Mute/Unmute is a podcast and seminar by Astrid Mania, with the support of Noi Fuhrer (WS2021/21 and SoSe 2021), Rahel grote Lambers and Anne Meerpohl. The idea of this podcast is to introduce and discuss art works, theories and incidents that relate to questions like: who is allowed to speak, who’s not? What can be said, what not? Whose voices have been suppressed? What kind of narratives and histories? What violence do we exert when speaking about others? What should we urgently talk about?

Mute/Unmute is meant to be active during the winter semester 2022/23, but it can potentially run much longer. We welcome contributions from HFBK students and staff and beyond. For more info / list of contributions please see https://pad.hfbk.net/Mute_Unmute and  / or get in touch with rahel.grote-lambers@hfbk-hamburg.de or astrid.mania@hfbk-hamburg.de

In this episode, Joana Atemengue Owona invites us to learn about Saidiya Hartman's methodology of critical fabulation.

Sources:
Hartman, Saidiya: Venus in Two Acts, Small Axe, Number 26 (Volume 12,
Number 2), June 2008, pp. 1-14 (Article)

Hartman, Saidiya: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of
Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company, 2019

‚A Note on Method’ see page 7-9
https://serpentstail.com/wp-
content/uploads/wpallimport/files/PDFs/9781788163231_preview.pdf

Pod Save the People (Imagine More Radically with Saidiya Hartman) , Jan
2021
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2V9FUSX0yI72wgNoZ4ONco?si=a6241437a7
8e422e

Seminar: Expanded Decolonial Practices: Negotiating the politic of art, Prof.
Dr. Clémentine Deliss, 19.01.2021


Image Reference:
Frida Orupabo, „Deux têtes, collage avec attaches parisiennes, 2022, Avec l’aimable
autorisation de l’artiste / Galerie Nordenhake“
https://www.rencontres-arles.com/fr/expositions/view/1048/frida-orupabo

Hartman, Saidiya: Venus in Two Acts, Small Axe, Number 26 (Volume 12, Number 2), June 2008, page 1