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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.

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Past Utopias and the Colonial Present in Paris

The artist Ulrike Ottinger experienced Paris during the 1960s, in times of radical political, social, and cultural upheavals. Literary scholar Aleida Assmann introduces us to Paris Calligrammes Ottinger’s showcase of historical archival material and her own film works from Paris.

Aug 20–25

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Experimental films, video works and multimedia performances: The festival presents world and German premieres of well-known artists and young talents. With films by Dietmar Brehm, Jasmina Cibic, Sebastian Díaz Morales, Dora García, Salomé Lamas, Natacha Nisic, Laure Prouvost and others. Free admission

Aug 31 & Sep 1

Flaneur Festival

A street in Taipei in 20.5 hours: The festival is devoted to Kangding/Wanda Roads in Taiwan’s capital city. Sound walks and tea ceremonies, panels, participative round tables and live performances explore the potential of psycho-geographical strategies for one day and one night. Free admission

Sep 5

William Melvin Kelley: A Different Drummer

It’s 1957 in a fictional southern state in the US: The entire Black population makes an exodus north. In A Different Drummer, W. M. Kelley describes the nonviolent rebellion of African Americans. On the occasion of the first German translation of the book, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jana Pareigis and Fabian Hinrichs present the still disconcertingly relevant novel.

Sep 6–8

It’s not over

A year ago the verdict was pronounced in the so-called NSU trial. But many questions remain unanswered. The conference focuses on the knowledge of the wives, daughters and mothers of the murder victims, countering the non-listening with a space that enables listening as an act of political solidarity. Free admission

Sep 11–13

Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene

Climate change and dwindling biodiversity are inextricably linked to individual human activities. The correlations nonetheless seem complex and difficult to grasp. How can narratives be created that portray the significance of human acts and make anthropocene processes comprehensible?

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New Alphabet School

How does language influence thought? How can we develop other forms of learning and acting? From the politics of translation to practices of weaving: Speakers and workshop participants from the New Alphabet School share their questions, observations and studies on solidary practices of knowledge production on the blog.

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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?

Paris Calligrammes

Reading Bodies!

Love and Ethnology

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art

Opening: Paris Calligrammes

Paris Calligrammes

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art

Paris Calligrammes

Paris Calligrammes. A Landscape of Memory by Ulrike Ottinger

Paris Calligrammes

Past Utopias and the Colonial Present in Paris

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Flaneur Festival

William Melvin Kelley: A Different Drummer

It’s not over

Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene

HKW Newsletter

For further reading

New Alphabet School

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

Afro-Sonic Mapping

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

100 Years of Now Journal

Technosphere Magazine

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