Let’s decolonize yoga practice together 🧘🏾♀️🧘🏿♀️🧘🏽♂️🧘🏿♂️: Join Nane Kahle (IG: @nanekahlesound) on a yoga journey...The “Tjef Sema Paut Neteru” System is a yoga practice based on Ancient Egyptian knowledge. This somatic technology brings you the awareness of the connection with your mind, your spirit, your body and your inner world in a way that celebrates [...]
► a’21: techno utopia x post-digital ignorance ► 10 MARCH - 18 MAY, 2021 :: EXHIBITIONS :: PERFORMANCES :: TALKS, WORKSHOPS & LECTURES :: & MORE :: ABOUT a’21 FESTIVAL :: The past few decades have witnessed a tremendous proliferation of digital technology. References to a techno-utopia where knowledge would be available to each and [...]
► a'21: Alsarah & the Nubatones: live concert :: ABOUT :: Alsarah & the Nubatones were born out of many dinner conversations between alsarah and rami el aasser about nubian ‘songs of return’, modern migration patterns and the cultural exchanges between sudan and egypt. A common love for the richness of pentatonic sounds, and shared [...]
►a'21: Techno-social solutions to disinformation_amberPlatform When: 15. March 2021 Time: 12:30-14:00 :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: Disinformation is fed by ignorance and in its turn it feeds ignorance. This will be a seminar activity in which humans' technological solutions and their limitations in countering disinformation will be reviewed. The seminar, which will be evaluated [...]
►a'21: Ignorant Fairies: New Materialist Queer-Feminist Political Ecological Approaches_amberPlatform In this workshop, we will be studying selected new materialist texts and works of art regarding non-human life, nature and matter in this digital era which also intersects with Anthropocene discussion starting from the beginning of 2000s to better confront the growing 'uncertainty' 'unintelligibility' of non [...]
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge/Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities. It's relating to each other horizontally beyond any power/organizational structure. Abdeslam Ziou Ziou, researcher in arts, will tackle the subject from the prism of arts, by giving his approach to decolonization in the [...]
►a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance #2: How can we decolonize Images and Aesthetics?_Kounaktif How can we decolonize cinema, and how can we approach Oral Knowledge as a tool of resistance to colonialism. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge/Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities. It's [...]
► a'21: Removing passive observers :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: This world rewards us when we just watch silently. The line between inaction and activism has grown smaller. We cant afford for people to passively watch on anymore. You actions have consequences. You lack of action has repercussions. Let's find out what they are. [...]
►"a'21: Decolonizing Knowledge and Ignorance #3: Decolonization of Epistemology_Kounaktif :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR/FR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge/Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities. It's relating to each other horizontally beyond any power/organisational structure. Seloua Luste Boulbina, philosopher, will speak about ways of decolonizing paradigms, and different ways [...]
►a'21: Dust to Come_New Media Society/ Parking Video Library :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Dust to come is a re-screening of a former online program at New Media Projects which will take place both online/offline in our space and via our website. Was it ever our future? “The Removed Agency” got me by surprise [...]
► a'21: online VR workshops and hackathon (Schedule below) “Urban spaces and places transform the way we explain the world to ourselves and others and define the way we see ourselves; provide the necessary infrastructure to transform the way we see our bodies and genders globally.” (Jerram, 2011) :: ABOUT THIS EVENT :: Amber Network [...]
►a'21: Decolonising Knowledge and Ignorance #4: Intersectional approach to decolonisation and Arts_Kounaktif :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Decolonizing Knowledge/Ignorance is beginning from the many, it's thinking in terms of networks, flows and intensities. It's relating to each other horizontally beyond any power/organizational structure. Lamyaâ Achary, researcher in sociology, will present their approach to the [...]
►a'21: MidEast Tunes w/ İpek İpekçioğlu :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Explore and enjoy the tunes of İpek İpekçioğlu who will be preparing a special set merging traditional and electronic sounds. Based between Berlin and Istanbul, queer-living DJ, producer and curator, İpek İpekçioğlu has an established reputation across nightlife scenes worldwide. She has performed [...]
