Reading List # 2
An entirely subjective list of things happening in Berlin
April 4
Eileen Myles: Gender, Genre & Pathetic Literature. A Reading
Since the 1990s the term “pathetic” has been thrown around in the art world to refer to a tendency of male visual artists’ work that made use of diaristic writing, stuffed animals, and crafts in a way that put an unconventional spin on gender. Eileen Myles’s anthology Pathetic Literature (2022) highlights the ways in which the “pathetic” has migrated to poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and theatrical writing, becoming as blurry as the gender of the person who wrote it. In this talk, Myles will talk about this new way of talking about thinking and feeling, about power and literary form, and read from their own poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. (EN)
7.30 pm | American Academy in Berlin, Am Sandwerder 17-19
Additional dates:
* April 5, 4pm, book signing at Shakespeare & Sons, Warschauer Str. 74
* April 5, 8pm, in conversation with Eva Tepes, She said, Kottbusser Damm 79 (sold out; there might be some tickets left at the door!)
* April 8, 5pm, in conversation with Hugo Bausch Belbachir and Emma Bombail, a.p., Lindower Strasse 20 (sold out)
April 5
Anna Mayr: Geld spielt keine Rolle.
Book launch and conversation with David Hugendick
There was always too little money in Anna Mayr's family. As a child, she wondered how some people would carelessly spend hundreds of euros on bags, shoes and steaks, while for so many people a hundred euros is a small fortune. She has since become one of those who spend money lavishly: 60 euros for a ski pass, 225 euros for a cat therapist, 748 euros for a wedding dress. She still converts these amounts into Hartz IV rates.
Geld spielt keine Rolle is about the absurdities of bourgeois middle class life – and the author’s longing for an alternative. How does one endure life when one would prefer to expropriate oneself? (DE)
8 pm | Pfefferberg Theater, Schönhauser Alle 176
April 5
Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
Opening of Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora at the Gropius Bau with free admission to the exhibition and a DJ set by somali vendetta at restaurant Beba.
The show brings together works by several contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and researchers. Combining new commissions with existing projects, the exhibition traces links between the Asian and African regions, manifesting overlays and diasporic transfers between two areas of increased global political, economic and cultural importance in the 21st century. The Indian Ocean emerges as a communal horizon that reveals shades of cultural, linguistic, political and historical passage from ancient times to the present.
7 pm | Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7
April 6
Glück. Casino Night
Readings by Robin Bode, Sophia Eisenhut, Teresa Guggenberger. Moderation &DJing: Naomi.
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7 pm | Casino, Dresdener Straße 8