Tania Bruguera, Where Your Ideas Become Civic Action (100 Hours Reading The Origins of Totalitarianism)
Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
By Hilary Thurlow
Issue 4, Summer 2025
On 15 November 2022, Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof announced its 2023 programme via an eflux newsletter. Listed about halfway down the email was programming for Berlin Art Week. From 13 to 17 September 2023, “multidisciplinary artist and activist Tania Bruguera” was set to “re-stage her radical performance Where Your Ideas Become Civic Action (100 Hours Reading The Origins of Totalitarianism),” a 100-hour-long reading of Hannah Arendt’s 1951 The Origins of Totalitarianism, first performed in Havana 2015.
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