Stephan Trüby: Right-Wing Spaces, Left-Wing Spaces, Antisemitic Spaces & Leon Kahane: Vom Ich zum Wir
Talks on Curatorial Practice @ Universitätsbibliothek UdK Berlin
Right-Wing Spaces, Left-Wing Spaces, Antisemitic spaces
Stephan Trüby, architectural theorist at the University of Stuttgart, has been studying “right-wing spaces” for many years - and thus the extent to which there is an architectural and urban planning agenda behind the politics of contemporary anti-Semitic, racist, anti-feminist, radical right-wing and (neo-)fascist forces. Since October 7, 2023 in particular, this research has been supplemented by investigations into anti-Semitic and one-sidedly critical of Israel tendencies, even in milieus that consider themselves “left-wing and progressive”. The analyses reveal the ideological “pincers” in which democratic societies have found themselves for some time in the face of their own right-wing authoritarian tendencies on the one hand and a Russia-Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas axis on the other.
Vom Ich zum Wir
The film tells the story of the ideological representation of the GDR as an antifascist state through art and culture, which functioned as a way to overwrite the Nazi past of the majority of the GDR citizens. The film consists of personal footage, filmed by Kahane's grandparents in India in 1960/61.
Prof. Dr. phil. Stephan Trüby (* 1970) is Professor of Architecture and Cultural Theory and Director of the Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (IGmA) at the University of Stuttgart. Previously, Trüby was Visiting Professor of Temporary Architecture at the State College of Design in Karlsruhe (2007-09), Head of the postgraduate study program "Scenography/Spatial Design" at the Zurich University of the Arts (2009-14), Lecturer at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and Professor of Architecture and Cultural Theory at the Technical University of Munich (2014-18). His publications include Exit-Architecture. Design between War and Peace (2008), The World of Madelon Vriesendorp (2008, with Shumon Basar), Germania, Venezia. The German Entries to the Venice Architecture Biennale since 1991 (2016, with Verena Hartbaum), Absolute Architekturbeginner: Essays 2004-2014 (2017), History of the Corridor (2018) and Right-wing Spaces. Political Essays and Conversations (2020).
Leon Kahane, born 1985 in Berlin. He creates conceptual video works, photographs and installations that centre on themes of migration, identity and coming to terms with majorities and minorities in a globalised society.
All talks held in English.
Free admission.
This talk takes place at Universitätsbibliothek UdK Berlin (Room 0.12, Fasanenstrasse 88, 10623 Berlin) (register here) and online via Zoom.