►a'21: Decolonizing Imaginaries : Inve/ting paradigms_Kounaktif :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Post-digital Ignorance in our region may refer to our ignorance of our roots, pre-colonial values, mythologies and imaginaries. This category of Ignorance is very visible in the mainstream art field where we try to duplicate the model found in the West. Our galleries, [...]
►a'21: Engagement with the neighbourhood through art and design_ Darağaç Audience will have information on alternative exhibition methods and how one can implement virtual reality to re-define a space. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: A conversation with Güzden Varinlioğlu and Emre Yıldız about the transformation of a neighbourhood with the engagement of art and [...]
► a'21: Sustainability and Resource Mobilisation :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: The workshop will introduce participants to the notion of sustainability vs fundraising. The speaker will share with the attendees basics of sustainable resources mobilisation strategy. :: BIO :: Ouafa is an expert in cultural and creative projects fundraising. She is also a researcher [...]
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: The Workshop will be in the form of a conversation with the attendees sharing experiences and analysing trends and perspectives. The impact of digitalisation and the Emergency response mechanisms adopted by funders and stakeholders will be the main focus of the discussion. :: BIO :: Ouafa is an expert [...]
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Starting from the consideration that there are no precise boundaries delimiting what is art-based research, we would like to put into discussion such an emerging practice in the cultural field, by questioning it from the perspective of knowledge production as well as its link to education or generative practices. [...]
The workshop focuses on the aesthetics of the cumulative nature of information that is unlearned and relearned in a holistic, experience-oriented, democratic and de-colonialist manner, in which the practice travels around the theory and the mainstream meanings attached are questioned. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: Taking the birth and transmission of knowledge via digital [...]
►a'21: Trouble Market _amberPlatform As part of the workshop, we focus on humanity's current troubles and make them marketable. Come on, start selling your troubles now! :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: Many problems facing humanity today are actually the problems that companies and states (or power centres) generate to protect their economic or political [...]
►a'21: A conversation about collective's role in İzmir_ Darağaç Audience will have an insight information about the influence of collectives in the art scene of Izmir. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: A conversation with Tom Keogh and Ali Kemal Ertem from Maquis Project in İzmir and Hande Bozbıyık about the roles of collectives in [...]
►a'21: Queer Feminist Interventions in Filling Open Resource Gaps: Wiki Edit-a-thon_amberPlatform For this event we are focusing on artistic practices that revision existing mythologies and by unraveling these dominating narratives re-tell them from a queer/feminist perspective. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey (WMTR) and Amber Platform will host an online [...]
► a'21: one to one sessions 30min each - Talk to CFW When: 27 March - 16:00-17:00 (two sessions) 03 April - 16:00-17:00 (two sessions) 04 April - 16:00-17:00 (two sessions) :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: CFW CEO, Ouafa Belgacem will be holding 6 one to 6 session to offer a guidance a counselling [...]
► a'21: Breaking News_WAF & Deena Abdelwahed An audiovisual collaboration and video performance work. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/FR/AR) :: Let’s think of this work as an object. An object without any (injunction) An object as a (proposition) Proposition et non pas une injonction. Des choses sans sens (avec une part d’insignifiant). Proposer la chose [...]
► a'21: Slap of the century__Shahraban This event is a panel discussion. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Shahraban is an open space for knowledge and experimentation includes a library and a Lab, based in “Boday” a small village in Baalbek, , its goal is to share knowledge to produce different knowledges, it is an [...]
► a’21: Needle hole and cannabis leftover by Shahraban* A documentation of local productions from Lebanese leftover cannabis to fresh milk, and more. A philosophical process fusing traditional practice with new media elements. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Needle hole is a series of four events, each events title is a product from the [...]
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: The Zen of Pad.ma is a collection of lessons learned, and question encountered, in over a decade of collaborative archiving projects. They are concerned with the way in which digital technologies are always intertwined with their analogue surroundings, try to address some of the - technological, social and conceptual [...]
