Performance, lecture, conversation, screeing, installation
Spätschicht x Leila Hekmat
With Arthur Chruszcz, Monique Fei, Forecast (Hussein Chalayan, Bethan Hughes, Kihako Narisawa, James Richards and Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin), James Main, Roman Ole, Shade Théret
© artwork: Leila Hekmat / graphic design: Studio Pandan
For the December edition of our event series Spätschicht, we invite you to join us and artist Leila Hekmat for a live programme featuring free performances, installations, a screening and a talk. More details about the programme will be available here soon
Leila Hekmat is currently working in one of the studios at Gropius Bau. For the last Spätschicht of the year, she invited artists to a poetic personification of rabble rousers, lost souls and mystic comedians. The performances take place in areas of the Gropius Bau that are normally closed to the public. In addition, Forecast – a platform dedicated to facilitating, mentoring and promoting trailblazing creative practices – contributes to the evening’s programme.
Spätschicht is a monthly series of free events with an interdisciplinary programme ranging from talks, book discussions and film screenings to concerts and DJ sets. Sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, experimental and always open to clashing – a space to discover new things and shift perspectives.
Leila Hekmat is a Berlin-based artist whose work merges installation, performance, film and music into vivid tableaux of baroque satire. Through hand-crafted costumes and stage designs, she constructs worlds teeming with detail that subvert and play with social conventions and the constructions of sexuality and gender. Her meticulous use of collage draws on historical references ranging from commedia dell’arte and vaudeville to 1970s protest and television cultures. With humour and excess, Hekmat’s works unravel the tangled follies of power, morality and desire.
During the event, photographs and video recordings may be made in which you may be recognisable. By attending, you consent to these recordings being used to communicate the event or exhibition.