June JULY 2013 programme
OVERVIEW When
What & Where
06/06/2013 - Encounters Film Festival 16/06/2013 Various locations in Johannesburg and Cape Town 12/06/2013 Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille) Goethe-Institut, Auditorium, Johannesburg 21/06/2013 Call and Response: k!words Keleketla! Library, (tbc) 23/06/2013 - Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and 02/07/2013 Criticism (JWTC) Various locations in Johannesburg 26/06/2013 Xenophobia and Terrorism in Germany: Book launch and Discussion Goethe-Institut, Auditorium, Johannesburg 30/06/2013 SoundMindLab Goethe-Institut, Auditorium, Johannesburg 09/07/2013 Sun Alley (Sonnenallee) Goethe-Institut, Auditorium, Johannesburg 11/07/2013 - Xenoglossia - Center for Historical 04/08/2013 Reenactments GoetheonMain, 245 Main Street, Maboneng Precinct 18/07/13 - 28/07/13
Durban International Film Festival Various locations in Durban
AT DIFF African Premiere - African metropolis short film programme Durban International Film Festival
Film
Encounters Film Festival
06/06/2013 – 16/06/2013 Various locations in Johannesburg and Cape Town In support of the Encounters South African International Film Festival, the Goethe-Institut will support screenings of Britta Wauers’ film In Heaven Underground. The director will visit South Africa during the festival and participate in discussions after screenings in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Imagine being able to take a walk through a history book, walk through 130 years of art, philosophy, architecture and medicine! In Heaven Underground is German filmmaker Britta Wauers’ enchanting film about the largest Jewish Cemetery in Europe and one of the only ones to have survived during Nazi occupation. With more than 115 000 people buried there the cemetery tells the story of lives that once were lived in Berlin and the descendants that come a century later to discover their roots. In Heaven Underground will be screened on Tuesday 11/06/2013 at 19H00 at The Bioscope. Further information: http://www.encounters.co.za
Film
Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille) 12/06/2013, 19H00 Goethe-Institut, Auditorium, Johannesburg Roughly every two months, we present a German film with English subtitles at our Auditorium. On Wednesday, 12 June, we will continue our series with Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille), an Oscar nominated film from 1996: Lara’s parents are deaf and dumb. This changes the relationship of power and obligation within the family, for the girl has to act as an intermediary with the outside world from an early age and must also “translate”, be it a telephone call, the meeting between her parents and her teacher, or when negotiating a loan with the bank.
Her father’s fear of losing his daughter is inevitably more deepseated than in other cases. When Lara leaves her home town in Lower Bavaria after completing her school education and goes to Berlin to study, she is unable to shed the feeling of running away from a responsibility and it bears heavily upon her. A film by Caroline Link. Germany, 1996. German with English subtitles. Admission: Free
Literature
Call and Response: k!words
21/06/2013, 19H00 Keleketla! Library, Drill Hall, Johannesburg, TBC Audience. Books. Centre. Cinema. Classification. Clubs. Community. Complex. Concert. Conversation. Culture. Dance. Dewey. Drill Hall. Education. Exchange. Forms. Freedom. Future. Gallery. Ghosts. Gospel. Guns. Heritage. History. Imagination. Inner City. Johannesburg. Knowledge. Kwasa Kwasa. Leaders. Listening. Making. Map. Markers. Material. Music. Noise. Noord Taxi Rank. Organise. Pamphlets. PDF. Plein and Twist. Police. Posters. Pupils. Radio. READ. Skopo. Smoke. Soccer. Social. Spiders. Studio. Structures. Taxi. Trade. Transformation. Treason Trial. Visitors. Walls. Youth. Zabalaza. Zine.
Image: Ketleketla Library
As a preliminary consolidation of the 5 year archival project of the Keleketla! Library, the project Call & Response: k!words pulls together the activities of the Keleketla! Library from the last 5 months. The event marks the culmination of two library intervention residencies by Marie Fricout (FR) and Francis Burger (SA). Made visible through keywords, maps, shelving appendages and other structures, the residencies reflect a dual conversation with the library collection and the knowledge that Keleketla generates. k!words will be launched as part of a growing vocabulary that registers the current and suggests the future Keleketla! Library catalogue. The imaginings will also include a discussion on the cataloguing and classifying process by librarian Lot Kafesu, as well as an update of K!Discography, a growing audio archive. www.keleketla.org
Workshop
Johannesburg Workshop IN Theory and Criticism (JWTC)
23/06/2013 – 02/07/2013 Various locations in Johannesburg The 2013 session of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) will take place at Wits University and other venues in Johannesburg from June 23 to July 2, 2013 under the theme: The Life of Forms. Public events include panels, exhibitions, round tables, film projections (with Trinh Minh-ha), book launches, as well as lectures by William Kentridge, Arjun Appadurai, Jane Guyer, Eyal Weizman, Sue Van Zyl, Ato Quayson, Achille Mbembe, and others. Composer and musician Neo Muyanga will perform and Ntone Edjabe, the founder of Chimurenga, will hold a conversation about the magazine. The following areas of debate and inquiry will be privileged: architecture and city forms, literature, politics and the arts, fashion and design, dance and music, technologies of the digital age. For further information please visit the website: www.jwtc.org.za All events are open to the public on a first-come-first-seated basis.