►a'21: Sounds of Darağaç Launch Event Audience will attend to a happening in the neighbourhood. : ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: Sounds of Darağaç project was brought to life with the collaboration of Darağaç Collective Istanbul and Amsterdam-based record company Lu Records and Izmir’s subcultural music collective Apeiron. Sounds of Darağaç is an auditory memory [...]
►a'21: Sounds of Darağaç Using sound to document a neighbourhood and collaboration of collectives will be main topics in this conversation. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: Sounds of Darağaç project was brought to life with the collaboration of Darağaç Collective Istanbul and Amsterdam-based record company Lu Records and Izmir’s subcultural music collective Apeiron. Sounds [...]
►a'21: Random Walks_amberPlatform :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: There will be 4 podcasts which are 12 minutes length. Podcasts will be based on keywords created by the a'21 festival community, which will be based on a ongoing podcast named Random Walk by Bager Akbay and Tevfik Uyar. ► Click "going" on Facebook to stay [...]
►a'21: Sudan education curriculum_BAAB Collective This event aims to understand the ongoing fight until now that took place in the social media, also the daily life. The debate about the education curriculum content after the change of past regime and the important question of the fight why the portrait of the Creation of Adam "Michael [...]
The name of the exhibition is pointing over a huge success of the sit-in space during the Sudan revolution that people come together which never happened in the history of (what's call Sudan) and which shows a victory against the plan of colonialism and the post colonialism operation that's mean to suppress the unity of [...]
►a'21: Motavali 2 | Media Performances_New Media Society :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Motavali 2 (Continuous in Persian) brings together performative positions across different disciplines: lecture performance to Multimedia Installations. Projects which are being made, being revised, or tested; while most of our interactions and urgent matters in life are happening “online”. It's inevitable [...]
►a'21: The new liberalism crises and the emergence of mediatised subjectivity_BAAB Collective During in the last past decade Sudanese get harm by the US sanctions that affect the whole state and now we are shifting to neoliberal state supporting by US politics and come the question how the new system work and exactly when come [...]
It is within the intersections of body memory and history that our bodies are potentially at their most revealing. Memories interrupt history and open up another possibility of embodied living, one that spatialises time and temporalises space. Hence, treating the body as memory and discussing the role of the body in witnessing authoritarian capitalism, memorialising [...]
EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL - AUF DEN SPUREN VERKÖRPERTER ERINNERUNGEN ♦️♦️♦️ Embodied Arts Festival Guide ♦️♦️♦️ Was verkörpern unsere Körper? Welche Erinnerungen können uns unsere Körper erzählen? - über uns selbst, unsere Vergangenheit und unsere Zukunft? Wir laden euch ein, mit uns diesen und vielen weiteren Fragen während des EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL künstlerisch nachzugehen. Wir haben über [...]
Hate is an entity that spreads like a wildfire. An entity that creates "the Other". It becomes the prime lens through which the Other is read and dehumanised. Hate exists as an emotion that brings communities or groups together questioning expressions such as empathy, love and care. In the collective act of the world making [...]
Co-curators of the BLACK POST BOX, Gugulethu Duma and Dylan Greene, explore racial and cultural melancholy by centralizing the work of Saidiyah Hartman who asks, "...what if depression could be traced to histories of colonialism, genocide, slavery, exclusion, everyday segregation, and isolation that haunt all of our lives, rather than to biochemical imbalances? How can [...]
Ascension is a theatre play - an outcome of a durational project about gender, femininity and menstruation. The project engaged participants with a community debate in order to reflect on gender equality and social change. The project explored menstruation, taboos, and identity from all potential directions such as historical, political, embodied, cultural, religious, social, health, [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]
►a'21: How to build a world. (Storytelling in digital environments)_ADEF The Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF), through its core team and rich web of affiliates, creates and documents models of collaboration to design activities and projects which build on technology in order to develop self-expression, knowledge dissemination and production of thought. In its new iterations, [...]
