Eine Lampe fällt um.
As we head toward what seems like the inevitable end, we wonder how it could have all gone so wrong. Open studios by the Scenography class: exhibition, readings, performances, bar, concerts.
The Nutmeg’s Curse; Discussion of the non-fiction book The Nutmeg’s Curse. A parable for a planet in turmoil.
Author Amitav Ghosh's work became the starting point for the development of a contemporary simultaneity stage.
About the book's content: On an island in Indonesia, an oil lamp toppled to the ground, and shortly after, Dutch soldiers massacred the island's inhabitants. How are these two events connected, and what happened afterward? With this question, Amitav Ghosh began his research on the trail of nutmeg. This spice, now a common cooking ingredient, was considered a luxury item in the 17th century—just a handful was enough to build a palace—because this rare fruit only grew on these islands seized by Dutch forces, primarily to secure a trade monopoly for the Dutch East India Company. While tracing the journey of nutmeg, Amitav Ghosh impressively describes the mechanisms of colonialism and the exploitation of indigenous peoples and nature by Western countries.
In the process, he connects historical developments with current realities, linking Dutch still lifes and Linnaean nomenclature with the Black Lives Matter movement, the Corona pandemic, and the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to show that today's climate change is rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order that stems from Western colonialism and its mechanistic worldview.
On the third floor of the Studio Building, we invite you to be both spectator and participant, in a space where 26 positions, questions, and statements are spatially and conceptually interrelated.
The critical point, falling between science and magic
Energy and resources, mechanomorphism, anthropomorphism,
science fiction and religion, the extinction of the dodo bird and the genocide of the American bison, sorrow, borders,
history, economics, and ecology are the themes explored here.
Participating: Lidya Delfin Eraslan, Berenike Vogt, Marie Teufe, Svea Egger, Lena Munhoven, Lorenz Löhr, Pia Pleininger, Colin Caspar Willekes, Ida Bekic, Killian Chyba, Hulda Graichen, Hanna Masznyik, Leon Taege, Anna Magdalena Schreiber, Roman Berleth, Marc Pierre, Hannah Aille Lowe, Alma Rothacker, Emma Ait-Kaci, Emil Borgeest, Alfonso Ibanez-Reyes, Marcus Möller, Aylin Mutluer, Alma van der Donk, Kseniia Kovpak, Jinkyoung Park
Professor: Nina von Mechow