• Guided tour
  • Performance

Live-Readings

With David Kazanjian and Lara Fresko Madra

Dates

  • Sa 16.12., 15:00–17:00

Language

  • English

Admission

Die Veranstaltung ist kostenlos, zzgl. Eintritt.

To the exhibition

For the duration of the exhibition 7 Days, 7 Nights, the Kunsthalle has invited authors and artists to analyze, translate, interpret, criticize or even disrupt the curatorial decisions of the exhibition as "readers".

We refer to these reflections as approximations or live readings.

Each of these invited readers responds to the exhibition by contributing their experiences, expertise and interests, opening up the works on display to new artistic and academic interpretations and perspectives.

This weekend’s approximations will be introduced by guest curator Defne Ayas. The event combines individual and collective history and present, putting in relation forms of representation and an the social implications of exhibitions and curating. Thus, collective spaces of experience are created in which readers and participants alike can engage with the artwork, the sounds, the architecture, the social situation and the visual conditions.

The event is free of charge, no registration required.

David Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas. His research is based on radical aesthetics in the contemporary Armenian diaspora against the diaspora’s melancholically nationalist understandings of genocide, as well as anti-foundationalist critiques of dispossession in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Afro-Indigenous Atlantic.

Lara Fresko Madra comes from an interdisciplinary background with an MA in Comparative Literature from Istanbul Bilgi University and a BA in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University. Her work considers contemporary art as a site of the sublime and spectral reverberations of national, ideological, violent, and traumatic histories. Particularly her work focuses on contemporary art from Turkey produced between 1990-2015 and its source materials in the long 20th century.