Forty-six artists, five venues, and a “program of complete disorder”, as South African curator Gabi Ngcobo puts it — quoting Frantz Fanon — in her introduction to the 10th Berlin Biennale’s catalog (Distanz, 2018). The theme of this year’s Biennale, “We Don’t Need Another Hero” (named after Tina Turner’s 1985 hit song), is a response to the “collective psychosis” of our contemporary condition. A varied program of exhibitions, events, performances, and workshops has been spread across KW — Institute for Contemporary Art, Akademie der Künste, Volksbühne Pavilion, ZK/U — Center for Art and Urbanistics, and HAU2. Hot on our radar (28.7.2018) is “A History of Remembering“, round 19 of the performance series “I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not. In collaboration with Aurélie Disasi, Skye Skyetshookii, Babiche Papaya and Troy Lopez, Isaiah Lopaz transcends national and linguistic borders to venture into territories which have impacted people of Black African descent, dedicating a shared dinner and spoken word performances to the memory of that which has been concealed, discarded or eradicated from history’s dominant discourses. (Text: Anna Dorothea Ker / Photos / Works (clockwise): F. Anthea Schaap, Luke Willis Thompson, Isaiah Lopaz)
We Don’t Need Another Hero: 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
On through 9.9.2018, various venues. Event calendar
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Studio, Auguststr.69, 10117 Berlin-Mitte, map
A History of Remembering #19: I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not
28.7.2018, 19-21h
