PERFORMING HOMES

Mira Mann, Nicholas Grafia, Mikołaj Sobczak, Nip Slip, Lola von der Gracht, Moritz Krauth, Claudia Hübbecker, Arpad Dobriban

Performing Homes
A performative programme on the topicality of the concept of home The complex „Performing Homes“ programme on Graf-Adolf-Platz, which thus becomes the centre of the „EINE STRASSE“ exhibition, examines the question of what home means, especially for the youn- ger generation, the LGBTQ+ community or in the context of migration. On the newly designed and largely unused square between KÖ and GAP 15, a virulent centre is being created, which, with works by the artist collectives Atelier Van Lieshout and KUNSTrePUBLIK, but also a project by Fridays For Future with HSD Düsseldorf and other civi- cally engaged groups, forms the stage for a complex programme of performances, readings, screenings and talks.

Questions about home as an exhibition

Visible from afar, the large tent „VVest Life“ by the artist collective KUNSTrePublik from Berlin is a sculptural symbol that provides a public stage for questions about the meaning of the concept of home for people on the run, in permanent displacement or in connection with self-chosen migration. The installation by Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, which is being created in cooperation with the HSD Düsseldorf and the class of Prof. Martin Pfeifle, thematises the planet as „Home Earth“. Ecological problems have long been asking how we can not only imagine a home in the future, but also preserve, protect and share it. Atelier Van Lieshout is the third anchor of the home discourse at Graf-Adolf-Platz with „Darwin“, which takes a completely different approach to origin, home and homeland with a great deal of humour. The self-sufficient living cell, which sets in motion a complex chain of associations ranging from evolutionary and prenatal fantasies to autonomous and post-apocalyptic visions, opens up a di- scussion on the concept of home that certainly needs more openness.

Performance programme

Especially in performances from the LGBTQ+ community and other scenes that interpret the question of home and origin more as a ques- tion of different forms of being at home in the world, established con- cepts are scrutinised, transformed and renegotiated. Performances by Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak, Moritz Krauth and Mira Mann de-provincialise and update the concept beyond patriotism, fatherland or racism, without geopolitical and territorial enmity. They describe it as a phantasmatic place in the past that needs to be actu- alised, but also as a place in the here and now - in the world in which we live.

Readings, discussion, screening
In addition, theatrical readings such as the one by Claudia Hübbe- cker on Bert Gerresheim‘s Heinemonument show that discussions on the subject of home are not new. Arpad Dobriban, who always stages his food sequences against the backdrop of his native Hungary and local produce, shows in his performative buffet how closely flavour and food are linked to home as the first place in the world. And in a discussion with Basel Al Ali and other guests, we ask whether fleeing war and persecution means leaving one‘s homeland permanently and comprehensively. A film reel showing various positions on the subject of home also brings the subject to the Atelier as the last cinema on Graf-Adolf-Straße, which was once home to numerous film palaces.

PERFORMING HOMES

Mira Mann, Nicholas Grafia, Mikołaj Sobczak, Nip Slip, Lola von der Gracht, Moritz Krauth, Claudia Hübbecker, Arpad Dobriban

Performing Homes
A performative programme on the topicality of the concept of home The complex „Performing Homes“ programme on Graf-Adolf-Platz, which thus becomes the centre of the „EINE STRASSE“ exhibition, examines the question of what home means, especially for the youn- ger generation, the LGBTQ+ community or in the context of migration. On the newly designed and largely unused square between KÖ and GAP 15, a virulent centre is being created, which, with works by the artist collectives Atelier Van Lieshout and KUNSTrePUBLIK, but also a project by Fridays For Future with HSD Düsseldorf and other civi- cally engaged groups, forms the stage for a complex programme of performances, readings, screenings and talks.

Questions about home as an exhibition

Visible from afar, the large tent „VVest Life“ by the artist collective KUNSTrePublik from Berlin is a sculptural symbol that provides a public stage for questions about the meaning of the concept of home for people on the run, in permanent displacement or in connection with self-chosen migration. The installation by Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion, which is being created in cooperation with the HSD Düsseldorf and the class of Prof. Martin Pfeifle, thematises the planet as „Home Earth“. Ecological problems have long been asking how we can not only imagine a home in the future, but also preserve, protect and share it. Atelier Van Lieshout is the third anchor of the home discourse at Graf-Adolf-Platz with „Darwin“, which takes a completely different approach to origin, home and homeland with a great deal of humour. The self-sufficient living cell, which sets in motion a complex chain of associations ranging from evolutionary and prenatal fantasies to autonomous and post-apocalyptic visions, opens up a di- scussion on the concept of home that certainly needs more openness.

Performance programme

Especially in performances from the LGBTQ+ community and other scenes that interpret the question of home and origin more as a ques- tion of different forms of being at home in the world, established con- cepts are scrutinised, transformed and renegotiated. Performances by Nicholas Grafia and Mikołaj Sobczak, Moritz Krauth and Mira Mann de-provincialise and update the concept beyond patriotism, fatherland or racism, without geopolitical and territorial enmity. They describe it as a phantasmatic place in the past that needs to be actu- alised, but also as a place in the here and now - in the world in which we live.

Readings, discussion, screening
In addition, theatrical readings such as the one by Claudia Hübbe- cker on Bert Gerresheim‘s Heinemonument show that discussions on the subject of home are not new. Arpad Dobriban, who always stages his food sequences against the backdrop of his native Hungary and local produce, shows in his performative buffet how closely flavour and food are linked to home as the first place in the world. And in a discussion with Basel Al Ali and other guests, we ask whether fleeing war and persecution means leaving one‘s homeland permanently and comprehensively. A film reel showing various positions on the subject of home also brings the subject to the Atelier as the last cinema on Graf-Adolf-Straße, which was once home to numerous film palaces.