Ahmad Baba (Cyclomorphosis), is a Berlin-based Lebanese multidisciplinary performer, a social artist, and a Master's student in Dance Movement Therapy. With Ilk عِلْق, Ahmad is investigating queerness from a queer Arab perspective, tracking the roots of queer lives lived in Arabic and Muslim societies going back centuries. It is an investigation into how queerness has become, [...]
► a'21: Underground women_BAAB Collective This Exhibition is a discussion panel. This event explains how women suffer and gives information about the manipulation of the system to get the information about women health and sexuality and how that affect them by exposing them to the major risk behaviour and conciseness and how this lead to [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]
The Ancestral Body Noise: Rituals of Real(ese) Ceremony is a procession concluding and honouring the six-week-long, intercultural healing incubator curated and facilitated by cultural researcher, future-folk musician and life-long psycho-spiritual student, Gugulethu ‘Dumama’ Duma. The five participants identify as part of the BIPOC diaspora in Berlin: KooCha, Indrani Ashe, Yin Cheng-Kokott, Sailesh Naidu and Suelen [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]
► a'21: Sudavision_BAAB Collective This events aims to show how Sudanese men suffer to express gender equality and freedom of expression against class and race. It shows us who we are and presents our self to the other by using recycling materials. It is our way to point out claimant change in the global south. [...]
The multidisciplinary afrocentric artist Exocé Kasongo will walk the ground at May-Ayim-Ufer in Berlin-Kreuzberg, he will move, dance, act, read and sing. He will wear clothes created by Souleyman, which feature the fabrics visualizing Exocé’s collage work. The performance is the culmination of Exocé’s five-month project D.C.A.D.V (Decolonial Contemporary African Diasporic Visions), a search for [...]
►a'21: Alec Issigonis's Relief and Mural Performance_Darağaç Audience will be able to see how a public artwork is being produced in the collective. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: This is a live broadcasting event. Illustrator Suat İlyus will transform the outer facade of a building in the neighborhood. Artist Ali Kanal will place the [...]
►a'21: Becoming With Fungi_Mary Maggic A bio art workshop with Mary Maggic. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Human industrial activity (petrochemical, agricultural, and pharmaceutical) has permanently altered the planet through the widespread presence of xenoestrogens, or endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). Molecules such as BPA, phthalates, PCBs, dioxins, and synthetic hormones have hormone-mimicking and displacing [...]
The workshop focuses on the aesthetics of the cumulative nature of information that is unlearned and relearned in a holistic, experience-oriented, democratic and de-colonialist manner, in which the practice travels around the theory and the mainstream meanings attached are questioned. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: How can we shift from post-digital ignorance to post-digital [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]
Ein Performance-Abend mit Cornelia and Kerim Melik Becker Nach zwei Wochen Residency bei Oyoun gehen Cornelia und Kerim Becker auf die Bühne - lesen, singen, bewegen und spielen - und verkörpern ihre Fragestellungen und gesuchten Antworten mit lyrischer und musikalischer Sprache. “Ein geliebter Mensch stirbt. Wie erleben und verarbeiten seine nächsten Angehörigen – Lebensgefährtin und [...]
► a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces-I “Surplus of Destruction” :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: Our workshop -in three parts- implicates complex cartographies of images of forced displacement and war circulating in the digital sphere. We are particularly interested in discussing the social, material, cultural, and political dimensions of digital media infrastructures and threshold infrastructures [...]
A talk with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Ebun Sodipo dedicated to giving Black Trans people a space to speculate on their present allowing thought of how a Black Trans future could come from the space we are in now. Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a London- and Berlin-based Black trans artist, game developer and mother. Through video game [...]
►a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces-II Migrating images :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: After several years spent on the global agenda with its normalised images of misery circulating both in mainstream and alternative channels, in September 2020 the infamous Moria camp was burned to the ground as a result of a riot. Perhaps this [...]
►a'21: Inaccessible Present 4.0 _New Media Society Audience will be able to see how a public artwork is being produced in the collective. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: The seemingly irreversible changes which have occurred since the emergence of the pandemic also manifest themselves via dramatic transformations: a highly polarised and stigmatised ONLINE version [...]
