• Fri 12 04 2019 •
In Between Spaces Mediterranean Crossings

With INVERNOMUTO „BLACK MED“, MAI-ANH BOGER, IAIN CHAMBERS, IDA DANEWID, MARIA DO MAR CASTRO, and the film FUOCOAMMARE (director: GIANFRANCO ROSI) and others
20:00

Venue: Stadtgarten Venloer Straße 40, 50672 Köln
In English language
Free admission:


A cooperation of ZAM Zentrum für Aktuelle Musik e.V. with Akademie der Künste der Welt/Köln and the Europäischen Zentrum für Jazz und Aktuelle Musik im Stadtgarten.

Curated by Thomas Gläßer.



Set in in the context of current debates on migration and identity, the second evening of IN BETWEEN SPACES: Mediterranean Crossings explores the Mediterranean as a fluid, hybrid, mutable space, "marked by the linguistic, literary, culinary, musical, and intellectual dissemination of Arab, Jewish, Turkish, and Latin cultures, ... a sea of endlessly overlapping cultural and historical currents" (IAIN CHAMBERS). This rather poetic reading will be confronted with the reality of migration, social power structures and the tightening EU border and migration regime in an analysis by IDA DANEWID.
In the footsteps of Paul Gilroy, the Sonic Lecture "Black Med" by Italian artist duo INVERNOMUTO follows the musical and cultural currents and connections crossing the Mediterranean in all directions.
Excerpts from the documentary FUOCOAMMARE, which won the Golden Bear of the Berlinale in 2016, show the parallel universes of the local population and the arriving refugees and migrants on Lampedusa. Talks, film excerpts, a sonic lecture, conversations and discussions open up a space for reflection in which contemporary "post-racial cosmopolitan fantasies" are questioned in the light of material circumstances and power structures and vice versa.


Presented by WDR COSMO & Stadtrevue

Funded by the TURN fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation