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2019, Mar 15, Fri – 2019, Jun 10, Mon

bauhaus imaginista

Exhibition
Saturday, May 25
2 pm–6 pm

Exhibition Visits with Art Educators

bauhaus imaginista
3 pm

Guided Tour for Families

bauhaus imaginista
2019, May 12, Sun – 2019, Jun 16, Sun
Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek
Free admission

Shared Readings of the Shortlist

Reading Group
Internationaler Literaturpreis 2019
Sunday, May 26
3 pm

Media-Art-Technology: From Bauhaus to MIT

Thematic Guided Tour with Christian Hiller
bauhaus imaginista
5:30 pm

Guided Tour

bauhaus imaginista


The Shortlist


The jury announced the six titles on the short list for this year’s Internationaler Literaturpreis.

Video: Caro & Kaspar | Music: ‚Recovery' by Rival Consoles, published by Erased Tapes Music, courtesy of Erased Tapes Records Ltd.
Until Jun 10

bauhaus imaginista

The exhibition tells the international stories of the Bauhaus: It proposes a rereading of the school as a cosmopolitan project with global resonances. With historical and new works by Anni Albers, Kader Attia, Alice Creischer, Zvi Efrat, Walter Gropius, Doreen Mende, László Moholy-Nagy, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, The Otolith Group, Paulo Tavares, Iwao Yamawaki and many more
Until Jun 16

Shared Readings

The Internationaler Literaturpreis seeks to create a dialog between literature, the world and plural readerships. For five Sundays anyone interested can acquire their own interpretations of the nominated books in shared readings at the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek – until the award ceremony on the roof terrace at HKW on June 18.
Jun 18 | Registration until Jun 1

#1 Translating: Workshops

The New Alphabet School is a school for artistic, curatorial, poetic and activist research practices. For the edition #1 on Translating, participants of the New Alphabet School convene workshops and invite new members to register and join the school.
Dresden | May 19–25

The Whole Life: Archives and Reality

An unrealized draft by Robert Barry, a Philippe Starck motorcycle, publications by the group ZERO: The Archiv der Avantgarden in Dresden contains art, everyday and design objects. Artists including Olaf Nicolai, Meg Stuart and Ala Younis researched them. Researchers and practitioners discuss what archives can achieve today. With Marion Ackermann, Filipa César, Doreen Mende and many others.
Online Documentation

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River: Midway Meeting

In March 2019, collaborators of the project came together to explore the knowledge inscribed within the environment along the Mississippi River around St. Louis. This video documentation shows presentations, discussions and excursions addressing the histories and practices of settlement in the region.
Jul 5–27

Wassermusik: Black Atlantic Revisited

The cultural scholar Paul Gilroy coined the term Black Atlantic and studies how the history of the Black diaspora influences art and knowledge. In Black Atlantic Revisited, 2019’s Wassermusik focuses on the South Atlantic and its musical cultures. The festival pass and tickets for the concerts by Milton Nascimento, Angélique Kidjo, Gilberto Gil, Les Amazones d’Afrique (photo) and more are now available.
From the Mediathek

The New Weird

Wonders and horrors at the fringes of human consciousness: In her lecture, Elvia Wilk introduces the literary genre “The New Weird”, speculative fictions which explore futures beyond utopia or dystopia and focus without the human at the center.
Journal 100 Years of Now

Global Resonance Spaces

How, one hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus, can culture be rethought as a social project? The curators of bauhaus imaginista Marion von Osten and Grant Watson discuss with art historian Mona Schieren the design school’s relevance for an art, design, and education of the future.

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Publication

bauhaus imaginista. A School in the World

Ed. by Marion von Osten and Grant Watson
For the first time, based on a multi-year research project, bauhaus imaginista. A School in the World examines the reception history of the Bauhaus and its global impact from 1919 until the present. With contributions by Kader Attia, Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan, Regina Bittner, Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, Magdalena Droste, Christian Hiller, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, among others
Online journal

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.
Online journal

bauhaus imaginista Journal

The online scientific publishing platform bauhaus-imaginista.org is home to details of the research processes and results of bauhaus imaginista.
Online journal

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?
Online journal

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.
Website

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.
Blog

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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