DEEDS CALENDAR: The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies – KINDL – Center for Contemporary Art | until 26.01.2025
KINDL presents The New Subject. Mutating Rights and Conditions of Living Bodies from September 15, 2024 to January 26, 2025. In the face of increasing state control in many parts of the world – be it through the dismantling of hard-won reproductive rights or the erosion of LGBTQ+ rights – the discourse around the human body as a politically charged terrain seems more urgent than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light and publicly discussed a profound change in the relationship between the individual and their body and the associated systemic inequalities and injustices. The current military conflicts show a clear hierarchy between expendable bodies and those that prove useful for territorial and military purposes. The Cameroonian historian and philosopher Achille Mbembe argues that modern control societies are based on the “production of a new subject”, a new type of human made up of physical, artificial and neurobiological parts that are much easier to manipulate and control.
WHEN?
Opening: Saturday14. September, 6 – 9 p.m.
Exhibition dates: Sunday, September 15, 2024 – Sunday, January 26, 2025
Opening hours: Wednesday, 12 – 8 pm, Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 6 pm
WHERE?
KINDL – Center for Contemporary Art
Am Sudhaus 3
12053 Berlin
COST?
YOU for KINDL: 10 EUR
KINDL for YOU: 7 EUR
Reduced admission: 4 EUR
Under 18 years: Free admission
Image above: Clara Sika Helbo, Uncovering an Iceberg, 2023, Research material, Photo: Clara Sika Helbo, 2022
