Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR): Washing the Shovels

In the framework of the 8th Berlin Biennale the Center for Historical Reenactments presents Washing the Shovels, a screening of Donna Kukama’s video work The Swing (after after Fragonard) (2009), a documentation of her site specific intervention which took place in Johannesburg, and of the film Wie Sien Ons (who sees us?) produced by the CHR as a revisit of the intervention. The project Whashing the Shovels repositions the action embodied in its title as a preparatory process rather than an act-taking place "after the fact." Referencing events that are real and fictional, current and historical, Washing the Shovels occupies the grey area between a suicide note and a demand for shifting existences. When words fail, we return to washing the shovels. 27 June 2014 – Friday, 6–8 pm Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR): Washing the Shovels Screening and discussion, moderated by Catalina Lozano, in English Crash Pad c/o KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin Free entrance, limited capacity www.berlinbiennale.de/program