- Veranstaltung Pop-Up Teahouse Berlin Salon Special: Der Schauspieler Su Xiaogang kommt nach Berlin, 5.5.
- David Wang’s Lectures Going Hybrid (Frankfurt / Zoom, 6./8.5.2024)
Felix Meyer zu Venne hat auf folgende Veranstaltung hingewiesen:
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
voller Freude möchte ich auf diese Veranstaltung im c*space in Berlin aufmerksam machen:
Sunday, May 5th, 4-6 pm:
Pop-Up Teahouse Berlin Salon Special: In Dialogue with theatre & film director Su Xiaogang 苏小刚
Film screening ‘Medea’ + Talk + Music
In the afternoon of May 5th the Pop-Up Teahouse at C*SPACE opens its doors to offer it’s stage for Chinese avant-garde theatre & film director Su Xiaogang 苏小刚 who is visiting Berlin in the context of the ‘Theatertreffen Berlin’. He is going to show his film “Medea”. The screening is introduced by the Sinologist Stefan Christ and accompanied by live electronic music from Gaku, Cheng Yue, electronic trackmaker, producer and musician working in Japan and Beijing.
Timing:
4 pm: teahouse doors open. 4:30: start & introduction
4:45 pm: Film
5:15 pm: Moderated + informal dialogues
6 pm: Closure
Tickets: no reservation needed, suggested 8-15 EURO donation at location
Teas and snacks offered.
More info:
This complex work of art not only presents us with the harrowing life story of a modern Medea from China’s dystopian, arid West, it also weaves together inspirations from ancient Chinese mythology, Lu Xun’s New Year’s Sacrifice and Heiner Müller’s Medeamaterial to reflect on two major crises of our time. Su is not interested in the ideas of revenge and murder usually associated with the Greek character, but in the relationship between humans and the environment, and the relationship between men and women. The harsh climate forces the Chinese Medea to leave her home and into an unhappy marriage, sending her into ever deeper despair and alienation from her surroundings, her wailing left unanswered by the merciless landscape.
Su Xiaogang, originally trained as an actor, has directed his own plays like The Chairs, Oedipus Rex, On the Search for the Dao, and Mauser on all major festivals in China, among them the Beijing Fringe Festival, the International Theater Festival Wuzhen and Aranya, but also internationally in Poland, France, Canada and Germany.
Gaku, Cheng Yue, is an electronic trackmaker, producer and musician working in Japan and Beijing.
Stefan Christ is a Sinologist and translator currently working as a research associate at the University of Erlangen.
About the location & Organizer:
The Pop-Up Teahouse Berlin at C*SPACE was initiated in 2020 to create – in times of disconnect – a space for transdisciplinary reflection, creation and connection among and with Chinese speaking communities in Berlin. C*SPACE is a not-for-profit creative space based in a former furniture factory in Berlin Weissensee dedicated to facilitating space for ideas and encounters across borders.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Felix Meyer zu Venne
Yang Zhiyi hat ein Update zu den Richard Wilhelm Lectures geschickt:
Dear everyone,
In response to the popular demand, Prof. David Der-wei Wang’s two Wilhelm Lectures next week will go hybrid after all. Please find attached the zoom link as well as the poster and abstracts of the lectures.
Given that it’s the last minute decision, no registration for the zoom lecture is required. We hope nonetheless that as many of you can make it to Frankfurt for the lectures.
With kind regards,
Zhiyi
Prof. Dr. Zhiyi Yang
SKW 05.B110 | Campus Westend
Rostocker Straße 2, 60323 Frankfurt
HOMEPAGE: https://zhiyiyang.com
Wilhelm Lectures 2024
David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University)
Rescuing Literature from the Nation
Literature Can Think: Debating Utopia in Modern China
Monday, 06.05.2024, 18-20:00
Location: CAS 1.812 (The lecture will be followed by a small reception)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/66746636838?pwd=aDErcENjcTduVmNsUDVNUkpocERHdz09
Meeting ID: 667 4663 6838
Passcode: 665741
Utopia, as a literary genre, a type of political thought, and a method of speculative inquiry, was introduced to China in the late Qing era. Through modern times, multiple utopian projects were conceived, debated, and contested by writers, thinkers, and political activists, to the point where utopia morphed into dystopia and literature became politics. This lecture seeks to rethink the dynamics of modern Chinese utopia as manifested in forms from fiction to conceptual
treatises and political manifestos. The cases discussed will include Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Zhang Jingsheng, and Mao Zedong.
The Monster That Is Fiction: The Politics of “Storytelling” in Contemporary China
Wednesday, 08.05.2024, 18-20:00,
Location: IG 1.314 (Eisenhower Raum)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/j/63253391612?pwd=UUNYSGo5d1pEUW1Qb2U4d3lIUGswZz09
Meeting ID: 632 5339 1612
Passcode: 248006
This lecture invokes fiction as one of the most polemical ways to engage with Chinese (post)modernity. It takes as its point of departure President Xi Jinping’s 2013 call to “tell the good China story,” not only explicating the “fictional turn” of contemporary Chinese cultural politics vis à vis the world, but also tracing its genealogy to early modern times. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s notion of “the fearful imagination,” the lecture tries to answer the question: Why does fiction and storytelling matter in China and the rest of the world, not only through the modern period but also in the contemporary era?