Public Talk by Natascha Sadr Haghighian at Ashkal Alwan

Ashkal Alwan is pleased to invite you to a public talk by Natascha Sadr Haghighian. Sadr Haghighian is a visiting professor on the Home Workspace Program 2012-13.

Abstract: “This talk will be about how I learned to listen to rubble — rubble that used to be a kitchen tile, a door-frame, a brick wall. I found that the rubble carries secrets — secrets that everybody knows about — public secrets. I found a lot of stories in the rubble — stories about becoming animal, about continuities in what we call history and about ruptures, ruptures that flip the stretch and turn continuities into unsteady loops. I found history repeating itself under different names.

It will show how — in the process of listening to the rubble – I lost words and found others. Words that speak the language of things rather than people. And of course I will show some slides, videos, and play some sounds from my laptop.”

Free entrance