Event: Mai 2018
Tue
29/5/18
07:30 PM
Elegy and Upheaval
Lection & Talk
Ai Weiwei CHN/DEU artist | Zheng Xiaoqiong CHN author | Yang Lian CHN/DEU author
Moderated by: Claudia Kramatschek DEU literary critic
China is one of the big beneficiaries profiting from globalisation. But it remains politically sealed off. Artists such as Ai Weiwei (b. 1957 in Beijing) and Yang Lian (b. 1955 in Berne) have been forced to live in exile. In their most recent works, both deal with the losers of globalisation, Ai Weiwei in his documentary film Human Flow, and Yang Lian in his long poem Venice Elegy. The losers also include migrant workers who work on conveyor belts for rock-bottom wages. One of them is the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong (b. 1980 in Sichuan), who works through her experiences in her texts.
Chinese-German interpreting will be available for this event.
The reading Elegy and upheaval is organised jointly with Poetry on the Road and is made possible with the kind support of the Confucius Institute Bremen and ECHOO Konferenzdolmetschen.
Akademie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Entrance fee:
10/7 €
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