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A LANGUAGE WHERE YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW ARE THE SAME WORD. KAL

Allah you gave us a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. Kal. A spell cast with the entire mouth. Back of the throat to teeth. Tomorrow means I might have her forever. Yesterday means I say goodbye, again. Kal means they are the same. […]

Fatimah Asghar, Kal, 2018

A trans*oceanic platform for slow approaches, performative interventions and poetic strategies in visual and literary forms, kal traces decolonial and feminist futures and pasts that are connected through bodies of water lapping at different shorelines. Continue reading about kal 

Current


Winter 2021
House of kal Berlin


Participants

kal participants © kal

Participating Artists

kal brings together art practitioners whose work explores feminist, anti-fascist, anti-racist and queer possibility.


Houses of kal

Ayesha Chaudhry, ‘How Petals Move‘, 2021. ©Ayesha Chaudhry

Collective and self-organized spaces

The Houses of kal are conceived as a low-residency program with a public programming and publishing outlet as well as a collective and self-organized space in the making from May to September 2021.


Houses of kal Colombo ©kal

House of kal Colombo


House of kal Karachi © kal

House of kal Karachi


House of kal Berlin © Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka

House of kal Berlin


kal Projects

Radio Kal: DIY Feminist Radio Workshop: Tooling # 2: Acidrains of Andromeda|Soundhounds of the Profound mit psXssotm, 2021. ©kal

DIY Radiokanal
Radio kal

A fleeting space for artistic experimentation and for gathering community across space and time. 


The Many Headed Hydra (A collective for Feminist Conversations, Emma Haugh, Katusa Medusa, Sandev Handy, Suza Husse, Vicky Shajahan), ‘Shadow Beast Ecologies‘, card from ‘Rituals for dis-identification‘, 2019. (detail) ©The Many Headed Hydra (A collective for Feminist Conversations, Emma Haugh, Katusa Medusa, Sandev Handy, Suza Husse, Vicky Shajahan)

Publication series
rituals . fictions . traces

Published by Archive Books, Berlin and Milan, The Many Headed Hydra, and Zubaan, New Delhi.


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