Mute/Unmute is a podcast and seminar by Astrid Mania, with the support of Noi Fuhrer 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 2020/21, 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 noi.fuhrer@hfbk-hamburg.de, anne.meerpohl@hfbk.hamburg.de or astrid.mania@hfbk-hamburg.de

Saskia Ackermann: how to be not so properly public, Feministische Perspektiven auf Öffentlichkeit

Speaker Quotes: Anne Mayer; Interview partners: Alessa Scivoli, AnneMay, Anne, Anny, Beate, Ella, Eva, Gabi - La Papi Patacón, Jana, Malin, Malu, María, Melina, Nathalie, Özlem Ünsal, Tessa, Zohreh.

Further reading:

Michael Warner (2010): Publics and Counterpublics.

Robin Goodman (2013): Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public. Women and the "Re-Privatization" of Labor.

Selina Arthur, Malin Ford, Franziska Trillian (2020): "Wir wollen den Alltag politisch verhandeln", in: analyse&kritik (https://www.akweb.de/ausgaben/657/wir-wollen-den-alltag-politisch-verhandeln/)

Silvia Federici (2019): Die Welt wieder verzaubern. Feminismus, Marxismus & Commons

Maria Lugones (2008): The Coloniality of Gender, in: Worlds&Knowledges Otherwise (https://globalstudies.trinity.duke.edu/sites/globalstudies.trinity.duke.edu/files/file-attachments/v2d2_Lugones.pdf)

Alex Martinis Roe (2017): To Become Two. Propositions For Feminist Collective Practice.