Date: August 25, 2–5 pm
Meeting point: Schloßstraße, Wiese hinter dem Landtag

transparadiso realizes the performance "Togetherhood" in Hanover: a collective parade through public spaces that brings together local actors from different backgrounds under a silver blanket. In doing so, transparadiso is extending the invitation from the City of Hanover to design an artistic thread through Hanover to the question of how different concepts of art and culture can be linked between the city center and the periphery.

transparadiso invites participants from different districts, backgrounds and institutions to actively participate as performers. Togetherhood refers to Leibniz's Monadology, in which Leibniz states that everything is interconnected. According to Leibniz, there are small units (monads) that are self-contained - but part of a multiplicity. The silver blanket with its 20 hoods, under which the participants slip, thus becomes a collective body that, like the multi-faceted eye of a fly, allows the gaze to wander in different directions. At three stops, Togetherhood will address this ambivalence between microscopic perception and a multi-faceted overview on current issues in social and urban space and make them tangible -– in reference to Leibniz's reflections.

Barbara Holub has already addressed the topic of the parade in other projects (such as WE PARAPOM! European Parade of Apple Trees for the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025) to question parades as a representation of power - as "silent activism": How can the individual intervene in processes of negotiating social issues and assume democratic responsibility – thus counteracting the feeling of being powerless?

With Togetherhood, transparadiso stages a parade of silence: pausing, marveling, stillness, resting, and introspection. The performance stimulates a macro-utopian space in multiplicity, in which the "glass ceiling" of power structures and social inequality is questioned and future fictions of communities have space - across borders, despite all the conflicts that currently determine our society and the world.

At the following stops, visitors following the parade will have the opportunity to "swap hoods", i.e. to change under the silver blanket:
14.30: Goseriedeplatz
15.30: Opernplatz

Participation is free of charge and barrier-free; the performance lasts 180 minutes and also takes place in the rain.

If you would like to slip under the silver blanket, please register with Kristina Pritzl: kristina.kulturdreieckhannover@gmail.com

For further information see here.

Togetherhood is realized in cooperation with:
Obdachlosenchor Hannover (choir of the homeless), Bettina Paletta (freelance dance choreographer), Prof. Dr. Michael Kempe (Leibniz Archive of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover), Thomas Kaestle (curatorial advisor), Sophie Casna (performer), Kestner Gesellschaft, Literaturhaus Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover, Staatstheater Hannover and many others.

Togetherhood is part of the project "Knäuel Kulturdreieck - sieben künstlerische rote Fäden durch Hannover", which is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (EU ERDF funds). It is a project of the City of Hanover, Department of Cultural Management.