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On the event of UEFA EURO 2024, scheduled to be hosted in Germany from 14 June –14 July 2024, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) dedicates its entire space and programme to deliberations on football in the framework of the project Ballet of the Masses—On Football and Catharsis. As a pluri-disciplinary institution that encourages and lends space to the practices of visual and performative arts, sonic/music, literature and oralture, as well as scientific and cultural discursive formats, HKW opens up its doors to football as a practice and concept at the intersection of/with different formats in the quotidian.
In a period in which Europe is experiencing a rise in ideological clashes and political upheaval that preys upon the fears akin to those experienced during the First World War, it might seem awkward to invoke a phrase by Dmitri Shostakovich in the naming of this project. The Soviet composer and pedagogue is said to …
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Image above: Eddie Peake, Gli Animali, 2017 © Eddie Peake. Courtesy of Fiorucci Art Trust and The Vinyl Factory
