DFL at ÜBER(W)UNDEN - ART IN TROUBLED TIMES at Goethe Institut
September 7 - September 11, 2011
ÜBER(W)UNDEN
ART IN TROUBLED TIMES
Conference and interventions
Goethe-Institut
From 7th to 11th of September 2011, the Goethe-Institut South Africa focuses on narratives and artistic approaches to trauma: in literature as well as the visual arts, in dance, theatre, music and film. ÜBER(W)UNDEN
ART IN TROUBLED TIMES presents performances by DFL Director Warren Nebe and DFL scholar Theogene Niwenshuti.
A conference on four consecutive mornings will bring into
conversation artists and cultural activists whose artistic
work has been influenced by traumatic events and deep-
reaching societal changes. Artistic interventions in the
afternoons engage with the conference and interact with it.
The audience and conference participants will be visiting
sites where artistic interventions start speaking the
unspoken und artistic expressions lead them to places that
influence the perception of art. Artists from various African
countries such as DRC, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Ivory Coast and
Sudan will engage during über(W)unden – Art in troubled
times.
What healing processes are effective in which cultural
contexts? What are the social repercussions of
traumatisation? Are there such things as social traumata and
are traumata passed on to following generations? What
aesthetic languages do artists develop to engage with
traumata? How are traumata used within artistic methods,
such as re-traumatisation? What role do artists play during
times of social changes, social traumata or in a post-
traumatic society? Those are just some of the questions
explored by this project during the series “Arts & Conflict”.
Hayani by DFL Director Warren Nebe: September 7, Time: 20:00, Market Theatre Laboratory
Response by Theogene Niwenshuti, September 8, Time: 12:00, Goethe Institut
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