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Acts of Opening Again: Eine Choreografie der Konvivialität

Acts of Opening Again: A Choreography of Conviviality

Acts of Opening Again

Aligning with the onset of the new year in the Yoruba calendar, HKW re-opens from 2 to 4 June 2023 with a series of blessings, concerts, lectures, performances, processions, readings, and rituals as well as the launch of the exhibition project O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies.

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Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with Doron Rabinovici (English)

In the discussion series Theatre of Reconciliation, Max Czollek encounters people who are exploring questions of memory. How do societies remember? What does the much-lauded German Erinnerungskultur—culture of remembrance—have to do with the question of belonging? What does remembrance mean for the German, European, and international present?

Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with Doron Rabinovici (English)

In the discussion series Theatre of Reconciliation, Max Czollek encounters people who are exploring questions of memory. How do societies remember? What does the much-lauded German Erinnerungskultur—culture of remembrance—have to do with the question of belonging? What does remembrance mean for the German, European, and international present?

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Rumours On the Wind (2023)

Rumours On the Wind is a spoken piece written in response to Bwa Kayiman. A speculative testimony, unerasable in its mythic form and rooted in its power to recall, this piece centres the unknown voices that weren’t present but still had a part to play in the coming Haitian revolution.

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Rumours On the Wind (2023)

Rumours On the Wind is a spoken piece written in response to Bwa Kayiman. A speculative testimony, unerasable in its mythic form and rooted in its power to recall, this piece centres the unknown voices that weren’t present but still had a part to play in the coming Haitian revolution.

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DJ set by Basma, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 15.7.2023.

Pluri-Rhythm Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 15.7.2023.

Street food by Thaipark Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 15.7.2023.

Concert by Jembaa Groove, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 15.7.2023.

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Pluri-Rhythm

The Pluri-Rhythm Festival engages diasporic communities in Berlin and opens a platform to live acts, musicians, DJs, and sound artists who are linked by the common thread of their polyrhythmic sound rather than musical genres.

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When the Spirits Dance We, Performance by Adama Delphine Fawundu, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 28.7.2023.

Welcome by Dr Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, Curator (Scientific, Digital, and Media Practices), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 28.7.2023

AI: African Intelligence, Screening and Conversation with Manthia Diawara & Kwasi Konadu, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 28.7.2023.

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AI: Ancestral Immediacies

AI: Ancestral Immediacies presents conversations, performances, and screenings that question the dominant narratives of AI as disembodied, universal, and superintelligent.

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The Internationaler Literaturpreis Reader 2023

The Internationaler Literaturpreis 2023 Reader gathers extracts from the eight works shortlisted for the award, which honours an outstanding work of contemporary international literature that has been translated into German for the first time.

The Internationaler Literaturpreis Reader 2023

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Abak Safaei-Rad reads excerpts from the eight shortlisted books together with members of the HKW team in the Forough Farrokhzad Garden, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 9.9.2023, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

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Internationaler Literaturpreis 2023

For the novel Die geheimste Erinnerung der Menschen (Hanser, 2022) author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr and translators Holger Fock and Sabine Müller are awarded the Internationale Literaturpreis 2023. The winners were announced at an award ceremony on 9 September 2023 in the Forough Farrokhzad Garden at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW).

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Posters from the campaign What to do with the world?, 2023. Design: Wolfgang Tillmans with quotes from Ricardo Domeneck and Marysé Condé © Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Poster from the campaign What to do with the world?, 2023. Design: Wolfgang Tillmans with a quote from Rita Segato © Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Poster from the campaign What to do with the world?, 2023. Design: Wolfgang Tillmans with a quote from Ishion Hutchinson © Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Poster from the campaign What to do with the world?, 2023. Design: Wolfgang Tillmans with a quote from Manjushree Thapa © Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

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What to do with the world?

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) invited twelve people from different geographies, grappling with the state of the world in their work across disciplines and contexts, to respond to the question: ‘What to do with the world?’ Artist Wolfgang Tillmans created typographic and photographic interpretations of the twelve responses, which were displayed on billboards throughout Berlin.

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I Come as a Woman, Dark and Open (2023)

On 13 August 2023, Venus, the planet of feminine energy, aligns with the sun, causing what only happens once a year: the Venus Star Point, signifying her rebirth and transformation from night star to morning star. Hosted within this symbolic reconfiguration of the sky, Danish-Kenyan Flamenco dancer and choreographer Phyllis Akinyi offer a rhythmic gathering of movement that honours the long history of female influences on revolution and justice, whilst specifically paying tribute to the Haitian Vodou priestess, mambo Cécile Fatiman, who is believed to have led the ceremonial rituals of Bwa Kayiman.

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I Come as a Woman, Dark and Open (2023)

On 13 August 2023, Venus, the planet of feminine energy, aligns with the sun, causing what only happens once a year: the Venus Star Point, signifying her rebirth and transformation from night star to morning star. Hosted within this symbolic reconfiguration of the sky, Danish-Kenyan Flamenco dancer and choreographer Phyllis Akinyi offer a rhythmic gathering of movement that honours the long history of female influences on revolution and justice, whilst specifically paying tribute to the Haitian Vodou priestess, mambo Cécile Fatiman, who is believed to have led the ceremonial rituals of Bwa Kayiman.