Within the framework of the festival, responsibilities focused on the exhibition and performance components of Delaine Le Bas’s Beware of Linguistic Engineering.

Summary

The British artist Delaine Le Bas, who has already participated in previous autumn salons and was featured in the most recent Berlin Biennale, shows a radical change in her practice with her latest works. From Thatcherism to Brexit, Le Bas adopts an intersectional perspective in tracing the way language is constructed by neoliberal politics, while it reproduces existing exclusions and influences collective consciousness. She also invites the cultural sector to a self-critical discourse, because in Europe, it’s only the language about socially and legally disadvantaged minorities, such as the Romani and Sinti peoples, that has changed, while neither the broader society’s view of them nor their socio-economic and legal living conditions have. By sharing her text-based paintings and drawings, her diaries, experiences, thoughts and views on today’s societal unease, Le Bas creates a very personal universe in which critique becomes a matter of collective urgency. Complementary to the show, Le Bas invites co-performers, theoreticians, curators, activists and artists to frame the exhibition in three different recurring formats.

Exhibition Dates

31. March – extended until 30.September 2022

(C) Egbert Trogemann

Team

Artistic direction Shermin Langhoff 
Artistic direction assistance Nele Lindemann 
based on the exhibition Zigeuner Sauce curated by Christine Eyene in the Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix Gallery in London 
Installation and scenography Delaine Le Bas & Lincoln Cato 
SoundinstallationJustin Langlands 
Co-Performance Hugo Santos 
Curatorial consultant Gorki Erden Kosova 
Scenography Gorki Pia Grüter 
Scenography Assistent Alice Faucher, Inga Aleknaviciute 
Dramaturgy Gorki Edona Kryeziu 
Artistic project management Elena Sinanina 
Production management René Dombrowski 
Technical direction Joachim Hering