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Ceremony

(Burial of an Undead World)

How do we develop new futures from the ruins of the capitalist present?
Until Dec 30 Exhibition
Dec 1-4, 10, 17 Lectures, discussions, performances
Three Doors

An exhibition by Forensic Architecture/Forensis, Initiative 19. Februar Hanau, Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh

How did the state fail in the attacks in Hanau and the death of Oury Jalloh?
Until Dec 30
The Missed Seminar

After Eslanda Robeson. In dialogue with Steve McQueen’s “End Credits”

Until Dec 30 Exhibition, installation, conversations
Dec 21–30 End Credits Audiovisual installation

Olaf Nicolai, Clouds (2021), watercolor on handmade paper

The End of the Monologue

»We need forms of conversation that reflect the contexts of violence out of which our societies have emerged and that promote negotiation of new world concepts.«

An essay by Bernd Scherer

Dec 1-4, 10, 17 | Lectures, discussions, performances

Ceremony

How can an end of capitalism be imagined and achieved? Based on the theses of Sylvia Wynter, Judith Farquhar, keyon gaskin, Carlo Ginzburg, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau & Carlos Motta and many others propose counter-cosmologies, reveal anti-colonial worlds of thought and question secular medicine.
Dec 21-30

End Credits

A monument to the threat of U.S. anti-communism, Steve McQueen’s installation End Credits shows 12 hours and 54 minutes of scrolling over thousands of digitized files the FBI collected on Eslanda Robeson. The exhibition The Missed Seminar is devoted to the struggles and friendships of the Black feminist and anthropologist.
Audio series

Bad Words

A polyphonic space made up of conversations, readings, voice messages, field recordings and music: Based on Ilse Aichinger’s essay Bad Words and Etel Adnan’s Night, the two-season audio series creates a space for speaking differently about language and literature.
Podcast Cosmic Awakening

Chapter 3: Sound is a Matter of the Imagination

How loud is the sun? And can sound reveal new dimensions? A podcast with Sasha Perera and Sarj Lynch combines interplanetary rhythms, science and sonic fiction. Chapter three explores the alternative worlds that sonic fiction unlocks. With writings by J. G. Ballard, Kodwo Eshun, Ursula K. Le Guin, Whitney Wei and music by Fatima Al Qadiri, Drexciya, June Tyson and many others.
Podcast Episodes 15 & 16

The White West: Whose Universal?

How do political economy and imperialism influence each other? Ana Teixeira Pinto discusses the economic legacy of colonialism with Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik. She talks with Rajkamal Kahlon about the material culture and aesthetics of Western colonial archives. Now in the Mediathek: Videos of the conference Whose Universal?
- More about the audio series
Fall program

Negotiating New World Concepts

The crisis of accumulation, ceremonies for new narratives of origin and utopian sound worlds: A booklet on the fall program gathers theoretical and artistic positions in contemporary research by Dietmar Dath, Anselm Franke, Jennifer Gabrys, Adi Gelbart, Sun Ra, Natalia Stuyk and others.
- To the publication [PDF 2 MB]
Website

Anthropocene Curriculum Courses

How can damaged ecosystems and habitats be reconfigured in the Anthropocene? Four Anthropocene Curriculum Courses trace connecting lines between stewardship, habitability, social interaction and possibilities for repair. With contributions from L. Sasha Gora, Fernando Silva e Silva, Matthew C. Wilson and many others.
- More on www.anthropocene-curriculum.org
- More about the Anthropocene Curriculum
Until April 2023

The Caring City

From food sharing marathons to happiness walks to urban gardening: In numerous workshops, people with refugee experiences and actors from urban society search for energizing places that make arriving in Berlin easier.
Das Neue Alphabet | Book series

The New Alphabet

The volume What is Life? tells of tardigrades, animal magnetism and meteorites to trace the fundamental question of biology. Artificial Music asks what happens when artificial intelligence composes Beethoven sonatas. What role do machine learning and big data play in computer-generated improvisations?
Statement by the “Initiative GG 5.3 Weltoffenheit”

As representatives of public cultural and research institutions in Germany, we share a mandate from the state to promote arts and culture, historical research and democratic education and to make these accessible to the general public. Toward this end, we rely on a public sphere that welcomes controversial debates in accordance with the norms of the German constitution. At the center of our initiative lies a common struggle against antisemitism, racism, right-wing extremism and any form of violent religious fundamentalism.

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