In the hours between day and night, when the sun begins to set, Being One follows in the footsteps of Jean Luc Nancy, Édouard Glissant and Donna J. Haraway, where the formation of a peaceful community can succeed through a poetic understanding of the common. In an architecturally continuous space without beginning or end, we invite you to activate your senses and stroll, to be together and to listen. Together with the well-known writer and poet Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin (novelist and short story writer in Sudan and city writer in Graz in 2023), we have invited writers, musicians and thinkers to a reading, singing and listening session to create a continuum of thoughts, sounds and acoustic images.
Together, we want to experience a non-linear evening in which concepts of non-linearity and mondiality - as postulated by Édouard Glissant - and multilingualism can be physically experienced.
The durational performance Being One is part of Protocols for Utopia, the opening chapter of the exhibition Sol LeWitt's Wall. Performed. Re-Imagine the Future, in which Sol LeWitt's monumental work Wall from 2004 will be reactivated and re-read over a period of nine months. As is well known, Sol LeWitt provides a concept in which the concise idea is the most important artistic invention, while the production of the works becomes a collective endeavour in which the rules are scrupulously followed. The Protocols for Utopia performance programme questions concepts of space and time.
