Sunday November 4 2012
04:00pm–06:00pm
For The Oncoming Corner #2, artists Andrea Geyer and writer and translator Annika Ruth Persson are invited to share their relationship with the life and writings of the political theorist Hannah Arendt.
Annika Ruth Persson will present her literary project Hannah Arendt's 1940s: Paths, luggage, meetings, writings. 3 narrative essays and maybe read an excerpt from it. During October she is doing research for her project in the Hannah Arendt Collection, at Bard College.
Andrea Geyer will present her 6-channel video installation Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb (2009). The piece is based on the existing transcripts, video documentation and historical documents of Adolf Eichmann's trial, which took place in Jerusalem between April 11, 1961 and May 31, 1962. In addition to the sources left by the trial she worked extensively with Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963).
From these two presentations the discussion will unfold and hopefully open up for a shared thinking around how we can make use of and rethink the past in present times.