Where Your Ideas Become Civic Actions (100 Hours Reading “The Origins of Totalitarianism”) with Eva Geulen and others

Performance by Tania Bruguera at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 7–11 Feb 2024

Artist and activist Tania Bruguera presents her performance “Where Your Ideas Become Civic Actions (100 Hours Reading The Origins of Totalitarianism)”, a 100-hour reading of Hannah Arendt’s Elements and Origins of Totalitarianism at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. Artists, theorists, activists, and visitors will read the political theorist’s magnum opus continuously, day and night, from Wednesday, February 7, 2024, 7.00 pm, to Sunday, February 11, 2024, 11.00 pm, in the museum’s Historic Hall. Bruguera’s first performance in Cuba in May 2015 led to her imprisonment by the Cuban authorities. Hamburger Bahnhof is now showing the European premiere. Admission to the performance is free.

Eva Geulen will read on Thursday, February 8, from 7.00 to 8.00 am. The performance schedule will be published here shortly: www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/hamburger-bahnhof/ausstellungen/detail/tania-bruguera/

The literary scholar Eva Geulen is the Director of the ZfL, executive board member of the Centers for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Berlin, and Professor for European Culture and the History of Knowledge at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory of the Humboldt University of Berlin.