Based on the inextricable difference between event and re-presentation, "Performing the Archive" examines artistic strategies of translating and approaching communicative blank spaces that are our singular experiences. Against this background, how can we consider the archive as a space for action and experience?

Clarissa Thieme is a media artist and filmmaker. In her films and installations she combines documentary and fictional elements to explore the politics of memory and identity processes.

With Armina Pilav, Kaya Behkalam,  Sonya Schönberger, Jana Seehusen, Elma Selman, Clarissa Thieme

chair: Jan Verwoert 

The series of events is co-funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin and is a cooperation between the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Graduate School at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) of UdK Berlin.

When?
16 April 2018, 7pm

Where?
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin