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Kiosk for useful knowledge
dal 8/12/2005 al 10/12/2005

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Markus Mueller



 
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8/12/2005

Kiosk for useful knowledge

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

'A Life in Four Hours' is an experiment in urban memory. Contemporaries tell their life stories, each to a listener of his or her choice. An autobiographical novel in four-hour format. Speaker and listener sit in an enclosed space. The audience experiences the dialogue live via headphones and video projection. With Jimmie Durham, Diana McCarty, Avery F. Gordon, Fred Moten, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Michael Diers. Project and installation by Tulip House (Hannah Hurtzig, Anselm Franke).


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KIOSK FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
A Life in Four Hours
Installation by Tulip House

American Narratives

"A Life in Four Hours" is an experiment in urban memory. Contemporaries tell their life stories, each to a listener of his or her choice. An autobiographical novel in four-hour format. Speaker and listener sit in an enclosed space. The audience experiences the dialogue live via headphones and video projection.
The KIOSK archive is available at KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

A Life in Four Hours:
Arkansas. New York. Geneva. Cuernavaca. Brussels. Marseilles. Berlin.
Jimmie Durham narrates. Diana McCarty listens.
Friday, December 9th, 2005. 9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

Jimmie Durham was born a Cherokee in the USA in 1940. Already known in the sixties as an artist and author, Durham finished his studies at the E'cole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva in 1972 and dedicated himself entirely to political work in the American Indian Movement. He was co-founder and chairman of the International Indian Treaty Committee at the United Nations, where his activities led, among other things, to the drafting of the International Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. During the eighties, he increasingly committed himself again to art and writing. In 1998 Jimmie Durham came to Berlin on a DAAD grant, where he still lives while his work is exhibited internationally. Recently, Durham curated the exhibition, “The American West" in Compton Verney, Warwickshire, Great Britain.

Diana McCarty was born in New Mexico and has been living in Europe for the last 12 years working as a media activist. She is the co-founder of the bootlab as well as the open-source radio project reboot.fm in Berlin. During the nineties, she and others initiated the nettime mailing list and she has worked as part of the Media Research Foundation as a co-organizer of the Metaforum conferences in Budapest.


Things theory carries home:
On Outlaws, Rebels, Refugees and the Taste of Fate.
Avery F. Gordon and Fred Moten in conversation
Sunday, December 11th, 2005, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

A conversation about the possibilities, meanings and complexity of intellectual political commitment today and the necessity of taking sides. Avery F. Gordon and Fred Moten belong to a new generation of theorists who let theory, fiction and fact "speak with each other" in their work, and whose theoretical language verges into the literary. In this conversation, they will discuss the political definition of their work, their relationship to America, the possibility of other stories, as well as the figure of the outlaw, the criminal, the prisoner and the detainee -- and war, immigration and freedom.

Avery F. Gordon is an author of the highly acclaimed book Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination and Keeping Good Times: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People, a collection of essays on political activism and the radical tradition in the USA today. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and moderator of the weekly radio program No Alibi. She is currently writing about arrest, war and utopia. Avery Gordon lives in Paris and Santa Barbara, USA.

Fred Moten was born in Las Vegas and lives now in Los Angeles with his wife, Laura Harris, and their son Lorenzo. He teaches in the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and of two books of poetry, Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000) and, with Jim Behrle, Poems (Pressed Wafer Press, 2002). He is currently completing a manuscript on philosophical, aesthetic and political fugitivity in black culture, also to be published by the University of Minnesota Press.


A Life in Four Hours: L - Z.
Hans Ulrich Obrist narrates. Michael Diers listens. (Part 2) (in german)
Saturday, December 10th, 2005, 9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

A Life in Four Hours: A - K took place atin the KW inat the beginning of July 2005. Hans Ulrich Obrist organized his working biography alphabetically rather than chronologically, according to geographical stations and in the first four hours only managed to get to the letter K = Koln (Cologne). Now comes the second part, L - Z.

Hans Ulrich Obrist, internationally active curator and critic based at the am Muse'e d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Professor at the University of Venice, special correspondent for the magazine "domus" and chief editor of "point d'ironie," published by agne's b. He recently co-curated the exhibition, “Uncertain States of America" at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo.

Michael Diers, art historian, professor at the HfBK in Hamburg, as well as visiting professor at Humboldt University in Berlin.

The installations of Tulip House are dealing with the construction of public spaces in which narrative formats of conveying and dealing with knowledge are probed. http://www.tuliphouse.de

KIOSK is a project by Tulip House (Hannah Hurtzig, Anselm Franke) for ErsatzStadt -
in initiative by Federal Culture Foundation in cooperation with KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

More info: Markus Muller I Maike Cruse
t: ++49 30 24 34 59 41 / 42 press@kw-berlin.de

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