Part 1 : Dialogical Exploration A discussion with Thokozani Heidi Sincuba, Jessica Korp, and Gugulethu ' Dumama' Duma - interpreting the work of Zora Neale Hurston today, from South African, Ethiopian-German, Moroccan and diasporic perspectives. The first part of the evening will be a discursive exploration where we will listen and learn from one another’s [...]
We invite you to join this panel discussion organised by Artist-Activist Sujatro Ghosh. While opening up the discourses on hate, violence, propaganda, fascism and segregation, we will revisit the curatorial intentions of his project Geography of Hate as well as the artistic contexts of the different performances presented in the exhibition. Geography of Hate questions [...]
A conversation along with screenings of “Mirage” and “Untangle” by Avril Stormy Unger How do constructs of time and space shape an artistic expression that traverses several disciplines and socio-cultural contexts? How do we look at interdisciplinarity as a form of queer articulation? How do sexuality and queerness build a dialogue with the public space? [...]
►a'21: Threshold Infrastructures of Residual Spaces-III :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, carrying out investigations with and on behalf of communities and individuals affected by conflict, police brutality, border regimes and environmental violence. In this workshop, FA researcher Stefanos Levidis will discuss [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]
A journey into black queer poetics through the music, poetry and performance works of self-identified black and queer artists from around the world. Kopano Maroga and Maneo Mohale are two black queer cuties who have some questions about what constitutes so called blackness and so called queerness in the realm of poetics. How does identity [...]
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Ignorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that we often feel overwhelmed by the constant flood of information and misinformation. It sometimes seems impossible to differentiate between [...]
The Body Undone: In Conversation with Loss is a programme of film screenings and discussions organised by Sana Rizvi for Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL. The selected films look at various kinds of loss held by different bodies - with a focus on storytelling from new voices. Using film, an embodied memory in itself, an invitation [...]
Join us for some embodied reflections during the last event of Oyoun's EMBODIED ARTS FESTIVAL before the closing ceremony: A panel discussion about embodied and body-based practice as a generative tool for excavation and research and its potential pitfalls of reductionism and the re-application of oppressive body politics. Moderated by Kopano Maroga. Through the diverse [...]
►a'21: Safety From Artificial Intelligence_amberPlatform How can we protect ourselves from this surveillance? What kind of application is artificial intelligence used in social issues? How much can we trust artificial intelligence? Can we fool him? :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/TR) :: Besides the positive aspects of artificial intelligence technology, which has entered almost every area [...]
It is within the intersections of body memory and history that our bodies are potentially at their most revealing. Memories interrupt history and open up another possibility of embodied living, one that spatialises time and temporalises space. Hence, treating the body as memory and discussing the role of the body in witnessing authoritarian capitalism, memorialising [...]
►a'21: Absorbing Ignorance: Experiential Illusions_amberPlatform While chronologically reviewing the relationship of the moving image with the observer and the way cinematic editing manages mass perception as an art of creating reality, we will examine the concept of Immersion as the purpose of breaking away from existence. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: But man is [...]
►a'21: How Do I Know What I Know?_amberPlatform The workshop focuses on the aesthetics of the cumulative nature of information that is unlearned and relearned in a holistic, experience-oriented, democratic and de-colonialist manner, in which the practice travels around the theory and the mainstream meanings attached are questioned. :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: A [...]
Am 23. April 2021 findet die offizielle Umbenennung der ehemaligen Wissmannstraße statt. Der richtige Zeitpunkt um die neue Namenspatronin Lucy Lameck und ihre Zeit noch einmal näher kennenzulernen. Wodurch waren die Anfangsjahre des unabhängigen Tansanias geprägt? Wie wurde Lucy Lameck zur ersten Frau im tansanischen Parlament? Wieso war der Panafrikanismus so wichtig? Was steckt hinter der Ujamaa-Idee? Was hat Lucy Lameck damals geleistet und wieso ist ihr Wirken auch heute noch wichtig?
:: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN) :: The critics, ideas and methodologies for a truly distributed, collectively curated, international, intercultural, multi lingual network festival. ► Click "going" in facebook to stay up to date. ► Join the event through vimeo. :: LINKS :: ►Amirali Ghazemi ►Youssef El-idrisi ►Rajaa Ahaman ►Hamza Shamas ►Ebru Yetiskin ►Mohsen Hazrati ►Cenkhan [...]
► a'21: Exchanges Through The Silk Road_DAHproject :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: Living in the Middle East region and some parts around it can feel as if you're being held in a euphoric state in a moment, just as it can feel as you're left floating in some kind of vacuum in another. the [...]
► a'21: Bait15 and UAE art scene_DAHproject :: ABOUT THIS EVENT (EN/AR) :: BAIT 15 is an artist-run studio and exhibition space located in a residential neighborhood of downtown Abu Dhabi founded in late 2017 by Afra Al Dhaheri, Hashel Al Lamki, and Maitha Abdalla. The villa housing BAIT includes; studios, one for each of [...]
Gen Z is coming of age in a time of sociopolitical and ecological crises, gathered in online spaces that leave many overwhelmed and paralysed. Our exposure to crowded Social Media platforms causes, more often than not, disengagement and news-fatigue, paired with insecurities around self-image. Which story does Gen Z tell together? How do they navigate [...]
EMBODIED TEMPORALITIES - Auf den Spuren verkörperter Erinnerungen Was verkörpern unsere Körper? Welche Erinnerungen können uns unsere Körper erzählen? - über uns selbst, unsere Vergangenheit und unsere Zukunft? Kurator*innen, Künstler*innen und Kulturschaffende setzen sich mit Identitäten, Zugehörigkeit und verkörperten Erinnerungen aus diasporischen, dekolonialen und queeren Perspektiven auseinander. Ein Forschungs-, Archivierungs-, Ausstellungs- und Performance-Projekt, an dem [...]
Replacing monuments and renaming streets is an emancipatory and liberatory act of our time. Lucy Lameck x Sonic In(ter)ventions is a global amplification act and artistic witness for Berlin's historic street renaming: "Wissmannstraße" turned "Lucy-Lameck Straße". At the intersection of art, music, and healing justice, Out of Time Embassy (OOTE) produces their first public project [...]
Sonic In(ter)ventions is a jam session. As cultural workers responding to the times with community building, Out of Time Embassy (OOTE) consciously meld together sound and healing to form sessions of high-energy improvisation. Spaces are reimagined as interactive meditation sites for historical excavation, archival protest, and creative processing. Open and free artistic expressions are cultivated [...]
Exilio, migración y memoria. ¿Tienes algún familiar alemán antifascista que se exilió a Latinoamérica entre 1933 y 1945?¿Volviste a las raíces? ¿Con qué te encontraste cuando regresaste a lo que fue tu país de origen? Como parte del proyecto “Jetztzeit - Lebenserinnerungen zur Migration” se realizará unos encuentros de familiares de exiliados que en la [...]
Am Samstag den 10. Juli 2021 zieht es Brown Skin Mermaids noch einmal in die Hauptstadt! 🚀🎈🧸📚 Im Kulturzentrum Oyoun wartet ein empowernder Nachmittag auf Schwarze Mädchen im Alter von 5 - 10 Jahren. Für Details und Anmeldungen schreibe eine email an: mermaid@brownskinmermaids.de und sichere einen limierten Platz. --- On Saturday, July 10th Brown Skin [...]
Radikale Zärtlichkeit – Warum Liebe politisch ist ist am 20. April 2021 bei HarperCollins Germany erschienen. What is love? Ist die Liebe Sinn des Lebens, eine politische Allianz, Illusion oder Selbstzweck? Oder ist sie gar unmöglich, weil wir uns zwischen Zukunftsängsten, überhöhten Ansprüchen und diskriminierenden Strukturen völlig zerreiben? Diesen Fragen geht die Autor*in Şeyda Kurt [...]
