2025-12-08 @KM28 20:30
Making Waves #17 / Gaza Biennale
Artist, musician and writer Hassan Khan will conduct a listening session revolving around his most recent work, Little Castles, currently on view at his eponymous exhibition at Portikus Frankfurt. The session will be followed by a conversation with visual artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna.
“A first draft of this song was written more than a year ago when an American contemporary composer asked me to write a libretto for them about the ‘current situation in Germany’, although they ended up, for undisclosed reasons, having to abandon the project—I didn’t. In this listening session, I will play a selection of relevant songs as well as the final version of Little Castles. I will discuss production, generative luxury aesthetics, popular genres, unfettered forms and how protest songs suck. Does my strategy of making meaning in contemporary Germany by making the taboo visible while remaining uncensorable really work? While speaking I will also play some chords on the guitar and talk about teenage anger as a source and transformative lens through which to propose a criticality that is not just critical.”
Hassan Khan & Jumana Manna
KM 28
Karl-Marx-Str. 28
Berlin, 12043
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