Displayed Words is an experiment in thinking with language, text, and poetry through digital format and in public space. Who and what defines the space in which words are made legible and meanings are produced? How does the perception of text change from one medium to another? Displayed Words plays with the intelligibility of text and its manifold displays; it also poses questions pertaining to context within which literature and poetry can be perceived and understood. Finally, it asks how text is mediated, and in which language dominant discourse and literature are communicated in a metropolitan like Berlin. What about languages considered minoritarian, those one hears across the city in everyday encounters, such as Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Vietnamese, or Spanish …?
For its third edition, Displayed Words takes place at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Potsdamer Straße, where texts by Apsilon, May Ayim, Tim Etchells, Logan February, Friederike Mayröcker and Cristina Rivera Garza are presented on a digital display panel on the balcony above the main entrance. The project, continuing its aim to facilitate poetic encounters in urban space, will be accompanied by a series of readings on site and a publication. After the last two editions at Klosterruine and Rathaus Tiergarten, Displayed Words arrives at its final location at Stabi West with a new selection of texts, responding to our current time and addressing questions of identity, origin, belongingness, and the histories and memories of a place.
Displayed Words 3
10 Sep 2024 – 26 Jan 2025
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Potsdamer Straße, Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin
Apsilon, May Ayim, Tim Etchells, Logan February, Friederike Mayröcker, Cristina Rivera Garza
Curated by Fabian Schöneich, Nan Xi and Franz Hempel, CCA Berlin and Mathias Zeiske, DAAD.
Opening + Reading on 10 Sep 2024, 6-9 PM
Rike Scheffler reads Friederike Mayröcker
Savannah Sipho reads May Ayim
Reading + Music on 6 Oct 2024, 3-4:30 PM
Logan February + Otis Mensah
Displayed Words 2
15 Dec 2023 – 30 Apr 2024
Bezirksamt Mitte / Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin
Ingeborg Bachmann, Angélica Freitas, Hassan Khan, Otis Mensah, Rafael Moreno, Nazanin Noori, Nhã Thuyên, Kinga Tóth
Curated by Fabian Schöneich, Nan Xi and Lou Ferrand (Jeunes Commissaires Fellowship 2023), CCA Berlin and Mathias Zeiske, DAAD
Displayed Words – Displaced
15 Dec 2022 - 16 Apr 2023
Klosterruine, Klosterstr. 73a, 10179 Berlin
Don Mee Choi, Athena Farrokhzad, Volha Hapeyeva, Quinn Latimer, Rike Scheffler, Yasmine Seale, Hajra Waheed
Curated by Fabian Schöneich
Supported by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, project funds from Draussenstadt (Displayed Words 1+2 )and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Animations and design by Ronnie Fueglister and Yves Graber, code by Lorenz Peter. Thank you to the Head of Department, District Office Mitte of Berlin, Office for Further Education and Culture: Dr. Ute Müller-Tischler