가닥 GADAG - Threads of Memories
April 30.04.2024, 2, 8-XNUMX PM
How do we remember wars? Whose narratives do we elevate? Whose bodies get to be monumentalized? Whose suffering is met with silence? Who rises against the system to shed light on their stories?
The Korean word 가닥 [ga-dag] signifies a long thread branching off from a larger yarn. In the project 가닥 Gadag, we comb through threads of war memories – of women, of queer and marginalized bodies, and interweave them into a tapestry of collective memory. With artists, practitioners and cultural workers, we amplify individual experiences of survival in the (post)colonial history of Korea, Vietnam, Japan and its diaspora, highlighting the trajectory of colonial-patriarchal violence of the West.
How do we remember wars? Whose narratives do we elevate? Whose bodies get to be monumentalized? Whose suffering is met with silence? Who rises against the system to shed light on their stories?
The Korean word 가닥 [ga-dag] signifies a long thread branching off from a larger yarn. In the project 가닥 Gadag, we comb through threads of war memories - of women, of queer and marginalized bodies, and interweave them into a tapestry of collective memory. With artists, practitioners and cultural workers, we amplify individual experiences of survival in the (post)colonial history of Korea, Vietnam, Japan and its diaspora, highlighting the trajectory of colonial-patriarchal violence of the West.
Crowdfunding campaign: Save Oyoun. Protect artistic freedom
Over the last days and weeks our work has changed abruptly. Instead of planning and implementing an extensive cultural programme for 2024 and 2025, we are now facing the immediate withdrawal of the €1 million in annual funding, which we need to pay our 32-strong team a salary, and the consequential closure of Oyoun.
On XNUMX November XNUMX, we only found out by chance, via the livestream of the cultural committee meeting, that Berlin's Senator for Culture Joe Chialo (CDU) was going to close Oyoun and that we would have to vacate our community space in Lucy-Lameck-Str. within five weeks.
Our request for access to the files, which was communicated directly after the committee meeting, has remained unanswered to this day and there is a fundamental rejection of constructive dialogue on the part of the Senate of Culture. However, the legal report by Myrsini Laaser (lawyer for criminal and migration law) indicates that our XNUMX-year project funding (XNUMX-XNUMX) is a binding commitment and that the funding will not expire in December XNUMX. We are confident and will defend ourselves against this arbitrary decision.
We are now dependent on your support in order to at least cope with the high legal and court fees that lie ahead of us.. You can find the entire text and the gofundme campaign here here.
Oyoun must stay. Especially in Germany. Especially now.
Click here to sign the open letter.
As of 6 November, the Berlin Senate is taking measures to close down the cultural centre Oyoun. The reason: a “mourning and grieving” event organised by Göttingen Peace Prize winner “Jewish voice for a just peace in the Middle East” at Oyoun on 4 November. The Berlin Senate requested Oyoun to cancel the event because it would be “too politically charged”. Oyoun decided to stand in solidarity with Jewish Voice and refused, claiming subjective and arbitrary judgement by the Senate. Now Oyoun stands to lose their state funding, effectively closing its doors. Our statement can be found here
Oyoun is an award-winning, bipoc-run, cosmopolitan, intersectional arts & culture venue, and a home for queer*feminist, migrant and decolonial perspectives. Oyoun employs 32, mostly marginalised, staff and fellows. The cancellation of funding means the end of an organisation that actively contributes to Berlin's religious, cultural, ethnic and political plurality. We have therefore written an open letter, which has currently been signed by over 7000 supporters of Oyoun.
Oyoun must stay. Especially in Germany. Especially now.
You can find the open letter via the following link: https://forms.gle/b55EbzEBa6YfM8DMA
You can also find further information about this at the news section on our website.
RESIDENCY CULTURAL/ CREATIVE/ RESEARCH/ SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
*please read the full offer to see who is eligible to apply*
Funded residency (3-4 months): Join our team at Oyoun, Berlin's anti-disciplinary epicenter dedicated to decolonial, migrant and queer*feminist arts and culture.
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We are looking for a new or would-be entrepreneur to join our team, bring in their ideas and further develop projects with a focus on one of these three areas:
– Resilience
– digital skills
– Green Skills
Your responsibilities include community building, event management, design research, admin work and more. You will be working closely with the founders and artistic direction team.
