Sommersemester 2023, Theorie und Geschichte +dimensions , Ausstellungen , Hochschule , Textil_Startseite_Forschungsmitarbeitende , theorie_geschichte_forschung

Mingled Living Forces

MINGLED LIVING FORCES, a contemporary art intervention in the exhibition 'Leerstellen.Ausstellen' at the Humboldt Forum presents new students' works developed in the context of the tandem seminars 'Colonial Presents: Artistic and Curatorial Interrogating' (led by Juana Awad in the department of Theory and History) and 'Zeichnen Farbe Fläche - Spatial Drawing' (led by Elaine Bonavia in the department of Textil und Flächen Design) at the weißensee school of art and design berlin during the Winter Semester 22 /23 and Sommersemester 23.

 

11.03.23 – 25.07.23

At Leerstellen.Ausstellen in Humboldt Forum

 

With works by: Imad Alfil, Bar Esh, Paulin Fichtner & Conrad Kunze, Quang Vinh Giang, Mohamad Halbouni & Aline Suter, Melis Kiran, Hami Mehr, Jasmin Sermonet, Inyeong Song, Raras Umaratih, Jelisa Weber

 

Detailed work descriptions and bios here: plusdimensions.kh-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/mingled-living-forces

 

How to reflect artistically on the evidence of colonial violence? How to intervene in an ethnological museum while the restitution of looted material culture takes place? How to draw speculative futures?

Engaging with these questions, new artworks in a variety of media and formats including performance, installation, print, sculpture, painting, video and VR find their way into the ethnological museum. MINGLED LIVING FORCES, the title of the intervention, is a quote from Suzanne Césaire’s DISCONTENT OF A CIVILIZATION where she makes an urgent call to engender a new future. It is as an homage to her teachings that this intervention follows her text, which is both an analytical study of a present/past and a poetic assertion for the possibility of something new. MINGLED LIVING FORCES also refers to our coming together during these last months: a coming together of different peoples, coming together with texts, coming together with the inhabitants of the museum. It is the mingling of these forces that we are invoking.

Beyond this summoning, this intervention has several conceptual entry points: it investigates the museum's raison d'être by engaging artistically with what it means to collect and to exhibit within a framework of domination; it approaches the museum’s perpetuation of colonial violences through material and sound interventions; and through spatial drawing, it engages with artistic speculations as a means to inhabit a future museum once beings and material culture are returned.

The intervention presents these artistic works in an already inhabited space, entering into dialogue with the materials and documents exhibited in Leerstellen.Ausstellen – a temporary exhibition within the ethnological museum, whose concerns and approach to colonial history we believe should be made permanent. The superimposition of MINGLED LIVING FORCES and Leerstellen.Ausstellen, with their meeting and collision points, is ultimately an experiment in spatial dialogue among objects, bodies, and exhibition practices.

 

Curatorial development & Teaching: Juana Awad, Elaine Bonavia

Curatorial support: Bar Esh, Raras Umaratih

Teilnehmer Imad Alfil, Bar Esh, Paulin Fichtner, Quang Vinh Giang, Mohamad Halbouni, Aline Suter, Melis Kiran, Jasmin Sermonet, Inyeong Song, Theresa Umaratih, Jelisa Weber
ProjektkategorieProjekt Projekt-Fächer Theorie und Geschichte
Mingled Living Forces Opening - At the center "Wound" - Spherical painting by Imad Alfil
Mingled Living Forces Opening - At the center "Wound" - Spherical painting by Imad Alfil
Mingled Living Forces Opening - Opening words by Elaine Bonavia, Juana Awad, Maike Schimanowski
Mingled Living Forces Opening - Opening words by Elaine Bonavia, Juana Awad, Maike Schimanowski
Mingled Living Forces - "Geister der Ermordeten" by Paulin Fichtner & Conrad Kunze
Mingled Living Forces - "Geister der Ermordeten" by Paulin Fichtner & Conrad Kunze
Mingled Living Forces Opening - 3D Prints by Quang Vinh Giang, Bar Esh, Jelisa Weber, Inyeong Song
Mingled Living Forces Opening - 3D Prints by Quang Vinh Giang, Bar Esh, Jelisa Weber, Inyeong Song
Mingled Living Forces Opening - "Our Soil, Your Soil" by Quang Vinh Giang
Mingled Living Forces Opening - "Our Soil, Your Soil" by Quang Vinh Giang
Mingled Living Forces - Two prints from "Unraveling Hair" by Jelisa Weber, Print from "Untitled" by Jasmin Sermonet
Mingled Living Forces - Two prints from "Unraveling Hair" by Jelisa Weber, Print from "Untitled" by Jasmin Sermonet
Mingled Living Forces - "A Matter of Urgency" by Raras Umaratih
Mingled Living Forces - "A Matter of Urgency" by Raras Umaratih
Mingled Living Forces Opening - Detail of "Our Soil, Your Soil" by Quang Vinh Giang
Mingled Living Forces Opening - Detail of "Our Soil, Your Soil" by Quang Vinh Giang
Mingled Living Forces Opening - Video from "Dear Humboldt Forum"... by Quang Vinh Giang
Mingled Living Forces Opening - Video from "Dear Humboldt Forum"... by Quang Vinh Giang
Mingled Living Forces - Honest Floorplan by Mohamad Halbouni and Alice Sutter
Mingled Living Forces - Honest Floorplan by Mohamad Halbouni and Alice Sutter
Plakat der Interventionsausstellung Mingled Living Forces
Plakat der Interventionsausstellung Mingled Living Forces