Image: Mabeba Motlatjo Ashley (Shadows Video Still 2012)
JWTC OVERVIEW
When TIME
What & Where
20/06/2013 6:30-8:30pm Drawing Lesson: In Praise of Shadows William Kentridge, Wits Theatre 23/06/2013 4:00-6pm Drawing Lesson: A Brief History of Colonial Revolts William Kentridge, Wits Theatre 24/06/2013 10-12am Thoughts on the Capitalist Imaginary Arjun Appadurai, Wiser 3-5pm The Chimurenga Chronicle Ntone Edjabe and Achille Mbembe in conversation, Wiser 6:30-8:30pm Book Launch: The Future as a Cultural Act Arjun Appadurai, Jane Guyer, Hilton White, and Achille Mbembe, Wiser 25/06/2013 9-11am Four Types of Anomaly and the Politics of Form Sue Van Zyl, Wiser 2:30-4pm Poor Form Josh Comaroff, Sarah Nuttall, and Ong Ker Shing, Goethe-Institut 4-4:45pm Book Launch: Horror in Architecture Josh Comaroff and Ong Ker Shing Goethe-Institut 5-7pm Public Panel: Exhibiting the City Edgar Peterse and Teresa Caldeira Goethe-Institut 7pm Exhibiton Opening: Post Oil City Goethe-Institut 26/06/2013 9-11:30am Public Lecture: Forensic Architecture Eyal Weizman, Wiser 2:30-4:30pm The Camp as a Political Project Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal Wiser 27/06/2013 2:30-4:30pm Public Lecture Trinh Minh-ha, Wiser 12–1pm Aesthetics in Protest: Conversation with Neo Muyanga and El Warsha Wits Music Room 6:30-8:30pm Public Lecture: Democracy in the Age of Animism Achille Mbembe, Wiser 28/06/2013 9-11am Public Platform: Is Confusion a Form? Jane Guyer, Moises Lino e Silva and Kabiru Salami, Wiser 2:30-4:30pm Cooking Data David Goldberg and Nishant Shah; Wiser
When TIME
What & Where
28/06/2013 6:30-8pm Opening of The Life of Forms Project Space Zen Marie & Others, GoetheonMain 29/06/2013 11:30-1pm Hermes Divided James Webb, Wiser 3:30-5pm Aesthetics in Protest Neo Muyanga and Company Goethe-Institut 9pm South by South party GoetheonMain
30/06/2013 11am-12:45pm Drawing Lesson: A Johannesburg Biography William Kentridge, Wits Theatre 2:15-3:30pm Drawing Lesson: Practices Epistemology: life in the Studio William Kentridge, Wits Theatre 01/07/2013 9-10am Public Lecture: Poor Theory and Junk Space Ackbar Abbas, Wiser 10:30-11:30am Modernity and the Politics of Disorder Dilip Gaonkar, Wiser 3:30-4:30pm Cosmograms: Rereading Western Modernity through Architecture Bernd Scherer, Wiser 02/07/2013 9-10:30am Oxford St., Accra: Urban Theory and Performative Streetscapes Ato Quayson, Venue tbc 6:30-8:30pm Drawing Lesson: : In Praise of Mistranslation William Kentridge, Wits Theatre
Exhibition The Life of Forms: Project Space 27/06/2013 - 07/07/2013, Opening 28/06/2013, 18H30 GoetheonMain, 245 Main Street, Maboneng Precinct The GoetheonMain project space becomes a satellite venue for hosting exhibitions, stagings and interventions related to JWTC, conceptualised by Zen Marie. Participants of the workshop are invited to extend their theoretical work space, through visual, audial, performed and spatial dimensions. The project space becomes a platform for theoretical/ aesthetic model building, a laboratory for practice-based theory or a stage for concepts to be performed. Life of Forms: Project Space opens to the public on Friday 28 June at 18H30.
