Projects 2015

100 Years of Now

In its project 100 Years of Now, HKW is undertaking an analysis of the present time by linking back to historical utopias. In the face of a new world disorder in particular, it aims to explore its backgrounds to activate political imagination and aesthetic judgment.

Technosphere

Research Project

The twentieth-century celebrated technology as a way to achieve planetary unity and control. Yet today technics, nature, and human activity seem to combine in increasingly disorienting, uncontrolled compositions in which once-reliable distinctions lose their stability. How did we end up in this world of technological vertigo, this Mobius strip of world and planetary technics, wherein cause and effect, local and global factors, human and non-human agency, perpetually confuse and confound one another’s borders?

Technosphärenklänge

The omnipresent, increasingly intelligent device-world is becoming networked to form ever larger infrastructures. How can music respond to the complex intertwining of natural, social and technical processes

Dictionary of Now

Series of events and publication

The changes and disruptions of the past hundred years have shaped our conception of reality, our thought, and our language. The Dictionary of Now series reflects on the capacity of language to both depict and create reality. Since the modern age this has gone hand in hand with the search for universal truths and codified usages. The Dictionary of Now confronts this assertion of linguistic universalism with specific contemporary positions.

Berlin Mondiale: My House Is Your House

Since autumn of 2014, the Haus Leo refugee house and the HKW have opened their doors to each other, creating joint projects with Haus Leo residents on working and living.

54321… Radical Philosophy Conference 2015

In Cooperation

What is the current state of philosophical debates about alternatives to the present? The British journal Radical Philosophy, founded in 1972 as “a Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy,” holds periodic conferences to reflect on the situation.

transmediale 2015

Festival

Track steps. Track sleep. Get fit. Get better. Reach your goals. Work more. Work less. Challenge yourself: Under the title CAPTURE ALL, transmediale 2015 examines and probes the limits of the all-encompassing quantification of life, work, and play.

Berlinale at the HKW 2015

GENERATION - Premiers and Repetitions

Discoveries of contemporary international cinema, eye to eye with young people.

Labour in a Single Shot

Exhibition, Conference, Workshops

Drawing on the Lumière brothers’ „Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory“ Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki initiated workshops in 15 cities worldwide, in which short one-shot-videos on the topic of labor were produced. In this exhibition these films will be on show, displayed in associative clusters drawing fine lines in-between the single works. The accompanying conference (Feb 26–28) delves into the phenomenon of work and labor in all its multiple global extensions analyzing ways of filmic concentration and their discursive potentials. One day of commemoration is dedicated to Harun Farocki and his legacy.

Les Rencontres Internationales

In Cooperation

The line between documentary and fictional methods in film and art is becoming increasingly blurred. Viewing habits are changing and new challenges are demanding new ways of working. Les Rencontres Internationales is pursuing these.

HKW Royal 2015

Concerts

The brightest stars of the global music scene

Ape Culture

Art Exhibition

The exhibition Ape Culture presents artworks and documents that wittily observe the relationship between humans and other primates.

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2015

The Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt honors the author and translator of an outstanding foreign-language work of contemporary international fiction which has been translated into German.

Wassermusik: Mother India

Concerts, Films, Discussions

“Mother India” revolves around the influences of the Indian diaspora, from Britain to the Caribbean: the fusion of the rhythms and harmonies of South Asia with Western electronic dance music to form Asian Underground, now firmly rooted in the London club scene; its decisive influence on styles such as taarab in East Africa; and the popular chutney music of Trinidad and Suriname, in which traditional Indian musical forms meld with calypso.

Forecast Forum

In Cooperation

Forecast enables young talents from around the world to tap their potential while working side by side with renowned mentors to realize forward-looking projects. It is a new platform for knowledge transfer.

Lifelines #4: Roedelius

Concerts, DJ sets, films, discussions, installations

Working with groups such as Kluster and Harmonia, he became one of the central figures of “Krautrock” in the 1960s and 1970s and is considered one of the pioneers of electronic music. The fourth Lifelines festival is devoted to the personality and the artistic activities of Hans-Joachim Roedelius.

Nuevo Cine Argentino

Film Festival

Since the mid-1990s, Argentinean films have regularly won laurels at international festivals, made their way into European art-house cinemas, and been taken up by academic symposia. From September 10 to 20, 2015, Haus der Kulturen der Welt is devoting an extensive program to the success story of “new Argentinean film.”

100 Years of Now. The Opening

World Politics – Dream States – Data Streams: 100 Years of Now combines diagnoses of our times with scopes of action. In its latest long-term project, HKW examines the interrelations between global conflicts, classification systems and technologies. The kick-off between September 30 and October 4, 2015 will gather artists, scientists, activists and observers of the times in unusual constellations.

Acting within a humane society

What does it mean to act ethically today? What responsibilities arise in the face of global crises? What perspectives, practices and discourses does a political community need? With Acting within a humane society, HKW tests the validity of terms of historical humanism.

Wohnungsfrage

Exhibition, publication series, academy

How can we create affordable living space? How do we provide opportunities for self-determination? Who are today’s new clients? What new answers can be found to the age-old housing question?

Salon of Aesthetic Experiments and International Symposium

In Cooperation

The Salon of Aesthetic Experiments is devoted to various artistic research practices with the aim of bringing the arts and academic disciplines into communication with each other.

SYNAPSE

International Curators’ Network - Workshop

What existing formats and new formats are needed to realize a project that presents science at an artistic location? What curatorial languages must first be developed to meet academic demands on the one hand and, on the other, to express the findings in cultural terms?

Democracy Lectures

In Cooperation

In the Democracy Lectures, prominent intellectuals comment on key issues and challenges of our time.

Fiktion

In Cooperation
The international model project Fiktion seeks to further develop the opportunities arising from digitization for the heightened public awareness and dissemination of quality literature.

Tatort: Schlachtfeld

Readings and Discussions on World War I

One hundred years after World War I the violent conflicts of our age have assumed completely new forms. When individual militias, warlords and terrorist groups, as opposed to states, become the decisive players, then in many cases wars can now no longer be recognized as such. However, even World War I, as a global war, was already a complex formation composed of diverse parties and partisans, paramilitaries and warmongering intellectuals.