Venue:KV - Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Kolonnadenstrasse 6
04109 Leipzig
Partner:as part of the 2024 PAUSE/PLAY programme series of the KV - Verein für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig e.V.
Supported by: Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig.
Admission: 6 pm. Start: 7 pm
Language: German and partly English
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From young TikTokers to seasoned CDU local politicians - is everyone rapping now? We ask ourselves: Is rapping, producing and publishing simpler than ever before? What artistic means do rappers use to create authenticity? Can we trust the narrative of precarious living conditions or are we uncritically receiving different types of violence and discrimination? What are the similarities and differences between rap and visual art? An evening of discussion with rapper Ebow, artist Isabel Lewis & hip-hop sociologist Heidi Süß.
Panel
Ebow
Ebow has long since established herself as an important voice in German rap, having released four albums to date. She has delivered several anthems for the political among millennials and Gen Zs. "She writes politically correct and grammatically incorrect lyrics about contempt for women in her scene and contempt for foreigners in her country," wrote ZEIT. On her upcoming album "FC CHAYA", she focuses on the LGBTQIA+ community and delivers queer love songs that have never been heard before in Germany. The sound alternates between indie rock influences, R&B and the cloud rap aesthetic of Y2K.
Isabel Lewis
Isabel Lewis is an American artist with Dominican roots. She studied literature, dance and philosophy and is now active in the fields of theatre, dance and music. Her work has expanded the field of contemporary art to include the Occasions format. Lewis creates alternative forms of sociality between human and non-human actors through experimentation and research methods that arise from bodily experiences. The artist's oeuvre to date includes Occurrences, Arrangements, Activations, Expanded Viewings, Sensory Parcours and workshops (including Rap as an embodied speech act: FLOW PLAY: Sensualised Speech and Hip Hop, 2013), Listening Sessions and Lecture Performances. She is Professor of Performative Arts at the HGB Leipzig.
Heidi Süß
Heidi Süß (Dr phil.) is an author, speaker, sociologist and hip hop expert. After studying linguistics, political science and media studies, she completed her doctorate on masculinities in rap at the University of Hildesheim. She is the editor of two anthologies on gender and right-wing tendencies in rap (both 2021) and last year published the study "Rap & Racism" together with Marc Dietrich. In addition to her activities as a lecturer and researcher, Süß works as a speaker on issues relating to hip-hop/gender/racism and related pop culture topics. She is the founder of the Berlin Institute for Pop Culture and Rap Research and currently works as a research assistant in media sociology at the University of Trier.
Moderation & curation: Juness Beshir / KV Leipzig
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