Exhibition Post-Oil City – The History of the City’s Future 25/06/2013 – 31/07/2013, Opening 25/06/2013, 18H30 Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg At a time when more than half of the world’s population is living in cities, the effects of climate change on urban life can no longer be ignored. The exhibition Post-Oil City: The History of the City’s Future, as well as the accompanying catalogue edited by ARCH+, present innovative projects in Asia, Africa, and America that address urgent questions: How will the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy affect the process of urban planning and the city? How will the use of renewable energies affect urban metabolism and the politics of sustainability and mobility? By contrasting eleven current projects in the field of sustainable urban planning with nine from the past, the exhibition aims to show that many of today’s developments have their roots in the urban utopias of mid-20th-century modernism. Today, urban planners are returning to these concepts and adapting them to the challenges posed by climate change, a limited supply of fossil fuels, economic recession, and global systemic crisis. Some experiments featured in the exhibition modify existing structures: creating a public transport system in Curitiba’s inner city, re-naturalizing New York’s High Line and building a network of electric cars with battery switch stations in Israel. Though different in method and scope, the projects presented in Post-Oil City all have something in common: they exemplify the combination of reason, innovation, and flexibility that we’ll need to make our cities and planet sustainable for the future.Post-Oil City is an exhibition produced by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. (ifa/Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations).
Image: ARCH+, Berlin
Image: ARCH+, Berlin
Music Aesthetics in protest – a recipe for making songs that RADICALIZE 29/06/2013, 15H30 – 17H00 Goethe-Institut, Auditorium, Johannesburg The Goethe-Institut and WISER present Soweto-born composer-musician, Neo Muyanga, as host of a 3-day liberation music performance workshop featuring Egypt’s premiere music theatre troupe, El Warsha, at the JWTC 2013. The aim of the preceding workshop is to dissect and discover what elements are shared in the popular protest archive of two vastly different musical cultures – the Egyptian and the South African. The workshop culminates in a once-off concert of newly arranged protest music featuring collaborators: Neo Muyanga, Cairo’s El Warsha troupe, the Keleketla library music ensemble, the South-by-South DJ collective, and Jazz trumpeter Marcus Wyatt. Admission: Free
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Book Launch/Discussion
Xenophobia and Terrorism in Germany: Book launch and Discussion
26/06/2013, 17H30 Goethe-Institut, Auditorium, Johannesburg In his recently published book entitled “Schreddern, Spitzeln, Staatsversagen”, Bodo Ramelow, Member of Parliament for the German federal state of Thuringia, discusses the development of the far right-wing terror group, NSU (National Socialist Underground). Spurred on by xenophobic and anti-democratic sentiments, the group’s acts of terrorism between 2000 and 2006 included the killing of nine immigrants, one policewoman, the attempted murder of her colleague, Denis Goldberg
bombings and 14 bank robberies. Ramelow’s book, co-authored by two other German politicians involved in parliamentary enquiry committees that probed state policing failures during the hunt for the terrorist group, sheds light on the broader social milieu of right-wing thinking in Germany. The book launch will be followed by a discussion with Denis Goldberg, ANC freedom fighter, on the topic of xenophobia and political violence in South Africa and Germany and the possibility of fostering open and peaceful political
Bodo Ramelow
cultures in both countries. The launch is organised by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.
Music
SoundMindLab presents Untitled #310: a new composition for blindfolded music ensemble by Francisco López
30/06/2013, 16H00 Goethe-Institut, Auditorium, Johannesburg Preview performance at the Goethe-Institut with Jill Richards, Marcus Wyatt, Siya Makuzeni, Waldo Alexander, Magda de Vries and Reza Khota.
