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PROGRAMM

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PROGRAM AND SHORT BIOGRAPHIES

Thursday,March30,6p.m.

WordofWelcomebytheStateSecretaryPetraOlschowskiThursday,March30,6:15–7p.m.

IntroductionIrisDressler,ChristinePetersThursday,March30,7–7:45p.m.

Art,RevolutionAsylum:HowtoDecolonizeLecturePerformanceMohammadAbuHajar(Tartous/Syria,Berlin)“Theysaythateverycloudhasasilverlining.Let’ssaythattheinaugurationofTrumpwasthedeclarationofthecloud’sarrival.Iwouldliketosaythatwecanfindthesilverlining,butfirstweneedtoask:WasitallfinebeforeTrump?Itwasn’t,fortherewaswhitesupremacy,gender-baseddiscrimination,policekillingpeoplebased on color, the increasing role of the USA around the globe, with all its colonial attitudes. Thoseconditionswere the infrastructure that brought Trump to power andwill generate other Trumps aroundprivilegedsocieties.Imentionprivilegesherebecausewithoutthem,thingscouldbebetter.Firstofall,nobodywasgoingtobeforcedtoleave,sohowdothoseprivilegesexpressthemselvesandwhatneedstobechanged(includingthe“welcomingculture”)?Theshiftthathappenedtotheinternationalsolidaritymovementhasbeenminimizedmainlyto“solidaritywithrefugees.”WhatdoesithavetodowithIslamophobiaorIslamophilia,ifwecanusethisterm?Theaimistoprovideexamplesofwhenandhowprivilegescanparticipateindesigningopinionsandimaginaryviewsonsomeplacesandcultures,particularlyintheMiddleEast.”

MohammadAbuHajar isaSyrianrapartist.Thepoliticalcontentofhissongsgothimarrestedand incarcerated inhis country.Hestartedhis careerasa rapper in2004,asoneofSyria’s first rappers.His first songwasmotivatedby thecoalitioninvasionofIraqin2003.Then,in2007,heformedMazzaj,togetherwithtwoothermusicians,tobethefirstSyrianbandinTartous,hishometownonthecoastalsideofthecountry.By2012,afterbeingsoughtbythesecretservice,hefledtoRome,where he finished his master’s degree in political economics (focusing on theeconomiceffectsofimmigration).Insummer2014,theartistmovedtoBerlinandaskedforpoliticalasylum.

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Thursday,March30,8–8:45p.m.

HowtoConductAPlanchetteontheGhostofMoneyLectureShuddhabrataSengupta(Neu-Delhi)InhispresentationShuddhabrataSenguptaexploresnotionsoftime,laborandvalueinthecurrentglobalscenario:Howdotheyreflectontheproductionofmeaning?HowdoesworkintheartsandwithimaginationmighthelpustounderstandwhatishappeningintheGlobalEconomyrightnow?Moreover,Senguptawillreflectonregimedirectedexercisessuchasthe‘demonetization’magictrickthattheIndiangovernmenttriedtopulloffrecently.

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is an artist, filmmaker, and writer with the RaqsMediaCollective.Raqshasexhibitedwidely,includingatDocumentaandthebiennalesinVenice,Istanbul,Taipei,Liverpool,Shanghai,Sydney,andSãoPaulo.SenguptaisoneoftheinitiatorsofSarai.Hisrecentworkinvolvestextualexplorationsofaesthetics,surveillance,andcyberculture.HeiscurrentlyworkingonaseriesofnewmediaanddigitalcultureprojectsattheSaraiMediaLab.HeisthecurrentKeithHaringFellowinArtandActivism(2015–16)withtheCenterforCuratorialStudies(HesselMuseumofArt)andtheHumanRightsProgramatBardCollege,AnnandaleonHudson,NewYork.

Thursday,March30,9–9:45p.m.

HowtoConquerInfrastructureSpaceandColonizetheScalarNicheLecturePerformanceHilaryKoob-Sassen(London)InhismultivisuallectureperformanceHilaryKoob-Sassentakesusonaprocessionthroughalandscapeofenigmaticconditionsandformations–towhichwemightsurrender...

HilaryKoob-Sassenisafilmmakerandsculptor.Workingwithandacrosstext,song,sculpture, film, animation and performance, he creates systems in which deeplyresearchedinventionsinfinance,biology,politicsandphilosophyworktogethertostrategizeandenactthefuturestructure.

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Friday,March31,10–10:45a.m.

Inter-PacificRingTribunalLectureNabilAhmed(Dhaka,London) “Inter-PacificRingTribunal”(Interprt)isanalternativecommissionofinquiryforinvestigatingpatternsofenvironmentalviolencethatusesthegeologyofthePacificOcean,a40,000-kilometerlineofmines,earthquakes,andvolcanoesasitsorganizingprinciple.Whiledeployingforensicarchitectureasamethodforgatheringspatialevidenceofconflict,Interprtseekstoexploretheinternationalpeoplestribunalasanestablished,alternativelegalforumtotestecocide,orcrimesagainstnature,anenvironmentalviolenceinurgentneedofbeingintegratedintointernationallaw.Itfocusesonaseriesofgeographicallydistributedsitesofecocideandresistance,suchasminingcontaminationandtheself-determinationmovementinWestPapua,thelegacyofnucleartestinginFrenchPolynesiabyFrance,andcapitalism’snewmineralfrontiersunderthedeepsea.

Nabil Ahmed is an artist and researcherworking on environmental violence andforensicarchitecture.Hiswritingshaveappearedinacademicjournals,magazines,and various art and architecture publications such as Third Text, Forensis: TheArchitectureofPublicTruth,VolumeandSouthMagazine–documenta14.MorerecentlyhehasbeenpartoftheAnthropoceneProjectattheHausderKulturenderWeltandthe2016OsloArchitectureTriennial.HelivesandworksinLondon.

Friday,March31,11:45a.m.–1.30p.m.

Workshop1(inenglish)With:NabilAhmed,MohammadAbuHajar,a.o.Moderation:FlorianMalzacher(Berlin)

Florian Malzacher has been the Artistic Director of Impulse Theater Festival(Cologne, Düsseldorf, andMulheim/Ruhr) since 2012, aswell as an independentperformingartscurator,dramaturge,andwriter.Amonghislatestpublicationsare:CuratingPerformingArts(2010,co-editedwithTeaTupajićandPetraZanki),TruthIsConcrete:AHandbook forArtisticStrategies inRealPolitics (2014,co-editedwithsteirischerherbst),andNotJustaMirror:LookingforthePoliticalTheatreofToday(2015).florianmalzacher.tumblr.com

Friday,March31,10:45–11a.m.

RacialPoliticsofOpacityLecturePerformanceWeCannotBuildWhatWeCannotFirstImagine/JotaMombaça,ThiagodePaulaSouza(SãoPaulo)Inthelastdecade,wehavewitnessedanincreaseofdifferentvisibilitypoliciesinBraziland,asaresult,afiercerclashofforces.Theparadoxofthisvisibilityisthatitsproductionissimultaneoustotheproductionofnewformsofshadow.Whatdwellsinthisshadow?Howdoesthisshadow-lighteconomyinfluencetheproductionandcirculationofracializedartists?Howisitpossibletogobeyondtheoppositionbetweenlightandshadowtowardsaracialpoliticsofopacity?WeCannotBuildWhatWeCannotFirstImagine(WCBWCFI)isavisionaryplatformcreatedbyJotaMombaçaandThiagodePaulaSouzawiththepurposeofgatheringworksandperspectivesfromracializedartistsandthinkersinBrazilandabroadonthetopicsofradicalimagination,alter-futurisms,disruptivearchives,queerpoliticsandblackphilosophy.

ThiagodePaulaSouzaisaneducatorandcuratorwholivesintheoutskirtsofSãoPaulo.HiscurrentresearchisonthedepictionofartfromSouthAmericaandthe

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AfricanDiasporainthetheGerman-speakingcontext.Thisresearchwillsoonextendtonon-Westerncontextswherehewillinvestigatehowtheartcommunitiesengageinthedeconstructionofhegemonicreadingsofhistories.JotaMombaçaisanon-binaryBicha,bornandraisedintheNortheastofBrazil,whowrites, performs and carries out academic studies about the relations betweenmonstrosityandhumanity,anti-coloniality,redistributionofviolenceandvisionaryfiction.

Friday,March31,11:45a.m.–1.30p.m.

Workshop2(inenglish)With:JotaMombaça,ThiagodePaulaSouza,HilaryKoob-Sassen,a.o.Moderation:KatrinMundt(Bochum)

KatrinMundtisanindependentcuratorandauthorwhohasworkedonmanyfilmscreeningsandexhibitionsfor,amongothers,WKVStuttgart,HMKVDortmund,PACTZollverein, Essen and numerous festivals; as jurymember/programmer for EMAFOsnabrück, Videonale, Bonn and Duisburger Filmwoche. Besides regular bookcontributions,sherecentlypublishedavolumeondocumentaryinfilmandartcalledOrtsbestimmungen:DasDokumentarischezwischenKinoundKunst(2015,co-editedwithEvaHohenberger).

Friday,March3110a.m.–1p.m.

Workshop3/ForPupils(ingerman)ArtandAction–ForOneWorldforAllModeration:PeterHaury(Stuttgart) Howcanartisticcommitmentoriginatefromcriticalanalysis?Howcancomplexproblemsandalsofuture-orientatedinspiringdevelopmentsbemademoretangiblethroughartisticaction?Thisworkshopinvitespupilstoformulateanddiscusstheirowndraftsandperspectives,basedontheinputoftheconference.

Peter Haury (born 1966) is an artist, activist and engages in the non-profit arteducationsector,withafocusonparticipativeart.Heisapart-timeartteacheratasecondaryschool.

Friday,March31,10:45a.m.–1:30p.m.

Workshop4(inenglish)SAIDTOCONTAIN:NeueDringlichkeit/BojanDjordjev,MajaLeo MajaLeoandBojanDjordjevproposeholdingaworkshopasaperipateticlecture:asearchforthenearestcargo container with an introduction to Container Studies and speculative discussion in the domain ofcounter-logistics.SAIDTOCONTAIN:isaperformativeresearchprojectbyandwithMajaLeo,LauraKalauz,Bojan Djordjev, Christopher Kriese, Lisa Schröter, Miriam Walther Kohn. A collaboration between NeueDringlichkeit(Zurich)andTkH-WalkingTheory(Belgrade).

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Friday,March31,2:30–3p.m.

PlenumIn the plenum representatives of the workshops will briefly present summaries on the questions anddiscussions.Friday,March31,3:15–4p.m.

MonarchsofTimeandSpaceLecturePerformanceJohnBarker(London) The working class has been endlessly pored/pawed over, categorized, and pathologized ever since itsemergence and still is by neoliberalism’s state and think-tank bureaucracy. Both work in the style ofcolonialism’s “sociological” surveillance of the colonized. Analysis of the real power elite and its armyoftreasonableclerkshasbeendismissedbythosesameclerksasa“conspiracytheory.” Iwillshowthatthisaccusationisjustoneofthemanyrhetoricalandrealwallsitoperatesbehindandputthespotlightonit,itscoherence,tactics,andstrategies,withthehelpoffiction,comedy,andempiricalobservation,thepioneeringworkofC.WrightMills,andtheunderstandingsoftheScottishEnlightenment.

JohnBarkerhaswrittenextensivelyonpoliticaleconomyforoverfortyyears,aswellas writing fiction and a memoir. A partial archive of this work can be found atwww.theharrier.net.

Friday,March31,4:15–5p.m.

SpeculationsonaTransformativeTheoryofJusticeLectureDeniseFerreiradaSilva(RiodeJaneiro,Vancouver)Inherlecture,DeniseFerreiradaSilvawillexploreaplanfordecolonizationthatbothattendstoandaimsbeyondthemodernmatrixofpowerarchitectures(juridic,economic,andsymbolic)thatareresponsibleforthepervasivenessofracialviolence(total,institutional,symbolic)intheglobalpresent.Fromtheurgencygivenbytheevidencethatthedisregardforthepoliticalsignificanceofracialityisthemostpowerfulimpedimentfortherealizationoftheliberalprogramofjustice,shewillofferanoutlineofathesisandapraxisasacontributiontothepreparatoryunthinkingworknecessaryforfiguringdecolonizationastheaimofatransformativetheoryofjustice.

