Freitag, 17.1., 31.1., 14.2., 21.2.2025, 6pm | Hansabibliothek
- 10th January – with Johanna Hedva & Saverio Cantoni
The program starts with a sound piece by Johanna Hedva and a live-sound performance by Saverio Cantoni.
Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician whose work intertwines magic, necromancy, and political states of solidarity and disintegration. Hedva explores themes of embodiment, deviant knowledge, and the liberatory possibilities of doom through various media including novels, essays, music, and performance.
Saverio Cantoni is a white-passing cyborg, disabled – oral Deaf – artist based in Berlin. Situating their practice in the sonics, from haptic experiences to assistive technologies, Saverio has been experimenting with interferences, noises, and glitches for the past ten years to create participatory and accessible live performances.
- 17th January – with Sophia Eisenhut & Julia Rosenstock
Sophia Eisenhut is an artist and author, exploring the materiality and performance of writing with a focus on feminist language criticism. Her debut, EXERCITIA S. Catarinae de Manresa: Anorexia and Theocracy, investigates themes of anorexia and theocracy.
Julia Rosenstock is an artist, currently studying in the New Media class at the University of Arts in Berlin.
- 31st of January – With Kristina Stallvik Cover Crop & magazine Sore (around illness & disability)
Kristina Stallvik: is an artist and curator engaging with queer ecology and the relationship between curatorial and editorial modes. Her recent projects span exhibitions, workshops, and publications that delve into the technological mediation of non-human nature.
Sore Magazine: A serial anthology blending diary-style writing and fiction, developed through collective critiques by its contributors over five months.
At the heart of these shared readings lies a profound demand: the act of emotional exchange that art, writing, and storytelling embody. These sessions invite us to envision a moment where ability and disability, love and hate, joy and pain, are not fixed binaries but rather a web of intersectional complexities—deserving of spaces for exchange, akin to come closer to what Jan Verwoert calls a “republic of liberated witnesses.” This proposal, aiming for parted totalities, is tender yet grotesque.
While acknowledging its complexities, these sessions call for attention, witnessing, and care as ways to inherit and embody its multitudes across four days.
We are thrilled to invite you to *Mighty Real*—to share a dream, a love letter, a shout, split across readings, performances, and sound. Within the wintry winds of Hansabibliothek, we’ll gather and glimpse what might emerge in this shared imagining.
The reading sessions and lecture performances are events of GROTTO in cooperation with Hansabibliothek.