Conditions of Political Choreography

Objects of memory sought for video piece by Yael Bartana

The Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA, Tel Aviv) are realizing a mutual exhibition and research project titled Conditions of Political Choreography, sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

The memory space between Germany and Israel after 1990 will be studied with the means of artistic choreography and spatial intervention. International artists, performers, theater producers, and dancers are invited to cross the artistic and political borders with new experimental pieces. The project aims to leave behind the national approach, often brought into connection with German-Israeli relations, and to transcend the discourse of perpetrators and victims rationalized in anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Starting with reflection on the Holocaust, the exhibition poses challenging questions to the current history and memory discourses in the face of Europe’s decay as well as in the face of an ongoing militarization in the Middle East and of expanding racism and nationalism in democratic societies. Confronted with worldwide migration, flight and new geo-political constellations, the performance contributions to the exhibition probe forms and perspectives of a transnational memory in the 21st century and put the topical focus on political responsibility and culture.

Conditions of Political Choreography

November 17, 2016 – January 7, 2017

Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

June 16 – July 16, 2017

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Artists

Yochai Avrahami, Yael Bartana, Noam Enbar / Yonatan Levy, Christian Falsnaes, Ohad Fishof / Noz Zuk, Michal Helfman, Leon Kahane, Adam Linder, Antje Majewski, Markus Miessen, Ohad Meromi, Susanne M. Winterling, et al.