Symposium II
26 and 27 May 2018
Performances of No-thingness
Concept: Nana Adusei-Poku (Curator, Scholar for Cultural Studies and Art History)
Performance "pushit, an exercise in getting well soon!" with NIC Kay
Performance "pushit, an exercise in getting well soon!" with NIC Kay
Performance Lecture "Duration in Bronx Gothic – Acts of Appearance and Disappearance" with Okwui Okpokwasili
Welcome with Nana Adusei-Poku
Julia Wissert in discussion with Anta Helena Recke
Keynote "Black. Still. Life" with Christina Sharpe
Music & Socializing DJ Set with Ain Bailey
The curatorial framing of this discursive platform represents an inquiry into Black diasporic cultural productions as a critique on hegemonic concepts of identity. In "Performances of No-thingness" Black perspectives challenge Western concepts of gender, race, sexualities and dis-abilities through dance and sound performances, workshops, city tours and lectures by Nana Adusei-Poku,Travis Alabanza, Ain Bailey, Melissa Blanco Borelli, NIC Kay, Autumn Knight, Okwui Okpokwasili, Julia Phillips, Peggy Piesche, Anta Helena Recke, Christina Sharpe, Sorryyoufeeluncomfortable and Julia Wissert.
Curator Nana Adusei-Poku on the symposium
„Performances of No-thingness" (in English)
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Joshua Kwesi Aikins on the everyday presence of the colonial past in Berlin
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