What do we talk about when we talk about...Nakba and International Law...with Nahed Samour

International law is becoming increasingly important for categorising the violence in Palestine and Israel. In particular, the proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) deal with issues such as genocide, war crimes or the illegality of the occupation as well as the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.

Assistances (Working Title) w/ Valentina Desideri, Stefano Harney, Jason Hirata, Will Holder, Annick Kleizen, Cally Spooner, Eric Golo Stone, Mathilde Supe, Terre Thaemlitz, Marina Vishmidt

The event can also be attended online via Zoom (Password: assistant).Day 1: https://leuphana.zoom.us/j/94170832858?pwd=K0lzUjJjNXA1eGVBSW5VWTJGbWI5Zz09

Franzis Kabisch - DEKLINATIONEN (CAN I INHERIT MY DEAD PARENTS’ DEBTS?)

DEKLINATIONEN (CAN I INHERIT MY DEAD PARENTS’ DEBTS?)2016, 28 min

Júlia Ayerbe (w/ Dandara Catete) - Conversations on the Bed

This performance is part of the performance series INSIDE WOUNDS

Postsecular Reckonings: Spirituality and Religion in Contemporary Art History and Cultural Studies

This international workshop is dedicated to religious reverberations in artistic and cultural practices, especially throughout the Americas, exploring the spiritual residues of our disciplines and methodologies.

Ashkan Shabani - Queer, Life, Freedom. Archive of Resilience

This immersive exhibition explores the journey of exile, identity, and resilience through photography, text, installation, and performance art. Divided into three distinct spaces—Iran, Turkey, and Germany—the exhibition invites visitors to experience the emotional and physical realities of displacement and survival.

Tribunalism. The Case for Art

The conference “Tribunalism. The Case for Art” brings together artists, legal theorists, theater and art scholars, and activists to discuss what spaces artistic tribunals open up, what can be said that cannot be said elsewhere and in other ways, how the invocation of a juridical form …

Forms of Organisation

with Ibon Aranberri (Bilbao), Andreas Siekmann (Berlin), Latifa Echakhch (Paris), Peter Friedl (Berlin), Ines Doujak (Vienna), Andrea Geyer/Sharon Hayes (New York/Los Angeles), Sanja Ivecovic (Zagreb), Rainer Oldendorf (Paris), Lisl Ponger (Vienna), Alejandra Riera (Paris), Dierk Schmidt (Berlin), …

Front, Field, Line, Plane

The idea and images of protest have moved to the foreground recently both in the work of artists and in the global media. On the one hand, artists are documenting the wave of protests that have built up since the memorable moment of Seattle in 1999 up to the ascendance of the Occupy movement; and …

Queer, Life, Freedom. Archive of Resilience

“Queer, Life, Freedom” is a deeply personal and politically charged exploration of identity, exile, and survival. Inspired by the artist’s own experiences, the exhibition is divided into three spaces—representing Iran, Turkey, and Germany—each reflecting a different phase of the journey …

Against healing. A practice seminar on performance art and violence.

Challenging the “hope of endowing violence with a political sense” (Catherine Malabou), this seminar studies how performance artists investigate the violence and trauma of structural and situational violence. Since the 1970s, performance and visual artists alike have developed the therapeutic (i.e. …