A graphic with two abstract dark purple figures on a green background. One figure is holding a book, the other is wearing headphones.
© Ronak Jundi
A graphic with two abstract dark purple figures on a green background. One figure is holding a book, the other is wearing headphones.
© Ronak Jundi
Performative Book Fair
Installation

Apocalypse Reading Nook

Past dates

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Thursday

5/11/23

5:00 PM

Foyer

until 20:30

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Friday

5/12/23

5:00 PM

Foyer

until 22:00

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Saturday

5/13/23

2:30 PM

Foyer

until 18:00

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Sunday

5/14/23

11:00 AM

Foyer

until 17:00

A Black woman with a natural Afro, glasses, red lipstick and a red T-shirt sits with her arms crossed in front of a dark background. Her hands rest on her knees, she looks calmly and seriously into the camera with a slightly tilted head.
Ama Josephine Budge
© Zachary Maxwell Stertz
A graphic with two abstract yellow figures on a purple background. One figure is holding a book, the other is wearing headphones.
Performative Book Fair

Within the fair, British artist Ama Josephine Budge opens a portal for time travelers with the APOCALYPSE READING NOOK HAMBURG, a traveling mini-variant of her installation “The Apocalypse Reading Room”: Upon entering the cabin, visitors* find themselves in an apocalyptic future - with the invitation to delve into texts that do not primarily look back to what was, but rather try their hand at dreaming as well as practical guidance to new worlds. Stay as long as you like, you have time.

With contributions by, among others: SchwarzRund, Naomi Odhiambo, Sarah Fartuun Heinze.

Thanks to Pakama Ngceni, Elin Letchumy Kuttimalai and Mariam Ibrahim from the Schanzenviertel bookshop for their advice on the book selection.

We appreciate if you do a Corona rapid test at home and wear a mask in crowded indoor spaces at the Book Fair. Those with cold symptoms: Instead of on site, you can take part in the discourse events via Zoom.

The Apocalypse Reading Nook is part of Collection Europe, a project by ACT – Art, Climate, Transition, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.