Artistic direction: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung / Curatorial team: Elena Agudio, Anna Jäger, Saskia Köbschall / Management: Lema Sikod / Production assistance: Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Johanna Wild / Exhibition architecture (foyer): I-Ching von Lorenzo Sandoval
SAVVY Contemporary
That Around Which the Universe Revolves – On Rhythmanalysis of Memory, Times, Bodies in Space / Day 1
Part of “SAVVY Contemporary”
- Dialogue
- Music
- Performance
English /
approx. 4 h 30 min.
“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 as well as historical and cultural heritage through Henri Lefebvre’s concept of Rhythmanalysis. The cities of Lagos, Düsseldorf, Harare, Hamburg, and Berlin engaged in a network of research, exchange and artistic dialogues that interrogates their specific local urban epistemologies and histories, and connects them with those elsewhere in the world. The cities serve as laboratories of an investigation into the temporal and spatial dimensions of everyday urban life, seen through the interrelations between the body, rhythm and urban structures. The final chapter takes place in Berlin – with a discursive and performance programme at HAU and an exhibition at the gallery SAVVY Contemporary.
Programme Day 1
1.12.2017 / HAU2
18:00
Introduction | Annemie Vanackere & Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
18:15
Performance by Robin Rhode: Blackness Blooms
19:00
WE/SPACE - Spatial Justice and Urban Histories
Presentations by Noa Ha, AbdouMaliq Simone, Omar Nagati, Emeka Okereke
Moderation: Saskia Köbschall and Ricardo Camona
21:00
Performance lecture: Greg Tate & Marque Gilmore:
Of Senga Nengudi and The Synthetic Tango Mystery School
In Nengudi’s “R.S.V.P.” series of mythopoeic and Constructivist dance works, fellow artist-collaborator Meren Hassinger’s body is harnessed and entangled in the exposed wiring and spavined webbing of Nengudi’s wall-mounted nylon sculptures. The symbiosis of emancipatory action and self-enmeshing achieved between Nengudi’s elegantly strung, free-hanging sculptures and Hassinger’s movement is spellbinding, confounding our sense of whether the dancer is expressing quantum entanglement or a disentanglement from bondage. An allusion to sadomasochistic sex play’s mutually consented engagement with cathartic submission and dominance mise-en-scènes is also invoked. Seen in the here and now, the built-in enchantment factor of “R.S.V.P”’s contortionist exercises is intensified by the awareness that Hassinger’s pliant and durable physique has nimbly traversed four decades since she and Nengudi began their interactive partnership.’
22:30 / WAU
DJ Sets von Greg Tate / Marque Gilmore and Lamin Fofana
Cast
Dates
Past
Credits
A Collaboration of SAVVY Contemporary with Gintersdorfer/ Klaßen, Q-Dance, Njelele Art Station, Hebbel am Ufer, FFT Düsseldorf and Kampnagel (Hamburg). Funded through TURN Fund of the Federal Cultural Foundation.
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Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can also be booked via the ticketing system. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
Latest information for arrival:
There is currently a construction site on Hallesches Ufer between Wilhelmstraße and Möckernbrücke underground station. There is a divided replacement route for pedestrians (right) and cyclists (left), which are separated by a yellow ground line. The carriageway is narrowed to one lane.
Travelling to HAU2 via U Hallesches Tor:
If you are coming from Hallesches Tor underground station, you will have to use an alternative footpath from Wilhelmstraße / Hallesches Ufer junction, which is separated from the carriageway by a construction fence – the actual footpath is currently closed. Please note: the alternative route is also used by cyclists. Pedestrians should keep to the right. We therefore currently recommend that visually impaired or blind visitors come to the HAU with an accompanying person.
Arrival HAU2 via U Möckernbrücke:
When you leave Möckernbrücke underground station, please stay on the footpath on the canal side until you reach Hallesches Ufer / Großbeerenstraße junction – the opposite side is currently closed due to construction work.
