Musafiri: Von Reisenden und Gästen – Reader (de)
With contributions by Musquiqui Chihying, Cosmin Costinaș, Aïssa Dione, Aboubakar Fofana, Di Liu, Magnus Marsden, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Marie Helene Pereira, Magda Radu, Yudi Rafael, Marian Pastor Roces, Citra Sasmita, Mustafa Hussain Shabbir, and Can Sungu & Malve Lippmann

Cover Reader Musafiri
The Musafiri: Travellers and Guests reader follows the entwined paths and encounters of those that embark on journeys, traversing the worlds that open up when the confines of familiar surroundings are left. They are musafiri, a word that denotes the traveller as well as the guest in a plethora of languages such as Arabic, Romanian, Turkish, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Swahili, Kazakh, and Uygur. This reader addresses questions of departure and arrival, of who is welcome and who is not, of artistic expressions during travels, of the global circulation and transformations of ideas and commodities, of religions and pop culture. The essays, interviews, and artistic contributions in this volume accompany the eponymous exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and introduce the worlds of determined travellers, of individuals and communities displaced in the past, and of migratory movements of today. The spectrum of perspectives presented includes the figure of the hermit in ancient China, whose retreat is understood as a journey into nature and selfhood, the transcultural experiences of Japanese artists in the Latin American diaspora, the mobility networks of Afghan traders in the geographical spaces of the former Silk Road and beyond, or the sıla yolu, the transit route to Turkey, on which thousands of people travel every year to visit their old home.
Table of Contents
8
Einführung
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
14
Kuratorischer Essay
Cosmin Costinaș
32
Ein Einsiedler auf Reisen durch die Welt: Der Dichter Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 in Worten und Bildern
Di Liu
44
Landschaften in Bewegung
Yudi Rafael
58
Barzaḵ: Die mystischen Assemblagen des Mohammad Din Mohammad
Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
78
Shades of Indigo
Aboubakar Fofana
94
Auf den Spuren der Seidenstraße: Zentralasiatische Reisende – jenseits nationalstaatlicher Ideen
Magnus Marsden
[Leseprobe]
106
Webtraditionen als zeitgenössische künstlerische Praxis und spirituelle Tätigkeit.
Ein Gespräch
Marie Helene Pereira & Aïssa Dione
114
Bientôt je vous tisse tous: Metamorphosen von Raum und Form in der Webpraxis von Zoarinivo Razakaratrimo (bekannt als Madame Zo)
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
134
The Note: The Market
Musquiqui Chihying
166
Die Flying Machines von Ana Lupas
Magda Radu
176
Die Kraft von Kamasan: Balinesische Traditionen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst im Lichte des Projekts Timur Merah
Citra Sasmita
194
Krieg als Reise – die er ist, zu der er wird, die er antritt und erweitert
Marian Pastor Roces
212
Heimaten unterwegs: Der Ferientransit in die Türkei und die Erzählungen der Autobahn
Can Sungu & Malve Lippmann
230
Beitragende
Information
Published by: Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and Archive Books, Berlin, 2025
Languages: German edition
ca. 224 pages, softcover, 100 images
ISBN: 978-3-949973-88-8
Price: 18€
Available: At bookstores, the HKW shop, and the webshop. Also available in English.