100 Years of Now
2015—2019
In its project 100 Years of Now, HKW is undertaking an analysis of the present time by linking back to historical utopias. In the face of a new world disorder in particular, it aims to explore its backgrounds to activate political imagination and aesthetic judgment.
Samuel Merrill: Ghost Stations
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Samuel Merrill: Ghost Stations (German)
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 German translation
Samuel Merrill: Ghost Stations
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity
Presentation, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train
Presentation, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Along the Rails with Travelers without Papers | Shahram Khosravi
Lecture, Oct 15, 2017 Original version
Cosmism, Universalism, Contemporary Art
Final Discussion, Sep 8, 2017 Original version
Trevor Paglen: Forget Fedorov
Lecture, Sep 7, 2017 Original version
Arseny Zhilyaev: Optimists of the Future Past Perfect
Lecture, Sep 7, 2017 Original version
Michael Hagemeister: Nikolai Fedorov’s Project of Universal Salvation and “Russian Cosmism”
Lecture, Sep 7, 2017 Original version
Anastasia Gacheva: Overcoming Death through Art: From Nikolai Fedorov to the Cosmists of the 1920s
Lecture, Sep 7, 2017
Immortality for All! | Hito Steyerl & Anton Vidokle
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Anton Vidokle and Hito Steyerl in conversation
Optimists of the Future Past Perfect | Arseny Zhilyaev
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Arseny Zhilyaev
Cosmism, Universalism, Contemporary Art: Discussion with Hito Steyerl, Anton Vidokle, Arseny Zhilyaev, Trevor Paglen, Anselm Franke
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Discussion, moderated by Anselm Franke
Forget Fedorov | Trevor Paglen
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Trevor Paglen
How to Keep Communism Aloft: Labor, Energy and the Model Cosmos in Soviet Cinema | Robert Bird
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Robert Bird
The Stofflichkeit of the Universe: Aleksandr Bogdanov and the Soviet Avant-garde | Maria Chehonadskih
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Maria Chehonadskih
Cosmic Themes in Early Soviet Culture: Discussion with Robert Bird, Maria Chehonadskih, Svetlana Cheloukhina, moderated by Anne Luther
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Discussion, moderated by Anne Luther
Contingency and Necessity in Evald Ilyenkov’s Communist Cosmology | Alexei Penzin
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Alexei Penzin
Anagogy in Cosmism and Communism | Keti Chukhrov
Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism Conference, September 1 & 2, 2017 Talk by Keti Chukhrov