Event
Drone Poem #3: The Impossibility of Surprise…
08 Jun 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
Titled We don’t need another hero, the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art is a conversation with artists and contributors who think and act beyond art as they confront the incessant anxieties perpetuated by a willful disregard for complex subjectivities.
Starting from the position of Europe, Germany, and Berlin as a city in dialogue with the world, the 10th Berlin Biennale confronts the current widespread states of collective psychosis. By referencing Tina Turner’s song from 1985, We Don’t Need Another Hero, we draw from a moment directly preceding major geopolitical shifts that brought about regime changes and new historical figures. The 10th Berlin Biennale does not provide a coherent reading of histories or the present of any kind. Like the song, it rejects the desire for a savior. Instead, it explores the political potential of the act of self-preservation, refusing to be seduced by unyielding knowledge systems and historical narratives that contribute to the creation of toxic subjectivities. We are interested in different configurations of knowledge and power that enable contradictions and complications.
Already launched in July 2017, I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not, the public program of the 10th Berlin Biennale, set the tone in a first event that took place in collaboration with the independent educational initiative Each One Teach One (EOTO) e. V. in Berlin. This was followed by a panel discussion in cooperation with the FNB JoburgArtFair in September 2017. The public program disavows assumed beingness and know-hows, perspectives that are often based on existing, constructed social frameworks and their associated speculations about particular subjectivities. Throughout the buildup to the 10th Berlin Biennale until its conclusion in September 2018, the public program creates situations evading these points of view and, at the same time, proposes a refreshed grammar for facing the present.
We don’t need another hero is curated by Gabi Ngcobo with a curatorial team composed of Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Serubiri Moses, Thiago de Paula Souza, and Yvette Mutumba. It takes place from June 9 to September 9, 2018 at various venues in Berlin.
Event
Drone Poem #3: The Impossibility of Surprise…
08 Jun 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
Screening
Dineo Seshee Bopape: unknown at the time of publication
08 Jun 2018
ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik)
Berlin, Germany
Event
Ilustraciones de la Mecánica: Las Nietas de Nonó
09 Jun 2018 – 18 Jul 2018
Volksbühne
Berlin, Germany
Screening
Dineo Seshee Bopape: unknown at the time of publication, 2018
09 Jun 2018
ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik)
Berlin, Germany
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10th Berlin Biennale hosts C&
09 Jun 2018
Akademie der Künste | Hanseatenweg
Berlin, Germany
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I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #5
09 Jun 2018
Akademie der Künste | Hanseatenweg
Berlin, Germany
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I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #7: Strange Attractors
10 Jun 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
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I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #8: departure
10 Jun 2018
May-Ayim-Ufer
Berlin, Germany
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I'm Not Who You Think I'm Not #6: South as a State of Mind
10 Jun 2018
May-Ayim-Ufer
Berlin, Germany
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Keleketla! Library: Houseclub presents: Marlon Denzel van Rooyen
14 Jun 2018 – 15 Jun 2018
HAU 3
Berlin, Germany
Exhibition
Keleketla! Library
14 Jun 2018
YAAM
Berlin, Germany
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Mastur Bar
14 Jun 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
Event
Thath’i Cover Okestra Vol. 5
15 Jun 2018 – 16 Jun 2018
HAU 2
Berlin, Germany
Event
The Tony Cokes Remixes No 1
16 Jun 2018 – 17 Jun 2018
ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik)
Berlin, Germany
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Mittlungsradio
18 Jun 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
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I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #9: radical admiration
21 Jun 2018
Akademie der Künste | Hanseatenweg
Berlin, Germany
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I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #10: Mangolo
22 Jun 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
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I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #11: Silences Unheard
23 Jun 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
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And what are you interested in?
29 Jun 2018 – 20 Jul 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
Talk
I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #12: Again / Noch Einmal
30 Jun 2018
Akademie der Künste | Hanseatenweg
Berlin, Germany
Workshop
Fusion Shop
02 Jul 2018 – 31 Aug 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
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Cultural Walk Through Lichtenberg
04 Jul 2018 – 06 Jul 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
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I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #13: The *foundationClass’ non-Cafeteria of the Academy of Misery
05 Jul 2018
Akademie der Künste | Hanseatenweg
Berlin, Germany
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I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #14: I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not meets Speisekino
13 Jul 2018
ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik)
Berlin, Germany
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I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #15: Dance To My Dream Pt. 1
13 Jul 2018
ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik)
Berlin, Germany
Screening
I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #16: Winnie
19 Jul 2018
Akademie der Künste | Hanseatenweg
Berlin, Germany
Screening
I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #17: I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not meets Speisekino
20 Jul 2018
ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik)
Berlin, Germany
Screening
I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #18: I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not meets Speisekino
27 Jul 2018
ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik)
Berlin, Germany
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I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #19: A History of Remembering
28 Jul 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
Workshop
Spaces of Reflection
18 Aug 2018 – 25 Aug 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
Event
New Stories - New Worlds
31 Aug 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
Event
(For) a moment
31 Aug 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
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