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The Paris Calligrammes exhibition is complemented by a program presented by Ulrike Ottinger of films that inspired her work. Films like La Chinoise by icons such as Jean-Luc Godard or documentaries about the Algerian War enlarge upon the themes of her landscape of remembrance.

Oct 4–6

Politics Through the Looking Glass

First-person narratives have been on the rise in the Arab world recently. What does this signify in view of the current transitions there? Does this turn to the personal stand for a distancing from the political? Or does it demonstrate its reconfiguration? A conference with Monira Al Qadiri, Mazen Maarouf, Maya Shurbaji, Abdellah Taïa and many others

Until Oct 13

Paris Calligrammes

In her exhibition, the filmmaker and photographer Ulrike Ottinger collages art, archival materials and film works to chart a city and its utopias. Memories of 1960s Paris, depictions of decolonial movements as well as a workshop of her upcoming film Paris Calligrammes will come together in a walkable street.

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.

Paris Calligrammes. Eine Erinnerungslandschaft von Ulrike Ottinger

HKW is turning 30

“In the last 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world has changed fundamentally. In these 30 years, HKW has consistently developed new formats and content that deal with these changes – often as a trailblazer.” writes director Bernd Scherer on the HKW’s 30th jubilee.

2019–2020

Repeat after me

How does it feel to talk with computer controlled voices and algorithms? What are the moral principles underlying them and can they be outsmarted? Two interactive installations by the Moniker art and design office activate both play instincts and resistance at the same time.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Paris Calligrammes

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River

Love and Ethnology

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

Paris Calligrammes

Octobre à Paris

Paris Calligrammes

Berlin Calligrams

Paris Calligrammes

Film program: Paris Calligrammes

Politics Through the Looking Glass

Paris Calligrammes

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River

Paris Calligrammes. Eine Erinnerungslandschaft von Ulrike Ottinger

HKW is turning 30

Repeat after me

Love and Ethnology

HKW Newsletter

For further reading

New Alphabet School

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

Paris Calligrammes. Eine Erinnerungslandschaft von Ulrike Ottinger

Afro-Sonic Mapping

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

100 Years of Now Journal

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