Projects 2021

Exhibition postponed until further notice

Education Shock

Learning, Politics and Architecture in the 1960s and 1970s
Exhibition, school project, publication

Education Shock revisits the decades following the “shock” of the “Sputnik crisis” when the sphere of education expanded on a global scale. As the exhibition and its accompanying publications demonstrate, the rethinking and replanning of learning environments – due to demographics, technology, the Cold War and the social movements culminating in 1968 – permanently changed the educational sphere.

2020/2021

The White West IV: Whose Universal?

Since October 2020 Podcast
July 9–11, 2021 Conference

Is fascism a negation of modernity or one of its constitutive features? Whose Universal? is a conference devoted to theorizing the poorly understood connection between settler colonialism and fascism, taking up Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism.

2021/2022

Das Neue Alphabet – Publication series

Alphabets, binary code, DNA – the current explosion of knowledge relies on the world being divided into the tiniest of units. The functionalization of manipulable semiotic systems through political control and economic exploitation are countered in these 25 volumes with poetic discombobulations, sensuous recoding and creolization.

2020/2021

Education in Concrete

School projects, presentations, manifesto
Presentations: May to June 2021

In the run-up to the exhibition Education Shock, students explore their school buildings, which were built in the 1960s and 1970s. They devise a manifesto for the design of good learning environments and present their projects during guided tours at the participating schools.

2019–2022

New Alphabet School

The New Alphabet School is a collaborative self-organized school with the aim to explore critical and affirmative research practices. Over the course of three years, it will function as a colloquium to engage in discussions and develop new ideas in the fields of the arts, archives, poetics and activism.

from 2020

On Music

Podcast, panels, concerts, DJ sets, installations

Starting in 2021, the HKW series will continue to offer food for thought, inspiration and ideas On Music with discussions, live music and installations. This year, the podcast Politics of the Dance Floor explores music as a community experience and the relationship between rave and resistance.

2020/2021

Schools of Tomorrow 3

School projects, presentations, talks, workshops, panels
Dear Future, June 17 & 18, 2021

Schools are laboratories for the society of tomorrow. But how can they enable democratic, self-determined and sustainable action? At eleven Berlin schools, students, along with artists and everyday experts, explore the question of how schools can give them tools for actively shaping their lives.

2021/2022

S.O.S. – Schools of Sustainability

Can Schools Save the Climate?
Panel, school projects, workshops, presentations

The climate crisis is the greatest challenge of our era. How can the experiences that young activists of the Fridays for Future movement gather outside of school can be taken back to school? Artistic approaches for a climate-neutral school.

Exhibition postponed until further notice

Potosí Principle – Archive

Reading room and exhibition

What is the correlation between extractivism and the inquisition? The city of Potosí, today in Bolivia, was once one of the most important silver mining regions in the world; emblematic of the first global economic power. The exhibition Potosí Principle – Archive builds on The Potosí Principle and, ten years later, probes the principle of global exploitation anew.

Partner

2021, May 28 — Aug 08

Investigative Commons

Exhibition and accompanying program

The exhibition showcases a new model for collaborative truth-production and investigative aesthetics, bringing together open source investigation, “counter-forensics” and strategic human rights litigation.

Partners

2020/2021

The Broken Archive

Online series: Lectures, discussions

European historiography has produced a romanticized image of Italy. This limits the visibility of problems in the Mediterranean region. Online lectures and discussions will look at historical narratives that do justice to Italy’s complex present.

Award Ceremony June 30, 2021

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2021

Announcement of the shortlist on May 20, 2021
Award ceremony on June 30, 2021

In times of crisis, it matters more than ever what kind of stories we tell, which scripts and plots we follow and whose voices we trust. In 2021, the Internationaler Literaturpreis will again be searching for books that do something with language – precisely because they reach us in translation.

August/September 2021

Nicholas Bussmann

Exhibition, performance

All politics and social practices are a continuation of music by other means. That is one way to describe the basis of artist and musician Nicholas Bussmann’s artistic practice. At HKW, Bussmann invites visitors to participate in his multi-layered experiments in societal composition, ritual and polyphony.

Partners

2021, Sep 30 — 2022, Jan 03

Archive of Refuge

Online archive, installation, conference, workshops

What forms of remembrance are needed in today’s societies shaped by immigration? This oral history project concerns itself with the memories of people migrating to Germany as an integral part of German post-war history, seeking to protect them from being forgotten and suppressed. 50 filmed interviews with people who immigrated to West and East Germany over the last 70 years are being used to create a commemorative website.

Partners and Team

The Films of Heinz Emigholz

2021, Oct 15 — 2022, Jan 03

Counter Gravity

Monographic show and publication, Screenings and conversations

A pioneer of experimental architectural and narrative film: Since the 1970s, Heinz Emigholz has used a unique cinematic formal language to explore the relationship between film time and spatial experience, remembrance structure and consciousness. In his work, the filmmaker, artist, author and producer radically departs from conventional representations of space, creating an alternative history of modern architecture.

Partners

Since 2019

Repeat After Me / Do Not Draw a Penis

Interactive installations on artificial intelligence by Studio Moniker

How does it feel to communicate with algorithms? On what moral principles are they based? Can they be outsmarted? Two permanent interactive installations by the Moniker art and design office, accessible at HKW during opening hours, activate both play instincts and resistance. Enter at your own risk!

Partner

Winter 2021/2022

The Children Have to Hear Another Story: Alanis Obomsawin

Exhibition

The major survey exhibition and accompanying monograph offer insights into the rich and complex lifework of Abenaki artist Alanis Obomsawin. The project links history to the present in ways that do not efface the continued violence of colonization, while displaying the resilience and self-determination of Indigenous communities in the face of systematic racism and dispossession.

Partners

2019–2021

Alphabet Readings

Literature series

Alphabet Readings is a series of unconventional gatherings about diverse literary topics and works. The series probes various genres, forms and writing styles for their particular ways of making the world readable.

2022

The Whole Life Academy Berlin

Workshops

In a week-long program of excursions, seminars, and archival viewings the archive is taken up as a space for dialogue, collective knowledge production and mobilization in the midst of current social and political upheaval. How can digital and analogue tools re-open historical narratives and canons?

The Whole Life: An Archive Project

Past Projects

Negotiating Context in the Anthropocene

2020, Oct 26 — 2021, Feb 28

The Shape of a Practice

Negotiating Context in the Anthropocene
Art, Discourse, Research

The Anthropocene as a global concept confronts planetary change with highly fractured and even contradictory local situations, conditions and experiences. It is therefore vital to share methods, contexts and ways of life to grapple with this transforming Earth. In October 2020, The Shape of a Practice will provide an experimental space of learning how to read and work with the interdependencies of planetary existence.

Projects 2021

Education Shock

The White West IV: Whose Universal?

Das Neue Alphabet – Publication series

Education in Concrete

New Alphabet School

On Music

Schools of Tomorrow 3

S.O.S. – Schools of Sustainability

Potosí Principle – Archive

Investigative Commons

The Broken Archive

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2021

Nicholas Bussmann

Archive of Refuge

Counter Gravity

Repeat After Me / Do Not Draw a Penis

The Children Have to Hear Another Story: Alanis Obomsawin

Alphabet Readings

The Whole Life Academy Berlin

Past Projects

The Shape of a Practice

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