A festival of lights. With the textile artist Adi Liraz
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| 10 euros per person, exhibition admission inclusive |
| Book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
| The ticket price for the guided tour includes admission to the exhibition. |
| Duration: 90 min |
| German |
Festivals of lights around the winter solstice on 21 December are known in many religions, traditions and customs. The BERLIN GLOBAL tandem tour on 26 December is dedicated to Hanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. Together with the textile artist Adi Liraz, we will explore the themed rooms of the Berlin exhibition at the Humboldt Forum. What is the significance of the festival of lights in Judaism, what does this holiday tell us about society, and what role does memory play in this context? As part of this conversation, we also talk about Adi Liraz’s artistic work with textiles and how she weaves together her family history, uniting new and old forms of remembrance.
About the person: Adi Liraz is an interdisciplinary and performance artist currently working between Berlin, Germany and Ioannina, Greece. In her work, she negotiates the presence and function of memory and proposes ways of decolonising marginalised voices. Adi aims to remanufacture the concepts of home & belonging beyond the national, the hegemonic, and the patriarchal. Her work is a quest towards new understandings of feminist emancipation; while moving beyond white feminism and its supremacy, she reclaims domestic labour as a feminist everyday and artistic practice, and tries to unroot it from patriarchal genealogies.
The tandem guided tour involves two people. An educator and a Berlin expert guide you through selected exhibition areas. The invited expert determines the subject matter. The experts will bring their own varied professional and personal backgrounds into the conversation and they may be a midwife, artist, small-scale female entrepreneur, biologist, historian, archaeologist, psychologist, female fire fighter or restorer. People who work as volunteers or who have provided curatorial support in the exhibition will also be invited. This makes every tandem guided tour individual and unique.
