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This year’s Wassermusik summer festival is inspired by Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic. Wassermusik: Black Atlantic Revisited focuses on the South Atlantic and its musical cultures. With Louis Towers, Angélique Kidjo (photo), Mario Lucio & Simentera, The Congos & Pura Vida and more.

Until Jul 27

Wassermusik: Film program

Open-air movie theater on the roof terrace: At Wassermusik, documentaries and feature films illuminate things like the booming bakosó dance and music style in Cuba and the Carnival of Victory following Angola’s independence, they demonstrate resistance against slavery and suppression and tell of the heritage of African cultures in the diaspora.

From the Mediathek

“Literature can save a life. Just one life at a time – and that life is yours.”

Teju Cole in his keynote On Carrying and Being Carried for the award ceremony of Internationaler Literaturpreis 2019

Wassermusik: Black Atlantic Revisited

Animation: NODE Berlin Oslo, based on the artwork Playground 10 (2017) by Alice Quaresma; Music: Para Lennon e McCartney by Milton Nascimento

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2019

The prize goes to Fernanda Melchor’s Saison der Wirbelstürme. “Fernanda Melchor has written the novel of poverty in twenty-first century global capitalism, the novel of poverty born of violence against women, against homosexuals, against those who are weaker,” states the jury. “Angelica Ammar has brought [this] into German with extraordinary ingenuity.”

23.08.–13.10.2019

Paris Calligrammes

In her exhibition, the filmmaker and photographer Ulrike Ottinger collages art, archival materials and film works to chart a city and its utopias. Memories of 1960s Paris, depictions of decolonial movements as well as a workshop of her upcoming film Paris Calligrammes will come together in a walkable street.

Director Bernd Scherer on the program July/August

Dear Guests,
In the summertime, the programming content at HKW is linked to our special location between the Spree and Tiergarten. This year, Wassermusik makes the theme Black Atlantic Revisited tangible with concerts by musicians such as Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento and Angélique Kidjo. In this framework, Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and thus codetermined postcolonial discourse, is also a guest of a conference by the Goethe-Institut at HKW, which takes academic and artistic looks at the South Atlantic connections. Floating Alphabet, a poetry program, will explore on one of the most influential poems of literary history on a boat trip. I also invite you to the landscape of memory by Ulrike Ottinger, who will take us to 1960s Paris with an exhibition and films.

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Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

The international exhibition project Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology is being accompanied by the web journal projectfichte.org. It offers insights into the writing of Hubert Fichte (1935 –1986) in German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Wolof and English. The writer and ethnologist is considered a poetic and documentarian realist precursor for new disciplines in Germany such as Queer Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

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Afro-Sonic Mapping

What musical patterns have been preserved in the sounds of the African Diaspora, thus defying time and forced migration? Satch Hoyt follows their traces in today’s metropolises Luanda, Kinshasa, Salvador de Bahia, and Lisbon. He documents his research in an English-language blog.

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Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

As a collaborative experiment the Anthropocene Curriculum explores the novel epistemic, aesthetic, and educational challenges of the age of humankind. Its online platform Anthropocene-Curriculum.org gives voice to an evolving worldwide network of researchers, artists, and local communities, while inviting engagement and participation in transforming our common knowledge baselines.

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100 Years of Now Journal

The journal explores ideas generated during the course of the transdisciplinary project 100 Years of Now (2015-2019) in greater depth. Artists, scientists, and observers will throw new light on global political conflicts, supposed side scenes of history, and on the planetary entanglement of technological, human, and natural forces.

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Technosphere Magazine

Research pieces, essays, artistic and experimental approaches to the technosphere: Which are its organizing principles? How is it inscribed into individuals and how does it shape entire societies?

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Paris Calligrammes

Reading Bodies!

Love and Ethnology

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

Benin International Musical, B.C.U.C. (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness)

Voodoo – Mounted by the Gods

Louis Towers, María del Rosario

Somos Calentura/We Are The Heat

Angélique Kidjo, Chocolate Remix

Wassermusik: Black Atlantic Revisited

Wassermusik: Film program

“Literature can save a life. Just one life at a time – and that life is yours.”

Wassermusik: Black Atlantic Revisited

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2019

Paris Calligrammes

Director Bernd Scherer on the program July/August

HKW Newsletter

For further reading

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

Afro-Sonic Mapping

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

100 Years of Now Journal

Technosphere Magazine

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