Heimat(en) Workshop & Performance - Situation Room

Situation Room: We collect memories of a (different) future, with Muhammet Ali Baş Cooperation with Koordinierungsstelle Erinnerungskultur Stuttgart

Our future is in danger, and it often feels as if it is already too late to stand up for anything. What's more, looking at our crisis-ridden world, it becomes quite clear that the present is riddled with human failure. While it is often repeated even in resistant spaces that everything will never be good for everyone, current political developments, especially the rise of right-wing extremism and authoritarianism, reveal that everything can stay bad and even get worse.

In view of this emergency, the "Situation Room" is being convened by curator and language artist Muhammet Ali Baş as part of the HeimatEN project in cooperation with the City of Stuttgart's Coordination Office for the Culture of Remembrance. The Situation Room is a performative gathering of artists, visionaries and visitors who use speculative science fiction and the memory booster "Mentha Memoralis" to remember other futures that have not yet happened, but can be remembered as if they had already happened. This creates collective memories that, as narratives of overcoming crises, reveal current possibilities for action and give hope for a caring and just future.

Collector of memories - Muhammet Ali Baş.