Work / by Fatma Aydemir / translated by Be Schierenberg | TRANSIT
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 […]
Visible / by Sasha Marianna Salzman / translated by Lou Silhol-Macher | TRANSIT
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, […]
Foreword to the Collection / Fatma Aydemir and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah / translated by Jon Cho-Polizzi | TRANSIT
Foreword 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 Michael Sandberg. In March of 2018, Germany introduced its so-called Ministry of Heimat, which could be translated as […]
Translators’ Introduction / by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Michael Sandberg | TRANSIT
Translators’ Introduction by Jon Cho-Polizzi and Michael 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 […]
The New Diversity and the New Public: Impressions of dOCUMENTA (13) / by Barbara Wolbert
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 […]
“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.” […]