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What do the strategies of denouncement and mobilization aim to produce or destroy? What are they manifestations of? How do these campaigns impact practitioners and institutions and what can they generate?

Organized by Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC
In collaboration with the ICI Berlin and in partnership with EUME/Forum Transregionale Studien

Curated by Tarek El-Ariss and Rasha Salti

In-person: Registration required

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Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege
(Lebanon/France/Qatar, 89 minutes, 2021)
Followed by Q&A with director Abdallah Al-Khatib

The district of Yarmouk, at the outskirts of Damascus, sheltered the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018. The regime of Bashar Al-Assad perceived the camp as a hideout for rebels, so the Syrian army held a siege from 2013 until the camp surrendered a few years later. 

Part of the Conference Cultures of Scandal

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Investigating the processes by which images lapse from the field of visibility, Attia reflects on hypervisibility as a strategy of blinding and erasing. Drawing on Algerian psychoanalyst Karima Lazali’s work around erasure, Attia will explore further how the Deep State (effectively the imperial machine) is able to perversely mobilize bureaucrats as well as citizens in erasing visual traces of crimes it has committed.

Part of the Conference Cultures of Scandal

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Sigmund Freud war beeindruckt von James G. Frazers The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (zuerst 1890). Seine kulturtheoretischen Überlegungen zur Funktion von Magie folgen Frazers Argumenten in gewisser Hinsicht, verweigern sich aber einer strikten Trennung von magischer Vormoderne und nichtmagischer Moderne.

Teil der Vortragsreihe Psychoanalytische Kulturwissenschaften

Eine Kooperation des Berliner Institut für Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse (BiPP), des kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) und des ICI Berlin, organisiert von Wilhelm Brüggen (BIPP), Monika Englisch (BIPP) und Andreas Gehrlach (HU Berlin), gefördert von der Friedrich Stiftung Hannover

Livestream available
In-person: Registrierung erforderlich

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Around 1970 artists grew increasingly critical of the idea of the studio, the role it played in their quotidian life as well as its ideological and economic functions. They often abandoned their studios and developed new modes of practice.

With Catherine Dossin and Isabelle Graw
Moderated by Claudia Peppel and Jakob Schillinger

Part of the lecture series The Artist’s Space Situating the Studio Today

Livestream available
In-person: Registration will open on 1 Feb 2023

Organized by Kunsthaus Dahlem and ICI Berlin

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At a moment when many suggest that the end of an era has been reached, and when struggles against climate change, exploitation, neocolonialism, patriarchy, and racism proliferate, what role can Arendt’s account of political beginnings play in the conceptualization of a new time? Arendt has been celebrated as a key theorist of politics, freedom, and judgement.

In-person: Registration will open on 1 Feb 2023

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Kunsthaus Dahlem
Käutzchensteig 8
14195 Berlin – Dahlem

Im Zeitalter der Digitalität erleben die Produktionsformen auch im Feld der Kunst einen Quantensprung der Erprobung neuer Räume, Formate und Ästhetiken. Wie reagieren Künstler*innen auf die Herausforderungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz und Machine Learning? Wie verändern digitale Technologien das Kunstschaffen?

With Ursula Frohne, Nina Roehrs, and Nora al-Badri

Teil der Vortragsreihe
The Artist’s Space Situating the Studio Today

Organized by Kunsthaus Dahlem and ICI Berlin

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