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JUN
29
Carved to Flow (2017), by Otobong Nkanga, 10 am–8 pm, Kassel… More
Epicycle for any participant, by Jani Christou, 10 am–8 pm, Kassel… More
Untitled, by Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, 11 am–1 pm, Athens… More
Whispering Campaign (2016–17)​, by Pope.L, 11 am–8 pm, Athens… More
Epicycle for any participant, by Jani Christou, 11 am–9 pm, Athens… More
Le fort des fous, by Narimane Mari, 11 am, Kassel… More
Whispering Campaign, by Pope.L, 4–9 pm, Kassel… More
Precarious Archive, by Stefanos Tsivopoulos, 4:30–6:30 pm, Kassel… More
Postindustrial rural paths, with Emilia Bouriti, 5–6:30 pm, Athens… More
Plurality of right here right now, with Membrane, 5–8 pm, Kassel… More
Social Dissonance, by Mattin with Dafni Krazoudi, Danai Liodaki, Ioannis Sarris, and Eleni Zervou, 6–7 pm, Kassel… More
Shamiyaana–Food for Thought: Thought for Change, by Rasheed Araeen, 6–7:30 pm, Athens… More
Social Dissonance, by Mattin with Dafni Krazoudi, Danai Liodaki, Ioannis Sarris, and Eleni Zervou, 7–8 pm, Athens… More
Listening Space: The Ungovernable, by Brandon LaBelle, 7:30–10:30 pm, Athens… More
TV Politics: Being Camelia and The Sky Is Not Always Above , by Mohamed Soueid, 8:30 pm, Kassel… More
14 To The Floor, with Phuong-Dan and Tussn, 11 pm, Kassel… More
Géographie-Athens, 2017, by Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan), Athens… More
Calendar

Biafra’s Children: A Survivors’ Gathering

Organized by Olu Oguibe, with Faith Adiele, Phillip U. Effiong, Okey Ndibe, Eddie Iroh, Vivian Ogbonna, Obiageli Okigbo, E.C.Osondu, Emeka Okereke


Fifty years ago, in 1967, a bitter civil war broke out…

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Being Camelia and The Sky Is Not Always Above

by Mohamed Soueid

June 29, 2017, 8:30 pm
BALi-Kinos, Kassel…

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ANTIDORON. The EMST Collection at Museum Fridericianum

ANTIDORON. The EMST Collection at Museum Fridericianum, part of documenta 14, marks the first extensive presentation of the collection of the EMST–National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens…

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Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality Arts Center and Museum of Anti-dictatorial and Democratic Resistance

The Athens Municipality Arts Center at Parko Eleftherias (Freedom Park) and the Museum of Anti-dictatorial and Democratic Resistance belong to a nineteenth-century complex of military quarters. Indeed…

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Venues

Nordstadtpark

Nordstadtpark in Kassel is full of people on any summer evening or weekend, a place of leisure for the truly multinational neighborhood, as well as for students at the University of Kassel and visitors…

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Venues

Keimena #28: Don Giovanni

Carmelo Bene’s 1971 film Don Giovanni is not an adaptation of a famous Don Juan story. Instead, the film critically investigates the multifaceted legend of the wealthy male sinner who seduces one woman after another. This is a film about Don Juanism…

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Public TV

Cecilia Vicuña

Although better known as a poet in her adoptive North American home (she has lived in New York since the 1980s), Cecilia Vicuña has stayed true to her youthful calling as a genre-bending visual artist…

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Artists

David Perlov: Retrospective

A documenta 14 film program and exhibition
June 7–September 17, Grosses BALi, daily

When Israeli filmmaker David Perlov died, he left behind dozens of Hefte (Notebooks), filled with epigrams, texts for…

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Notes
05.11.2017

Marta Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books is taking shape in Kassel

We continue to collect book donations for The Parthenon of Books.
Please bring your forbidden book along on your visit to documenta 14 and drop it off directly at the Parthenon…

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News

Walks

Paths, routes, and parcours cross and intertwine, as visitors consider the pathways taken by peripatetic thinkers as a point of departure for a reflection on the act of walking. Joining a member of the…

