Archive of Refuge

The oral history project Archive of Refuge brings together filmed interviews with 41 protagonists who came to Germany between 1945 and 2016. An installation in the lobby makes it possible to experience the archive collectively on the big screen. A work station allows users to selectively navigate through the film sequences and provides insights into the creation and dissemination of the Archive of Refuge.

Archive of Refuge: Educational program

Workshops for school classes, children, adults and educators explore the Archive of Refuge in performances, writing workshops, DJ sets or comics. Audience discussions set out to imagine new spaces for shaping society around the topics of home, exile and migration.

Counter Gravity: The Films of Heinz Emigholz

Concrete between dynamic and static, the camera as a subject and the radical departure from narrative conventions: For the first time, the Counter Gravity retrospective shows the director’s collected architectural and recent narrative films. Sketchbooks, production notes and objects provide insights into the development of the films.

Techniques as Modes of Relating

How do individuals relate to each other? In her blog post, philosopher Melanie Sehgal examines this question using the example of the transdisciplinary working group FORMATIONS. How can specialists from biology, art, urbanism or political activism produce common knowledge?

The Children Have to Hear Another Story – Alanis Obomsawin

Pressing ecological issues, stories and musical traditions of the Abenaki, historical details and indigenous resistance: Alanis Obomsawin connects all of these themes in her more than 50 documentary films. The exhibition provides insights into the work of the visual artist, activist, filmmaker and musician.

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.

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

Freedom for the arts! With the declaration, the association Die Vielen e.V. distinctly articulates unity and solidarity in the arts and culture as parts of civil society standing against right-wing populist and nationalist leanings. Haus der Kulturen der Welt has signed the Berlin Declaration of The Many and, together with many other cultural institutions, stands up for unity.

Forensis

Schools of Tomorrow

New Alphabet School

The Whole Life: An Archive Project

Counter Gravity: The Films of Heinz Emigholz

Experiments in form, radical breaks, and notebooks: The first comprehensive overview of Heinz Emigholz’s films, Counter Gravity, will be published to coincide with the opening of the retrospective. With picture essays by the filmmaker, encyclopedic filmographies and essays by Anselm Franke, Ulrike Lorenz, Andreas Reihse and others.

Illiberal Arts

How does art depict social debates? The publication for the Illiberal Arts exhibition questions ownership, appropriation, colonizing containment and alienation. A practical attempt at collective forms of perception and critique with essays by keyon gaskin, Nicholas Grafia, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Anne Imhof, Jota Mombaça and many others. 

Looking at Music

What role does visibility play in the experience of music? How important is live playing for the future of music performance? From laptop performances to algoraves and virtual reality shows, this volume explores how new forms of production and performance are changing the perception of music.

Making

Alphabets can be used not only as representations, but also as tools. What possibilities open up beyond known bodies of knowledge? In artist contributions and essays, the volume looks at the practices and politics of production.

Politics of Learning, Politics of Space: Architecture and the Education Shock of the 1960s and 1970s

Many of the current debates concerning learning and teaching environments, physical and virtual, echo those of the 1960s and 1970s, the “Education Shock” era. The English volume  is a collection of four texts by curator Tom Holert complementing the German publication.

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

What comes after universalism? The volume 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.