Love and Ethnology

The German writer Hubert Fichte (1935-1986) was fascinated by arts and religions of the African diaspora. In the 1970s, he travelled cities like Salvador da Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Dakar, New York and Lisbon, developing his utopia of a radical sensitivity. This sensitivity would serve research alongside intense interviews, intimacy through (gay) sexuality, self-reflexivity, and a condensed poetry of objectivity. The exhibition and research project in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut opens these works for a critical contemporary discussion. 

More info: https://hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2019/liebe_und_ethnologie/liebe_und_ethnologie_start.php

Cover picture: Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Videostills aus The Labyrinth 1.0, 2017, © Tiona Nekkia McClodden, courtesy of the artist and Company, New York