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Oyoun creates space for critical discussion, reflective collaborative experimentation and solidarity. We focus on anti-colonial, class-critical, neurodiverse, inclusive, empowering, queer and racism-critical perspectives.

Here you can find contributions from Oyoun and all contributors.

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GADAG ~ Podcast

Three podcast episodes hosted by Linda Hamoui

gadag, Podcast

Alt text in German: The image shows an abstract, square work of art with intense layers of color and textures. In the center is a large, darkly shaded Korean character that stands out clearly from the background. The background consists of vibrant reds interspersed with yellowish lines that look like the veins of a leaf. The upper layers of the image show warm orange and yellow tones, fading into a kind of card pattern, while the lower part is in purple and violet tones, interspersed with ocher spots. An impression of overlays and depth is created. Alt-Text in English: The image is a square, abstract artwork featuring intense layers of color and texture. At the center is a large, darkly shaded Korean character that stands out against the background. The background is alive with vibrant reds, intersected by yellowish lines reminiscent of leaf veins. The upper layers of the image transition into warm oranges and yellows resembling a map pattern, while the bottom part is in purples and violets, interspersed with ocher spots, creating an impression of overlay and depth.

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Gadag ~ program in DGS

On this page you will find information about the GADAG program - Threads of Memories that is relevant for deaf people who use DGS (German Sign Language).

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Alttext in German: A collage of four images with art and culture: a painting with a central figure and symbols, a woman looking at a presentation, another in conversation and a sculpture of a face. Alt text in English: A collage of four images featuring art and culture: A painting with a central figure and symbols, a woman observing a presentation, another in conversation, and a sculpture of a face.

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GADAG ~ Strands: Video and Multimedia Exhibition

The video and multimedia exhibition featuring the artists Quyên Nguyen-Le, Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) and Yukiko Nagakura constitutes the centerpiece of the project 가닥 GADAG.

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To Live Your Own Life

Have you ever felt like there's a part of your life you couldn't bring yourself to talk about? I certainly have. For the longest time, I lacked the courage to even think about it. Then, one day, I made a choice. I decided it was time to turn the page, to start a new chapter. And to do that, I realized I needed to leave the past behind and share my story. It's not always easy, but taking that step has been a crucial part of starting afresh.

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VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: UN:IMAGINABLE

In the 1990s, the conflicts in Rwanda and the Balkans shocked the world. The cultural backgrounds of these conflicts are different, and yet they have a lot in common: apart from the temporal parallels, both pursued a policy of segregation and division that ended in tragic events that culminated in genocide. Their traces are still woven into societies today; Testimonies and memories endure.

unimaginable

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VIDEO: Israel, Palestine, Germany and the Doppelgänger Effect

In this conversation, Naomi Klein together with other members of US-based Jewish Voice For Peace will join us for an exploration of the ways Israeli ethnonationalism is a double of the European nationalism that oppressed Jews, the dangers of a specific kind of trauma-forged identity politics as they play out in Israel, and efforts to combat the crackdown on arts and free speech in North America.

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Tiny Oyounity Tour

We were on tour with our tiny house from the end of August to mid-October. As part of the curatorial focus "Tiny OyoUnity", an interdisciplinary program took place at five cultural sites in different districts of Berlin. In addition to workshops on podcasting, photography and mixtaping, carried out by Hamam Talk, Maurice Leoni-Osion and Queer Analog Darkroom, pop-up events (exhibitions, performances) took place in which the neighborhood and visitors met with the artists *were able to exchange ideas.

Economical performance, Tiny House, Tiny OyoUnity, workshop

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DEMO: ELECTRIC READS

The "Electric Lies" residency artists Camilla Therese Karlsen, Elisabeth Heilmann Blind, Lars Henrik Blind, Marika Renhuvud, Liv Aira, Luis Bogado and Asta Mitkijá Balto were in Berlin in October (2023) and were guests at Oyoun. They examined the impact of forcing indigenous communities to abandon their traditional way of life to pave the way for modern energy production for the masses.

