Work
by Fatma Aydemir TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Be Schierenberg Download PDF Back to “Visible” or continue on to “Trust” by Deniz Utlu. Fake smile, harem pants flowing, she comes bouncing towards me and says she gets it now: why I had gotten the interview. “MIGRANT BONUS!” Her words hit me like […]
Visible
by Sasha Marianna Salzmann TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Lou Silhol-Macher Download PDF Back to “Translators’ Introduction” or continue on to “Work” by Fatma Aydemir. I will never know what it means to be invisible. I will never know how it is to be able to kiss carelessly in the park, to […]
Foreward To The Collection
by Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi Download PDF Back to “Foreword to the Translations” or continue on to “Translators’ Introduction” by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Em Sandberg. In March of 2018, Germany introduced its so-called Ministry of Heimat, which could be translated as Homeland. But not exactly. […]
Translators’ Introduction
by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Em Sandberg TRANSIT Your Homeland is Our Nightmare Download PDF Back to “Foreword to the Collection” or continue on to “Visible” by Sasha Marianna Salzmann. Working on a translation project of this scale has been a tremendous honor. We are humbled both by the opportunity to work closely with some of the […]
The New Diversity and the New Public:
Impressions of dOCUMENTA (13) Barbara Wolbert Download PDF Abstract Long before dOCUMENTA (13) opened in 2012, designated documenta director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev pledged that “her” documenta would stay clear of what she called the “Biennale-Syndrome.” What was the Biennale-Syndrome, and why did she want to avoid it? What seemed to be the challenge here? The Venice […]
“New Germany” Exhibition at Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden
On Saturday, a new exhibition called “Das neue Deutschland: Von Migration und Vielfalt” opened at the Deutsches Hygiene Museum in Dresden. The exhibition deals with contemporary Germany as a product of migration and diversity. It aims to explore the Germany of today and to “examine the direction in which it is evolving in its social and cultural diversity.” […]