3. – 4.12.2021, 14:00 – 20:00 Uhr
Counter-Monuments and Para-Monuments. Contested Memory in Public Space (Day 2)
Ort:
- HFBK, Lerchenfeld 2, Hamburg und Online
Web:
- YouTube Livestream
Since the Black Lives Matter movement at the latest, public memory has been highly contested again: Around the world, activists are toppling monuments, demanding the renaming of streets, intervening in historical narratives, and imagining other memorials. Based on a seminar by Michaela Melián and Nora Sternfeld in the summer semester of 2021, the conference at the HFBK Hamburg deals with debates about monuments in public space and the associated aesthetics and politics of memory. The aim is to bring together different forms of knowledge as well as artistic and activist strategies from the fields of anti-fascist memory politics, anti-racist memorial demands, and decolonial iconoclasms. In the process, we also encounter discourses and practices of a contested memorial culture in Germany, which was highly reflexive in the 1990s, has increasingly become a factor in tourism since the 2000s, and which is now being questioned particularly with regard to its postcolonial gaps. Questions in the context of the conference will be: Whose memory is manifested publicly? By what means? What is a “lieu de mémoire” in a neoliberal world? What should not be forgotten? And what role does iconoclasm play in this?
The conference is dedicated to the history of artistic counter-monuments and forms of protest, discusses aesthetics of memory and historical manifestations in public space, and asks about para-monuments for the present.
Thursday, December 2, 2021, 17.00-19.00
HFBK Hamburg, Aula
17.00 – 17.20
Michaela Melián and Nora Sternfeld: Aesthetic Procedures and History Politics in Public Space
17.20 – 18.00
Ayşe Güleç, Michaela Melián, Nora Sternfeld, Mirjam Zadoff: Against the Grain. On Memory Work
18 – 18.30
Olu Oguibe in dialogue with Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock: Monuments to the Vulnerable
18.30 – 19.00
Presentation of Para-City-Walks organized by HFBK students
Imke Eppelmann, Matthis Frickhöffer, Jessica Herden, Eve Larue, Sophia Leitenmayer, Lena Sandhof, Cara Theres Petrovic, Kervin Saint Pere, Janne Wagner
Friday, December 3, 2021, 09.00-20.00
HFBK Hamburg, Aula
9.00 – 12.30
Para-City-Walks organized by HFBK-students
Imke Eppelmann, Matthis Frickhöffer, Jessica Herden, Eve Larue, Sophia Leitenmayer, Lena Sandhof, Cara Theres Petrovic, Kervin Saint Pere, Janne Wagner
Meeting point: HFBK Hamburg, entrance hall
14.00 – 15.00*
Heba Y. Amin: The Devils Garden (project in progress)
Eduard Freudmann: Schandwache – Vigil of Disgrace
15.30 – 16.00*
Daniela Ortiz in dialogue with Anja Steidinger: The Beautiful Moment to See them Fall
16.30 – 18.00*
Ayşe Güleç: The Violence After the Violence. The Fate of the Memorials to the Victims of Racism
Ulf Aminde: The Bomb After the Bomb
Lee Hielscher: Relating Memories. How Demanding a Collective Memory Questions How Society is Produced
18.30 – 20.00*
Julia Friedrich: No Longer Standing. How to Deal with a Nazi Artwork from Museum Ludwig’s Collection
Martin Krenn: Participatory & Collaborative Monument Projects
Max Czollek: The Future of Memory
Saturday, December 4, 2021, 10.00 – 17.00
HFBK Hamburg, Aula
10.00 – 11.00*
Leon Kahane: Schuld und Erinnerung / Guilt and Memory
Talya Feldman: Wir Sind Hier | We Are Here
11.30 – 12.30*
Minna Henriksson: Disappearing and reappearing Lenins
Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock: Hundred thirty and one bodies in a garden full of ghosts – On absence in contemporary archives
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.30*
Tania Mancheno: What is the Sound of a Monument? Soundscapes of Decolonial Memories in Hamburg
Stephan Trüby: Right-wing Spaces
Claas Gefroi: How Much (and What) Memory Does the Future Need? Built Testimony of Hamburg Jews
16.00 – 17.00
Debriefing Session with Michaela Melián and Nora Sternfeld
Viewing area with installations by Para-City-Walks group in the four vitrines and video screenings by Junya Fujita, New Media Socialism, Kervin Saint Pere in the Aula at HFBK
Conceived by Michaela Melián (Artist and Professor of Mixed Media / Acoustics at HFBK Hamburg) and Nora Sternfeld (Professor of Art Education at HFBK Hamburg). Organized by Julia Stolba (postgrad at HFBK Hamburg)
The conference will be held in English. Due to the Corona pandemic, this event will also be offered as a YouTube stream: https://youtu.be/7TNV9dVIiQk
Please ask your questions in advance in this etherpad: https://pad.hfbk.net/Conference__Counter-Monuments_and...
The event will be recorded and can then be viewed at https://mediathek.hfbk.net.
We offer all conference participants childcare facilities. Please register by November 29, 2021: studierenmitkind@hfbk.hamburg.de
* Followed by a Q&A session
The event is a 3G-event. Please refer to our website for details on the hygiene regulations that apply at that time.