Listening to the Land

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Workshop: Harvesting Resilience

As part of our curatorial focus Listening to the Land and the associated outdoor program “Sea Behind the Wall”, curator Zeren Oruc, together with herbalist and horticulturist Lea Nassim Tajbakhsh, is hosting a series of workshops on the topics of foraging in September and October 2023. and guerrilla gardening.

Listening to the Land, workshop

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UNIMAGINABLE IN SARAJEVO

UN:IMAGINABLE - Our Histories in Conversation is on the road again. After premiering in Oyoun, Berlin in May 2022 and being performed at the Genocide Memorial Kigali in July 2022 as part of the Ubumuntu Arts Festival, the transnational documentary music theater now continues its journey in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. It will be presented there in the form of a film screening, accompanied by a discourse program. Melina Borčak is responsible for curating them.

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Launch + Vernissage: Species, Soil and Successors

In mid-July the time had finally come: Our new curatorial focus "Listening to the Land" opened with the interdisciplinary project "Species, Soil and Successors" by Arijit Bhattacharyya.

Arijit Bhattacharyya, Listening to the Land

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AHMAD BABA: OUR QUEER FUTURE IS A PAST TENSE

After his intimate performance and an impressive exhibition on the first floor in early May, we are happy to share some photographic impressions of Ahmad Baba's work Our Queer future is a past tense. "Our Queer future is a past tense" was an installative performance based on a post-migrant perspective on queerness in relation to Arab* identity(ies).

Ahmad Baba, exhibition, Economical performance, Queer

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MOUDJAHIDATE* - aftertaste

Almost six months have passed since the opening of the exhibition "Moudjahidate* - women*, resistance, queer alliance" curated by Oyoun and the accompanying six-day discourse program "Maghreb*alike". With this video we look back on the numerous inspiring conversations and events that we were able to experience with you in this context.

Maghreb* alike, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*

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Workshop: Mightier than a trampled flower

As part of our curatorial focus MIGHTIER THAN A TRAMPLED FLOWER two workshops were held in the spring and late summer of 2022 with a small group of artists, curators and researchers. Participants were Yukiko Nagakura, Nadja Makhlouf, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Bruna Amaro and the curator Dami Choi for the facilitation. As a space to align, exchange and think together, these online workshops posed and probed a set of questions which weave the practices and the realities that the Curatorial Focus dwells on.

AS* PAPANGUS, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*

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UN:IMAGINABLE

In this talk, four extraordinary creatives get together and discuss the many ways in which trauma can be reflected through various forms of art and potentially help ease the (un)conscious pain inherited or experienced.

unimaginable

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Curators* Lab 2022 – AFTERMOVIE

What role does curating play in deepening our practices and producing knowledge? How do we open ourselves to different forms of learning through curating?

Curators * Lab

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rongin shagor/রঙিন সাগর – Pop-up exhibition for an evening

For one evening, on November 13.11th, there was the opportunity to experience the works of the participating artists from "rongin shagor/রঙিন সাগর" in physical form. For those of you who didn't make it to the pop-up exhibition, we would like to show a selection of images to give you an idea of the artworks.

May Ayim, rongin shagor

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UN:IMAGINABLE – AFTERMOVIES

With UN:IMAGINABLE we were able to co-produce an extraordinary theater work this year, which arose from the lived reality of trauma, war, exclusion and exile. In this post we present you the aftermovies from the performances in Berlin and Kigali.

Economical performance, Theater, unimaginable

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Website launch – RONGIN SHAGOR

On Sunday, November 13.11.2022th, XNUMX, we finally celebrated the launch of the Rongin Shagor website together with all the artists and you. The works of the participating artists, which can currently be admired on the Rongin Shagor website - www.ronginshagor.com - were exhibited in person and made tangible.

dance, May Ayim, rongin shagor, website

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Audio introduction to the exhibition – MOUDJAHIDATE*

Oyoun's Fellow Jihen Saoudi presents a trilingual audio introduction to the exhibition "Moudjahidate* - women*, resistance, queer alliance". You can listen to the exhibition description in German, French and Arabic.

Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, queer * feminist

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Maghreb* alike

After we were already able to share the first photos from the exhibition opening of “Moudjahidate* - women*, resistance, queer alliance”, here are some insights from the associated discourse program “Maghreb* alike”.

Maghreb* alike, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, queer * feminist

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OPENING – MOUDJAHIDATE* – WOMEN*, RESISTANCE, QUEER ALLIANCE

On November 1st, the day the Algerian War of Independence began 60 years ago, the artists from "Moudjahidate* - women*, resistance, queer alliance" presented their powerful works. With the photos of the vernissage we look back on an evening with many impressions and interesting conversations.

Maya Inès Touam, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Nadja Makhlouf, Sarah El Hamed

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BECOMING ALMAN

In this episode, jô talks about how she tries to create a discourse about gender and colonialism with her art.

Becoming Alman, jô osbórnia

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MOUDJAHIDATE*

Commemorating the 60th anniversary of Algeria's independence from France, "Moudjahidate* - women*, resistance, queer alliance" honors the commitment of female fighters* in the struggle for freedom and autonomy for their people and themselves. The exhibition creates a space for everyone Women* who have contributed to the liberation of the country with their bodies, minds and strength.

Maya Inès Touam, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Moujahidate*, Nadja Makhlouf, Sarah El Hamed

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becoming alman

In this episode of Oyouniverse we welcomed artist Elif Çelik to our studio. Elif is one of four artists in the Becoming Alman project, a performative exhibition centered around the theme of citizenship.

Becoming Alman, Elif Celik

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Embodied Temporalities Birmingham - An aftertaste

The first tour stop of Embodied Temporalities – Tracing the memories our bodies hold European tour was at the Shout Festival, Birmingham's annual queer arts and culture festival. Here are some photos and an audiovisual recap of the days in Birmingham.

Embodied temporalities, Migration, Queer

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Embodied Arts Festival—Behind the Streams

After tour stops in Birmingham, Prague and Lesvos, the Embodied Temporalities project and subsequent tour came to an end in May 2022. As part of various clips, we will review the intensive events over the next few weeks. Let's start with an intensive behind the stream of the Embodied Arts Festival!

Embodied Arts Festival, Festival, Economical performance

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AUTOPOIESIS – Curatorial introduction with Shaunak Mahbubani

During the opening week of AUTOPOIESIS in August 2022 and as part of the opening program, curator Shaunak Mahbubani shared some thoughts on the exhibition, which after several weeks in Berlin has traveled on to Kassel, Mexico City, Guatemala City and New Delhi. In this post, we present you with a recording of Shaunak Mahbubani's speech.

autopoiesis, exhibition, opening, Queer, Shaunak Mahbubani

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Autopoiesis - An aftertaste

An eventful opening week for AUTOPOIESIS is behind us. We read together with Rajyashri Goody and danced to the Fadescha and MORENXXX DJ sets. Dhrubo Jyoti, Shaunak Mahbubani and Eli Moon discussed and lectured in the garden while Jesús Hilario-Reyes and Exael performed under a dense carpet of strobe lights. Check out the event photos here!

autopoiesis, exhibition, Economical performance, Queer

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Summer of Culture Berlin in the Oyoun

Vincent Bababoutilabo and his music project Rosa Shakur as well as the art collective “Ministry for Compassion” were guests at the Oyoun in July as part of the current Kultursommer Berlin initiative funded by the Senate. In this article we present you the associated photo and video documentation.

concert, Cultural Summer Berlin, Ministry of Compassion

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Oyoun proud

In the course of Pride Month and Berlin Pride, we asked the Oyoun-affiliated artists Mazen Khaddaj, Will Fredo and Prince Emrah a few questions and asked them for their perspectives on art, Pride Month, queerness and community.

doctor, Mazen Khaddaj, pride, Prince Emrah, Will Fredo Furtado

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BECOMING ALMAN | Oyounity Report by Beyza Yavuz-Radas

In her Oyounity report, Beyza Yavuz-Radas gives a personal insight into the project and the event "Becoming Alman", which took place from May 26th to 27th, 2022 in Oyoun.

