Capture, Treason and Solidarity

30.11.2024 / 18:00 – 21:00
With Tash Aw

With Tash Aw, Moshtari Hilal, Diedrich Diederichsen, Emily Nill, Tobias Haberkorn

In today’s discourse, we’re all held captive: by an escalating politics of war and cruelty, by mutually exclusive conceptions of trauma and atonement—and by our own positions, as the only way forward, it seems, is to double down.

The hardest thing, then, is to build alliances that defy the bad determinism of the day: to remain receptive to the grievances of all, but capable of judgment at the same time. Because not all sufferings are equal or could be treated equally—as ongoing wars and their repercussions in the streets of Berlin demonstrate, there is never no hierarchy of solidarity, neither in the positions of the German state, nor in activist politics.

Tash Aw, Moshtari Hilal and Diedrich Diederichsen—a novelist, a writer and visual artist, a philosopher and critic—will shed a provocative light on some of the following questions: What agency are we left with when historical injustices happen in plain sight? Do words and acts of solidarity still have a purchase on reality, or are they a treason to their very principles?

Readings and talks in English and German.
Free admission, limited seating.

daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161
Berlin-Kreuzberg