Workshop »Where do we stand? Where do we land?«

To mark the first Hamburg Queer History Month, Hamburg performance, film and media artist Simon Schultz, in collaboration with Kampnagel, invites you to the workshop "Where do we stand? Where do we land?", which is aimed at members and friends of the queer communities. In recent years, the issues and challenges facing queer communities have developed rapidly: after gay marriage and adoption rights, the communities are fighting for humane legal regulation of transitions, a normalising approach to HIV, as well as the issues of queerness and ageing, loneliness and mental health, migration and international solidarity. At the same time, our socio-political environment has changed radically: rising populism, the international rise of the far right, the pandemic, the climate crisis, racism and austerity policies have left us in a state of shock. A diffuse fear of not being able to keep up with the world is spreading. This fear is not a new phenomenon: ever since modernity pulled the rug out from under people's feet with its narrative of the individual and isolation, it has become increasingly difficult to find one's bearings. Today, working people are faced with a constant demand for self-optimisation in a globalised world with multiple crises.

The workshop is an attempt, with Bruno Latour's "Down to earth: politics
in the new climatic regime" in mind, to find a common ground on which people in queer communities can gain a foothold together. What new possibilities for action arise when the participants locate themselves not only in their difference to each other, but also in their connection with each other? Instead of categorising each other, this workshop proposes to identify both commonalities and dependencies on each other. The work is based on the assumption that the participants can expand their existing abilities to act by determining their position or mapping their connections to each other and within the world.

In his work, performance and media artist Simon Schultz explores the themes of queerness, queer history and aesthetic experience. Since 2014, he has been developing workshops for the Schwule* Museum Berlin, the International Queer Film Festival Hamburg and Kampnagel, among others. He lives and works in Hamburg.

The workshop is designed for 20 participants.

Access information: The venue kx is accessible via an external staircase with 10 steps. Toilets are available, barrier-free toilets are available on the venue premises.