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31/10/2019

“I read an article about women who regretted being mothers
most of their answers were in italics

I wondered about that too, why italics?

then I saw that the interviewer noted every time the women expressed anger or raised their voices by italicizing the text....

I wonder Mary, did you speak italics there on your island?“

Wary Mary, Dafna Maimon, 2019

On November 5th at the Volksbühne Berlin Grüner Salon we revisit ASSEMBLE‘s summer production: "Wary Mary" by Dafna Maimon, conceived for the Tieranatomisches Theater

Dafna is joined in conversation with Victoria Camblin, executive editor of magazine, and Agata Lisiak, professor of Migration Studies at Bard College Berlin

Join us November 5th at 19h, Volksbühne Grüner Salon, 5€/3€ reduced, in English.

Photos by Frank Sperling
Performers: Lulu Obermayer Emma Waltraud Howes Rosalind Masson Leah Katz

29/10/2019

Prof. Agata Lisiak of Bard College Berlin joins our panel next Tuesday, November 5th at Volksbühne Berlin Grüner Salon!
Agata is a migration studies professor working at the intersections of migration studies, urban sociology, visual cultures, and gender studies. She has written about urban girlhood, walking in the city, Taiwanese cinema, Polish hip hop, cultural memory in post-socialist cities, and invisible femininities, among many other topics.
Agata will join Dafna Maimon and Victoria Camblin for a discussion on tropes of contemporary motherhood as well as on the choice not to mother, or the regret of motherhood; how these are shaped by class, citizenship status, race, and sexuality, among other factors; how mothering and othering intersect; the workings of stigma; and subversive tactics of mothering in art and beyond.
November 5th, 19h, Grüner Salon, in English. Tickets via Volksbühne Website or at the door.

Photo reposted from Bard College Berlin

23/10/2019

You, most dangerous woman
a powerful organic machine
you, most dangerous woman
Of flesh, blood and bone...

Wary Mary, Dafna Maimon, 2019 (performed here by Lulu Obermayer)

For the next ASSEMBLE talk at the Volksbuehne Grüner Salon we revisit ASSEMBLE‘s summer production: "Wary Mary" by Dafna Maimon, conceived for the Tieranatomisches Theater.
Dafna is joined in conversation with Victoria Camblin, executive editor of magazine, and Agata Lisiak, professor of Migration Studies at Bard College Berlin

Join us November 5th at 19h, Volksbühne Grüner Salon, 5€/3€ reduced, in English.
Tickets: https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/bestseatselect?eventId=19149&language=en

Photos by Frank Sperling. Performers: Lulu Obermayer Emma Waltraud Howes Rosalind Masson Leah Katz

Assemble: Dafna Maimon with Victoria Camblin and Agata Lisiak

27/09/2019

Thank you Paul Maheke and Nkisi for a moving and powerful performance of Sènsa at the Volksbühne Berlin Grüner Salon!

The performance was part of an ongoing research, the full version will premiere at Abrons Arts Center in New York as part of PERFORMA 19 Biennial / November 7th, 8th and 9th.

We are honored to be part of this amazing performance project!

Sènsa was ASSEMBLE's last production for 2019.
Thank you for attending and supporting -- more soon!

🔥🌑🔥🌗🔥🌑

Photos: Frank Sperling

24/09/2019

“When we listen before seeing, the voice and the sound waves interact between consciousness and hallucinations allowing the rhythm to experience different conditions of perception, interrupting predetermined expectations through the manipulation of rhythm, we create movements of energy. This energy determines collective behaviour and paves the way for new ways of producing knowledge” Nkisi in Griotmag

On September 25th at 21h Grüner Salon, Paul Maheke, Nkisi present Sènsa, with lighting by Ariel Efraim AshbelAshbel, a performance combining sound, movement and light, taking its inspiration from the cosmologies of the African Bantu (sub-Saharan language family).
Pre-registration is sold out but we may have a few tickets left at the door.

Assemble: Paul Maheke & Nkisi. Sènsa

Photo: Nkisi
Credit: Susu Laroche

This performance piece is part of an ongoing larger work and research project developed for Performa in collaboration with Block Universe and Abrons Art Center.
With the support of La Maison des Artistes (Paris) and FUSED (NYC)

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23/09/2019

"I am interested in multiplicity and overlay – multiple logics that may clash. In my work, there is always a part of me that is interested in abstracting bodies, ideas and references. In the process of abstracting, I feel there is something that references an understanding of q***rness and blackness as modes of production. (...) I hope to explore a tension between moments of erasure and hypervisibility, and the seemingly impossibility of escaping this pattern when black and q***r in the West.
I am conscious of q***r artists of colour often becoming a screen of projection. I feel you are asked to take on board all the non-white issues and all the non-straight issues; you become the voice of the oppressed. You are supposed to address gentrification, Brexit and social violence etc… People often don’t realise that being here - and making yourself visible - is enough to put you at risk."
Paul Maheke, in conversation with Ellen Greig (Chisenhale Gallery)

On September 25th at 21h Volksbühne Berlin Grüner Salon, Paul Maheke and Nkisi present Sènsa, a performance combining sound, movement and light (by Ariel Efraim Ashbel), taking its inspiration from the cosmologies of the Bantu-Kongo.
Pre-registration is sold out but we may have a few tickets left at the door.
Assemble: Paul Maheke & Nkisi. Sènsa

Photo: Chimbu et les Autres, 2018 performed by Paul Maheke at il Orto Botanico di Palermo as part Manifesta 12 ‘Can Nature Protest’ public program curated by Aleppo
Credit: Dario di Liberti

This performance piece is part of an ongoing larger work and research project developed for Performa in collaboration with Block Universe and Abrons Art Center.
With the support of La Maison des Artistes (Paris) and FUSED (NYC)

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21/09/2019

Journalist Claudia Galal on Nkisii's debut album "7 Directions":

"7 Directions explores African polyrhythms through the lens of the new electronic music trends and it is essentially based on the interpretation of the writings of the Congolese scholar Kimbwandende Kia Fu-Kiau Bunseki, the leading authority on Bantu-Kongo cosmology. The “Journey of the Seven Directions” is a key concept in this religion, which sees the concrete dimension prevail over abstraction and admits the possibility of manipulating nature and matter in its various forms."

