12th Berlin Biennale, 11.6.–18.9.2022; Uriel Orlow, performance as part of the artwork Reading Wood (Backwards), 2022, with the Portuguese performer Fabíola, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, 11.6.–18.9.2022; photo: Silke Briel
If we are in a Library of Wood in which trees have become books, how do we read them? And if we realize they have all been taken without consent, how do we return them, and to whom? The activation/performance READING WOOD (BACKWARDS) suggests restitution as an ongoing practice of memory and repair. With Berlin-based Portuguese performer Fabíola.
Commissioned and coproduced by Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
With the support of Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia
This performance is part of the discursive program of the 12th Berlin Biennale. Taking the restitution debate as a starting point, it explores how colonialism and imperialism continue to operate in the present.
9.-11.6. and every Sunday from 12.6.2022 (except 3.7.; 17.7.; 7.8.; 21.8.; 4.9.; 11.9.)
