Projects 2022

2021, Sep 30 — 2022, Jan 03

Archive of Refuge

Online archive, installation, opening days, workshops
Opening days Sep 30 – Oct 3, 2021

What forms of remembrance are needed in today’s societies shaped by migration? This oral history project concerns itself with the memories of people migrating to Germany as an integral part of German post-war history, seeking to protect them from being forgotten and suppressed. 42 documentary film interviews with people who migrated to West and East Germany over the last 70 years are being used to create a commemorative website.

2022, Jan 23 — Apr 18

The Children Have to Hear Another Story: Alanis Obomsawin

Exhibition

The major survey exhibition and accompanying monograph offer insights into the rich and complex lifework of Abenaki artist Alanis Obomsawin. The project links history to the present in ways that do not efface the continued violence of colonization, while displaying the resilience and self-determination of Indigenous communities in the face of systematic racism and dispossession.

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2021/2022

The Whole Life Academy Berlin

Workshops: starting October 2021
Public program: March 2022

The second edition of the Whole Life Academy takes up the archive as a space for dialogue, collective knowledge production and mobilization in the midst of current social and political upheaval. How can digital and analogue tools re-open historical narratives and canons?

The Whole Life: An Archive Project

2019–2022

New Alphabet School

The New Alphabet School is a collaborative self-organized school with the aim to explore critical and affirmative research practices. Over the course of three years, it will function as a colloquium to engage in discussions and develop new ideas in the fields of the arts, archives, poetics and activism.

2021/2022

Das Neue Alphabet – Publication series

Alphabets, binary code, DNA – the current explosion of knowledge relies on the world being divided into the tiniest of units. The functionalization of manipulable semiotic systems through political control and economic exploitation are countered in these 26 volumes with poetic discombobulations, sensuous recoding and creolization.

2021/2022

S.O.S. – Schools of Sustainability

Can Schools Save the Climate?
School projects, recommendations for action, closing congress

The climate crisis is the greatest challenge of our era. How can the experiences that young activists of the Fridays for Future movement gather outside of school can be taken back to school? Artistic approaches for a climate-neutral school.

Since 2019

Repeat After Me / Do Not Draw a Penis

Interactive installations on artificial intelligence by Studio Moniker

How does it feel to communicate with algorithms? On what moral principles are they based? Can they be outsmarted? Two permanent interactive installations by the Moniker art and design office, accessible at HKW during opening hours, activate both play instincts and resistance. Enter at your own risk!

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Projects 2022

Archive of Refuge

The Children Have to Hear Another Story: Alanis Obomsawin

The Whole Life Academy Berlin

New Alphabet School

Das Neue Alphabet – Publication series

S.O.S. – Schools of Sustainability

Repeat After Me / Do Not Draw a Penis

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