Xook k'iin.
Spore hosts: Sinthujan Varatharajah & Moshtari Hilal: Hierarchies of Solidarity
Book Launch and conversation
26. November 2024
19.00-21.00
19.00-21.00
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For free
For Youths and Adults
in German
Hierarchies of Solidarity
சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah)
(Moshtari Hilal) مشترى هلال
Published in November 2024 by Wirklichkeit Books
How does solidarity emerge? When are political alliances formed beyond differences, and why do certain struggles seem to garner more solidarity than others? What constitutes solidarity work, and what contradictions, interests and strategies shape it?
In their new volume, Hierarchies of Solidarity, சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah) and مشترى هلال (Moshtari Hilal) jointly reflect on a practice that, as an act against oppression, manifests itself in both seemingly small, everyday gestures and global political contexts. The result is a revelatory conversation that, grounded in lived experience, traces the racist structures of the discourse landscape and offers alternative ways of understanding solidarity.
مشترى هلال (Moshtari Hilal) is an artist, researcher and curator who lives in Hamburg. She is a co-founder of the collective AVAH (Afghan Visual Arts and History) and the research project CCC (Curating Through Conflict with Care). In her work, which encompasses both artistic and discursive formats, she is concerned with beauty, ugliness, shame and power. Hilal studied Islamic Studies with a focus on gender, decolonial studies and Cultural Studies in Hamburg, Berlin and London. Her debut novel Hässlichkeit (Ugliness) was published by Hanser Verlag in September 2023
சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah) lives in Berlin as an independent researcher and essayist. They studied Political Geography and works on the subjects of statelessness, mobilities and geographies of power(lessness) with a particular focus on infrastructures and architectures. For several years, Varatharajah was also engaged with various human rights organizations in London and Berlin. In September 2022 their debut novel an alle orte, die hinter uns liegen (to all the places that lie behind us) was published by Hanser Verlag.
Wirklichkeit Books, founded in 2019 in Berlin, publishes books to find words, images, and actions for a new actuality. The catalog includes titles by artists and writers side by side with historic positions relating to poetry, play, language, and art.
