HFBK class, “
Pluralize and Specify
”, one-day event
20 June 2026, 16:00
A full day program with students from the Class of Slavs and Tatars at HFBK, Hamburg exploring how hospitality functions as a discursive but also affective practice?
Taking Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s dictum focuses on the role of reading as a generative form of making art in a world increasingly hostile to it.
Image: Manjari Goteti, Stasis (2023)Free admission
Language: English
Duration: 16:00 to 20:00
Doors open at 15:30. The event starts at 16:00
Participants: Ana Zeno de Courcy, Ashley Shugart, Sy Choi, Laura Mahnke, Lucia Choffat, Joana Owona with Dejvi Haxhi, Anastasia Adasheva, LMNO, Emilia Clio, Darya Khoroshikh, Yağmur Bozacı, Manjari Goteti, Zeynep Bafralı, Kiek Nieuwint, Eleni Kaouki, Ethan Tate and Tolani Aboyami
Program:
16:00 Sy Choi, “Wings of Desire”, paper airplane workshop
16:30 Laura Mahnke, “Communal Cadavre Exquis”, participatory performance and reading
17:00 Ana Zeno de Courcy, “Je tremble”, reading
17:15 Nilufer Musaeva, “Unreliable Storyteller”, performance
17:30 Ashley Shugart, participatory performance
17:45 Tolani Aboyami, “Le Graçon de l’Eau”, screening
18:00 Anastasia Adasheva, “Orientation Speech for the Princes of Europe”, performance
18:30 Manjari Goteti, screening and performance
19:00 Kiek Nieuwint, participatory performance
19:30 Joana Owona with Dejvi Haxhi, screening and reading