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Can’t simulate freedom
»Hannah Arendt Thinking Space« (Hannah Arendt Denkraum) Oct. 15th to Nov. 19th, 2006
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Announcement »Analogies, metaphors und symbols are the strings which keep one’s mind connected to the world. Even if it, absent-minded, has lost its immediate contact to the world, they guarantee the unity of human experience.« »The meaning of politics is freedom.« In regard to the 100th anniversary of the German Jew and philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) on October 14th, 2006 a comprehensive five-weeks-long exhibition will be realised in Berlin, the town she fled from in 1933. It is to honour Hannah Arendt’s political thinking and to make visible the topicality and the interaction of her literary, philosophical and political work with contemporary fine arts. In Hannah Arendt’s political science and in her written work main terms occur, revealing outstanding sense, impact and topicality and explaining interhuman relations as culturally defined. Among these terms are: working, producing, acting, thinking as well as understanding and loving. These connected terms characterise the potentialities and abilities of human beings as conditions of human existence. They seem topical and may help through their values to discuss burning questions of comtemporary crises in society, politics and work more efficiently. The persuasive power of Hannah Arendt’s imagery has by far more impact in Hannah Arendt’ work than usual lingual play. It can be seen as literary and artistical necessity, because as she wrote: »What connects thinking and rhyming, is the metaphor. In philosophy you call a term, what in poetry you call a metaphor. Thinking soaks up its ‘terms’ out of the visible to name the invisible.« (Denktagebuch -- Diary of Thoughts) This approach of Hannah Arendt corresponds with contemporary work styles and concepts of fine arts. Although not only operating in metaphorical thoughts, but in fresh and surprising combination of opposite elements, they seek for initiating new ways of looking and seeing. At this point we want to settle our idea for the concept of the exhibition »Hannah Arendt Denkraum« charging the invited artists (see artists’ list) with the formulation of new location-related works of art and installations in reflection of Hannah Arendt and the topicality of her thinking. We aim for the forming of an topic-oriented exhibition, prolonging the modernity of Hannah Arendt’s thinking into the present age. The artistical contributions are peculiar and original approaches in formulating the imagery and the way of thinking developed in Hannah Arendt’s work. The draft concept of this project of art emphasizes Arendt’s thrilling imagery which could in various artistical forms initiate and reflect discussion. It is not intended to make Arendt’s thinking become a certain and concrete image, but to experiment a way of thinking to be sensually perceptible by any means of sense. The »Denkraum« could also give room for critically debating contemporary forms of expression in politics and culture.
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