Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
19 Oct 2017 - 21 Oct 2017
Lucia Nhamo. KUKUNGURUKA (III). Performance during THAT, AROUND WHICH THE UNIVERSE REVOLVES | CHAPTER III: Harare August 2017. Lucia will develop this work further in her contribution for the Hamburg chapter
“Everywhere where there is interaction between a place, a time and an expenditure of energy, there is rhythm”. – Henri Lefebvre. Rhythmanalysis
The research, performance and exhibition project 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 through Henri Lefebvre’s concept of Rhythmanalysis. The cities of Lagos, Düsseldorf, Harare, Hamburg and Berlin will be engaged in a network that investigates their specific urban epistemologies and histories. The cities will serve as laboratories of an investigation into the temporal and spacial dimensions of everyday urban life, seen through the interrelations between the body, rhythm and urban structures.
The Hamburg chapter of THAT, AROUND WHICH THE UNIVERSE REVOLVES aims to understand Hamburg’s colonial history choreographically, by way of a rhythmanalysis that introduces a play of encounter, drawing lines between past and present, between buildings, monuments, stories and the everyday movement of people through them. Of special interest is an interrogation of the so called public space and the presence of neo_colonial structures and realities in it. As public space we tend to define urban, geographic or architectural constructs in which we walk, move and gather. Expanding this concept, the project we will look at another aspect of public space which is the intellectual public in which we talk, write, publish and teach. The structures and politics of making voices heard within the neo_coloniality of a public, will be examined in the three-day programme. A crucial historical example to start the conversation on making public space intellectually and politically is the life and work of a fierce cultural and political anti-colonial activist at the beginning of the 20th century in Hamburg – Mpundu Akwa. His bilingual (Douala/German) periodical “Elolombe Ya Kamerun” (Hamburg, 1908) will serve as the focal point, the epicenter of the investigation, the lens through which the city’s history is read.
With: Georges Adéagbo, Simone Dede Ayivi, Nathalie Mba Bikoro, Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, Natasha A. Kelly, Philipp Khabo Köpsell, Tania Mancheno, Lucia Nhamo, Lloyd Nyikadzino, Katharina Pelosi, Vyjayanthi Rao, Tracey Rose, Lorenzo Sandoval, Louis Henri Seukwa, Greg Tate, Vassilis Tsianos
Thuesday, 19. October
19:00, k1
Introduction
Performance | A History of Lateness : Nathalie Mba Bikoro
20:00 (in English)
Conversation | From Hamburg’s Elolombe Ya Kamerun to The Negro Worker: The Silenced History of Black Radical l Publications: Natasha A. Kelly and Philipp Khabo Koepsell, moderated by Saskia Köbschall
Friday, 20. October
18:30, Piazza
Performance (Reenactment) | Die Wit Man II: A Rumble in the Jungle. Requiem for King Rudolph Manga Douala Bell, 1884-2016: Tracey Rose
19:00, k1
Introduction
Performance | Kukunguruka (IV): Lucia Nhamo
19:30, k1 (in German and English)
Conversation | Making Voices Heard – The Coloniality of a Public | Louis Henri Seukwa, Vassilis Tsianos, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, moderated by Elena Agudio
20:30
Performative Intervention | Gintersdorfer/ Klaßen
Saturday 21. October
16:00, Baakenhafen
City Walk | In/Visibilities of Colonialism in the City: Sonic city walk by Katharina Kellermann and Tania Mancheno, with closing remarks by Simone Dede Ajivi.
To participate, please register at: communications@savvy-contemporary.com
Meeting point U-Bahn Baumwall (Exit Elbphilharmonie, between elevator and city bikes)
19:00, k1
Introduction
Conversation | Un/Making the City – Artistic Intervention as Decolonial Tool: Vyjayanthi Rao & Simone Dede Ajivi,moderated by Saskia Köbschall (in German and English)
20:00
Performative Intervention | Gintersdorfer/ Klaßen with Hauke Heumann, Lloyd Nyikadzino, Franck Edmond Yao
20:30
Performance Lecture | RHYTHMANALYSIS | Greg Tate
Connecting Program by Kampnagel K-Tunes:
22:00, kmh AWA – SUPPORT: CRI$PY C / DJ DORK DISFO – free entrance with a THAT, AROUND WHICH THE UNIVERSE REVOLVES – ticket.
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The project is funded by the TURN fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
SAVVY Contemporary at Kampnagel is funded: im Rahmen des Bündnisses internationaler Produktionshäuser von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
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