This one-day conference explores the contributions of artists and scholars working with archives (and their silences) on public memory and history writing. By taking the exhibition Travelling Back: reframing a Munich expedition to Brazil in the 19th centuryas a starting point, it draws on concepts such as Saidiya Hartman‘s ‘critical fabulation’ to inquire about fiction and visual imagery as means of knowledge production about past and present.
Konzepte wie Saidiya Hartmans "kritische Fabulierung", um nach Fiktion und visuellen Bildern als Mittel der Wissensproduktion über Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.

ATTENDANCE | PARTICIPATION:
The event will be held in English. Participation is free of charge. | The event will be held in English. The event is free of charge.

The lecture will be broadcast in parallel via Zoom. You can join the Zoom meeting at the following link | This event is a hybrid event, hosted in person in Munich, and online at the following link:
Hier Klicken Meeting-ID: 856 5934 5839 | Passwort: 148258.

Hier das Programm: (in English language only)

14:30 - 15:00
Welcome coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Opening remarks
Burcu Dogramaci (director, Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect)
Introduction
Sabrina Moura (fellow, Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect)
15:30 - 16:30

Panel 1 | Artists, archives and public memory
Frauke Zabel (artist, Munich) and Yolanda Gutiérrez (artist,
Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect)
chaired by Sebastian Huber (curator, Munich)

16:30 - 17:00
Coffee break

17:00 - 18:30
Panel 2 | Critical fabulation and history writing
Micheliny Verunschk (writer, Recife/São Paulo) and
Karen Macknow Lisboa (historian, Berlin/São Paulo)
chaired by Sabrina Moura

19:00
Exhibition opening
followed by a reception
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
Room 242, II
Katharina-von-Bora-Straße 10
80333 Munich

Thanks to the support of the Department of Intercultural Cultural Exchange, a podcast will be released in November.

Decolonisation as an artistic practice in theatre deals with this concept from different points of view - cultural-political, scientific and historical - and they will discuss it in the form of interviews with experts.

Thanks to research funding from FoDaKü, the Mexican-German choreographer conducted a series of interviews from the arts, theatre and the academy between July, August and September, and thus crystallised a conclusion about what all of us together as cultural institutions and theatre makers can improve, renew and establish for the theatre of the future.

It began with lecturer Christina Pauls from the University of Augsburg, who deals with the subject areas of political science, peace and conflict research. She was followed by Kampnagel artistic director Amelie Deuflhardt. From the Stuttgart area, she interviewed the director of Schloss Solitude Elke aus dem Moore, as well as the artistic director of Theater Rampe Martina Grohmann and the Colombian theatre-maker Magda Agudelo and the Ivorian choreographer and dancer Yahi Nestor Gahe.

She then continued in Hamburg with Hamburg theatre-maker Helge Schmidt, dramaturg and producer Carmen Mehnert and Hamburg director Mable Preach.

She finished these interviews in Munich with the lecturer Prof. Dr. Burcu Doğramacı from the LMU, who works with fellows from all over the world in the Käthe Hamburger Kolleg "global.dis-connect" programme. To top it off, she had interviewed the director of Joint Adventures Walter Heun.

A podcast and a publication will be created from these excerpts and published hopefully at the end 2024.

Gutiérrez hopes that more will join in further months this conversation. She understand this project als an "ongoing process".

With special thanks to Saskia Bronkowski for her assistance.

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