Harlem Renaissance II

On the occasion of the exhibition The Heart of the Matter, actor Langston Uibel, together with director Sarah Elisabeth Braun, is developing the performative intervention Harlem Renaissance, which takes place on three evenings in November. Drawing on texts by Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes and other central voices of the Harlem Renaissance, the intervention explores questions of Black identity and belonging in Germany. Inspired by Harlem in Vogue and The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes and Roy DeCarava, important reference points for several series of works by Carrie Mae Weems, it brings literature and music into dialogue with the photographs by the American artist on display. The creative process becomes directly experienceable for the audience through the staging of a rehearsal accompanied by string instruments.Langston Uibel (*1998, London) is a British-German actor.