DeniseFerreiradaSilva’sacademicwritingsandartisticpracticeaddresstheethicalquestions of the global present and target the metaphysical and onto-epistemological dimensions of modern thought. Currently, she is an AssociateProfessorandDirectorofTheSocialJusticeInstitute(theInstituteforGender,Race,Sexuality,andSocialJustice)attheUniversityofBritishColumbia.HerrecentacademicpublicationsincludetheeditedvolumeRace,Empire,andTheCrisis of the Subprime (with Paula Chakravartty, Johns Hopkins University Press,2013),aswellasthearticles“TowardaBlackFeministPoethics:TheQuest(ion)ofBlacknessTowardstheEndoftheWorld”(TheBlackScholar,2014)and“TheRacial

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Limits of Social Justice: The Ruse of Equality of Opportunity and the GlobalAffirmative ActionMandate” (Critical Ethnic Studies, 2016). Her art-relatedworkincludestextsforpublicationslinkedtothe2016LiverpoolandSãoPaulobiennales,advisingNatashaGinwala,thecuratorfortheContour8Biennale(Mechelen,2017),aswellasevents(performances,talks,andprivatesessions)andtextsthatarepartofherownpractice,PoethicalReadings(incollaborationwithValentinaDesideri).

Friday,March31,5:45–6:05p.m.

KölnPhantasmLecturePerformanceRheimAlkadhi(Iraq/USA)Referencingongoingresearchinterestsalongthelinesoftransgenderandqueersexualities,migrationanddisplacement,otherwiseobscuredobjectnarratives,andurgentbodilyeconomiesofbelonging-in-transit,theprojectfinallycoalescedasaresponsetotheinfamousassaultsandtheftslastyearattheCologneCentralStationonNewYear’sEve.Theworkengagesperceivednationalistanxietiesregardingphysicalproximity;theencroachmentoftherestoftheworldupontheexclusive„family“ofnations(theWestandallthosewhoaspire to emulate it), and the function of borders as devices preserving the construction of a national,inevitablyracialelite.Theresultprobesthecharacterizationofforeignnessasmonolithic,hypersexualized,dark,andmasculine;abstractionofmasses,seas, influxes,andpopulations;assault,rape,ortheftonthatnightasanattackagainstthestate(conflatingrapewiththepettytheftsofwalletsandcellphones);andfinallytheclassicalidealofthefemalebodyasasymbolicappropriationofafraternalorder,thechurch,andthenational economy. The phantasm enters our line of sight, counterposing as a blinding amalgamation, anonslaughtofeverythingbothdesiredandfearedwherebyexposure inducesunprecedentedeconomiesofvisionafterhavinggoneblind.

Rheim Alkadhi is a visual artist who operates under growing conditions ofimpermanence,maintainingapractice that is transient,portable,and formulatedsite-specifically, with regard to socio- and bio-political geographies. Exhibitionsinclude the current Shanghai Biennale, Qalandiya International (2016), the AsiaPacificTriennial(2015),andtheSharjahBiennial(2015).ShewasrecentlyafellowatAkademieSchlossSolitude,andthenat theAutonomesCultureCentrum(ACC) inWeimar,whereadiverseselectionofherprojectsisnowonviewuntilMay,7,2017.SheiscurrentlybasedinBerlin.

Friday,March31,6:15–7p.m.

Europe:TheComingWarortheComingInsurrection?LectureSrećkoHorvat(Zagreb)Incooperationwith:HeinrichBöllStiftungBaden-WürttembergAllthesymptomsofacomingwararenowevident,eventothosewhorefusedtosee:refugeecrisis,terrorism,austerity,neo-fascism,Brexit,Trump.Allofthisnotonlyleadstoaunprecedentedre-shiftingofglobalpowerbutalsoopensupthedangerofslidingintoapostmodern1930s.Atthesametime,couldn’tallofthesesymptomsbeseenassignsofacominginsurrection?Thelecturewillprovidearoller-coasterridethroughEurope’scurrentdisintegration,butinsteadofjustofferingadetailedsymptomatologyofthecurrentdisease,itwillproposeawayout.

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SrećkoHorvat (born1983 inOsijek) isaphilosopherandpoliticalactivist.Hehaspublishedtenbookstranslatedintomorethanfifteenlanguages,mostrecentlyWhatDoes EuropeWant?with Slavoj Žižek (Columbia University Press, 2014) and TheRadicalityofLove(Polity,2015).HisarticlesareregularlypublishedinTheGuardian,TheNewYorkTimes,andNewsweek.HeisoneofthefoundersoftheDemocracyinEuropeMovement(DiEM2025)withGreece’sex-financeministerYanisVaroufakis.

Friday,March31,7:30–8:15p.m.

EmotionalsComeRallyLecturePerformancePeterLicht(Cologne) ThemusicianandauthorPeterLichtwillreadandsingtextsmostlyfromhismostrecentbookandCDrelease,LobderRealität(PraiseReality,2014),forinstance:“LobderfreienWelt”(PraisetheFreeWorld),“IchseheEdwardSnowden”(ISeeEdwardSnowden),“Zukunft”(Future),“DasEndederGeschichte”(TheEndofthe(His-)Storyand“LobderLeerstelle”(PraisetheGap).

Withhiswork,PeterLichtnavigatesthepolesoftext,music,pop,art,socialsculpture,capitalism,andbarginmarkets.Inadditiontomusicalbumsandbooks,heperformstheatertextsandproductionsincitieslikeMunich,Basel,andBerlin.Sinceearly2016hehasbeenwritingaweeklycolumnforthenewspaperSüddeutscheZeitung.Hismusic albums include: 14 Lieder (2001); Stratosphärenlieder (2003); Lieder vomEndedesKapitalismus(2006);MelancholieundGesellschaft(2008);DasEndederBeschwerde(2011);andLobderRealität(2014).Bookpublications:Wirwerdensiegen!BuchvomEndedesKapitalismus(Munich,2006); DieGeschichtemeiner Einschätzung amAnfang des Dritten Jahrtausends:Erzählung,(Munich,2008);LobderRealität(Berlin,2014).Also,atTheaterBaselheperformed in Der Menschenfeind, which premiered in 2016. In 2007, he wasawardedthe3satPrizeandtheAudienceAwardoftheIngeborgBachmannPrize.

