Hello everyone!
Hope you’re well and have a loevely week planned.
I’ve struggled to find many live events this week so I again urge you to share your events if you do have any using the form just here
Here are this weeks selections
1000 Serpentinen Angst by Olivia Wenzel
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Friday 25th Febuary
Olivia Wenzel’s novel 1000 Serpentinen Angst (1,000 Coils of Fear) circles around the life of a young Black woman born in the GDR. Her trips take her – in leaps between times, places and generations – to Vietnam, Berlin, Morocco, the USA, Poland and Thuringia. How much actually fits into a single life? And how can all that constitutes and shapes a person be told – while the person is still in the middle of it themselves? From a grandmother loyal to the party line in the GDR, through a punk mother rebelling against the system, to life in today’s Berlin, we travel through a family’s stories and jump from place to place, from story to story, from image to image, like leafing through an old photo album – only that the language of the pictures is used in an entirely different way and the pictures are never trusted completely. Or as the novel quotes John Berger: »All photographs are a form of transport and an expression of absence.« Adapting a novel for the stage for the first time following her Black copy of the Mittelreich production, as well as her staging of Die Kränkungen der Menschheit, director Anta Helena Recke makes experiences visible in her work that cannot be achieved through language alone. She creates images that communicate what a life is when it isn’t defined by CVs or official data, rather when it draws on the exchange between people who know each other well, with one’s own family, one’s self and one’s history.
Rock My Religion by Dan Graham
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Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that begins with the Shakers, an early religious community who practiced self-denial and ecstatic trance dances. With the "reeling and rocking" of religious revivals as his point of departure, Graham analyzes the emergence of rock music as religion with the teenage consumer in the isolated suburban milieu of the 1950s, locating rock's sexual and ideological context in post-World War II America. The music and philosophies of Patti Smith, who made explicit the trope that rock is religion, are his focus. This complex collage of text, film footage and performance forms a compelling theoretical essay on the ideological codes and historical contexts that inform the cultural phenomenon of rock `n' roll music.
My Name Is Janez Janša by Janez Janša,Janez Janša and Janez Janša
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A name. Everybody has one. Individuals, artists and academics from all over the world share their thoughts about the meaning and purpose of one’s name from both private and public perspectives. The problem of homonymy and other reasons for changing one’s name are explored as the film draws references from history, popular culture and individual experiences, leading us to the case of a name change that caused a stir in the small country of Slovenia and beyond.
In 2007 three artists joined the conservative Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and officially changed their names to that of the leader of that party, the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša. While they renamed themselves for personal reasons, the boundaries between their lives and their art began to merge in numerous and unforeseen ways.
Signified as an artistic gesture, this particular name change provoked a wide range of interpretations in art circles both in Slovenia and abroad, as well as among journalists and the general public.
Apologies for this one being a bit short. I just couldn’t find that much stuff this week.
Hope you all have a nice week and see you soon
Josh x