On September 25th at 21h Grüner Salon, Paul Maheke and Nkisi present Sènsa, a performance combining sound, movement and light (from Ariel Efraim Ashbel), taking its inspiration from the cosmologies of the Bantu-Kongo.
Pre-registration is sold out but we may have a few tickets at the door.

Photo: 7 Directions
Credit: Dave Gaskarth

This performance piece is part of an ongoing larger work and research project developed for Performa in collaboration with Block Universe and Abrons Art Center.
With the support of La Maison des Artistes (Paris) and FUSED (NYC)

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19/09/2019

A look back at Paul Maheke's previous works:
"A fire circle for a public hearing" was the the first institutional solo exhibition in the UK by Paul Maheke. Comprising an immersive installation occupying the entire gallery, the exhibition develops Maheke’s ongoing engagement with the potential of the body as an archive, which can address how history, memory and identity are formed and constituted. In this piece, Maheke explores the tension between hyper-visibility and erasure. Incorporating installation, video, sound and performance, the exhibition alters and adapts throughout its duration. The exhibition seeks to consider how acts of visibility and invisibility serve to question the presence and absence of marginalised narratives in dominant histories, inviting visitors to assert their own understanding of possible pasts or futures. By speculating on worlds and life elsewhere, the exhibition becomes a public site for re-articulating and reinventing forms of relations and representation, as much as a device for developing a new lexicon for thinking about identities outside of identity politics.

The exhibition was activated by daily performances featuring Titilayo Adebayo, Heather Agyepong and Carrie Topley.

On September 25th at 21h Volksbühne Berlin Grüner Salon, Paul Maheke, Nkisi with lighting by Ariel Efraim Ashbel
present Sènsa, a performance combining sound, movement and light, taking its inspiration from the cosmologies of the African Bantu (sub-Saharan language family).
Please RSVP via [email protected] as there is only 100 spots available!

Assemble: Paul Maheke & Nkisi. Sènsa

Photo: Paul Maheke, "A fire circle for a public hearing", Chisenhale Gallery, 2018 Gallery Mark Blower
Credit: Mark Blower

This performance piece is part of an ongoing larger work and research project developed for Performa in collaboration with Block Universe and Abrons Art Center.
With the support of La Maison des Artistes (Paris) and FUSED (NYC)

***r ***rness

17/09/2019

Sènsa is a Bantu word that translates as coming to visibility, to appear, to reveal itself, to make sense. Maheke and Nkisi combine sound, movement and light to make this concept present and embodied; they portray identities lurking in peripheral visions, voices emerging from the margins or lingering in the shadows, in an attempt to set the centers in motion. The term grounds Maheke and Nkisi’s practices in a diasporic imaginary and describes an in-between vision, collaged of stories and diverting sounds and images, constantly in formation, respondent to the room, the audience, and the performer’s actions within them.

Sènsa is a long-term research and performance project by Maheke and Nkisi, developed for Performa in collaboration with Block Universe and Abrons Arts Center. Its final version will premiere in New York in November. With the support of La Maison des Artistes (Paris) and FUSED (NYC)

On September 25th at 21h Volksbühne Berlin Grüner Salon, Paul Maheke and Nkisi present Sènsa, with lighting design by Ariel Efraim Ashbel.
please RSVP via [email protected] as there are only 100 spots available!

Assemble: Paul Maheke & Nkisi. Sènsa

Photo: Sènsa, Paul Maheke & Melika Ngombe Kolongo (Nkisi), Courtesy Block Universe
Credit: Manuela Barczewski

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12/09/2019

Mélika Ngombe Kolongo aka Nkisi is a producer, DJ and co-founder of NON Records, a collective of African artists and of the diaspora who use sound as their primary media to articulate the visible and invisible structures creating social binaries, and in turn redistributing power. In producing her own tracks, she maintains a heavily layered, relentless sound, often playing with collective memory. She established herself in London’s underground scene with her vivid sound, which demands full attention and releases exhilarating energy. Her music evokes references from gabber, doomcore and African club as well as the sonic spirals of sci-fi and 1970's Italian horror films. Nkisi’s music and artistic projects are intimate and layer her own inspirations with a careful consciousness to harmonizing each indistinct thread. Her productions reflect deeply on these influences, and result in a sound that is equally relentless and evocative. She makes a statement with her music, but also nurtures, inspires, comforts, and energises.

On September 25th at 21h Volksbühne Berlin Grüner Salon, Paul Maheke, Nkisi and Ariel Efraim Ashbel present Sènsa, a performance combining sound, movement and light, taking its inspiration from the cosmologies of the African Bantu (sub-Saharan language family).
Assemble: Paul Maheke & Nkisi. Sènsa

Please RSVP via [email protected] as there is only 100 spots available!

Photo: Nkisi
Credit: Alan Sahin

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