Saturday,April1,10–10:45a.m.

UnderSiege:ContemporaryArtandItsValuesaftertheSocialLectureSimonSheikh(London,Berlin) Withthedefeatoftheextremecenter,anditspoliticsofinevitability(deregulationandausterity),wearenow,perhaps,exitingtheinterregnumandenteringthetimeofmonsters,withthesuccessofneo-nationalismandpost-fascismacrosstheworld.Totheextentthatthisnotonlyreconfiguresthepoliticaleconomyofcontemporaryartasadriverofglobalism,butalsothreatensthecorevaluesofcontemporaryart,thequestionarisesastowhere„we“asafield,aconstituencyandcommunity,willnowalignourselves?Thesequestionspertainnotonlytohowandwhowethinkwerepresent,butalsohowweresist,howwegovern,andhowweinstitute.

SimonSheikhisacuratorandwriterwhoresearchespracticesofexhibition-makingandpolitical imaginaries.He is Reader inArt and ProgrammeDirector ofMFA inCuratingatGoldsmithsCollege,UniversityofLondon.SheikhwascoordinatoroftheCritical Studies Program at Malmö Art Academy, from 2002–2009. He was also

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curatoratNIFCA,Helsinki,in2003–2004and,priortothat,directorofOvergaden–InstituteforContemporaryArt,Copenhagenfrom1999–2002.Hisrecentcuratorialworkincludes:Reading/Capital(forAlthusser),DEPO,Istanbul,2014;Unauthorized,Inter Arts Lab, Malmö, 2012; All That Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism, QUAD,Derby,2011(withAlfredoCramerotti);DoYouRemembertheFuture?,TOK/ProjectLoftEtagi,SaintPetersburg,2011.SheikhlivesandworksinBerlinandLondon.

Saturday,April1,11:45a.m.–1.30p.m.

Workshop1(inenglish)WithSrećkoHorvat,SimonSheikh,RheimAlkadhi,a.o.Moderation:FlorianMalzacherSaturday,April1,10:45–11:30a.m.

HowtoEvadetheEnvyoftheServantandtheBenevolenceoftheMasterLectureKetiChukhrov(Moscow)Atfirstsight,thegenesisofcontemporarypopulismisevident—wavesoffinancialcrisis,theoverturningofauthoritariangovernmentsintheMiddleEastandpost-socialistcountrieswithreligiousrestitutionafterward,deindustrialization of second- and third-world production with no means of constructing postindustrialinfrastructures,gentrificationoftheculturalandcognitiveleft,whichbroughtaboutthetoxicconstellation—atatimewhentheoppressedarenottheonestosolidarizewithbutarerathertheideologicalenemiesofprogressivepoliticsandemancipatorysocialwork. Identitarianpolitics,culturalessentialism,andreligiousfundamentalismareproliferatingasthetraitsofright-wingcounterrevolution.Butwhilethetechnologiesofconvertingthemostunprivilegedintothegripofthereactionarybeliefsaremoreorlessobvious,howcouldit happen that the progressive and emancipatory rhetoric responsible for equality ethics and generalenlightenmentendedupwiththeoverallstigmatizationoftheunprivilegedasthepopulistelectorate,withtheincapacityforanysocialcontinuitywithwhatnowbecomesthesurpluspopulation;andtheworst—withtheappropriationofanti-capitalistrhetoricbytheneo-feudalreactionaryoligarchies.

The philosopher Keti Chukhrov (National Research University, Higher School ofEconomics[HSE],Moscow)isanassociateprofessorintheDepartmentofCulturalTheory at the HSE, head of the theory department at the National Centre forContemporaryArts (NCCA) inMoscow.Her research interestsare theontologyofperforming, comparative epistemologies of socialism and capitalism, art systems,andpost-humanstudies.Shehasauthorednumeroustextsonarttheory,culturalpolitics, and philosophy. Book-length publications include: To Be – To Perform:“Theatre”inPhilosophicalCriticismofArt(2011);Pound&£(1999);andavolumeofdramaticwriting, Just Humans (2010). She is currently finishing the book on theinterpretationofthenotionof“theideal”intheSovietMarxistphilosophyof1960sand1970s.

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Saturday,April1,11:45a.m.–1.30p.m.

Workshop2(inenglish)WithJohnBarker,KetiChukhrov,DeniseFerreiradaSilva,a.o.Moderation:KatrinMundtSaturday,April1,10a.m.–1:30p.m.

Workshop3(forpupils)(ingerman)ArtandAction–ForOneWorldforAllModeration:PeterHaury Saturday,April1,11:45a.m.–1:30p.m.

Workshop4:TrumpasClassWarrior?(ingerman)ByAnnetteOhme-Reinicke(Stuttgart)"There'sclasswarfare,allright,butit'smyclass,therichclass,andwe'rewinning",WarrenBuffetsaidin2002.Afewyearslater,especiallyaftertheglobalfinancialcrisesof2008,peoplewereprotestingallovertheworldagainstimpoverishmentandthereductionofcivilrights.BytheriseoftheOccupy-Wall-Street-Movement,forthefirsttimesincedecades,intheUStherewasasocialmovement,thatputtheclassquestionintothemiddleofthesocialdebateandprovokedthoughtaboutdistributionofproperty,precariousemploymentconditionsandpowerstructures.TheelectionofDonaldTrumpaspresidentoftheUnitedStateswasnotanaccident.Trumpincarnates,soanargument,thetipofatrialofmovingtheproteststowardsanationalistdirection.Theworkshopseekstoelucidatethecurrentconstellationofpowerbetweenprotestandreactionbytracingopportunitiesforpoliticalaction.

