SAVVY Contemporary

On Rhythmanalysis Of Memory, Times, Bodies In Space

The research, performance and exhibition project THAT, AROUND WHICH THE UNIVERSE REVOLVES brings visual artists, city planners, photographers, performers and theoreticians together in order to explore the interrelationship between space and time, memory, architecture and city planning. In Hamburg, the project will start with the life and work of one of the most vibrant and brave anti-colonial activists of the Hanseatic city: Mpundu Akwa from Cameroon lived in Hamburg at the beginning of the 20th century, where he opposed the German Empire’s colonial policies in publications and the political sphere. In a three-day program at Kampnagel and in public space, THAT, AROUND WHICH THE UNIVERSE REVOLVES combines interdisciplinary contributions in an open dramaturgy between exhibition spaces, performance interventions and debates.

[Thu] 19. October

19:00, k1 Introduction Performance | A History of Lateness : Nathalie Mba Bikoro

20:00 (in English) Conversation | From Hamburg’s Elolombe Ya Kamerun to The Negro Worker: The Silenced History of Black Radical l Publications: Natasha A. Kelly and Philipp Khabo Koepsell, moderated by Saskia Köbschall

Connecting Program in cooperation with Kampnagel K-Tunes: 21:30, kmh Greg Tate & Klaus Walter: DJ Lecture on Afrofuturism and the Bad Present - free entrance with a THAT, AROUND WHICH THE UNIVERSE REVOLVES –Ticket.

[Fri] 20. October

18:30, Piazza Performance (Reenactment) | Die Wit Man II: A Rumble in the Jungle. Requiem for King Rudolph Manga Douala Bell, 1884-2016: Tracey Rose

19:00, k1 Introduction Performance | Kukunguruka (IV): Lucia Nhamo

19:30, k1 (in German and English) Conversation | Making Voices Heard - The Coloniality of a Public | Louis Henri Seukwa, Vassilis Tsianos, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, moderated by Elena Agudio

20:30 Performative Intervention | Gintersdorfer/ Klaßen

[Sat] 21. October

16:00, Baakenhafen City Walk | In/Visibilities of Colonialism in the City: Sonic city walk by Katharina Kellermann and Tania Mancheno, with closing remarks by Simone Dede Ajivi.To participate, please register at: communications@savvy-contemporary.com Meeting point U-Bahn Baumwall (Exit Elbphilharmonie, between elevator and city bikes)19:00, k1 Introduction Conversation | Un/Making the City - Artistic Intervention as Decolonial Tool: Vyjayanthi Rao & Simone Dede Ajivi,moderated by Saskia Köbschall (in German and English)

20:00 Performative Intervention | Gintersdorfer/ Klaßen with Hauke Heumann, Lloyd Nyikadzino, Franck Edmond Yao20:30 Performance Lecture | RHYTHMANALYSIS | Greg Tate

Connecting Program by Kampnagel K-Tunes: 22:00, kmh AWA - SUPPORT: CRI$PY C / DJ DORK DISFO - free entrance with a THAT, AROUND WHICH THE UNIVERSE REVOLVES – ticket.