Venue:Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig
With Marianne Hirsch, Çiğdem Inan, Jumana Manna, Pınar Öğrenci, Michael Rothberg
Concept and organisation: Natascha Frankenberg, Katrin Köppert, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Ines Schaber
Art can open up a space in which traumas become accessible as zones of indeterminacy and radical unavailability. The fact that the art and culture scene in particular is currently under pressure from political interference may be due to this: At a moment when answers seem urgent and clear demarcations necessary, art in its logic of refusing brevity and explainability is seemingly difficult to endure.
We associate the question of the art of remembering with the desire to discuss memory beyond hegemonic scripts. What can art achieve in times of deep grief and how can it be a medium for a practice that does not isolate us from each other in trauma, but rather connects us in grief?
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Programme
4 Dec // 2-5 pm // Reading workshop for students
Moderation: Katrin Köppert, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Ines Schaber
HGB, room 2.41
(in presence, German/English, max. 30 participants, texts will be provided in advance, binding registration by 15 November: workshop@hgb-leipzig.de)
Dec. 4, 2024 // 6-8 pm // Public film screening
Aşît by Pınar Öğrenci and Foragers by Jumana Manna (tbc)
Introduction by Natascha Frankenberg and discussion with Pınar Öğrenci
(in presence, in German/English, Due to limited places, participants of the workshop and guests have priority)
5 Dec // 6-8 pm // Lecture and talk
Michael Rothberg: From Memory Wars to Memory Work: Relational Remembrance in Pınar Öğrenci's Aşît [The Avalanche], followed by a discussion with Marianne Hirsch, Çiğdem Inan, Jumana Manna and Michael Rothberg
Moderation: Katrin Köppert, Marc Siegel
HGB, ceremony hall
(in presence, in English, open to the public and by invitation, registration by 1 December: vortrag@hgb-leipzig.de
6 Dec // 10am-12pm // Follow-up with students in the presence of Michael Rothberg
Moderation: Natascha Frankenberg, Katrin Köppert, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Ines Schaber
HGB, room 2.41
(in presence, in German/English, for students registered for the workshop)
as part of the event series Abdrift ins Autoritäre, oder Kunsthochschulen als Orte der Kritik and in cooperation with the DFG Research Network Gender, Media and Affect and the lecture series Postcolonial Critique, Decolonial Perspectives
