Community Event 2024 with Giuliana Kiersz, Ben Osborn and the “Macht Sprache” Book
Warm invitation to our second community event! We would like to meet you all in person and have a chat over a drink. First we will introduce ourselves, poco.lit. and our newly published book “Macht Sprache: Ein Manifest für mehr Gerechtigkeit”. And then, we will be able to enjoy a performance by poet Giuliana Kiersz and musician Ben Osborn.
When? Saturday, 28.09.2024, doors open at 19h00, the programme starts at 19h30
Where? Satellit, Weinstraße 11, 10249 Berlin (near M4 tram station Am Friedrichshain)
About the “Macht Sprache” book:
Lucy Gasser and Anna von Rath raise awareness for the many ways in which discrimination works in and through language. The book tackles the many problems this presents and makes constructive suggestions for language practices that are less discriminatory.
About the performance “Your Language is Lying to You”:
Giuliana Kierzs and Ben Osborn explore the ideas, structures, and beliefs that inhabit our words. Their performance is an essay, a poem, a concert on the languages that we have inherited, the ones that we forgot, and the ones we decided to create to transform our history. It includes a musical composition deconstructing language as sound, tangling and untangling the rhythms, melodies and harmonies within text and speech to create a live sound score responding to, accompanying, and distorting a human voice.
Giuliana Kiersz is Berlin-based poet, playwright, artist and librettist, originally from Buenos Aires. Her work explores political and social issues re-inventing the forms in which we talk about violence, love, and trauma. Her work has won first place in the X German Rozenmacher Prize; third prize in the 15th National Dramaturgy Competition; and Maison Antoine Vitez translation awards. Her texts have been translated into English, German, French, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Tsosil and published by Rara Avis Editorial, Libros del Rojas, Fondo Editorial ENSAD, Editorial INTeatro, Espejo Somos, Libros Drama and Solitude Editions / Archive Books and Editions Espaces 34. Her most recent work Your Language Is Lying to You has been co-published by Yale University and Duke University Press in Theater.
Ben Osborn is a musician, writer, librettist, songwriter, composer and sound designer from Oxford, UK, now based in Berlin, Germany. Coming from a poetic folk song tradition, his work draws also from electronica and classical music, specialising in ethereal strings, complex electronic beats, dreamlike harmonies and expressive lyrics. In his songs, pieces and collaborative works, he seeks to create a space in which highly personal and deeply political stories can be told. Recent projects include sound designs for the Berlin Schaubühne and Dortmund Stadttheater, a song cycle for Tokyo’s Bunkai Kaikan and an operatic dance installation for Tallinn’s CPPM Manifestal Festival.
Languages of the event: German, English and Spanish spoken language.
It’s free.
And the venue is accessible via a wide staircase with 7 steps.