Annette Ohme-Reinicke has a PhD in philosophy, is lecturer at the Institute forPhilosophyattheUniversityofStuttgart.Sheisco-founderoftheHannah-Arendt-Institute,StuttgartandchairofDieAnStifter,Stuttgart.Publications:Bürgerbeteiligung–EntpolitisierungdurchPolitik?In:JörgRadtke,LarsHolstenkamp (Editors): Handbuch Energiewende und Partizipation. Springer VS:Wiesbaden (to be published shortly); VomMaschinensturm zur Schlichtung? ZurBedeutung von Technikparadigmen in der Konstitution sozialer Bewegungen. In:Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, 27.Jg., 4/2014, S 30-39; Das großeUnbehagen. Die Protestbewegung gegen Stuttgart 21" – Aufbruch zu neuembürgerschaftlichenSelbstbewusstsein?Stuttgart:Schmetterling-Verlag,2012.

Saturday,April1,2:30–3p.m.

PlenumIntheplenumrepresentativesoftheworkshopswillbrieflypresentsummariesonthequestionsanddiscussions.

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Saturday,April1,3:15–4:30p.m.

ArtandthePracticeofFreedomLecturePerformanceGulfLaborCoalition/MTLCollective:NitashaDhillon,AminHusain(NewDelhi,NewYork/Ramallah,NewYork)FromIstanbulandSaoPaulotoNewYorkandLondon,theproliferationofdirectactionsisdisruptingbusinessasusualateliteculturalinstitutions:climateprotestsattheTateModernandtheMetropolitanMuseumofArt,collectivepressuretoboycottatHaifa’sTechnion,workersolidaritydisruptionsattheGuggenheimMuseuminNewYorkCity,and#BlackLivesMatter,decolonizationtourandde-occupationoftheAmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory,tonameonlyafew.Wenowseeadiversityoftacticsbeingemployedandtheartistemergingasorganizer.Actionstakeaimatarangeoftargets:settlercolonialism,laborexploitation,whitesupremacy,thecaptureofpublicspace,climateinjustice,gentrification,policeviolence,Israeliapartheid,rapeandsexualassault,andmore.Theyarebeautifullydisruptivewithintheirownarenasofconcern.Buttheseconcernsarealsoconnected.Thislectureexplorestheblurringofthelinesbetweenartanddirectaction.MTLsharesabodyofworkinconnectionwiththeArabUprisingsandtheOccupymovement,theGulfLaborCoalitionandGlobalUltraLuxuryFaction,theDirectActionFrontforPalestine,andDecolonizeThisPlace,whichbegintosketchthepossibilityofapracticeinwhichtheartist’sworkdoesnotsimplyaddanartisticflairtothisorthatcampaign,butratherwheretheoryandresearch,actionandaesthetics,debriefingandanalysis—reflectthisentiredialecticalprocess—isapracticeofresistanceandbuilding,traininginthepracticeoffreedom.

Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain are MTL Collective, a collaboration that joinsresearch,aestheticsandactioninitspractice.NitashaisavisualartistbasedinNewYork and New Delhi. She has a BA in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College,UniversityofDelhi,andhasattendedtheWhitney IndependentStudyPrograminNew York and the School of the International Center of Photography. Nitasha iscurrentlyaPhDcandidateintheDepartmentofMediaStudy,UniversityatBuffalo,TheStateUniversityofNewYork.AminisaPalestinian-Americanlawyer,artist,andorganizerbasedinNewYork.HehasaBAinPhilosophy,aJDfromIndianaUniversityLawSchool,andanLLMinLawfromColumbiaUniversity.Hepracticedlawforfiveyearsbeforetransitioningtoart,studyingattheSchooloftheInternationalCenterof Photography and the Whitney Independent Study Program. Amin currentlyteachesattheGallatinandSteinhardtSchoolsatNewYorkUniversityandPRATT’sGraduateWritingProgram.

Saturday,April1,4:15–5p.m.

Abberation:ResistanceAgainstandAlternativestoExtractivismLectureEnriqueMatíasViale(BuenosAires)Incooperationwith:Fritz-Erler-ForumBaden-WürttembergTheformsthatcapitalismtakesleadtoarealmisdevelopmentthatmanifestsasanextractivematrix.Thisinturnfostersadynamicprocessofexpropriationofnaturalassets,territories,andthusalsoindividualandcollectiverights.Thisdevelopmentisaccompaniedbyeconomic,ecological,health-related,cultural,andpoliticalramificationsresultingfromthemassiveimplementationofextractivism,oftheinfrastructuresand

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agriculturalmonoculturesofthegiganticcorporations.Fromminingtosoycultivation,fromurbanextractivismtofracking—itbecomesapparentherethateconomiccartelsplaythemaindecision-makingroleintermsofwhatislegalorillegal,possibleorimpossible,justorunjustforurbanprojects,economicactivities,lifestyles,andcollectiveidentities.However,horizontalconceptsdoexist,whichmakesitpossibletoconceiveotherrelationalmodelsandothervisionsofsociety,suchastheconceptofcommons,environmentalrights,healthylifestylesandethics.Therefore,itisessentialtothinkaboutareformagendaandanalternativetoextractivism.

EnriqueMatíasViale earnedhis lawdegree from theUniversity of BuenosAires(UBA). He then pursued a postgraduate degree at the same university andspecialized in environmental law. In the year 2004, he founded the ArgentinianAssociationofEnvironmentalLawyers(AAdeAA).Vialeisacriticalopponentofthedevelopmentmodelbasedonunlimitedgrowthandheadvocatesfortherightsofnatureandtheenvironment.HeisamemberoftheEthicsTribunalontheRightsofNature and Mother Earth and the Earth Law Alliance. Belonging to the latterorganizationarespecialized lawyersthroughouttheworld. Inhisroleas jurist,heworkstofightagainstcountlessinstancesofdamagetotheenvironmentcausedbyhumansandcampaignsforrestoration/regenerationoftheseareas.Heisactiveincitizens’ initiatives and participates in mass gatherings that try to defend theircountries/areasfromexploitationthroughmining,tracking,agriculturalprofiteering,real-estate speculation, and other extreme forms. Furthermore, he has authoredvarious professional articles on the topics of development, politics, andenvironmental law; and in view of these “misdevelopments,” he has authoredvariousbooksincollaborationwiththesociologistMaristellaSvampa.

