The Berlin Sessions:
Reza Abdoh, Here and Now

 

10 April 19, 7 pm

Venue: Pogo Bar

 

<p>Reza Abdoh, <em>Quotations From a Ruied City,</em> 1993, video still, installation view of the exhibition Reza Abdoh, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy Adam Soch and the Estate of Reza Abdoh, photo: Frank Sperling</p>

Reza Abdoh, Quotations From a Ruied City, 1993, video still, installation view of the exhibition Reza Abdoh, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, Courtesy Adam Soch and the Estate of Reza Abdoh, photo: Frank Sperling

 

What does Reza Abdoh have to offer contemporary European performance? Daniel Mufson, editor of the Reza Abdoh anthology, and Ehren Fordyce, former professor of directing and contemporary performance at Stanford University, discuss Reza Abdoh’s work in the context of European and American performance since his death in 1995. 

 

Ehren Fordyce is a translator living in Germany. He has published on Reza Abdoh’s work in Modern Drama, as well as on other contemporary performance groups, such as the Wooster Group, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Goat Island, and Rimini Protokoll. He has worked recently with the Instituto República in Rio to initiate the RAIR (Residência Artística Instituto República) program, which embeds artists in public ministries in the State of Rio.

 

Part of project: The Berlin Sessions
Since February 2017, KW Institute for Contemporary Art organized a series of monthly public talks in collaboration with various institutions and organizations located in Berlin. The series entitled The Berlin Sessions explored the fabric of cultural producers in the city by inviting one Berlin-based speaker to give a presentation on another cultural producer that he/she/they find inspiring. The goal of the lecture series was to highlight the work of Berlin-based creatives from the perspective of their peers; to map connections between the various producers and fields and to strengthen the existing networks between locally based artists, authors, musicians, performers, researchers and other creative producers. 
 
Overview 
2017–2021
 
 

Book launch and film screening

5 December 18

 

Escales: atelier le balto

Book Launch

21 November 18

 

Claudia Skoda on art and fashion in West Berlin

Lecture, in German

28 February 18

 

Philipp Ekardt on Heike-Karin Föll

24 January 18

 

Gregor Hildebrandt on Pola Sieverding

15 December 17

 

Dellbrügge & de Moll on below papers

4 October 17

 

Julieta Aranda on Anri Sala

Lecture, in English

21 June 17

 

Käthe Kruse on Geniale Dilletanten

Lecture, in German

31 May 17

 

Annika Eriksson on Charlotte von Mahlsdorf 

Lecture, in English

22 March 17

 

Michel Auder on Daniel Knorr

Lecture, in English

8 March 17

 

Peter Wächtler on Hans- Christian Lotz

Lecture, in English

21 February 17

 

AA Bronson on Elijah Burgher

Lecture, in English

8 February 17

 

Reza Abdoh