In the organizer's words:
What if those who were supposed to disappear were to reappear? As Freud suggests, people who are considered educated no longer seem to officially believe that the dead can become visible as ghosts or spirits. But They Say I'm Dead understands the ghostly appearance of those who have disappeared namelessly not as a supernatural phenomenon, but as the way in which unresolved violence and memory continue to unsettle the present. Like the peace statue Ari - which has returned to us after the city's demolition order - the memories and voices of those who were sacrificed outside of history, now feared by those who want to get rid of them, will keep returning like ghosts to disturb the present. By evoking these ghosts through sound, traces, rituals and food, this project attempts to capture how power structures of the past and present have displaced and marginalized certain individuals and histories. And it confirms that what has been hidden remains alive - present and incessantly at work in our lives. Over the course of two months, four artists and a curator have pursued these invisible presences through performance, sound, food and research as part of the Ari in Transit project - and on May 27 and 28, they are opening up this process to the public.
Yeni Ma is the curator of the project They Say I'm Dead. Based on the haunting apparitions that return through Ari, she has initiated an ongoing discussion with the artists around Avery Gordon's Ghostly Matters - tracing how invisible beings continue to affect the present.
John Seung-Hwan Lee performs frottages on three surfaces at the site - on a wall with bullet holes from the 1945 Battle of Berlin, on the floor of the depot and on a curved window sill - using handmade pastel blocks attached to his forehead, forearm and ankle. Echoing Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason", he considers these surfaces as places where the ghosts of modernity cling: bodies reduced by violence to shadow and matter.
John's performance begins at 20:00.
Jungin Hwang explores figures that mediate between life and death - shamans, ritual sounds and the threshold between worlds. This investigation takes the form of a durational performance that incorporates drums and sounds and resides in the space where the living and the dead are not yet fully separated.
Jungin's performance begins at 21:00.
An event of the ZK/U in cooperation with the Körber Foundation.
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