Becoming Alman, Oyounty

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Becoming Alman

In this new episode of OyoUniverse, the podcast produced by Oyoun, we get to welcome Lora Krasteva - cultural producer, activist and lead artist of Becoming Alman - as well as the producer of the project Claire Gilbert.

Becoming Alman, Claire Gilbert, Lora Krasteva

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We Should All Be Dreaming (video feature)

After we were able to share photos from the evening of "We Should All Be Dreaming" a few weeks ago, here is an audiovisual moving image echo in which the two performers Sonya Lindfors and Maryan Abdulkarim take us back to dreamy parallel worlds for a few minutes kidnap

Maryan Abdulkarim, Economical performance, Sonya Lindfors, video, We should all be dreaming

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Vernissage: “May Ayim: Poet. 1996.” by Akinbode Akinbiyi

In June, the internationally renowned photographer and documenta alumnus Akinbode Akinbiyi showed extremely intimate black and white photographs dealing with the farewell of the Afro-German poet, activist and editor May Ayim in 1996.

Akinbode Akinbiyi, exhibition, May Ayim: Poet. 1996, Photography, rongin shagor

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Queer ping pong

Hand on the trowel and on the heart - in mid-July, the Queer Ping Pong team finally opened the table tennis tables in the Oyoun, set up the DJ booth and asked a more than suitable live act for the evening on the garden stage with Gazino Neukölln. Check out the pictures from the event here!

Queer ping pong, queer * feminist

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OYOUN IN KIGALI

This year's edition of the Ubumuntu Arts Festival in Kigali is over and those who were there were able to see the premiere of Asmaa Sbou & Senait Sebhatleab's performance "I see you - you see me". The work of the two Curator*s LAB 2021 alumni is a powerful piece about healing, love and the memories of Black and Afro-Diasporic bodies.

Asmaa Sbou, Economical performance, senait sebhatleab, Theater, unimaginable

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Video for the AS* PAPANGUS Performance Berlin

10 women* came together on a Friday evening in May, not knowing what to expect but believing in a common space - a community of women* fighting, demanding, loving and sharing. The documentation for the performance is now online here.

AS* PAPANGUS, Bruna Amaro, Mightier than a Trampled Flower

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WE SHOUND ALL BE DREAMING | Oyounity Report by Dumama

4 volunteers and 30 invited guests at the think tank dinner party entitled: WE SHOULD ALL BE DREAMING - An Oyounity Report by Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama

You mother, Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama, We should all be dreaming

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AS* PAPANGUS in Berlin

After the Afro-Brazilian artist Bruna Amaro had already organized a carnival in its most queer*feminist and decolonial form with more than 50 women* in São Paulo, she and seven Berliners marched through the streets of Neukölln almost a month later to protest against the to fight against the objectification of marginalized bodies.

AS* PAPANGUS, Bruna Amaro, Mightier than a Trampled Flower

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"Me and you we need."

It has been scientifically proven that experiences of racism lead to more stress hormones. Racism also has the power to distract those affected from life. This raises the question of what forms of healing are there and what can art do for them?

Asmaa Sbou

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Becoming Alman

On 26.05.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX we celebrated the opening of "Becoming Alman", an exhibition dedicated to exploring identity and nationality through performance, interventions and visual art. The expressive photos by Andie Riekstina make us fondly remember this project.

Becoming Alman, Elif Celik, Jingyun Li, jô osbórnia, Lora Krasteva

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Un:imaginable – aftertaste

With the premiere of the Rwandan-Bosnian-German production UN:IMAGINABLE and the associated supporting program at the end of May, an eventful weekend is behind us. For those who couldn't be there, you can find some photographic impressions and an aftermovie of the events here.

Economical performance, theater, unimaginable

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We should all be dreaming

On three sold-out evenings in the club, we dreamed, danced, ate and speculated about the future together with Sonya Lindfors and Maryan Abdulkarim.

