22.9.2024, Sunday 15:00 – 18:00 Uhr
Gegen das Vergessen - Altars, time capsules and the rituals of living monuments. Practice of commemoration (Part 1)
Venue:
- SCHOOL OF SURVIVAL, Halle für aktuelle Kunst, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
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How does a community survive and resist? Which memory is celebrated and which one has been erased? How can we collectively reactivate a re-membering? In this workshop, participants will investigate strategies to reject the social amnesia of coloniality, de-monumentalize history and perform a counter memory.
Through political and ceremonial collective gestures – such as building an altar, celebrating the memory of the dead ancestors, collecting items for a time capsule for physical and spiritual survival – Chto Delat International will share tools of remembrance, healing, solidarity, care, as a practice of persistence and of becoming a community. Participants will discuss their personal and historical struggles, stories, s/heroes, places and memories as well as investigate local sites of public gatherings. The group will assemble a temporary altar and/or time capsule and perform a ritual to activate these material objects and introduce different methods of commoning.
This session:
Finalizing personal and collective altars and time capsules. There will be a possibility to leave the material traces of the seminar on the shelves in the School of Survival.
It is possible to participate in any sessions but we keep a consecutive development from sessions to the final presentation.