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October 24
DEAD PRESIDENTS: A LEXICON OF LAND, RACE AND NATION

In this lecture-performance at Irving Place, professor Mabel Wilson explores American national mythologies in the contexts of colonization and race.
© Yazan Khalili, Robbery in Area A (2013-2016), video still

October 25-November 18
Jonas Staal/Yazan Khalili: State Traps

Positioning censorship as intrinsic to the freedom of speech, in this exhibition at Ludlow 38, Staal and Khalili expose in their work the limits and falsity of a human right often perceived as the pillar of democracy.
Jan Rasmus Voss

October 26
The Silence

Join us for a German Movie Night screening of The Silence. 13 year-old Sinikka vanishes one night and her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years earlier. Based on a crime novel by Jan Costin Wagner and directed by Baran bo Odar.
© Daniel Albanese

October 29-November 30
Riverside Drive Revisited: Uwe Johnson's New York

On the occasion of the first complete translation of Uwe Johnson’s magnum opus Anniversaries, we present a book launch, a series of film screenings, and an installation in our public space.
© Daniel Albanese

November 1
Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries

To celebrate the first complete English translation of Uwe Johnson’s magnum opus Anniversaries, translator Damion Searls joins critics Renata Adler and Liesl Schillinger for a reading and discussion of this German postwar classic, examining both its significance a unique literary document of New York in the 1960s, and its continued resonance 50 years later in a world of increasing inequality, authoritarianism, and violence.
© Sebastian Bolesch

November 2-5
Sasha Waltz: Kreatur

In a guest performance of Kreatur at BAM, Sasha Waltz and her 14 dancers examine the phenomenon of existence against the background of a disrupted society: power and a lack of power, dominance and weakness, freedom and control, community and isolation.

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October 24
DEAD PRESIDENTS: A LEXICON OF LAND, RACE AND NATION

October 25-November 18
Jonas Staal/Yazan Khalili: State Traps

October 26
The Silence

October 29-November 30
Riverside Drive Revisited: Uwe Johnson's New York

November 1
Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries

November 2-5
Sasha Waltz: Kreatur

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Year of German-American Friendship

Ludlow 38

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October 24 DEAD PRESIDENTS: A LEXICON OF LAND, RACE AND NATION

October 25-November 18 Jonas Staal/Yazan Khalili: State Traps

October 26 The Silence

October 29-November 30 Riverside Drive Revisited: Uwe Johnson's New York

November 1 Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries

November 2-5 Sasha Waltz: Kreatur

Our Offerings

Year of German-American Friendship

Ludlow 38

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October 24
DEAD PRESIDENTS: A LEXICON OF LAND, RACE AND NATION

October 25-November 18
Jonas Staal/Yazan Khalili: State Traps

October 26
The Silence

October 29-November 30
Riverside Drive Revisited: Uwe Johnson's New York

November 1
Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries

November 2-5
Sasha Waltz: Kreatur