The EXC 2020 newsletter offers regular updates on the projects, open calls and activities of the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective".
Digital Mapping of Contemporaneity, Activism & Ecology
This workshop will test methods and investigative tools/mappings to raise awareness of climate resilience through narrative and performative interventions.
On November 10 and 11, a workshop in collaboration with the Schwules Museum Berlin and the art space Neun Kleche will be held. This workshop is dedicated to the exploration of tactility and materiality within movement archives and artistic approaches to archiving.
A Project on Avant-Garde Poetics, Popular Culture and Futurist Resonance in cooperation with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
Dorothea Schlegel Artist-in-Residence Sophie Seita: The Residency (Nov–Dec 2022)
Sophie Seita is a London-based artist whose practice explores text in its various translations. During her Dorothea Schlegel Artist Residency, she engaged in a period of practice-based research and developed a new body of work, loosely grouped under the working title withwithwith.
VISUAL ECHOES: Online Exhibition in cooperation with the 90'x collective
Curated by Lindsey Drury, Sima Ehrentraut und the 90'x collective, and conceptually framed with a website design by Lea Hopp, Visual Echoes creates an installative space for the members of the collective photographic work and the different articulations of echo that take shape in the artists’ individual interpretations of echo. The website was launched on October 27, 2022.
Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Dialog
Neu: Dr. Tina Bawden (Freie Universität Berlin): Blattarbeiten – vom Umgang mit der Buchseite in westeuropäischen illuminierten Manuskripten vor 1100
Vortrag vom 19. Juli 2022
Latin America and East-Central Europe: Comparisons, Bridges, Entanglements
The literary entanglements between Latin America and East Central Europe from the 20th century to the present are politically, culturally, and literarily diverse, but never random: Critical examinations of terms such as "post-imperial", "marginal", or "peripheral" are reflected in their respective intellectual fields and literary productions that negotiate transatlantic "elective affinities", while competing for recognition within the history of world literature.
Festival | Assemblage Berlin. 60 Jahre Literatur intermedial
Das Festival widmet sich als ein Kooperationsprojekt des EXC 2020 und des Literarischen Colloquiums Berlin (LCB) dem Topos der Intermedialität. In vier Sektionen und einer Ausstellung spürt es den vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen von Literatur und ihren Verflechtungen mit anderen Künsten unter den Bedingungen der Digitalisierung und einer globalisierten Zirkulation nach.
Counter Narratives and Resilience in Practice: On Decolonial Strategies in Art and Communities
The hybrid workshop "Counter Narratives and Resilience in Practice: On Decolonial Strategies in Art and Communities" addressed the potentials of performative, community-based, editorial and curatorial practices as narratives against the dominant canon of colonial histories.