1.11.2024, Freitag 18:00 Uhr
School of Listening - Day 1
Ort:
- HFBK Hamburg, Extended Library
Welcome and introduction by Maayan Sheleff and Nora Sternfeld
Guava
Film screening by Thalia Hoffman
2014, 11 min
On a refugee road between Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and Beirut in 2048, the centennial year of the establishment of Israel and the Palestinian Nakba, two people discuss love, memory, trust, and forgetfulness. The protagonists are in a state of dislocation, lost in time and memory, searching for a new place. One of them speaks in Hebrew and the other in Arabic. One tries to forget, the other to remember. This poetic prefiguration of a future political state echoes ghosts of the past and invites us to imagine different futures. Guava is the first of a film series made as part of the Guava Platform, which presents art actions that question the borders that space generates on bodies and the borders that bodies generate in space. The project calls for free movement and the removal of national borders east of the Mediterranean. It practices political imagination through film, video, performance, and participatory art.
Beat Midras/Yama
Performance and sound installation by Samira Saraya and Neta Weiner
Beat Midras, originally created by Stav Marin, Samira Saraya and Neta Weiner, is a word play on the Jewish concept of beit midrash, a discursive space for religious study; madāris/madrassa, the Arabic word for an educational institution; and the sonic, rhythmic, and musical connotations of the English word beat. The evening will highlight the power of creative language to build a community of resistance and its potential to bring about political change. It explores the role of art in facilitating adversarial dialogues, examining the boundaries between text, body, and voice while imagining a better tomorrow in Palestine-Israel and beyond.
The sound installation Yama is based on segments from a stage performance diving into the real and imagined past as well as possible futures of the 4500-year-old city of Jaffa. It reveals sociopolitical layers through multilingual stories based on biographical experiences of the artists and their relations with the city. Yama carves out a story that is part guided tour and part ritual prayer, calling for an intimate vocal moment between the artists and the listeners, allowing imagination to fill in the choreography of the bodies that are missing.
Saraya and Weiner are part of the multilingual and bi-national band System Ali, conceived in Jaffa as part of a struggle for housing rights. In their various collaborations they explore the relationship between language, vocal production, and movement to address language and performance as political tools via various performative methods, including spoken word, martial arts, contemporary dance, and beatboxing.
Yama stage performance credits: Writer and director: Neta Weiner | Creative partners and performers: Samira Saraya, Benjamin David Elder, Rony Ben Hamou, Neta Weiner | Choreographer and artistic consultant: Stav Marin | Dramaturgy: Raz Weiner | Writing consultant: Roy Hen.
Yama audio installation credits: Writer: Neta Weiner | Directors and performers: Stav Marin, Samira Saraya, Neta Weiner.
School of Listening
Programm zum Jahresbeginn
In Zukunft schreiben
Neues Semester, neue Gesichter: Willkommen an der HFBK Hamburg
Bald geht's los – Semesterstart 2025/26
Promovieren an der HFBK Hamburg
Being(s)
Graduate Show 2025: Don't stop me now
Cine*Ami*es
Redesign Democracy – Wettbewerb zur Wahlurne der demokratischen Zukunft
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum
How to apply: Studium an der HFBK Hamburg
Jahresausstellung 2025 an der HFBK Hamburg
Der Elefant im Raum – Skulptur heute
Hiscox Kunstpreis 2024
Die Neue Frau
Graduate Show 2024 - Letting Go
Finkenwerder Kunstpreis 2024
Archives of the Body - The Body in Archiving
Neue Partnerschaft mit der School of Arts der University of Haifa
Jahresausstellung 2024 an der HFBK Hamburg
(Ex)Changes of / in Art
Extended Libraries
And Still I Rise
Let's talk about language
Graduate Show 2023: Unfinished Business
Let`s work together
Jahresausstellung 2023 an der HFBK Hamburg
Symposium: Kontroverse documenta fifteen
Festival und Symposium: Non-Knowledge, Laughter and the Moving Image
Einzelausstellung von Konstantin Grcic
Kunst und Krieg
Graduate Show 2022: We’ve Only Just Begun
Der Juni lockt mit Kunst und Theorie
Finkenwerder Kunstpreis 2022
Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext von Kunst und Kunsthochschule
Raum für die Kunst
Jahresausstellung 2022 an der HFBK Hamburg
Conference: Counter-Monuments and Para-Monuments
Diversity
Live und in Farbe: die ASA Open Studios im Juni 2021
Vermitteln und Verlernen: Wartenau Versammlungen
Schule der Folgenlosigkeit
Jahresausstellung 2021 der HFBK Hamburg
Semestereröffnung und Hiscox-Preisverleihung 2020
Digitale Lehre an der HFBK
Absolvent*innenstudie der HFBK
Wie politisch ist Social Design?