Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives

In the series Stadtgespräch, from autumn 2014 to December 2015, international artists, scholars, and activists will be presenting their theoretical and practical approaches to a contemporary critic of the metropolis. The discussions will open up various perspectives on the metropolis of Hamburg and present or further explore programmatic questions of the Stadtkuratorin Hamburg project. The series is curated by Sophie Goltz and Vassilis Tsianos, in cooperation with the Sociology Institute of the University of Hamburg and the Kunsthaus Hamburg.

 

Archive

Thursday, December 10, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #21
Refugees Welcome in Art and Culture?
Keynote by Kilian Kleinschmidt (Chairman Innovation & Planning Agency Association (IPA), Global Networking and Humanitarian Expertise, Vienna) and discussion with Nadine Jessen (dramaturg Kampnagel, Hamburg), LaToya Manly-Spain (activist, artist, Hamburg), Christoph Schäfer (artist, Planbude, Hamburg), Christoph Twickel (journalist Die Zeit, performer Schwabinggrad Ballett, Hamburg), moderated by Abimbola Odugbesan (lecturer Silent University Hamburg, Hamburg)Salah Zater (journalist, lecturer Silent University Hamburg, Hamburg)
Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg, Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg
Documentation

Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #20
Hospitality: On the Ambivalence of Hospitality
Beatrice von Bismarck (Professor of art history and director of Cultures of the Curatorial, HGB Leipzig)
Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg, Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg
Documentation

Thursday, November 26, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #19
Coloniality of form. Media Studies and Post_Colonial Theory
Ulrike Bergermann (Professor of media studies, University of Art Brunswick) and Nanna Heidenreich (research associate University of Art Brunswick and film curator, Berlin)
Documentation

Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #18
Smart Cities and the End of the Urban Renaissance
Florian Rötzer (author and journalist Telepolis, Munich)
Documentation

Wednesday, November 11, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #17
Urban Panic: Post-secular Conflicts
Vassilis Tsianos (Professor of sociologie, FH Kiel)
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Tuesday, October 21, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #16
Sacrifice and Survival: Summer Olympics
with Anthony Iles (writer and editor of Mute, London)
In English language
Documentation

Wednesday, October 21 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #15
Cary Coals to Newcastle: On Politics of Public Spaces in Times of Crisis
with Gigi Argyropoulou (artist and researcher, Athens) and Constantina Theodorou (architect and researcher, Athens)
In English language
Documentation

Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #14
The City’s old Clothes
with Heike Derwanz (ethnologist and art researcher, HafenCity University Hamburg)
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 6 pm
Artist Talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
Johannes Paul Raether (artist, Berlin)
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Thursday, July 9, 2015, 6 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #13
Cultural Production in Urban Struggles
Galit Eilat (curator, Amsterdam and Berlin)
In English language.
Documentation

Monday, June 22, 2015, 6 pm
Artist Talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
Horacio Zabala (artist, Buenos Aires/Argentina)
In Spanish language with German consecutive interpretation.
Information

Tuesday, Juni 2, 2015, 6 pm
Artist Talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
We Promise! 22 Years of Broken Promises
Martha Rosler (artist, New York City/USA) in conversation with Miguel Robles-Durán (urbanist and activist, New York City/USA).
In English language.
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Monday, May 25, 2015, 6 pm
Artist Talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
Neo Extraktivismus
Etcétera … (Loreto Garín Guzmán, Federico Zukerfeld, artists, Buenos Aires / Argentinia)
In English language.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 6 pm
Von Kunst am Bau zur Kunst im öffentlichen Raum
Discussion with Maike Bruhns (art historian, Hamburg) und Steinbrener / Dempf & Huber (artist group, Vienna), moderated by Felix Fiedler (research associate Stadtkuratorin Hamburg)

Monday, May 4, 2015, 6 pm
Artist Talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
Less Empty Maybe
Cevdet Erek (artist, Istanbul)
In English language.
Information

Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #12
Between History and Apocalypse: Stumbling
Premesh Lalu (Direktor Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town)
In English language.
Documentation

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #11
Spatial Question
Lecture Performance with Real Estatics (Jennifer Bennett, Lene Benz, Alice Peragine)
Documentation

Monday, April 20, 2015, 6 pm
Artist Talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
Gate to the World. Mobile Architecture

Gvantsa Jiadze, Nicole Lichtenegger, Daniel Pietschmann, Merlin Reichart, Maria Dorothea Weis (class Experimental Design, HFBK Hamburg).
In cooperation with Aalto University, Helsinki (MA Curating Managing and Mediating Art)
In English and German language.
Documentation

Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #10
Strategies for Interim Spaces. Pedagogizing Politics and Repoliticizing Pedagogy

Nora Sternfeld (Professor for Curating and Mediating Art, Aalto University, Helsinki)
Documentation

Wednesday, April 8, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #9
Club der Marinauten. Flowing Against the Logic of the Cruise
Sibylle Peters
(artist, researcher in Cultural Studies, Hamburg)
Documentation

Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #8
Let’s initiate!
Christoph Twickel (journalist, Hamburg)
Dokumentation

Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #7
Low–Budget Urbanity: How enforced cuts and saving options create cities
Alexa Färber
(Professor for City Anthropology and Ethnography, HafenCity University Hamburg)
Information

Wednesday, March 04, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #6
The Logistics of the Metropolis
Irene Hatzidimou (political scientist, Hamburg)
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Monday, March 09, 2015, 6 pm
Artist Talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
From “Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?” (since 1994) to “Collective Conversations” (since 2010)
Ricardo Basbaum (artist, Rio de Janeiro / Brazil)
In English language.
Documentation

Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 6.30 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #5
On the Traumatology of the Present
Serhat Karakayalı (Sociologist, Berlin/Istanbul)
Documentation

Monday, February 16, 2015, 6 pm
Artist talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
RepaiR
Kader Attia (Berlin, Paris)
In English language.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan perspectives #2
PlanBude: What and for Whom?
Margit Czenki and Christoph Schäfer (artists, PlanBude / Park Fiction Komitee, Hamburg)
Documentation

Wednesday, January 21, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #4
Urban Panic. Anti-muslim Urbanism.
Vassilis S. Tsianos (Sociologist, Hamburg)
Documentation

Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 7 pm
Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan perspectives #3
De/Colonial Hamburg
Tania Mancheno (political scientist, activist with Hamburg Postkolonial) and Jürgen Zimmerer (Professor of African History, Universität Hamburg)
Documentation

Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #1
Metropolis. An Urban Figure of Critique.
Vassilis S. Tsianos (Sociologist, Hamburg)
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Monday, November 10, 2014, 6 pm
Artist talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
Dan Perjovschi (artist, Bucharest / Romania)
In English language.
Documentation

Monday, October 20, 2014, 6 pm
Artist talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
Timeless.
María José Arjona (artist, Bogotá / Colombia, New York / USA)
In English language.
Documentation

Monday, September 15, 2014, 6 pm
Artist talk. Metropolitan Perspectives
Georges Adéagbo (artist, Hamburg, Cotonou / Benin)
In French language with German consecutive interpretation.
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Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives




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Klosterwall 15
20095 Hamburg