Maryan Abdulkarim, Sonya Lindfors, We should all be dreaming

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(De)coding Trajectories Ceremony

(De)Coding Trajectories will be a performance research process taking place in Prague. Artists Ahmad BaBa and Gugulethu Duma invite practitioners concerned with decoding and recoding embodied memory to enter into an exchange where the body is a center of ongoing investigation.For this residency, the artists are looking to collaborate with practitioners concerned with Subaltern states of being and the development of liberatory practice in community.

Embodied temporalities

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AS* PAPANGUS

AS* PAPANGUS is a carnival for, by and with women* that does not objectify marginalized bodies. In AS* PAPANGUS, the Afro-Brazilian artist Bruna Amaro performs a carnival in its most queer*feminist and decolonial form with over 50 women* in São Paulo and Berlin.

AS* PAPANGUS, Bruna Amaro, Mightier than a Trampled Flower, Nadja Makhlouf, Yukiko Nagakura

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Hookah bars are safe spaces

We commemorate all victims of racist violence. In particular, we would like to remember the victims of Hanau - who were attacked in their "safe spaces" and murdered in cold blood. Germany is not always safe for marginalized people, so they need special protection. Some of the victims of Hanau were racistly killed in a shisha bar. Their only escape route was blocked. On the instructions of the police "to facilitate raids".

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Dutch Culture X Oyoun

Louna Sbou, co-founder of Oyoun, was a guest at "Artists in Conversation" hosted by Rokhaya Seck, a series by DutchCulture from the Netherlands. She spoke about artistic freedom and the related challenges in the German cultural sector, the artistic creation in Morocco, the process of healing black and brown bodies and our project "Embodied Temporalities - Tracing the memories our bodies hold".

Embodied Arts Festival

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Four studies of Cocoon I Golnar Tabibzadeh

Listen to our talk with Golnar Tabibzadeh. Her artistic work was part of our Lockdown Residency representing a healing and pictorial act of self-care - addressing claustrophobic feelings through painting.

Golnar Tabibzadeh, Lockdown residency, Lockdown residency podcast, OyoUniverse

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Embryonic Babies of Hot Winters Concept Teaser | ESCAPISM

"Embryonic Babies of Hot Winters" questions a questionable past, present and foreseeable future.

Avita Maheen, escapism

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Guacuco Concept Teaser | escapism

“Guacuco” is a short dream about returning to your home and making space for better things.

escapism, Sol Martinez-Solé

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tarare concept teaser | escapism

'tarare' is a linear, narrative based game that leads the audience through the destructive domains of colorism and texture.

escapism, tea boyarchuk

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بتحصل BETAHSSUL - IT HAPPENS

Our fellow Zeyo has released his new album. There were also two concerts. Here you can see how it was.

Fellow, Zeyo

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THE PATH

The Oyoun was part of the interdisciplinary art project "The PATH", which problematized the relationship between the metropolis and the individual from a queer and feminist perspective.

The Path

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Backbone

In the exhibition "Backbone", the artist Mazen Khaddaj processes his relationship with his father. We are very happy to have had such an emotional exhibition in our house.

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W / O additive playlist

'w / o additives' is a music project dedicated to BIPoC musicians past and present. Here you can find the playlist for the exhibition

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QUEER MIDEAST TUNES X DJ İPEK

We have listed the favorite tunes and tips for you here from the DJ, producer and curator İpek İpekçioğlu, who lives in Berlin and Istanbul.

a21, amber festival, decolonial, Festival, mideast tunes, Music

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Amber Festival exhibition

Oyoun produced the a`21 festival, a project that artistically reflects on technological developments and socio-political / power-critical discourses. 69 artists in 16 countries (Africa / Swana / Europe / Asia) as well as a radical collaborative-experimental LAB were involved. The result was a total of over 50 events: performances, workshops, panels, screenings, VR hackathons, and much more. Here you can see the results from the festival.

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Se het case

A spoken word and dance performance by Nane Kahle and Asmaa Sbou that reflects the way in which the continuing history of post-colonial trauma returns to the new perspective of the black and brown body that rules the society in which we live.

