Situated Dissonance with Mattin
Germany is facing many challenges, including the rise of the far right and discrimination (racism, antisemitism, islamophobia ...), the cancellation and censorship of protests over the Gaza war, inflation, and an economic recession. The engine of Europe is kaput—or at least not in great health—and the geopolitical situation is very fragile.
How is this affecting us?
There is tension in the air, and this project, Situated Dissonance, aims to experience it through specific means in a specific place: Langenhagen.
Social dissonance refers to the discrepancies between liberal conceptions of freedom, our self-understanding, and a reality that is disintegrating those values.
This long-term project involves translating a book with the help of AI while conducting a reading group that comments on how the issues we discuss relate to what is happening in Langenhagen. This will be complemented by performative interpretations of an instruction score and interventions in the public sphere. The project will conclude with a Festival of Social Noise later on this year. The material generated during the project will later be used to create a publication.
You are invited to take part in this ambitious experimental project.
Dates:
We will meet on site in Langenhage 15 March, 3 May and 28 June 2025 from 3pm to 7pm.
Additionally we'll meet online once every month (25.3., 29.4., 27.5., 24.6., 29.7. and 26.8., each time from 6pm to 8pm)
Please register for texts, information on meeting places and more at mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de
At the end of Situated Dissonance, we are organising the Festival of Social Noise from 19 to 21 September 2025.
This project is inspired by a work of the artist Karolin Meunier, an experimental translation of a book by the Italian feminist and author Carla Lonzi.
Social Dissonance was originally published in English by Urbanomic/MIT Press.