Artistic direction: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung / Curatorial team: Elena Agudio, Anna Jäger, Saskia Köbschall / Management: Lema Sikod / Production assistance: Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Johanna Wild / Exhibition architecture (foyer): I-Ching von Lorenzo Sandoval
SAVVY Contemporary
That Around Which the Universe Revolves – On Rhythmanalysis of Memory, Times, Bodies in Space / Day 2
Part of “SAVVY Contemporary”
- Dialogue
- Music
- Performance
English /
approx. 5 h
“That, Around Which the Universe Revolves” brings together visual artists, urbanists, photographers, performers, and theorists to investigate the interrelations of space and time, memory, architecture, and urban planning as well as historical and cultural heritage through Henri Lefebvre’s concept of Rhythmanalysis. The cities of Lagos, Düsseldorf, Harare, Hamburg, and Berlin engaged in a network of research, exchange and artistic dialogues that interrogates their specific local urban epistemologies and histories, and connects them with those elsewhere in the world. The cities serve as laboratories of an investigation into the temporal and spatial dimensions of everyday urban life, seen through the interrelations between the body, rhythm and urban structures. The final chapter takes place in Berlin – with a discursive and performance programme at HAU and an exhibition at the gallery SAVVY Contemporary.
Programme Day 2
2 Dec 2017 / HAU2
17:00
Performance | Dorothee Munyaneza: Passing Through Again
17:45
INVOLUNTARY NARRATIVES - On Telling Time, Disaccords and Other Religions
Reading | Petina Gappah
Presentation | Akinbode Akinbiyi: Wicked rhythm in the city: Images from Lagos and Berlin from 1980s to now
Moderation: Anna Jäger und Ricardo Carmona
19:45
Performative Intervention | Gintersdorfer/Klaßen with Hauke Heumann, Franck Edmond Yao, Gotta Depri:
Kurztrips Lagos und Harare, fragmentarische Ergebnisse streben zum Ganzen
The newly trained rhythmanalysists of Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, equipped with their bodies and Lefebvre’s slim volume Rhythmanalysis: Space, time and everyday life in their left hand for spontaneous consultation, keep their right hand empty - to shake those of welcoming hosts, guard their noses against the sudden car fumes and other exhaust gases of the cities they wander in, to halt taxis, snap their fingers to the beats booming out of corner shops, to emphasize their questions on the history and present of a place and the different perspectives on emerging urban structures and longlasting ruins.
21:00
Music Performance | Jacques Coursil:
Edouard Glissant, The Archipelago of the Great Chaos | Oratorio Fragments for Solo Trumpet and Voice
Cast
Dates
Past
Credits
A Collaboration of SAVVY Contemporary with Gintersdorfer/ Klaßen, Q-Dance, Njelele Art Station, Hebbel am Ufer, FFT Düsseldorf and Kampnagel (Hamburg). Funded through TURN Fund of the Federal Cultural Foundation.
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Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can also be booked via the ticketing system. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
