Date
Friday 1 August 2014
Venue
The Mono Theatre on location, Kattenberg 93 2140 Borgerhout
Programme
20h00 – welcome & drinks / 21h00 – lecture / 22h00 – discussion & drinks
Intro
Instead of telling you in this introduction my impressions about what I have witnessed in a devolving story in Berlin, I quote (translate) a Kreuzberg local resident who wrote in the Berlin Newspaper Der Tagespiegel (29.06.2014): “If someone would have told me 10 years ago that a green mayoress of the city district government Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain would shut off half of the Kreuzberg district together with 900 police men to block a building that is squattered by refugees I would not have believed it. If there is a reason why police forces are carrying machine guns in the streets, then we as local residents would like to know it” (Hätte mir jemand vor zehn Jahren erzählt, dass eine grüne Bezirksbürgermeisterin mit 900 Polizisten einen halben Kiez in Kreuzberg lahmlegt, um ein von Flüchtlingen besetztes Gebäude abzusperren, ich hätte es nicht geglaubt. Falls die Polizei tatsächlich einen Grund hat, hier auf offener Straße mit Maschinenpistolen aufzutreten, sollte sie den uns Anwohnern bitte schön erklären. source).
This quote may show that a debate on the Green party is topical and that the title “the wreck of hope” is consistent. In my lecture I would like to show that there is not only a ‘gap’ between green politics and its ideology (what they say and what they do), but also that this gap might be the aftereffect of a concept that has been dubious from its very beginning.
As a visual artist I am also interested in questions of Urban Planning. Since 2010 I travelled many of the so called mega-cities in Asia. According to my believe as visual artist, I would say: show me, don’t tell me…
(Christoph Uhles)
You are invited
But confirm your attendance with Brenda Lush at brenda.lush@themonotheatre.com.
Etiquette
Please come on time.
Basic drinks are foreseen, but extras and specials are always welcome.
More
For any inquiries, contact Brenda Lush at brenda.lush@themonotheatre.com.
See this item also on the website of The Mono Theatre.
