• Guided tour
  • Performance

Live-Readings

With David Kazanjian and Lara Fresko Madra

Three people discussing art, while standing in a gallery with a photo display.
A group of people listening to a speaker in an art gallery setting.
A speaker gestures while holding a book in front of an audience.
A diverse group of people stands discussing art in a modern gallery. **Length:** 71 characters.
A speaker gives a presentation while holding papers and stands next to an artwork during an indoor event.
A group of five people stands in front of a blank white wall, deep in conversation.
A group of people is seated and standing in an art gallery, viewing paintings on the walls.
People sitting on the floor in front of abstract artwork in a gallery.
A person gestures while holding papers, standing next to an art gallery wall.
A woman gestures while holding papers, surrounded by people in a gallery space.
People gather around an installation in an art gallery while others engage with materials on a table.
An art gallery where people observe hanging colorful garments and a surfboard.
People viewing art in a contemporary art gallery with colorful installations.
People observing hanging colorful clothing and a seesaw in an art gallery.
Two people discuss modern artwork displayed on a gallery wall.
Three people discussing in front of artwork in an indoor gallery setting.
A woman stands in front of a piano, holding a piece of paper and gesturing.
A group of people stands and claps in a contemporary art gallery.
A group of people attentively listening to someone speak in a gallery setting.
Three smiling people standing in a row, wearing casual outfits.

Dates

  • Sa 16.12., 14:00–16:00

Language

  • English

Admission

Die Veranstaltung ist kostenlos, zzgl. Eintritt.

To the exhibition

For the duration of the exhibition 7 Days, 7 Nights, the Kunsthalle has invited authors and artists to analyze, translate, interpret, criticize or even disrupt the curatorial decisions of the exhibition as "readers".

We refer to these reflections as approximations or live readings.

Each of these invited readers responds to the exhibition by contributing their experiences, expertise and interests, opening up the works on display to new artistic and academic interpretations and perspectives.

This weekend’s approximations will be introduced by guest curator Defne Ayas. The event combines individual and collective history and present, putting in relation forms of representation and an the social implications of exhibitions and curating. Thus, collective spaces of experience are created in which readers and participants alike can engage with the artwork, the sounds, the architecture, the social situation and the visual conditions.

The event is free of charge, no registration required.

David Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas. His research is based on radical aesthetics in the contemporary Armenian diaspora against the diaspora’s melancholically nationalist understandings of genocide, as well as anti-foundationalist critiques of dispossession in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Afro-Indigenous Atlantic.

Lara Fresko Madra comes from an interdisciplinary background with an MA in Comparative Literature from Istanbul Bilgi University and a BA in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University. Her work considers contemporary art as a site of the sublime and spectral reverberations of national, ideological, violent, and traumatic histories. Particularly her work focuses on contemporary art from Turkey produced between 1990-2015 and its source materials in the long 20th century.