Video Interviews
Palmireno Moreira Neto (State University of Campinas)
Early Career Fellow, January–June 2025
Accompany Palmireno Moreira Neto on his very personal quest to investigate the manifold entanglements of Latin American literature – a journey that takes him to Mexico and the group of artists known as the Infrarealists. It all began when he first read a book by Roberto Bolaño...
Bivitha Easo (Alliance University, Bengaluru)
Early Career Fellow, January–June 2025
How did a Christian community in southern India respond when Western colonisers arrived to proselytise them? Bivitha Easo examines the narratives surrounding the community of 'Malankara Nasrani' and paints a fascinating picture of the 'multiple Christianities' behind the religion's seemingly monolithic façade.
Moses März (artist and researcher)
Dorothea Schlegel Artist-in-Residence, December 2024
What is the mindset of a map? What does it show that thousands of texts cannot? How can maps be linked to each other? Artist and researcher Moses März answers these questions and explains how he designed a series of maps for an exhibition on Surrealism at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW).
(Interview in German)
Sergius Kodera (University of Vienna)
Senior Fellow, November 2024
Find out what huge buildings have to do with the ars memoria, how their rooms change over time and whose job it is to keep everything shipshape. Who knows – maybe you, too, will build a stunning palace of memory and stop relying on your smartphone as a storehouse of knowledge?
Saskya Jain (writer)
Dorothea Schlegel Artist-in-Residence, October–December 2024
Meet the tiny frog that has made its home on writer Saskya Jain's desk, learn about her many creative uses for letters from Berlin's sprawling bureaucracy...and don't be surprised if familiar sights/sites are turned upside down!