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Across Anthropology

Across Anthropology is a book and a platform, which grapples with thinking and practising anthropology otherwise and beyond itself. We want to explore means of doing and fields for understanding anthropology across and through museums, art spaces, archives, collections, and curatorial practices that problematise the discipline, its history, and its possible futures. We think this project in iterations, meaning that it articulates in different forms, formats, modalities, and contexts – each of which a way to think about the how, why, and where of anthropology.

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The pregnant Oyster

This exhibition asks how it is possible to think of world, humanity and justice despite the internal paradoxes of Western Universalism – and how to do so beyond relativism and identity fragmentation. This exhibition, conversations and workshops are the result of the research and residency project devised by the ERC Project Minor Universality at Saarland University, which brings together positions across the visual arts, writing and the sonic. The propositions in the exhibition derive from situated forms of doubt and engagements of the dominant through the minor and share an urgency to work with the birth of a world within the ruins of the former West.

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Photo: Herbert Orth

With contributions by Filipa César, Emeka Ogboh, SAVVYZAAR (Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Kelly Krugman) and SAVVY.doc (Sagal Farah), Adania Shibli, Camille de Toledo. Conceived by Franck Hofmann, Markus Messling, and Jonas Tinius

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, June-July 2022

HKW x ERC Residencies

“Is there anything that relates us to others so that we can say that WE are?” (Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics).

In a residency program developed by the Minor Universality ERC research project and realised together with HKW and its New Alphabet School, six artists will develop idiosyncratic perspectives on how to narrate, sketch and produce experiences of universality after the critique of Western universalism. (2020-2022)

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Tracing fractures symposium

curated with Alya Sebti and
Nikola Hartl for Marseille Manifesta 13, September 2020

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gallery reflections

Gallery reflections is a series of public discussions on art, institutions, and curatorial practices. The encounters take place in the ifa-gallery Berlin once per chapter, crisscrossing the overall themes and decentring the focal points of the programme ‘Untie to tie: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies’ (2017-2018) curated by the gallery’s director Alya Sebti.

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palimpsest

Archival installation in the former asylum home, in dialogue with the play ZWEI HIMMEL, coordinated by the theatre and research project RUHRORTER. Mülheim an der Ruhr, 2014