideas for Music, Copyright and Access
Concerts, talks, performances
Nov 21–24, 2019

Streaming services, upload filters: How does platform capitalism impact the access to music? How can we re-invent copyright and copyleft? What rights and rules make sense in a globalized world?
Chicks on Speed | Video still, Melissa E. Logan, Edit: Elfe Brandenburger. Camera: Steven Aaron Hughes

The Unforeseen

On the Lure of Risk in the Participatory Arts

Nov 16, conference
© Mahatat – Contemporary Art, Cairo

Love and Ethnology

The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity
(after Hubert Fichte)
Until Jan 6, 2020

Based on Hubert Fichte’s utopia of a radical sensitivity, the exhibition poses questions about representation and restitution, canonization and upholding of colonial power relations.
Alair Gomes, photos from the series "The Course of the Sun", 1975–1980 | Archives of the National Library Foundation, Brazil

Spectral-White

The Appearance of Colonial-Era Europeans

Exhibition
Until Jan 6, 2020

“All that is needed to caricature an oppressor is to portray him exactly as he is.”
Julius Lips
Unknown artist | Colonial soldier with binoculars, Congo, ca. 1980 | Collection Heike Behrend. © Photo: Anita Back/HKW

Afro-Sonic Mapping

Exhibition, concerts, talks
Until 17, 2019
Concerts, talks Nov 17

How can relationships between sounds of the African diaspora be mapped?
Satch Hoyt, Bleed, 2017 | Courtesy of the artist / Photo: Trevor Lloyd Morgan
Meandering Mississippi

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River

2018–2019

Along the Mississippi, researchers are investigating historical, social and environmental transformations of the 2,348-mile long river. The project can be followed live via the research platform anthropocene-curriculum.org.
Meandering Mississippi. Map by Harold N. Fisk, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1944 | Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

HKW has signed the Berlin Declaration of The Many and, together with other cultural institutions, stands up for unity.
2019, Nov 1, Fri – 2019, Nov 17, Sun
Free admission

Afro-Sonic Mapping

Exhibition
2019, Oct 18, Fri – 2020, Jan 6, Mon

Love and Ethnology

The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)
Exhibition
2019, Nov 1, Fri – 2020, Jan 6, Mon

Spectral-White: The Appearance of Colonial-Era Europeans

Exhibition
Saturday, Nov 16
11 am–7 pm
Free admission

The Unforeseen

On the Lure of Risk in the Participatory Arts
Conference
The Unforeseen
2 pm–6 pm

Art Dialogs

About the exhibitions “Love and Ethnology” and “Spectral-White”
Love and Ethnology
Sunday, Nov 17
3 pm

Guided Tour for Families

Through the exhibitions “Love and Ethnology” and “Spectral-White”
Love and Ethnology
Nov 16

The Unforeseen

Participatory art relies on processes and does not aim to create a material work – making it uncontrollable. How is this loss of control expressed in artistic practices from Zurich to Cairo to Lubumbashi? A conference with Nikita Dhawan, Maria Lind, Patrick Mudekereza and others
Until Jan 6, 2020

Love and Ethnology

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.


Right the Right. Ideas for Music, Copyright and Access

Nov 21-24, Concerts, Talks, Performances
More about the program...
Visual: Antonio Roberts
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.

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