APOTEKA: The Shape of the Inconstruable Question

grüntaler9 is bäck with a new series of performative live events named APOTEKA. We start on Monday 18 April with Esther Neff.

The Shape of the Inconstruable Question
Wir wollen dort, wo wir endlich leben, nicht einsam sein (We do not want to be lonely where we finally live)

°°From 3-6pm we will gather to collectively (re)write a calling forth, or “canticle,” (a hymn or chant) beginning with an excerpt from Ernst Bloch’s The Spirit of Utopia. All are welcome.

°°°At 7pm we will collectively and publicly read/chant our re-made text or “canticle” aloud.

°°°°After the reading, participants will also be welcome to receive free tattoos of one drop of honey or triangle and continue casual company in the space.

Our re-writings may involve additions from our own poetic imaginations and from the suggested texts below. A hope ritual. Queer/radical orientations towards eudaimonia.

A collective writing of missions towards the miraculous, drawing up and revoking sentences, what part do words play in the “incipiently brightened question” of hope?

SPEECH ACTS
Free Palestine
Trans Rights are Human Rights
Black Lives Matter
Land Back
My Body My Choice
People Not Profits
No Blood for Oil
Decolonize
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The Spirit of Utopia by Ernst Bloch (in English):
https://archive.org/details/TheSpiritOfUtopiaErnstBloch/

Other readings:
Song of Songs (one of the megillot found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim)
Lo Deyenu (it was not enough: for Passover/Easter)
Queer Phenomenology (Sara Ahmed)

We provide the texts, writing material, coffee, tea and snacks. No registration. Please arrive tested & bring a mask.

Esther Neff is the founder of PPL, a thinktank, organizational entity, and performance collective based in NYC and St. Louis, Mo, USA. A community compendium, called “Institution is a Verb,” documenting PPL’s 7-year stint as a physical lab site, was recently published with The Operating System. Neff is currently working on a new “opera-of-operations”/public epistemology project with fellow members of the CUNY Graduate Center PhD program in Theatre and Performance.***https://estherneff.wordpress.com/

grüntaler9 receives support through the Basisförderung of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. 

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