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Public Education

documenta 14: Daybook

The documenta 14 Daybook emphasizes the 163 calendar days of the exhibition in Athens and Kassel in 2017—a first-time extension of the usual 100-day documenta project—and the personal and subjective nature of the spectator’s relationship to them…

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Publications

Abdurrahim Buza (1905–1986)

Abdurrahim Buza is one of the most respected Albanian painters whose career spanned the years before and after WWII. Buza was born in 1905 in Skopje (today Macedonia) in a family originally from Gjakova…

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To Create the Sound of Hunger: Joaquín Orellana in Conversation with Stefan Benchoam, Julio Santos, and Alejandro Torún, with an introduction by Monika Szewczyk

The Guatemalan composer and sound artist Joaquín Orellana is among the most important living members of South America’s musical avant-garde. In a career spanning half a century, his practice has combined…

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South Issue #8 [documenta 14 #3]

My Name is Bashar

by Abounaddara

Abounaddara has agreed to share this film with documenta 14; it is one of over 300 films produced on a weekly basis by an anonymous collective of Syrian filmmakers. By sharing these films on our website…

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Works

Listen Live to SAVVY Funk, Berlin, Germany

June 17 - July 8 (UTC+2)

00:00 documenta 14 Commissioned Sound Works
01:00 documenta 14 Relay
03:00 NREM Stage 1
05:00 Radio Archives
07:00 Early Birds
08:00 Prayer – James Webb
08:15 Render – Mobile Radio (Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington)
09:00 SAVVY reads SAVVY.doc
09:30 Laugh of the Hyposubject – Brandon LaBelle & Anna Bromley
10:00 Yo y mi circunstancia. Current Affairs Magazine – Tito Valery im Gespräch mit SAVVY Funk Künstler_innen

11:00/12:00/13:00/14:00/15:00/16:00/17:00 Singing Yesterday’s News Again – Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Nicholas Bussmann
11:05/12:05/13:05/14:05/15:05/16:05/17:05 Weather Reports – Gívan Belá

11:10 YNK – Islands Songs (Silvia Ploner & Nicolas Perret)
11:40 Multiverse Crosstalk Radio – Alberto de Campo
12:10 Piratensender – Ahmet Öğüt
13:10 Regular Measures – Alessandro Bosetti
14:10 Render – Mobile Radio (Knut Aufermann & Sarah Washington)
15:10 different time different place different pitch – Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer
16:10 Embrace – Nástio Mosquito
16:30 Intermission Transmission Temporal – Leo Asemota
17:10 Me & My Rhythm Box – Felix Kubin
18:00 Saout Africa(s) by Saout Radio (Anna Raimondo & Younes Baba-Ali)
19:00 documenta 14 Commissioned Sound Work
20:00 Unpacking Sonic Migrations – Satch Hoyt
22:00 Listen to the Other – AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti)
 

Public Radio

I Had Nowhere to Go

by Jonas Mekas

When, in 1944, Jonas Mekas left the small village in Lithuania where he grew up, he was twenty-two years old and a man of “some reputation,” as he puts it. Editor-in-chief of a weekly paper and a young…

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South Issue #6 [documenta 14 #1]

The Society of Friends of Halit

Coordinated by Ayse Gülec, Initiative 6. April, and Kassel postkolonial

On April 6, 2006, twenty-one year-old Halit Yozgat was killed in a family operated internet café in Kassel’s Nordstadt. Halit…

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Public Programs

Wang Bing: Retrospective

A documenta 14 film program and exhibition
June 7–September 17, Gloria-Kino, daily

documenta 14 presents a full retrospective of Wang Bing’s films with an accompanying exhibition of archival materials…

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Athens
New York
Kassel

Keeper of the Art That Kept Him: David Schutter in Conversation with Dieter Roelstraete

Dieter Roelstraete: The story of the Gurlitt Estate has been an ongoing curatorial concern of documenta 14’s. For some time now you have sailed on an independent course of artistic research into the…

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Notes

Volume Eleven (A Flaw in the Algorithm of Cosmopolitanism)

by Naeem Mohaiemen
South Issue #6 [documenta 14 #1]

