november 2017

nov201707(nov 7)18:00(nov 7)18:00Non-Orientable Surfaces - DISPLACEMENTFormat:Program of discourseticket18:00 - 19:00 silent green Kulturquartier, Gerichtstraße 35

Event Details

The symposium Non-Orientable Surfaces that will take place as part of ‘Songs of a melting iceberg – Displaced without moving’ will ask questions about the construction of identities, the concept of culture and physical and mental displacement. The festival will bring artistic voices from the Nordic countries and the African continent together and present their possible future visions and strategies of decolonialisation. The symposium will investigate critical concepts like cultures, nationalities and identity constructions, which are categorised by ‘race’, ‘gender’ and ‘class’, and will attempt to seek out ways of thinking that resist this without ideologically loaded prerequisites. The aim is to break through colonialist patterns of thinking and to find new terminology in the sense of an open language not stigmatised by global
positions of power. It will also seek to encourage self-reflection on the part of the audience and the artists, to identify their own incarnated positions and question the ‘white’, ‘Western’ view.

Displacement – 07. November

Anmoderation und Begrüßung:
Ricarda Ciontos
Commentator: Lana Hansen (Greenland)

Mikela Lundahl (Schweden) is Professor for History of Ideas at the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenborg.

Ibrahim Mahama (Ghana) is an artist who lives and works in Tamale. His work has been including the 56 Venice Biennale and documenta 14, Athens and Kassel.

Before the Symposium starts, there are two presentations in SAVVY:

  • For Anahí’s Room, film-maker Ivalo Frank addresses the issue of child abuse in collaboration with five dancers. Based on poems by Jessie Kleemann, the dancers embody the power relationships between people, how memories are inscribed on the body and the arousal of desire against one’s own will. Sensitive and yet still brutal, the boundaries of a person’s own body are sought out, until it loses itself in the powerful taking over of another body.Ivalo Frank, born in 1975, is a film-maker and artist from Greenland. She received the Best Documentary Award
    at the London Underground Film FestivalJessie Kleemann, born in 1959, is poet, video and performance artist from Greenland. Anahí’s Room (2017) is the third collaboration between the two artists, after Killerbird (2015) and Reconciliation (2015). Killerbird (2015) was awarded Best Short 2015.Anahí’s Room

    Tue. 07.11.17, 5:00 pm, SAVVY 30 min

    Th. 09.11.17, 7:30 pm, SAVVY 30 min, English, Danish, Greenlandic

    Choreography: Ivalo Frank

    Poems: Jessie Kleemann
    Performance Artists: Miki Shoji, Nadine Milzner, Ronni Maciel, Raven Do Canto.

    Music: Non-Functional Harmony

  • In 1985, Dafna Maimon’s father opened the first falafel and kebab restaurant in Finland; Orient Express. Located in a shopping mall in Helsinki city centre, the restaurant introduced Finns to the previously unknown delicacies of the Middle East. At the same time, the fast-food restaurant was for many immigrants a work place that provided them with the documents necessary to obtain a residence permit and a start of a new life in Finland. Some years ago, Maimon found a rather strange high-budget video ad from 1986, which her father had produced, and which used his own exoticness in a high paced narrative to market kebabs in Finland. Starting from this autobiographical material and video-relic, Maimon is conducting a micro historical research, in which the workings of memory, family roles and the effects of destructive patriarchal structures are analyzed and weaved into a world of docufiction, spanning over performance video and installation. At the symposium on the 11th of November, Maimon will show the original ad and give a talk about her work-process and experience of growing up within a culture-clashing environment in which very patriarchal albeit ‘liberal’ behavior was the way of life. In Galerie Wedding, she will restage set elements and surroundings from the Orient Express ad, in which she will blend her own present experiences with her father’s autobiographical-material.Dafna Maimon is an artist based in Berlin, whose practice includes short films, performance, online TV shows, texts, sculptures and interventions. Maimon has shown her work in institutions and art spaces such as KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin) and at the Icelandic Pavilion 57th Venice Biennial. In 2017 she was nominated for Ars Viva (Berlin).Orient Express

    17.11.17-13.01.18, Tue-Sa 12am-5pm, Galerie Wedding

    Concept and Production: Dafna Maimon

    Supporters: Lilith Performance Studio, Galerie Wedding and Contemporary Art Center

    Supported by the Finnish Institute Berlin

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