Forgive us Our Trespasses

Reading at SAFI FAYE STAGE (HKW)

Join us for the book launch of the "Forgive Us Our Trespasses Reader," published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The launch features the first public reading of "As We Forgive" (2024) by Senthuran Varatharajah, one of the thirteen contributors to the publication.

The "Forgive Us Our Trespasses Reader" conceptually maps the distance between the English word “trespasses”—with its double meaning of to sin or to physically tread—and the German word “Schuld”—referring to sin and guilt but with etymological proximities to debt (Schulden).

Deviating from the line of prayer that lends the project its name, the contributors assert trespassing as a mode of transgression, a form of rebellion, and a possibility for transcendence.

With Contributions by: Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Egidija Čiricaitė, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, Toussaint M. Kafarhire, Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Chao Tayiana Maina, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Tavia Nyong’o, Mary Louise Pratt, Josefine Rauch, Deborah A. Thomas, Senthuran Varatharajah, Yuanwen Zhong