Studio 14

Studio 14 is a research and a workplace driven by a multiplicity of different subjects; capable of giving rise to certain configurations; a process involving the fields of art, education, and politics; and oriented towards the forms of knowledge that circulate and are produced in those fields…

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Upcoming
JUN
30
Carved to Flow (2017)
by Otobong Nkanga
Performance
10 am–8 pm, Neue Galerie, Kassel
Epicycle for any participant
by Jani Christou
Performance
10 am–8 pm, documenta Halle and all other venues, Kassel
Untitled
by Marie Cool Fabio Balducci
Permanent all day installation with daily actions when the sun enters the gallery space
11 am–1 pm, EMST—National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Epicycle for any participant
by Jani Christou
Performance
11 am–9 pm, Athens Conservatoire (ΩA.2) and all other venues, Athens
Le fort des fous
by Narimane Mari
Screening
11 am, 2 pm, Ballhaus, Kassel
Collective Exhibition for a Single Body
with Pierre Bal-Blanc, Kostas Tsioukas, Myrto Kontoni, and Tassos Koukoutas
Performance
12–2:30 pm, Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Piraeus
Victoria Square Project
Hands Together
with Maro Michalakakos
Workshop
12:30–2:30 pm, Elpidos 13, Victoria Square, Athens
Weaving together
with Vassia A. Vanezi
6–8 pm, Elpidos 13, Victoria Square, Athens
Precarious Archive
by Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Performance
12:30–3:30 pm, Fridericianum, Kassel
The Parliament of Bodies
Biafra’s Children: A Survivors’ Gathering
5 pm–12 am, Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality Arts Center and Museum of Anti-dictatorial and Democratic Resistance, Athens Live stream available
Music Room (Athens)
by Nevin Aladağ with Dimitris Chiotis, Giannis Kotsonis, Dimitris Kourtis, Nikos Mardakis, Manolis Papadopoulos and Chrisanthi Tsoukala
Performance
5–6 pm, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), Athens
A-letheia: Steki
with Dimitris Marinis and Loukia Angeli in collaboration with ARSIS, Youth Support Center (Neon Chora)
Hangout
5–8 pm, Kiosk in Kypseli, Athens
Social Dissonance
by Mattin with Dafni Krazoudi, Danai Liodaki, Ioannis Sarris, and Eleni Zervou
Durational concert
6–7 pm, documenta Halle, Kassel Live stream available
Shamiyaana–Food for Thought: Thought for Change
by Rasheed Araeen
Cooking and eating
6–7:30 pm, 8–9:30 pm, Kotzia Square, Athens
Social Dissonance
by Mattin with Dafni Krazoudi, Danai Liodaki, Ioannis Sarris, and Eleni Zervou
Durational concert
7–8 pm, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), Athens Live stream available
Women’s Work in Revolt! Feminist Struggle and Insurrectionary Memory
with Antonia Majaca and Angela Dimitrakaki
Talks, workshops, and discussion
7–11 pm, Old Library, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
TV Politics
Being Camelia and How Bitter My Sweet
by Mohamed Soueid
Screening
8:30 pm, BALi-Kinos, Kassel
Black Odyssey
by Negros Tou Moria
Concert
9–10 pm, Kanari Square, Kypseli, 11363, Athens
Members of the Army of Beautiful Women Read the In-corporation Documents of Yugoexport
by Irena Haiduk
Performance
9 pm, Stoa tou Vivliou
, Athens
Géographie-Athens, 2017
by Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan)
Performance
EMST—National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Calendar

What Foundations Have Been Laid for Them: The Building and Burning of Knowledge

by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Marina Fokidis, Quinn Latimer, Yorgos Makris, Marta Minujín

We are accustomed to equating literature and architecture—a stanza, the basic unit of poetry, is, after all, a “room” in Italian. But in the case of the edifices built to hold books, this relationship…

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South Issue #6 [documenta 14 #1]

Listening Space

Listening Space is a program of events that attempts to explore and understand sound outside established hierarchies of music production and performance. In the project’s diverse concerts, lectures…

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Notes