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Artist and choreographer Alexandra Pirici transforms historic hall of Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof into a live action performance and site-specific installation
Maybe this is a time to look for something else in art, to look at art that resonates with this moment on the precipice of authoritarianism, and to learn from it. What can be gleaned by reconsidering art made in similarly dangerous situations in the past, not with the complacent relief of historical distance, but with an awakened sense of urgency for our own time and place?
IF IT’S POSSIBLE to enjoy what’s taking place in Berlin at the moment, it’s only by watching the failure of all the strategies the state has cooked up for the…