Die Samen, die wir tragen
Altonaer Museum Altonaer Museum, Museumstraße 23, 22765 Hamburg Platz BuchenArtist Razan Sabbagh (she/her) and film educator Sarah Savalanpour (she/her) invite you to an exciting art and research workshop: Together, we will explore food, sound, and performance as artistic tools to bring migration stories and colonial continuities to light.
What stories lie within spices, recipes, or supermarket shelves?
With a contribution from cultural studies scholar Meryem Choukri, you’ll collect sounds, memories, voices, and gestures related to food and transform them into collaborative soundscapes, performances, and audiovisual works, understanding food as a carrier of historical knowledge and lived experience, shaped by relationships between people, places, and time. The focus is on exchange, empowerment, and the perspectives of young people with their own or their families’ migration histories.
On the festival Sunday, July 26, all the experiments will come together, and we’ll present a live cooking performance on the water—stay tuned!
Razan Sabbagh she/her
Razan Sabbagh (she/her) is a visual and performance artist whose work explores issues of sociopolitical power structures. Through her practice—which encompasses performance, installation, text, sound, and participatory formats—she creates spaces that make power relations and social dynamics tangible. Her projects often emerge in collaboration with diverse communities and are designed as temporary spaces for listening and collective action. In doing so, she moves between intimate gestures and public interventions, exploring the relationship between art, activism, aesthetics, and power. Her works have been shown at venues including the Kunsthalle Bremen, Kampnagel, and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, as well as internationally at the Sharjah Art Museum, the Goethe-Institut in Paris, Casino Display in Luxembourg, and Simian in Copenhagen. In 2024, she received the Artist Training Prize from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), and in 2025, the ZEIT Fellowship.
Sarah Savalanpour she/her
Sarah Savalanpour (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, media researcher, and film curator. Her practice moves between archival practice and filmmaking, exploring the afterlives of still and moving images. She holds a BFA in Time-Based Media and an MA in Art Education from HFBK Hamburg. She is part of the curatorial team of dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg and co-founder of para-education e.V., a collective dedicated to critical art education in public and institutional contexts.