TOGETHERHOOD

_artistic-urban intervention by transparadiso

Hanover/ Germany, Aug. 25, 2024

Togetherhood is a collective parade through public spaces in Hanover that brings together local actors from diverse backgrounds under a silver blanket. In this way, transparadiso extends the invitation of the city of Hanover to create an artistic thread through Hanover to the question of how different concepts of art and culture can be linked between the center and the periphery. transparadiso therefore invited participants from different districts, backgrounds and institutions to actively participate as performers in Togetherhood.

Togetherhood refers to Leibniz's „Monadology“, in which Leibniz explains that everything is interconnected. At the same time, according to Leibniz, there are small units that are self-contained - but as units are part of a multitude. The silver blanket with its 20 hoods, under which the participants slip, thus becomes a collective body that, like the faceted eye of a fly, allows the gaze to wander in different directions. Togetherhood brings to life the ambivalence between microscopic perception and a multi-faceted overview on current issues in the social-urban space in reference to Leibniz's reflections. Togetherhood is realized in collaboration with the Hanover Homeless Choir and choreographer Bettina Paletta, at three sites offering the opportunity to "swap hoods", i.e. to change under the silver blanket, to spectators following the parade.
With Togetherhood, transparadiso stages a parade of silence: Pausing, marveling, stillness, resting, digressing into oneself. The silver blanket stimulates a macro-utopian space in multiplicity, in which the "glass ceiling" of power structures and social inequality is questioned and future fictions of communities can be explored - across borders, despite all the conflicts that currently determine our society and the world.

For further information see contribution by Thomas Kaestle at "Kunst umgehen", his interview with transparadiso and his reflection on the whole project "Blick zurück auf die Projektreihe „Knäuel Kulturdreieck – sieben künstlerische rote Fäden durch Hannover".

artistic-urban intervention in Hanover, Aug. 25, 2024

Togetherhood was realized in collaboration with:

ChorWerk Hanover (Choir of the Homeless), Bettina Paletta (freelance dance choreographer), Sophie Casna (performer), Prof. Dr. Michael Kempe (director of the Leibniz Archive of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover), Kestner Gesellschaft, Literaturhaus Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover, Staatstheater Hannover and many others.

Curatorial advisor: Thomas Kaestle

Togetherhood is part of the project "Knäuel Kulturdreieck – seven artistic red threads through Hanover", which is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (EU ERDF funds). It is a project of the City of Hanover, Department of Cultural Management.