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Trembling Worlds
International Symposium on the work of Édouard Glissant. With Lev Avitan, Sophie Bourel, Radna Fabias, Sylvie Séma Glissant, Baruch Gottlieb, Shivani Gowda, Nikima Jagudajev, Hamedine Kane, Hans Ulrich Obrist (online) & Asad Raza.
25.10.2025, 10:00 — 20:00
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Program


10:00 — 10:30
Doors open & coffee

10:30 — 10:35
Marie-José Sondeijker
Welcome words

10:35 — 11:00
Baruch Gottlieb
Introduction talk
Trembling Worlds

11:00 — 11:15
Sophie Bourel
Performance
Extracts from Edouard Glissant’s ‘Les Indes’ Part I
(in French with English translation)

11:15 — 12:15
Hans Ulrich Obrist with Asad Raza & Baruch Gottlieb
Conversation ‘A new region of the world: Glissant today’
(pre recorded with live commentary by Asad Rasa and Baruch Gottlieb

12:15 — 12:30
Sophie Bourel
Performance
Extracts from Edouard Glissant’s ‘Les Indes’ Part II
(in French with English translation)


12:30 — 13:30
Lunch Break


13:30 — 14:00
Hamedine Kane & Baruch Gottlieb
Conversation
Borders, country, archipelago

14:00-14:45
Extracts of the manuscript "A Journey on the Nile" by Édouard Glissant presented by Sylvie Séma Glissant
Presentation and Discussion with Sylvie Séma Glissant, Asad Raza & Baruch Gottlieb

14:45 — 15:15
Lev Avitan
Performance
Opacity

15:15 — 16:00
Radna Fabias
Performance
Opacity

16:00 — 17:00
Lev Avitan, Radna Fabias, Baruch Gottlieb, Nikima Jagudajev and Asad Raza
Discussion
Trembling worlds: Aesthetics, art and opacity

17:00 — 17:45
Shivani Gowda
Performance
The Department of Destruction

17:45 — 18:45
Nikima Jagudajev
Performance
Bedtime stories

18:45-19:30
Baruch Gottlieb, Hamedine Kane, Sylvie Séma Glissant (and others)
Closing Conversation
Trembling worlds: consciousness and the possibles

19:30
Drinks