Film screening, talks, performances The Broken Pitcher

A project by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina Christodoulidou, Peter Eramian

When:
Fri, July 21, 2023, 8pm–11pm

Free admission

Meeting point:
Lenbachhaus garden

When:
Fri, July 21, 2023, 8pm–11pm

Free admission

Meeting point:
Lenbachhaus garden

The video installation "The Broken Pitcher" focuses on an event from 2019: In Cyprus, a family is negotiating the foreclosure of their family home in a bank branch. The outcome of the conversation remains open, but seems unpromising for the people concerned. Foreclosures were imposed as a measure by representatives of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund during the time of the economic crisis of the Cypriot government from 2012. The situation of the family portrayed in the film is representative of many others.

The project "The Broken Pitcher" focuses on cooperation and dialogue. The central question is how the financial system works and how one could intervene in its processes and change them. On a total of four evenings in June and July, we will present the project in our garden. After the presentations, there will be time for an exchange between the artists, residents and local rent activists.

Program:

Friday, June 30
7 pm
Talk with Haig Aivazian (artist and former artistic director Beirut Art Center), Santi Mas de Xaxàs Faus (Plataforma de Afectadas por la Hipoteca, Barcelona [PAH, Platform for People Affected by Mortgages]), Michael Koppe (Görzer 128 housing project, Munich). Together they will discuss the housing problems in their respective cities and strategies to address them.

8.30 pm
Film screening "The Broken Pitcher" (69 min.). 

Friday, July 7
7 pm
Introduction by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina Christodoulidou, Peter Eramian. In English language.
Live performances by Raissa Angeli and Natalie Yiaxi. Parts in English language.

Raissa Angeli is a visual artist living and working in Nicosia, Cyprus. She works mainly in the field of sculpture.
Natalie Yiaxi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Nicosia. Through the use of different mediums, devices and strategies, her work encompasses an ongoing attempt to capture the ineffable, the unnoticed, and those affectual aspects of everyday life.

8.30 pm
Film screening "The Broken Pitcher" (69 min.).

Friday, July 14
Please note! The event starts one hour later: 8 pm
Sabine Herrmann from the Mietshäuser Syndicate Project Ligsalz 8 (Munich), Verena Hägler from the Mietshäuser Syndicate Project Initiative Wörth8 (Munich) and Magdalena Amann from the Project Initiative sherlo (Augsburg) present their organizations. Event in German.

9.15 pm
Film screening "The Broken Pitcher" (69 min.). English and German subtitles.

Friday, July 21
Please note! The event starts one hour later: 8 pm
Moritz Burgkardt from #ausspekuliert presents the work of the grassroots initiative. #ausspekuliert has been campaigning for affordable housing and against social exclusion in our cities and across the country since 2018. In German.

On the occasion of the last screening of "The Broken Pitcher" in Munich, the eponymous record "The Broken Pitcher: A Soundbank" is being released. Emiddio Vasquez, founder of the label and event series Moneda (Cyprus and Arizona), is present for a performance in which attendants will witness the manufacturing process of the record while engaging in collective listening, leading up to its official release. In English language.

9.15 pm
Film screening "The Broken Pitcher" (69 min.). English and German subtitles.


The project "The Broken Pitcher" takes place in cooperation with Kunstraum Thkio Ppalies, Nicosia, Public Art Munich, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Beirut Art Center.

With generous support from the Cyprus Deputy Ministry for Culture, the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
Sponsored by Public Art München, Cultural Department of the City of Munich.

Concurrently with the project "The Broken Pitcher", the exhibition "Natascha Sadr Haghighian. Now that I can hear you my eyes hurt (Tumult)" is on view.