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Love and Ethnology

The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity
(after Hubert Fichte)
Oct 18, 2019–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
Nov 1, 2019–Jan 6, 2020
Opening Thu, Oct 31

“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
Nov 1–17, 2019
Opening Thu Oct 31

How can relationships between sounds of the African diaspora be mapped?
Satch Hoyt, Bleed, 2017. Acrylic on linen 240 x 151 cm | Courtesy of the artist / Foto: 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.
Thursday, Oct 17
6 pm
Free admission

Opening: Love and Ethnology

With performances by Coletivo Bonobando, Ayrson Heráclito, Cristóbal Lehyt
Exhibition Opening
Love and Ethnology
2019, Oct 18, Fri – 2020, Jan 6, Mon

Love and Ethnology

The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)
Exhibition
Friday, Oct 18
3 pm–4 pm

Curator-led tour

With Dulcie Abrahams Altass (Dakar), Jürgen Bock (Lissabon), Mario Navarro (Santiago de Chile), Amlicar Packer (Salvador da Bahia/Rio de Janeiro) and Yesomi Umolu (New York)
Love and Ethnology
5 pm

Conference: Love and Ethnology

With Renée Green, Cristóbal Lehyt, Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi, Mario Navarro, Lili Reynaud-Dewar and others
Love and Ethnology
2019, Oct 19, Sat – 2020, Jan 4, Sat

Art Dialogs

Love and Ethnology
Oct 18, 2019 - 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.
Oct 18 & 19

Conference: Love and Ethnology

As an intermediary between literature and ethnology, Hubert Fichte used journalism techniques, for example in interviews with Salvador Allende and Léopold Sédar Senghor. At the conference, artists and researchers will discuss his “aesthetics of the factual”, autoethnographic approaches and poetics of the body in transit.
Nov 1, 2019–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.
Meandering Mississippi Until Nov 2019 | River Journey

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River

The Anthropocene, the geological age of humankind, is uniquely represented in the landscapes along the Mississippi. Since 2018, researchers, artists and activists at various Field Stations on site in the US have been studying this human/environment system. In Autumn, researchers will head downriver on a River Journey to meet in November for a one-week campus in New Orleans.


Nov 1–17

Afro-Sonic Mapping

What sonic affinities are there between music scenes in Luanda, Salvador da Bahia or Lisbon? In talks with Greg Tate and Fred Moten, in concerts and an exhibition, the artist and musician Satch Hoyt follows the traces of African diaspora sounds.

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For further reading

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

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

Paris Calligrammes. Eine Erinnerungslandschaft von Ulrike Ottinger

Ed. by Bernd M. Scherer and Haus der Kulturen der Welt
The volume Paris Calligrammes links screenplay excerpts from Ulrike Ottinger’s latest film with thematic photo series from postwar Paris to the transculturally influenced present. With contributions by Aleida Assmann, Laurence A. Rickels, Bernd M. Scherer and Ulrike Ottinger.
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.
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.
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.

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