Start: asap but flexible
Location: Berlin
Please send your CV and cover letter to hallo(at)oyoun.de or tell a friend
As this is an EU funded program, you need to be a resident in one of the 27 European Member States (** EXCEPT GERMANY **) or the UK, Albania, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Republic of North Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Moldova, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Kosovo as well as EU outermost regions and the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs). This means you must have been living in one of the aforementioned countries at least for the past six months. However, it is regardless of nationality or the nature of your residence permit. Moreover, students are not eligible for this residency.
We are excited to hear from you!
EVENTS
Ausstellung / Exhibition — Gadag
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, Berlin(c) from the upper left corner in clockwise direction: Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Quyên Nguyen-Le, Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai, Yukiko Nagakura 24.03/30.04.2024-24/XNUMX/XNUMX @ Oyoun, Hall Vernissage: XNUMX. [. ..]
Vernissage — Gadag
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, Berlin(c) Min Yoon tr. "Citizen Truth", photo by Joey Binhammer March 24.03.2024, 16 @ Oyoun, hall 22-18 p.m. Exhibition opening - 19-XNUMX p.m.: Artist Talk with the exhibiting artists: Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai, [. ..]
Workshops | Life Drawing Club
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, BerlinThe Art-Expression Life-Drawing Club led by Golnar Tabibzadeh is back in Berlin! Every month Art-Expression Studios will hold at least one life drawing session in the last week of the month at Oyoun [...]
Screening: The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger — Gadag
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, Berlin(c) Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung March 27, 2024, 7:30 - 10:00 PM @ Oyoun, Club Film Screening: Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung, The Woman, the Orphan, and [.. .]
Screening: 기억의 전쟁 Untold (A War of Memories) — Gadag
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, Berlin(c) Bora Lee-Kil April 4, 2024, 8:00 - 11:00 PM @ Oyoun, Club Film Screening: Bora Lee-Kil, 기억의 전쟁 Untold (A War of Memories), 2018, 79 min. Then a Movie [...]
Network meeting | Feminist activism in platform work
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, BerlinNetwork meeting as part of the Law | series Work organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Labor Law Studies (C*LLaS) at the European University Viadrina This English-language networking event offers the opportunity to share experiences and opinions [...]
Screening: Surname Viet Given Name Nam — Gadag
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, Berlin(c) Trịnh Thị Minh Hà April 10, 2024, 7:30 - 9:00 PM @ Oyoun, Club Film Screening: Trịnh Thị Minh Hà, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, 1989, 108 min. with [...]
Our Bodies, Our Fight, Our History with Korea Verband — Gadag
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, BerlinApril 12, 2024, 2-6 PM @ Oyoun, Foyer How do we want to remember the wars? How do we fight the system? What are we demanding? In cooperation with the Korea [...]
Visual Storytelling Workshop with Deaf People with Hyemi Jo — Gadag
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, BerlinApril 14, 2024, 1:00 - 6:00 PM @ Oyoun, Lucy Lameck (Seminar Room 1) An empowering workshop on visual storytelling with deaf individuals. This workshop aims to try out various [...]
Screening: Okinawa no Harumoni — Gadag
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, BerlinApril 17, 2024, 7:30 - 9:00 PM @ Oyoun, Club Film Screening: Yamatani Tetsuo, Okinawa no Harumoni, 1979, 86 min. with English subtitle 가닥 Gadag is a project by Oyoun, [...]
Bedtime Stories: Lab final presentation — Gadag
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, BerlinApril 21, 2024, 5:00 - 7:00 PM @ Oyoun, Club Bedtime Stories: final presentation of Gadag-Lab After the six-week laboratory, the developed performance/storytelling pieces will be shared with the audience. [...]
Program in Seoul — Gadag
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, BerlinApril 27, 2024, 1-7 PM @ Goethe Institut Seoul This event will happen in Seoul, South Korea. How can art become a link for a global alliance among the marginalized [...]
Lecture | (Un)safe at work? The new ILO Convention against Violence and Harassment
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, BerlinLecture evening as part of the Law | series Work organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Labor Law Studies (C*LLaS) of the European University Viadrina On June 14, 2024, the ILO Convention against Violence [...]
Panel | Nursing as a Profession – A Feminist Issue?
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, BerlinPanel as part of the Law | series Work organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Labor Law Studies (C*LLaS) at the European University Viadrina The experiences and perspectives of professional nursing staff, their working conditions [...]
Winter Academy | How to organize solidarity from below across communities, struggles and nations?
Oyoun Lucy-Lameck-Strasse 32, BerlinWinter Academy 2024 under the title “The Lost Art of Organizing Solidarity” organized by School of Transnational Organizing. The Winter Academy will bring together 50 activists, organizers, educators, researchers and artists from Europe [...]
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