Image: National Arts Festival – Grahamstown
The celebrated composer/sound artist Francisco López (Madrid, 1964) works worldwide and is currently based in The Hague, The Netherlands. López has created a new work for an instrumental ensemble for the National Arts Festival 2013. It is the result of an unorthodox process of his working directly with the musicians involved: sonic textures, gestures and compositional structure itself all arise from the particular skills, style and features of the specific ensemble. Grounded on a “concrète” aesthetic of the specific sonic material itself being the basis and origin of the music, his compositional work proceeds without a preconceived “theme” or programmatic drive. Accordingly, there is never an a priori description of the future composition, but instead it unfolds from scratch. López also requires the musicians to be blindfolded. Both scores and visual cues are thus replaced by aural cues that the performers have to carefully listen to within the music textures as they perform the piece. This is a rare opportunity to hear one of the major compositional voices of our time, together with some of South Africa’s finest musicians. This performance of Untitled #310 is supported by the National Arts Festival, the Goethe-Institut, the University of Johannesburg and the Spanish Embassy. The Goethe-Institut also supports the performance of the piece at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Admission: Free
Film
Sun Alley (Sonnenallee)
09/07/2013, 19H00 Goethe-Institut, Auditorium, Johannesburg In continuation of our German film series wewill be screening Sun Alley (Sonnenallee) on Tuesday, 09 July with English subtitles at our auditorium: Sonnenallee takes you on a nostalgic journey to East Germany, the land where Michael lives. He wears bell-bottoms and a home-printed Rock & Pop T-shirt. The street he lives on winds most of its length through West-Berlin, with just its tail in the East. The apartment is cramped, the neighbour works for the secret police and there’s an uncle from the West who smuggles in pantyhose. But Micha is focused on only one goal: doing whatever it takes to win the heart of the prettiest girl in school. Sun Alley tells the story of Micha and of life in the 1970s in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. A film by Leander Haussmann. Germany, 1999. German with English subtitles. Admission: Free
Visual arts
Xenoglossia - Center for Historical Reenactments
11/07/2013 – 04/08/2013, Opening: 11/06/2013, 18H30 GoetheonMain, 245 Main Street, Maboneng Precinct Xenoglossia, the exhibition departs from Xenoglossia, a research project – a process initiated in 2010 by the Centre for Historical Reenactments (CHR). The CHR research team comprising of artists, curators and writers worked for a period of more than a year at bringing forth existing historical and contemporary examples in which linguistic proximity and distance has informed attitudes to concepts of strangeness, sameness, difference and otherness.
Xenoglossy is an alleged, or rare condition of speaking or writing in a language entirely unknown to the speaker. The exhibition will thus pose questions regarding curatorial and artistic vocabularies manifested within an exhibition, the unknowing grammar of the exhibition. Work featured in the project will not be entering an empty room but a space already “accused” by questions posed. The exhibition attempts to give answers to questions staged throughout the research project in order to develop some of the ideas borne from it. CHR is a Johannesburg-based alternative platform and a site for artistic and historical research. CHR is interested in creating dialogues between creative practices in order to reveal how within their constellations certain histories are formed or formulated, repeated, universalized and preserved.
Image: CHR, The Unknowing Grammar of Inhabiting a Text (performance residue), 2010-2011
Film
African Premiere - African Metropolis short film programme
18/07/13 – 28/07/13 Durban The world premiere of the short film project African Metropolis, which is aimed at exploring and promoting African short films and filmmakers from different capitals of the continent, will take place at the Durban International Film Festival. The premiere will feature seven short films made by seven African filmmakers in seven African cities. Filmmakers whose films are featured in this project are Jim Chuchu of Kenya, Egyptian director Ahmed Ghoneimy, Folasakin Iwajomo of Nigeria, Marie Ka, who is Senegalese/Martiniquan, Philippe Lacôte of the Ivory
Coast, Carole Maloba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South African director Vincent Moloi. The short films featured in the programme were shot in Lagos, Abidjan, Kinshasa, Dakar, Johannesburg, Cairo and Nairobi. The work of these filmmakers will show the face of a modern and cosmopolitan Africa and challenge long-standing clichés about the continent. The African Metropolis Short Film project is an initiative of the GoetheInstitut South Africa and executive producer Steven Markovitz, with support from Guaranty Trust Bank, Nigeria’s foremost financial institution, and the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Film
Durban International Film Festival
18/07/13 – 28/07/13 Various Locations in Durban This year, for the 5th year in a row, the Goethe-Institut gives support to the Talent Campus Durban. Furthermore, the institute is part of EUNIC, the European National Institutes for Culture in South Africa – the group further supports Africa’s foremost international filmfestival. The 6th edition of Talent Campus Durban will take place during the 34th Durban International Film Festival. Held in co-operation with the Berlinale Talent Campus, and with support from the German Embassy of South Africa, the Goethe-Institut of South Africa, and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Talent Campus Durban runs from 19 to 23 July 2013. Under this year’s theme of “Memetic Africa”, Talent Campus Durban calls for African filmmakers to participate in this programme and be inspired by stories shaped by varying innovative patterns, ideas, customs, traditions, practices and skills that enforce the legacy of the African film context. Moreover, EUNIC – the European Union National Institutes for Culture – this year again will be supporting the Durban International Film Festival, which will have a European focus. EUNIC is a network of international cultural relations institutes from the states of the European Union and seeks to facilitate cultural co-operation and to create lasting partnerships between professionals. The EUNIC South Africa cluster members are the Alliance Française, the British Council, the Camoes Institute, the French Institute (IFAS), the Goethe-Institut, the Italian Institute of Culture, and the Embassies of Austria and Spain. EUNIC is delighted to support the Durban International Film Festival in 2013 and to contribute to knowledge sharing, partnership development, and a better understanding of European and African cultures through film.
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