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8 July, URBAN BODIES PROJECT — MUNICH
Decolonising audiowalk with dance interventions (English only)
Venue:
Saturday, 8 July 2023, 3 p.m.
The audience will listen to audio files — a fusion of historical facts, personal biographies, music and interviews — through headphones while walking from site to site. A performative utopia of dance will emerge in which urban space is occupied and intervened with dance and bodies. History will become present, and memorial sites of Munich will become visible.
Concept/choreography: Yolanda Gutiérrez with David Valencia and Jana Baldovino
Audio artist: Cornelia Böhm
Narration: William Holley and Zainab X
Arrival 10-15 Minutes before 3 pm
Duration: 60-70 Minutes
Meeting point: Münchener Stadtmuseum (St.-Jakobs-Platz 1, 80331 Munich, outside)
Entrance free!
Please register by 3 July HERE.
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23 May 2023
Interest in science communication and transfer is growing. This workshop attempts to negotiate challenges and opportunities in thinking through public humanities, including digital humanities, on a global scale.
Processes of migration and flight after 2015 and their depiction, perception and distribution through photography are the starting point of ‘Nomadic Camera’. We seek to investigate the relationship of photography and contemporary migration in technology, the media and aesthetics in addition to historical exile and flight as the pivotal discursive setting in which specific forms of mobility extending from the mid-19th century to today have been negotiated. The concept adapts the term ‘nomadic’ — a transitory form of existence — beyond static concepts of being and national boundaries (Demos 2017). ‘Nomadism’ refers to a form of mobility that converges with and diverges from other terms, such as ‘travel’, ‘displacement’ and ‘exile’ (Kaplan 1996). At the same time, displacements are intrinsically related to connective and disconnective experiences, including place-making and belonging, ruptures between life and work in the past and present, experiences of loss and challenges of beginnings. ‘Nomadic Camera’ will centre around the following questions: how do dislocations interconnect with the technical evolution of photography as a mobile medium? How do camera technologies presuppose and affect the visual formulation of exile, migration and flight experiences? What modifications in aesthetics and style, methods and practices of photography do temporary mobility, geographical relocation and resettlement imply?
“Many artists from Munich went into exile, and many artists come into exile in Munich today. Become the “Memory Person” to interact with passers-by on the streets to collect and record memories and present experiences of exile and migration in Munich!”
Organisers: Franziska Windolf, Mareike Schwarz
Meeting point: U Silberhornstraße, Giesing, München
Dates:
The lunchtime colloquium (“ltc”) of the gd:c continues in the summer term. The first session will take place on 25 April. The colloquium takes place on Tuesdays from 11.30 am to 1 pm at the library of the Research Centre.
