Perspectives, Protest, Encounter
We take a critical look at power structures and create spaces for shared laughter, shared memories and encounters. Whether it's a reading, exhibition, performance or talk: our Arts & Word programme invites you to negotiate history, the present and the future together.
In her reading Witches, Bitches, It-Girls, Rebekka Endler questions patriarchal myths, while Emilia Roig and Kübra Gümüşay explore new forms of solidarity and love in Resistance & Life – a collaboration with the feminist co-creation space eeden. SMASH COMEDY brings humour as protest to the stage, while Arte Tracks Plattenkiste invites artists to share their musical influences and engage in conversation with the audience. In addition, Frau Gretel and Fede from unreleased talk about how to find your way in an algorithm-driven music world.
The art project Ki Bui | MTG – Mor(t)al Strife Archives recontextualises photographs in the context of the card game Magic: The Gathering and critically examines the ways in which war and conflict are documented, communicated and consumed as cultural artefacts.
On the screen, films such as Evil-E, the story of Eva Ries and the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as T-REX and El'sardines tell stories of masculinity and self-determination. Exhibitions also open up spaces for remembrance and questioning:
Save the Last Dance documents Hamburg's club culture, Gefährliche Orte (Dangerous Places) by Copwatch Hamburg addresses police violence, and Addardae Abdul Hassan and Soukaina El Adak show perspectives of the North African diaspora. Defné Çetin illustrates the music of our line-up, while Anna Stitz gathers the voices of the audience in an interactive space.
Things get active with the Skate Academy and a performance by the Contemporary Dance School Hamburg. In the Festival Village, artist Johanna Ploch portrays visitors live, creating very personal memories.