Soundtrack for
Heart-crack, with Aubrey Birch.
curatorial text:
Film for 100 Ways to say We, a co-production of Theater Neumarkt & Goethe-Institut / Performing Architecture in collaboration with Sale Docks & Florian Malzacher.
100 Ways to Say We is an online platform, a pre-enactment of multiple future visions, a speculative-utopian take on the possibilities of the concept of
We. Artists, theorists, and activists from around the planet share diverse ways of living together – from the perspective of an imagined future: a map of voices, stories, and opinions that revolve around the idea of a diverse, contradictory, and ambitious
We, which eventually creates an Archive of the Future.
The project started with the initial questions evolving around recent observations on newly emerging and strengthened
We-Identities as its starting point:
Who is
We?
Who says
We on behalf of whom?
Who has the right to do that?
Who is excluded, and who defines who is heard?
To say
We, to build a
We, seems to be a political action. But what is the common ground for this
We, what are the foundations of the/our
We-Identities? To say
We in the name of a will, a community, a cause, has both exclusionary and inclusionary effects.
We mobilizes and organizes. To say
We can empower some while demonizing others. Is there a universal
We? Or is this idea of a
We rather an illusion, a construct, and it has never been about
We, the people – including everyone – but always about the differences and particularisms of the various
We-Identities?
Perhaps there are reasons to distrust any
We, to call attention to differences and to point out privileges and hierarchies. But there is also the danger of fragmentation: For decades neoliberalism has been separating society into individuals and has undermined collectivity. Is this perhaps the right time to challenge the necessity of a new
We – a transversal collective will in which a multitude of demands can come together and create new imaginaries for our future?
Artists, theorists, and activists from around the planet were commissioned to share their views, hopes, reflections, utopias from a chosen point of time and place. 100 Ways to Say We – An Archive of the Future holds different takes on the potentials and pitfalls of the idea of
We.
Concept by Hayat Erdoğan, Nikolai E. Prawdzic & Florian Malzacher.
Curated by Marco Baravalle, Hayat Erdoğan, Florian Malzacher, David Niederer, Nikolai E. Prawdzic & Susanne Traub.
A co-production of Theater Neumarkt & Goethe-Institut / Performing Architecture in collaboration with Sale Docks & Florian Malzacher. Launched as part of the 17th Architecture Biennale 2021 - La Biennale die Venezia.
