Why Are We Here Now?
2017, Sep 15 — Oct 7
How can the past be inscribed into the present not as a relict, but as lived experience “here and now”? Adania Shibli, Mohammad Al Attar, and Rabih Mroué investigate key discourses that have underlined political, social and cultural transformations over the past century in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean.
Morad Montazami: Railway Stories of the Betrayed Avant-Garde
Lecture, Sep 16, 2017 Original version
Hamid Ismailov: From the Railway to the www. (Englisch)
Lecture, 16.9.2017 Original version
Roundtable: Unsmooth, Broken Flows of Travels
Roundtable disucssion, Sep 16, 2017 Original version
Shahana Rajani & Zahra Malkani: Afterlives of Imperial Formations (Englisch)
Scenic reading Original version
Gülnur Ekşi: The Effects of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway on the Vegetation in Anatolia
Lecture, Sep 16, 2017 Original version
Roundtable: Between the Lines
Roundtable discussion, Sep 16, 2017 Original version
Program leaflet Why Are We Here Now?
Why Are We Here Now? 3 Weekends with Adania Shibli, Mohammad Al Attar, and Rabih Mroué Presentations, Performances, Lectures, Performances
After the Wildly Improbable
Lectures, performances, films, concert Sep 15 & 16, 2017
Programmheft Why Are We Here Now?
Why Are We Here Now? 3 Weekends with Adania Shibli, Mohammad Al Attar, and Rabih Mroué Presentations, Performances, Lectures, Performances
Katrin Klingan: Opening
Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Adania Shibli: Opening
Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Adania Shibli: Opening (German)
Sep 15, 2017 German translation
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Zeynep Çelik: The Hijaz Railway: Empire and Modernity (German)
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 German translation
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Salim Tamari: Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train (German)
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 German translation
Priya Basil & Sinan Antoon: Steel that Bites the Earth: The Logic of the Track
Scenic reading, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Shahram Khosravi: Along the Rails with Travelers without Papers
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 Original version
Shahram Khosravi: Along the Rails with Travelers without Papers (German)
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 German translation
Samuel Merrill: Ghost Stations
Lecture, Sep 15, 2017 Original version