Saturday,April1,5:45–6:05p.m.

AirasResistanceLecturePerformanceToolsforAction/ArtúrvanBalen,KatherineBall(Budapest,Berlin/Breckenridge,Colorado) ArtúrvanBalenandKatherineBallwillgiveatalkabouttheirpastinterventionswithinflatablesandtheirupcomingprojectattheWienerFestwochen.ToolsforActionwillcollaboratewithhighschoolstudentsinVienna,usinginflatablesculptureasthemodusoperanditoexplorethemesofmigration,swarmtheory,andquestioningifourtimeiscomparablewiththe1930sriseinright-wingpopulism.ToolsforActioncreatesskillshareworkshopsandopen-sourcemanualsinthemanufactureofinflatablesculpturesandhowtousethemasplayfultoolsforpoliticalaction.Theirpracticeislocatedattheinterfacebetweenart,activism,andpoliticaleducation.Theirobjectscanbeusedaccordingly:whetherasthoughtprovocations,choreographicelements,ormobilebarricades.

FoundedbyArtúrvanBalenin2012,theensembleoperatesasanopenparticipatoryplatform, facilitated by its core members Artúr van Balen, Katherine Ball andMalcolmKratz.Workshops, interventions, and exhibitions have included amirrorbarricadethepreventionofaneo-NazimarchinDortmund(2016),theUNClimateSummits in Paris, Warsaw and Cancun (2015, 2013, and 2011), the DisobedientObjectsattheVictoriaandAlbertMuseuminLondon(2014),People’sClimateMarchinNewYork(2014),anLGBTQintervention intotheVisSwimmingCompetition inCroatia(2014),aninterventionatthestatetelevisionbroadcastofHungary(2013),awomen’srightscampaignagainstgangrapeinIndia(2013)andananti-corruptiondemonstrationinMoscow(2013).

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Saturday,April1,6:15–7p.m.

AfterAntagonismandSolidarity:Tailings,Embankments,andStrainingsLectureElizabethA.Povinelli(NewYork)In the long shadow of anthropogenic climate change and toxicity a set of questions has confrontedintellectuals,artistsandactivists:What ifthere isnohuman,norevenanyhumans,butmerelyregionallymoreorlessdenselycompactedformsandmodesofexistence,onecomponentofwhichhasbeenabstractedoutandnamed“thehuman”—or“life”?Whatifradicaldifferenceisnotoutsideusbutwithinandleakingoutofus?Oncethematerialotherisunderstoodtobeextimate—theexternalbodyfromwhichtheinternalbodyisconstituted,onwhichitdepends,andthroughwhichitisdistributed—wecannolongerrefertothebodyorabodyeventhoughwemustcontinuetoemphasizethisishbodyhereish.Thistalkthinksaboutasetofpoliticalconceptsunmooredfromtheontologyofboundedthingsandtheirantagonismsorsolidarities,askingfromwheretheseconceptsshouldoriginate,onwhatshouldtheydepend,andtowardwhatshouldbeoriented.

ElizabethA.Povinelli is FranzBoasProfessorofAnthropologyat the Institute forResearchonWomen,Gender,andSexualityatColumbiaUniversityandoneofthefoundingmembersoftheKarrabingFilmCollective.Sheistheauthoroffivebooks,includingGeontologies:ARequiemtoLateLiberalism(Duke,2016),andthedirectorofthreeKarrabingfilms.HerworkfocusesonthesourcesoftheotherwiseinLateLiberalism.

Saturday,April1,7:30–8:15p.m.

ThePoemonEmptinessLecturePerformanceBorisOndreička(Bratislava,Vienna)

Slovak artist, author, curator, and singer-pessimist Boris OndreičkaretrofuturisticallyspeculatesaboutthedarklegacyofRomanticismintermsofthedefiniteculturaldivisionofanentityformerlyknownashumanity from a field formerly known as nature (distanced andpostponedmateriality)anditsconsequenceinecologicalpanic;andthe evolution of individualization/subjectivization, liberalization,pluralization, relativization, and consumerization into algorithmic,cosmocratic anarcho-capitalism. Ondreička’s language-orientedpointofdepartureiscenteredontestingvariouspolaritiesofnihilismincluding meme-magic. The spoken-word part is accompanied byextensiveimage-archiveprojection.BorisOndreička(bornin1969)isanartistandauthor;since1987asingerandlyrics-writerofthe lo-fibandKosaznosa,since2002–2011directoroftheart initiativetranzit.sk,andsince2012curatoratThyssen-BornemiszaArtContemporary,Vienna.He has co-curated Rare Earth, Supper Club, Tomorrow Morning Line, OlafurEliasson’s“Greenlight:Anartisticworkshop,”andfiveseasonsofthefrequenceofspoken-wordEphemeropteræ,allforTBA21,Manifesta8,Murcia,Cartagena,BeingThe Future, Palast der Republik, Berlin, Symposion / The Event, Birmingham,Auditorium,Stage,Backstage,FrankfurterKunstverein,individualprojectsofLois&FranziskaWeinberger,StanoFilko,AndreasNeumeister,JúliusKoller,DenisaLehocká,ZbyněkBaladrán,andmore.Heco-foundedTheSocietyofJúliusKoller.Hisartistic

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projects have been exhibited at many international biennials, museums, andexhibitionspaces.HisHI!lo.waspublishedbytranzit/jrp|ringier,andOneSecond/OutofTimebyRevolver.Mostrecently,hehascuratedTheQuestionofWill,OSF,Bratislava,andiscompletingtheretrospectiveofhiswritings(todate).

Saturday,April1,after11p.m.

PartyWith:DavidQuigley(Vienna)DavidQuigley(MerzAkademie)willagaintrytoconvinceeverybodyinthehousetodanceuntildawn.

DavidQuigley,ProfessorforCulturalTheoryattheMerzAcademyStuttgart. Sunday,April2,10:45a.m.12:45p.m.

