The Nardal Salon, Re-enactments and Re-enchantments

Tauche ein in einen lebendigen Raum des Austauschs und der kollektiven Vorstellungskraft. Inspiriert von historischen Salons, verbindet dieses Projekt künstlerische Ausdrucksformen wie Tanz, Poesie und Musik, um Orte der Solidarität und des Widerstands neu zu denken. Erlebe, wie durch performative Begegnungen ein inspirierendes Netzwerk entsteht, das über Kontinente hinweg verbindet. Lass dich von visionären Stimmen und kreativen Ansätzen mitreißen, die den Dialog fördern und gemeinsam neue Zukünfte gestalten. Sei dabei, wenn Geschichte lebendig wird und wir gemeinsam über die Bedeutung von Gemeinschaft nachdenken.

The Nardal Salon, Re-enactments and Re-enchantments revives the salon as a space of presence, collective thought, and political imagination. Drawing on the legacy of the Nardal’s activities in interwar Paris, the project approaches the salon as a living practice. In a moment marked by growing backlash against pluralism and shrinking spaces for dissent, the salon becomes a necessary infrastructure for thinking together. By connecting the Parisian salon to other diasporic spaces of gathering such as shebeens, grins, and achombo houses, the project asks how critical, communal spaces can be sustained today as sites of resistance, solidarity, and future-making. The series of re-enactments and re-enchantments at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) employs literature, poetry, dance, performance, music, and other artistic modes of expression and highlights contemporary forms of salon practices from Abidjan, Berlin, Dakar, Douala, Fort-de-France, Paris, and beyond. \n\nWith: Jumoke Adeyanju, Lisa Anderson, Archive Books, Maisha-Maureen Auma, Vincent Bababoutilabo, Hemley Boum, Miriam Siré Camara, Edwige Dro, Brent Hayes Edwards, Simone Lagrand, Frank Mindja, Léa Mormin-Chauvac, Amandine Nana, Bisrat Negassi, Mame-Fatou Niang, Pascale Obolo, Elodie Paul, Ròt-Bò-Krik, Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Eric Otieno Sumba, Sónia Vaz Borges, and others.