Unlike museum objects and archive documents, intangible heritage is an opportunity for counter-memories of migrants and people affected by racism. Since 2018, Michael Annoff and Nuray Demir's artistic-curatorial project "Kein schöner Archiv" has been collecting practices and traditions of post-migrant society. Intangible heritage cannot be locked away in a display case. "Living heritage", as it is therefore also called, is lived and passed on in its communities. Or it disappears for good.
The project is in search of practices that create alliances between contemporary witnesses, artists and audiences in order to question established narratives and create counter-narratives. To this end, it develops performative assemblies and laboratories in which the immaterial heritage of post-migrant society is documented live and in public.
Michael Annoff and Nuray Demir will pass on their curatorial knowledge in a three-hour workshop. They will present their audio installation "Geliehene Gemeinschaft" (Borrowed Community), which is dedicated to communities and their cohesion as the intangible heritage of marginalised people. Together with the participants, they will then consider how an anti-racist counter-memory can be defended in the face of resurgent racism and fascism.
Concept and realisation: "Not a nice archive"
Max. Number of participants: 20 (all age groups).