Chto Delat International
Here + Now + Everyone
A performance by exiled international art collective Chto Delat at the memorial for the victims of Nazi justice, calling for solidarity, community, and Hamburg’s cultural diversity.
The rehearsal process for Here + Now + Everyone has started. Every Friday at 7 p.m. there will be impulses and program at the Fleetstreet Theater, to which interested visitors are warmly invited.
Chto Delat International, founded in Russia in 2003, exhibits worldwide, from Mudam Luxembourg to the New Museum in New York. Since 2023, they have lived in exile in Hamburg. Combining visual art, philosophy, and literature, they describe themselves as an »artistic tool against hate.« As part of a residency at Fleetstreet Theater, they develop a performance engaging with Gloria Friedman’s 1997 installation »Hier und Jetzt« at Sievekingplatz, which commemorates victims of Nazi atrocities through 90 plant species. In a time when fundamental democratic principles are under threat, and a far-right party holds seats in the German Bundestag, the work’s message feels urgent. Chto Delat expands Friedman's piece into a site-specific performance, created with (post-)migrant participants from Hamburg. Here + Now + Everyone becomes both a ceremonial intervention and a political statement, reflecting on current migration policies and their humanitarian impacts. It reclaims the monument’s core values through participatory practice, fostering community and solidarity.
