Author: heissam
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Schlechte Wörter – Bad Words
Participation in the new issue of the podcast schlechte Wörter titled I am inviting you to not sleep tonight. After the first season took Ilse Aichinger’s titular essay Bad Words and its resistant poetics as its point of departure, Etel Adnan’s Night takes us into the darkness. Between the revolutionary potential of staying awake and the shrouding qualities…
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In The Wrong Place – Reading in Brücke Museum
The writer Haytham El-Wardany engages with traditions of storytelling that lend agency to seemingly lifeless objects. In his writings, they become subjects. In his reading of the short story In the Wrong Place, El-Wardany creates a verbal space that encourages us to rethink the concept of a “source of inspiration”. Like many other modern artists,…