AirasResistanceWorkshopToolsforAction/ArtúrvanBalen,KatherineBall JoinToolsforActiononattheworkshopforaninflatablebarricadetrainingandopendiscussionaboutthechallengesofmixinginflatabletacticswithhistoricalimageryandideologicrepresentation.TheprojectisthenextevolutionoftheMirrorBarricade,ToolsforAction’slastinterventionataneo-NazimarchinGermanyontheJune4,2016,archivedinthevideoBarricadeBallet:https://vimeo.com/180476017.Sunday,April2,11–11:45a.m.

SAIDTOCONTAIN:ReportNeueDringlichkeit/BojanDjordjev,MajaLeo(Belgrade,Zurich) “Saidtocontain”(S.T.C.)isthecontract-termusedbyshippingcompaniestoacceptcontainersfortransportwithoutverifyingtheircontents.SAIDTOCONTAIN:isaperformativeresearchprojectinitiatedbyLauraKalauz,MajaLeoandBojanDjordjevin2013.TheyshippedthemselvesfromHamburgtoBuenosAiresonacargoshipfollowingthelogisticssupermachinefortwenty-fourdaysinthespringof2016.PiercingtheopaqueshellofglobalcapitalismSAIDTOCONTAIN:looksathowtheproduction,consumptionandflowofgoodsshapeourwayofbeing,thinking,andliving.InThinkingPublicSessions,ahybridformatbetweenperformance,workshop,anddiscussion,cargocontainersbecomeananchorfordialogueandperformativeproductionofknowledge.Cargocontainershereserveasaphysicalspaceandobjectofcontemplation,butarealsoilluminatedastheoperationalacceleratorofworldtradeandcapitalismtoitscurrentmetastasis.TheformatofThinkingPublicSessionsaimsatusingperformativetoolsandsituationsasbothtriggerandlegitimacyformobilizingcollectivepoliticalandeconomicimaginationinspeculatingaboutwhatistobeundoneandhow.SAIDTOCONTAIN:isaperformativeresearchprojectbyandwith:MajaLeo,LauraKalauz,BojanDjordjev,ChristopherKriese,LisaSchröter,MiriamWaltherKohn.AcollaborationbetweenNeueDringlichkeit(Zurich)andTKH-WalkingTheory(Belgrade)

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BojanDjordjevisaperformance-makerfromBelgrade,educatedintheaterandarttheoryattheUnversityofArtsinBelgradeandDasArtsinAmsterdam.Asanartist,he is interested in interdisciplinary text/language-based performance andperformativepotentialsoftheory.ApartfromBelgrade,hisworkshavebeenshowninBerlin,Brussels,Amsterdam,NewYork,Vienna,Zurich,Zagreb,Rijeka,Ljubljana.He is one of the co-founders of TkH – Walking Theory theoretical and artisticplatformandjournalforperformingartstheory,Belgrade.HisrecentworksrevolvearoundfindingartisticandtheatricalpublicformatsforMarxistthought,aswellasresearchintotheartisticheritageoftheLeftinYugoslaviaandelsewhere.MajaLeoisacuratorandtheater-makerbasedinZurich,SwitzerlandandHamburg,Germany. She works in the field of artistic research with a focus on collectiveproductionofknowledgeintheperformingarts.Maja is co-founder of the Zurich-based art and performance collective NeueDringlichkeit. Their works have been shown at Venice Biennale of Architecture(2014); ifa-Gallery, Stuttgart (2016); Shedhalle, Zurich (2017);Gessnerallee Zürich(2017);FavoritenTheaterFestival,Dortmund(2014);andmore.Since2015Majahasalso worked as a project manager and curator for artasfoundation, a Swissfoundationforartinregionsofconflict.

Sunday,April2,11:45a.m.–12:30p.m.

PoliticsintheFourthPersonSingularLectureKatjaDiefenbach(Berlin) InThePovertyofPhilosophy,KarlMarxexplainedthehistoryadvancesthroughits“badside,”throughthepainofthenegative,throughexploitationandclassstruggle.Withthis“dialecticsofthebadside,”hewasnotjustcriticizingapoliticsofhumanisticidealsandgoodintentions;healsoassertedthattheuniversal(themeaningofcommunism)isstrongenoughtoprocesshroughitsopposite.Butoverthecourseofhisownlivingandthinkingexperiences,Marxhardlyhadtorectifyandrephraseanargumentasmuchasthehistorico-philosophicalguaranteethatheteronomybereworkedasautonomyorexpropriationasappropriation—beitthroughtheeconomiccontradictionsofthemovementofcapitalitself,orbeitthroughthepoliticalimpossibilityofpermanentlyreducinglabortothestatusofacommodity.BasedontheconflictsinthefirstInternationaleandalsothesocial-revolutionarycritiquethattheGeneralCouncildominatedbyMarxandEngelswassaidtobeorganizingitselfasadualdictatorship—ofthecadreabovethepoliticalbase,oftheworkingclassaboveallotherclasses—Iamexploringtheparadoxesofanti-capitalistpoliticsimmersedinclass,mass,andminoritystruggle.Atthesametime,Iwillpursue—alongconceptsrelatedtodialectics,time,anddifference—competingpost-Marxistapproachesonhowanthropocentric,Eurocentric,evolutionist,andteleologicalelementscanberemovedfromtheoryformation.

KatjaDiefenbachisProfessorofAestheticTheoryattheMerzAkademie,Stuttgart.HerresearchinterestsareFrenchphilosophyandtheepistemologyofthetwentiethcentury, with a special focus on the relations between Marxism andPoststructuralism. She is co-editor of the volume EncounteringAlthusser: PoliticsandMaterialisminContemporaryRadicalThought(Bloomsbury,2013).In2017,herbookPolitikderPotentialität:SpinozaimPostmarxismuswillbepublishedbyTuria&Kant.Shehastaughtatvariousuniversities,suchastheBerlinUniversityoftheArts,HumboldtUniversity, and the Jan vanEyckAcademy inMaastricht. She is amemberofthecircleofeditorsinvolvedintheBerlinpublishingassociationb_books.

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Sunday,April2,1–2p.m.

FinalDebateModeration:KatrinMundt Thefinaldebateisanopportunityforallgueststocriticallyanalyzethecontributionsandtopicsofthisconference,toask„lastquestions“,andtoformulatepotentialsanddraftsforfuturereflectionandaction. Sunday, April 2, 3 – 3:45 p.m.