Asmaa Sbou, Curators* Tour 2021, Nane Bald

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BREAKING NEWS

This work is for all people who already know what we want to say and have to say, and are not just looking for proof that they believe in many things that have been said over and over for ages but NOBODY seems to care. - WAF

a21, amber festival, Festival, WAF

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Listening to green grass

A sound installation in which Barbara Ramirez, Susana A. Majid, Alexey Kochetkov and Mohamedali Ltaief experiment together with materials from different perspectives, languages and sound knowledge by using data and media from different archives, narratives, texts and simple sounds of the streets and the Use the current environment as well as transform visual material into text and tell.

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Collective grief

A music mix and accompanying text from Sandra Ho, shedding light on the topic of race-based stress / trauma. This work reflects the need to consider the issue for mental health approaches and matters of individual and collective healing.

anti-Asian racism, Healing, Sandra Ho

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Eyes Never Shut Up

Songs, shouts, protest, happiness, hopelessness, streets, Chile. This video explores different situations that were recorded as a result of the political situation that Chile is going through. We invite the audience on this journey of emotions through the sound and eyes.

Barbara Ramirez, Curators * Lab, Curators* Tour 2021, Lorena Valdenegro

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wandering soul

A collaboration between Nane Kahle, Anis Hamdoun and Ammar Obeid: using a cinematographic approach to explore and picture the unpleasant states, confrontations we are confronted with as individuals they created a short performance film.

Ammar Obaid, Anise Hamdoun, Curators * Lab, Curators* Tour 2021, Nane Bald

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A Skeleton of What Used to Be

Nané and GodXXX Noirphiles are both audio and visual artists whose work thrives in the arena of public shared space. We explore distortion through turning a video call into a performance, the performance into a video call, creating a synchronized shared environment while existing in separate spaces, and simultaneously not being present when the launch is over and the space remains.

Adrian Marie Blount, Curators * Lab, Curators* Tour 2021, Nane Bald

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Mirage | Avril Stormy Unger

A performance intervention in an upscale mall in Bangalore, India that exposes structural inequalities in access to basic needs such as health care and clean water.

Avril Stormy Unger, Embodied temporalities, The Mirage,

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Ilk عِلْق | Ahmad Baba

Ilk عِلْق presents a queer Arab-Muslim vision of the future that begins with healing by rewriting history on one's own terms and (re) building an identity that has been misinterpreted and distorted in many ways.

Ahmad Baba, Embodied temporalities, Queer

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Flesh Hunger & Flesh Memory - An inquiry into the body

A Black Queer Poetics Playlist by Kopano Maroga and Maneo Mohale - two Black, queer non-binary babes from Southern Africa obsessed with desire and memory, the body and history.

Embodied temporalities, Kopano Maroga, Maneo Mohale

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Untangle | Avril Stormy Unger

"Untangle is a reflection of my internalization of social expectations and deals with the stages of unlearning, unpacking and untangling on my journey to a new self-identity."

Avril Stormy Unger, Embodied temporalities, Spread

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All that you touch you change, all that you change changes you with Suelen Calonga I Ancestral Body Noise 2

In this podcast episode, Dumama and Suelen explore the anti-racism work forming the core of Suelen Calonga's poetic, audio-visual archival process. Dumama and Suelen have a reflective and heartwarming conversation about the Ancestral Body Noise process over the weeks, getting to know Suelen's candomble roots.

Ancestral body noise, You mother, Embodied temporalities, Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama, OyoUniverse, Podcast, Rituals of Real (ease)

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An exploration of what powers hatred

An introduction to Sujatro Ghosh's project for Oyoun's Embodied Temporalities curatorial focus: "The Geography of Hate"

Arijit Bhattacharyya, Caroline Spille, Embodied temporalities, Farah Deen, Fatmanur Sahin, Karen Cheng, Sujatro Ghosh, The Geography of Hate

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Pushing paper, pushing spirit with Sailesh Nadu I Ancestral Body Noise 2

In this OyoUniverse podcast episode, Dumama and Sailesh have a conversation, unraveling thoughts and experiences concerning the Ancestral Body Noise process, Sailesh's tarot practice and the psycho-spiritual exploration of the dream world.

