AUTOPOIESIS: Opening Program – Friday

As part of the opening week of the exhibition "AUTOPOIESIS: Recognizing Kin Across Antipodal Topologies", some of the artists and curators are not only in town for the vernissage, but also tell their stories in a series of additional events.

The Friday program starts in the Oyoun garden with a talk between (co-)curators Eli Moon & Shaunak Mahbubani on the topic "Testimony and Community in HIV Care". Dhrubo Jyoti will give a keynote address on "Living / Loving in a Caste Society" before Jesús Hilario-Reyes and Exael invite you to their sound performance "Akin To The Hurricane".

"Akin To The Hurricane" is largely influenced by the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower". These iterations use the symbolic space of the hurricane to exercise autonomy in the way we make change. Whether dealing with markings or acoustic disturbances, this work is primarily interested in challenging sovereignty and belonging.

All events on Friday are free!

Time schedule:

18:00 – 19:00 | Testimony and Community in HIV Care - Conversation with Eli Moon & Shaunak Mahbubani
19:00 – 20:00 | Living / Loving in a Caste Society - Keynote by Dhrubo Jyoti
20:00 – 21:00 | Akin To The Hurricane - Performance by Jesus Hilario-Reyes in collaboration with Exael

About the exhibition:

In her evocation ‘Being Human as Praxis’ (2007), Wynter expands on the importance of the origin story, centring the act of auto-narration in the process of instituting oneself as full and complex human being outside the enlightenment definition of Man — a move she describes as the 'Autopoetic Turn/Overturn'. In resonance with Wynter’s vision, AUTOPOIESIS delves into the nuances of autobiographical art practices with roots in the antipodal topologies of South Asia, Central America and the Caribbean. Manifesting via expanded exhibitionary form in Berlin, Kassel, Mexico City, Guatemala City, New Delhi, and other sites between Aug - Dec 2022, the project aims to look beyond abstract notions of solidarity, proposing an experiment with auto-narration towards developing deeper kinships through the recognition of specific embodied positionalities.

All information about the exhibition can be found here here.

Funded by the Visual Arts Project Fund of the Goethe-Institut

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Photo: Jesús Hilario-Reyes, Akin To The Hurricane: Iteration 07 in collaboration with Callum Magnum, Rhubarb Performance Festival, 2022. Sound performance, 25 min.