NachVolk
The natural future of national things
Sprechsaal gallery, Berlin
opening: 16.1 « 19:00
16.1- 14.3.2015
Curator
Lior Wilentzik
Artists
Alma Alloro
Dorit Bialer
Yemima Fink
Mia Gourvitch
Benyamin Reich
Naomi Tereza Salmon
Lior Wilentzik
Michael Steindel
Simha Talalaevsky
Adi Gelbart
Gabriel S Moses
Shira Kela & UY
Giulia Palombino
Maya Attoun & Meital Katz Minervo
Assaf Abutbul
With additional talks by:
Avi Bochbot
Gali Cnaani
Tal Hever-Chybowski
Gabriel S Moses
Dekel Peretz
Press release
from the last talks screenings & performances in Sprechsaal...
Die Asporas event program 16/1-14/3/15 Sprechsaal gallery
24.1.15 18:00 | Zionism, Postzionism and Antizionism as a quest for identity - Dekel Peretz
Jewish and Christian identities in Germany have been constantly re-imagined in accordance with shifting political and social frameworks and fantasies. The talk will attempt to trace back some of these changes throughout modern German history, based on visual and textual examples.
Dekel Peretz studied history, philosophy and economics in the Humboldt University Berlin. Currently he is working on his
PhD, titled “Nation-building and utopia in the thought of Franz Oppenheimer and Martin Buber” in the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish Studies in Potsdam.
12.2.15 18:00 | Cultural identity complexes, as presented in works of Die Asporas
A talk and discussion with the Die Asporas artists around the current installation Nachvolk.
Lior Wilentzik is the manager and curator of Die Asporas – a touring project based in Berlin, which showcases young
immigrant Israeli artists whose work examines cultural identity issues arising from their encounters in the unfamiliar environment. The installations consist of various media: photography, digital art and video, graphic design and drawing.
An emphasis is put on the artists’ biographical, personal and formal visual positioning, in attempt to better understand the current trend of Israeli immigration to Berlin.
14.2.15 18:00 | From the struggling years of immigration to the ״cassette revolution״
of the golden 80s - Avi Bohbot
A historical review of the visual modes of representation of the Arab Jewish musician in Israeli pop-culture.
Avi Bohbot is an Israeli graphic designer, based in Berlin since 2013. In 2010 he graduated his Bachelor degree in
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Since 2013 he studies in the Masters program of the Visual
Communication Department in KHB-Weißensee, Berlin.
21.2.15 18:00 | What is Diasporic Hebrew?
Tal Hever-Chybowski is the director of the Paris Yiddish Center (Medem Library) and founder of the Diasporic Hebrew
journal Mikan Ve'eylakh (forthcoming) in Berlin.
Drawing upon Simon Dubnow, Franz Rosenzweig, Simon Rawidowicz, Victor Klemperer, Max Weinreich and Daniel
Boyarin, this lecture will explore various problems in the attempt to define diasporic Hebrew. It will ask whether diasporic Hebrew depends on the existence of a non-diasporic Hebrew, whether it can be defined in positive terms, and more
practically, what it means to write Hebrew diasporically (i.e. are there specific linguistic features, or a specific vocabulary
of diasporic Hebrew? Finally, the lecture will discuss to what extent diasporic Hebrew is a language of the past, of the
presence and of the future.
28.2.15 18:00 | Restoring rituals, narrating textiles - Prof. Gali Cnaani
Contemporary attitudes toward Judaica in the works of students of the textile department at Shenkar college
The talk will present collaborations between textile design students in Shenkar college and the Einy Brothers Company
(experts of antique carpet restoration and cleaning). The students use textile techniques and language, to reflect on
subjects such as ritual, restoration and identity in contemporary Judaism and Judaica.
Gali Cnaani is a textile artist and a professor in the textile department at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in
Ramat Gan and in the department of jewelry and fashion at Bezalel academy in Jerusalem.
6.3.15 18:00 | The future nativity of the digital self - Gabriel S Moses
Artist talk on the video ENHANC[=MENT – an augmented graphic novel.
What would happen if Lennon's dream of "no countries ... no possessions" mutated into a Frankenstein-neocapitalist-
nightmare, where western expansion collapses all state borders to the point in which 'otherness' becomes nothing more
than an outdated meme? Would all the kids network in telepathic English, from suburbs all around the globe? Or would
these “smart” teens turn to fundamentalist terrorism, out of sheer boredom, just for kicks and clicks? Can today’s science
fiction do anything but barely try and enhance an already fundamental present?
Gabriel S Moses is a sequential artist who's also into media theory … or in other words, he's into v-e-r-y serious comics
for v-e-r-y serious people.
Featured literature:
Linn Fischer | Mischling
Tine Fetz | This is not Uganda
Gabriel S Moses | Spunk, Subz
