How can an institution address its history? What methods can be used to approach, explore, and expand upon alternative narratives? Based on these questions, Lissy Willberg and students from Isabel Lewis’s Class for Performative Arts at the HGB Leipzig are exploring these issues by approaching and engaging with historical materials found at Kunst Raum Mitte.

As part of the research process, the students presented ELEFANT in June 2024 at the experimental institution Callie’s in Berlin-Wedding. As an open rehearsal and performative investigation, ELEFANT offered a glimpse into the ongoing investigation. It asked: How can artistic research consciously focus on affects, and what could this achieve? How can historical references, fragmentary stories, and ephemera be handled with both care and playfulness? What resonances do students find with the Permanente Kunstkonferenz (Permanent Art Conference), a performance festival held at galerie weisser elefant in 1989?

On October 27th 2024, the students will continue to pursue these shared and tested methodologies and present their research at Kunst Raum Mitte.

3 pm: start performances

4 pm: start performances

With: Adam Harfouch, Kevin Heather Koen, Andolie Marguerite,
Asya Volodina, Juli Winterstein

How can an institution address its history? What methods can be used to approach, explore, and expand upon alternative narratives? Based on these questions, Lissy Willberg and students from Isabel Lewis’s Class for Performative Arts at the HGB Leipzig are exploring these issues by approaching and engaging with historical materials found at Kunst Raum Mitte.

As part of the research process, the students presented ELEFANT in June 2024 at the experimental institution Callie’s in Berlin-Wedding. As an open rehearsal and performative investigation, ELEFANT offered a glimpse into the ongoing investigation. It asked: How can artistic research consciously focus on affects, and what could this achieve? How can historical references, fragmentary stories, and ephemera be handled with both care and playfulness? What resonances do students find with the Permanente Kunstkonferenz (Permanent Art Conference), a performance festival held at galerie weisser elefant in 1989?

On October 27th 2024, the students will continue to pursue these shared and tested methodologies and present their research at Kunst Raum Mitte.

3 pm: start performances

4 pm: start performances

With: Adam Harfouch, Kevin Heather Koen, Andolie Marguerite,
Asya Volodina, Juli Winterstein