Goethe-Institut South Africa: 80*81 Only this Weekend!
You are invited to a weekend filled with questions, boiling down to a single one…
In their year-long study project 80*81, Georg Diez and Christopher Roth, in collaboration with artists, astrologers, philosophers, psychologists, writers, film directors and actors, research a central question:
What actually happened?
At that time, 1980, when Reagan was elected President, when Pope John Paul II met with Lech Walesa, as Andy Warhol met William Burroughs for dinner at the Chelsea Hotel, when John Galliano was a Blitz Kid? And what happened in 1981, when Ayatollah Khomeini’s hostages were released, five minutes after Reagan became president? When Ali Agca fired at Pope John Paul II, when CNN and MTV were founded and GPS made any place visible at any given time? When HIV/Aids emerged? These years and events changed the way the world thought, felt, looked, worked, reacted.
80*81 programme
Thursday , 19 August
5pm: Skype interview with Lien Botha
Lien Botha is a South African photographer. Beside her participation in more than 80 South African group shows and 26 international group exhibitions, she held eight solo exhibitions and also curated different shows.
6.30pm: screening of “The Kingdom of Mozartbique”
The film program is selected by the artists and shows different parts of the feature film “Das Königreich von Mozartbique” (The Kingdom of Mozartbique). The film is a collection of fictitious stories told by residents of the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique’s second-largest
city. Built in the 1950s, the hotel was the largest on the African continent, but closed after just a few years and has since the early 1980s been squatted. Together with the music and the commentary, the images of “Das Königreich von Mozartbique” develop a new narrative and
aesthetic style, creating an essay film with parts that are clearly staged. (more information)
Friday, 20 August
5pm: Skype interview with Oliviero Toscani
Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani became well known trough his advertisement campaigns for Benetton and provocative works on anorexia and AIDS.
6.30pm: performance by Anne Tismer
Anne Tismer is one of the leading figures in performance art in Germany and co-founder of the theatre Ballhaus Ost in Berlin. She has worked at the Schaubühne and engages in different artistic projects in Berlin.
Saturday, 21 August
5pm: Skype interview with Sylvère Lothringer Sylvère Lothringer is professor of French literature and philosophy at Columbia. He frequently lectures also on art and is the general editor of the American independent publisher Semiotext(e).
6.30pm: “At the bottom of black” Spoken word poetry with Napo Mashiane, Mak Manaka and Prophet J.D.
7.30pm: Performance by Anne Tismer
Anne Tismer is one of the leading figures in performance art in Germany and co-founder of the theatre Ballhaus Ost in Berlin. She has worked at the Schaubühne and engages in different artistic projects in Berlin.
Monday, 23 August
6pm: Audio: Hubert Fichte
7pm: Skype interviews with Michaela Melián and Thomas Meinecke
Musician, DJ and author Thomas Meinecke is with six published novels and four collections of short stories among the leading figures of the German pop literature.
Artist and musician Michaela Melián together with Thomas Meinecke (and others) published a literary magazine and formed the avant-garde group F.S.K. Since 90s she is teaching at different universities.
8pm: Screening: STAR 80