Ancestral body noise, You mother, Embodied temporalities, Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama, OyoUniverse, Podcast, Rituals of Real (ease)

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On relocating, schizophrenic arts, bones and anthropology.

In this episode, we talk to the award-winning and globally acclaimed, antidisciplinary artist Yasmina Alaoui about the relocation from New York to Marrakech, on sourcing local material, on career suicide and upcoming projects.

OyoUniverse, Yasmina Alaoui

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Sent here to be sentient with Indrani Ashe I Ancestral Body Noise 2

In this week's episode of Ancestral Body Noise, dumama is in conversation with Indrani Ashe (@theshadowarchivist). Together they go on a reflexive journey unpacking Indrani's interdisciplinary works: my goddess gave birth to a goddess, yoga without adriene and her relationship with ritual, ancestry and migration.

Ancestral body noise, You mother, Embodied temporalities, Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama, OyoUniverse, Podcast, Rituals of Real (ease)

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On creativity, authenticity and speaking honestly with oneself.

In this OyoUniverse Podcast episode, we talk to Natalie Greffel - Berlin based vocalist, instrumentalist, composer and arranger.

Lockdown residency podcast, Natalie Greffel, OyoUniverse

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Louna Sbou | COA

"So I think it definitely brought people from the communities together ..."

Decolonizing Queerness, Cartographies of affect, Louna bent Abdelmoula Sbou, non-binary, Queer

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Decolonial Contemporary African Diasporic Visions

Exocé was in our art residence with his project "DCADV". With this project he explores different narratives of the continent Africa with the aim of opening up different perspectives for young Afro-diasporic people.

DCADV, Exoce Kasongo

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Liberation and the universal cry, sis with Yin Cheng-Kokkot

Yin Cheng Kokott and Dumama go on a deep journey exploring voice and the ancestral symbolism at play as she re-discovers her relationship with voice and voicelessness. Yin shares a tender process and reflection calling her late grandma to her Ancestral Body Noise journey, along with all the sounds she has inherited from her.

Ancestral body noise, You mother, Embodied temporalities, Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama, OyoUniverse, Podcast, Rituals of Real (ease)

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Mala Badi | Collective Healing from Colonial Memories

"The central message is the decolonization of our bodies, because there is too much shame ..."

Decolonizing Queerness, Cartographies of affect, Mala Badi, non-binary, Queer

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On Feminism, Feminity and Finding Home Within

Dr. Maiada Aboud in conversation with Juliana Yazbeck - a Lebanese-American-British singer-songwriter. Part of series of conversations on being a pirate pioneer woman * - socially, artistically, and politically.

Ascension, dr Maiada Aboud, Embodied temporalities, Femininity, Feminism, Juliana Yazbeck

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Biographies, life with two homes and the co-existing “self”.

Lockdown residency podcast, Lorena Valdenegro, OyoUniverse

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Poetry & Filmmaking I Bipoc Film Society

"With this video we wanted to represent different poets and learn about their working methods and, above all, to present their work to other people." - BIPOC Film Society Team

BIPOC film society, Films, Poetry

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Exiled in your own country: on mental health, society and hair.

Lockdown residency, Lockdown residency podcast, OyoUniverse, WAF

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We compose ourselves with KooCha

In this first episode of Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real (ease), Dumama and Koocha go on a an exploration of multi-disciplinary performance.

Ancestral body noise, You mother, Embodied temporalities, Gugulethu Duma aka Dumama, KooCha, OyoUniverse, Podcast, Rituals of Real (ease)

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Oumaima Dermoumi | Abandoned Queers in Lebanon

Oumaima heals the wounds of love, politics and society.

Decolonizing Queerness, Cartographies of affect, non-binary, Oumaima dermoumi, Queer

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FLAMES | Susu AbdulMajid

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In this OyoUniverse episode, we talk to Alexey Kochetkov about the socio-economic discrepancies in the globalized world and his emotional experience of the endless wars going on across the world, as well as about the social impact of art and the power of social media.

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