Opening: Thursday, May 15, 6 pm
daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161, Berlin
How can we, as workers of the imaginary, recognize the significance and the poetics of being when all manners of racism, war and patriarchal violence redirect the gaze from our indisputable presence? For Real For Real gathers together artists working to bring us closer to the particularities, obsessions, peculiarities, playfulness, obscurity, wonderment of a single one doing life, being alive, loving, seeing, making, breaking, collapsing, doing and doing in the wild wilderness of now.
For Real For Real is presented by The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII), an interdisciplinary cultural laboratory founded by the poet Claudia Rankine, in collaboration with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and in conversation with Kevin Quashie’s book Black Aliveness: A Poetics of Being. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive program of readings, talks, and screenings.
With John Akomfrah, Baff Akoto, Lotte Andersen, Fatma Aydemir, Mary Jo Bang, Alvaro Barrington, Catherine Barnett, Sarah Benson, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Black Visual Grammar, Diane Borger, Julie Boukobza, Garrett Bradley, Rizvana Bradley, Dionne Brand, Susan Briante, Jericho Brown, Felisha Carenage, Prudence Carter, Mel Chin, Reyes Coll-Tellechea, Bevil Conway, Helga Davis, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Biswamit Dwibedy, Torkwase Dyson, Becky Earley, Jody Ellant, Radna Fabias, Daniela Faurel, Logan February, Caleb Femi, Teresita Fernández, Nick Flynn, Patrick Gaspard, Theaster Gates, Carmen Giménez, Kimia Godarzani-Bakhtiari, Sana Goldberg, Tony Guerrero, Carmen Hall, Sandra Harper, Lyle Ashton Harris, Thomas Allan Harris, Saidiya Hartman, Terrance Hayes, Harmony Holiday, Annie Howard, Christine Hume, Kahlil Joseph, Dozie Kanu, Titus Kaphar, Bhanu Kapil, William Kentridge, David Knight, Isadora Knutsen, Lauren Kolar, Raymond Koranteng, Alix Lambert, Satchel Lee, Nate Lewis, Isaiah Lopaz, Canisia Lubrin, John Lucas, Margo Lucas, Tracy Biga MacLean, Saraswati Nandini Majumdar, Maria Markham, Dawn Lundy Martin, Stefan Marx, Lebogang Mashile, Farid Matuk, Fiona McCrae, Otis Mensah, Joshua Mensch, Katie Merz, Christine Millerin, Leah Mirakhor, Dasia Moore, Lethokuhle Msimang, Nicholas Muellner, Sandeep Mukherjee, Jackie Murray, Pooja Nansi, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Anne O’Connor, Tochi Onyebuchi, Jennifer Packer, Diana Pfammatter, Shamel Pitts, Patricia Powell, Paul B. Preciado, Yuval Pudik, Thomias Radin, Claudia Rankine, Asad Raza, Nasima Sophia Razizadeh, Raphaëlle Red, Andrea Rexilius, Katie Riley, Dana Bishop-Root, Jess Row, Simon*e van Saarloos, Enas Sabbah, Christina Sharpe, Eleni Sikelianos, Sjón, Dirk Skiba, Emily Skillings, Jackson Elijah Smith, Therese Stanton, Rune Steenberg, Ann Sundberg, Martine Syms, Mercedes Teixido, Monica de la Torre, Martha Tuttle, David Ulin, Kara Walker, Maslen Bode Ward, Carrie Mae Weems, Gus Weiner, Joshua Weiner, Susan Wheeler, Carla Williams, Stephen Wilson, Maggie Winslow, Tiphanie Yanique, Janise Yntema, among others
Curated by John Lucas, Claudia Rankine, Russell Salmon, Mathias Zeiske