NoColorColorfulLecturePerformanceSchorschKamerun(Hamburg)SchorschKamerunwilldevelop insituagoldenthreadfromthesummitand, inconcludingtheweekend,reactinasdirectofawayaspossible(andtruthfully!)totheexperiencedevent.Here,amusicalcollagewillbecreatedthatrendersasummaryofcontent,soundplayback,andcrystal-cleartemperatureregulation.ThesingerfromHamburgplanstobea“naïve”reflector…

SchorschKamerun(bornin1963inTimmendorferStrand)isafoundingmemberandsinger of theHamburg-basedbandDieGoldenen Zitronen (TheGolden Lemons).TogetherwithRockoSchamoniand“Wiener-Norbert,”hefoundedtheGoldenPudelClubinHamburg.Since2000hehasbeenworkingasatheaterdirectorandauthor.Hehasstagedproductionsatmanyvenues,includingtheDeutscherSchauSpielHausHamburg, Schauspielhaus Zürich,Münchner Kammerspiele, Volksbühne in Berlin,StaatsschauspielStuttgart,WienerFestwocheninVienna,theRuhrtriennale,andtheBayrischeStaatsoper inMunich.ForhisWDRradioplayEinMenschenbild,das inseinerSummeNullergibt,Kamerunreceivedthe“HörspielpreisderKriegsblinden“in2007.HewasaguestprofessorattheAcademyofFineArtsinMunichandhastraveled for various projects in Europa, America, Namibia, Japan, Belarus, andLebanon. In2016,hisfirstnovel,DieJugendistdieschönsteZeitdesLebens,waspublished.

Thursday,March30–Sunday,April2(ongoing)

InsituworkDanPerjovschi(Sibiu,Romania) DanPerjovschi(bornin1961)offersrunningcommentaryontheconferencewithhisfamousironic,critical,andpoliticalinsitudrawings.

DanPerjovschihasexhibitedhisworkinthemostimportantvenuesworldwide.Histransientdrawingsonthewallsofexhibitionspacesarecultivatedfromthemanynotebooksthatover theyearshavegivenrise toanarchiveofsorts towhichtheartistcantakerecourse.Moreover,newsketchbooksarecreatedinconjunctionwithvariousprojects.ThefalloftheCeaușescuregimeinRomaniain1989presentedasociety,whichuptothatpointhadbeentotallymonitoredandcontrolled,withtheimmensechallengeofrelearninganddemocraticallybalancingfreedomofspeechandexpression.Thevisualartsaccompaniedthisperiodofupheaval,andtheeffortsmadetoerectanewsociety,withactionsandperformances.Inadditiontoanoldergenerationofartists,whohadbeenisolatedfrompubliclifeintheirprivatehomesandworkedonly for a small groupof friends, suchas IonGrigorescu, ConstantinFlondor,andTeodorGraur,nowayoungavant-gardewastakingroot,whichincludedtheartistcoupleLiaPerjovschiandDanPerjovschi.

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FURTHER

Dienstag,28.–Donnerstag,30.März

MixedSeminarInEnglishWithstudentsfromGoldsmithsCollegeLondon,UniversityofLondonandstudentsfromtheAkademiederBildendenKünsteStuttgartIdeeBasedonhislecture„UnderSiege:ContemporaryArtandItsValuesaftertheSocial“,whichhewillpresentduringtheNewNarrativesconference,SimonSheikhorganizesamixedseminarbeforehand,with furtherguests.

ChairSimon Sheikh (Curator, author, director of MFA in Curating, Goldsmiths College,UniversityofLondon)GuestsFatimaHellberg(ArtisticDirector,KünstlerhausStuttgart)DavidQuigley(ProfessorforCulturalTheory,MerzAkademieStuttgart)IrisDressler(Co-Director,WürttembergischerKunstvereinStuttgart)

Mediatheque-in-progressA central element is the Mediatheque-in-progress, which is to make materials on the various topicsaccessible.After11AprilitwillbepubliclyaccessibleinthelobbyoftheWürttembergischerKunstverein.Thediscussions,results,andexperiencesfromthesummitwillbedocumentedthroughvariousmedia-basedformats—allofwhichwillbeintegratedintotheplanningprocessduringtheupcomingsummitmeeting.

InfothequeTheinfothequeisaplatformforlocalandinternationalinitiativesthatwishtointroducetheirprojectshereanddiscussthemwithothers.

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INFORMATION AND CREDITS

ContributionsbyNabilAhmed,RheimAlkadhi, JohnBarker, Keti Chukhrov, KatjaDiefenbach,Denise Ferreirada Silva,GulfLabor Coalition /MTL Collective,MohammadAbuHajar, SrećkoHorvat, Schorsch Kamerun,Hilary Koob-Sassen,PeterLicht,NeueDringlichkeit,AnnetteOhme-Reinicke,BorisOndreička,DanPerjovschi,ElizabethA.Povinelli,DavidQuigley,SimonSheikh,ShuddhabrataSengupta,ToolsforAction,EnriqueMatíasViale,Wecannotbuildwhatwecannotfirstimagine(a.o.)Moderations PeterHaury,FlorianMalzacher,KatrinMundt AProjectby AkademieSchlossSolitudeInstitutfürAuslandsbeziehungenSchauspielStuttgartStaatlicheAkademiederBildendenKünsteStuttgartTheaterRampeWürttembergischerKunstvereinStuttgartIdeaandConcept:ChristinePeters,IrisDresslerinCooperationwithMarieBues,HansD.Christ,KlausDörr,MartinaGrohmann,JanHein,Jean-BaptisteJoly,ElkeausdemMoore,KatrinSpira MainSupporter:MinisteriumfürWissenschaft,ForschungundKunstBaden-WürttembergSupportedby:InstitutfürAuslandsbeziehungenInCooperationwith:DieAnStifter,Fritz-Erler-ForumBaden-Württemberg,Hannah-Arendt-Institut,Stuttgart,HeinrichBöllStiftungBaden-Württemberg,Rosa-Luxemburg-StiftungBaden-Württemberg Languages:German,English(simultaneoustranslation) Entrance:free

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