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ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik

Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik / Center for Art and Urbanistics

ZK/U Berlin is a cultural venue, offering artistic and research residencies for artistic practice at the interface of urban research.

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30/12/2022

ZK/U INTERVENTION // THE FLAGS OF SOLIDARITY // ZIP GROUP

After February 24, when Russia unleashed the full-scale war of aggression in sovereign Ukraine, it became impossible for us to stay and continue working in Krasnodar. Typography CCA, for which ZIP Group and the center’s team dedicated a lot of effort in the course of ten years, was labeled a ‘foreign agent’ by the state authorities. From that moment on, we became a shattered nomadic self-organization relying on collectivity and intangible connections.

For the first months in exile, we settled in Yerevan, Armenia. Though, gradually everyone went in different directions: part of the Typography CCA is currently in Berlin, some colleagues moved to Cologne, and some remained in Armenia. We have been displaced from our native context, but we keep on coming up with new ways of maintaining ties with it.

Read more about the art project installed at Urbane Bühne in front of ZK/U via www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/the-flags-of-solidarity/

We invite you to take an act of solidarity with Ukraine and support its effort in winning the war. Please, consider donating to the trustworthy civic organizations and initiatives listed below:

Heat for the Ukrainian hospitals https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/warmforukr
Christmas Crowdfunding by Dekabristen https://dekabristen.org/de/blog/crowdfunding-12-2022

Get in touch with us if you donate to any of the above mentioned initiatives. Send a message to [email protected], and we will prepare a special gift for you on January 26, at the ZK/U OPENHAUS.

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© ZIP Group, 2022

12/12/2022

ZK/U FELLOW INTRODUCTION // AMY BOULTON // SEP 02 - NOV 30 2022

In her practice, Amy explores current issues around public space, labour and technology through a feminist lens. She seeks to create accessible entry points into these topics through choreographing a bodily encounter with the work. Visually she plays with expectations, using appropriated forms and humour to accommodate multiple levels of engagement.

During her residency at ZK/U Amy developed the project 'Training Set', which uses sculpture and interactive audio to explore the use of emerging voice assistant technologies to meet our complex human needs for structure, care and companionship.
Fictive AI personas such as Siri and Alexa are becoming integrated into daily life. As surrogate secretaries, therapists, housewives and health coaches, they attempt to imitate and commodify feminised forms of labour in order to gently prompt users into behaviours of self-quantification and optimisation. The project aims to find ways to exaggerate these tropes in order to denaturalise them.

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© Elisa Georgi, 2022

11/12/2022

ZK/U FELLOW INTRODUCTION // MARI MATTSSON // OCT 04 - NOV 30 2022

Mari Mattsson is an artist based in Stockholm, whose work centers around imagination and perception through bodily senses and social agreements on reality. In an exploration of movements (i.e. spatiality, time and repetition) and the hierarchy of the senses, the work usually presents as installations with sound, metal, storytelling, found materials and most recently glass and light.

Mari’s stay at ZK/U was centered around researching a graphic score for an ensemble that later will be the foundation of a sound installation. The research was made with a sound recorder and in the company of writings by Octavia E. Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin and composer Pauline Oliveros, on how sound can potentially evoke other imaginations of past, present and future beyond the singularity of sight. The process of thinking around listening and time has been informed by the soundscape created by the railway and harbor next to ZK/U that the residency building’s acoustics resonate.

This residency is funded by the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm (KKH), Sweden.

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© Elisa Georgi, 2022

07/12/2022

ZK/U EXTENSION // TOPPING-OUT CEREMONY

On 17.11.2022, the topping-out ceremony for the new part of the ZK/U building was finally celebrated with greetings from the State Secretary for Tenant Protection and Neighbourhood Development, Ülker Radziwill, the Deputy District Mayor and District Councillor for Urban Development and Facility Management, Ephraim Gothe and the Neighbourhood Councillor Jutta Schauer-Oldenburg.

In order to meet the increased interest locally and internationally, ZK/U has been undergoing an energetic and spatial expansion since 2019. The previous event hall will be enclosed by a transparent shell while retaining its original character. Work and event spaces will be created on top of the hall to meet the urgent space needs of cultural and social initiatives. On the roof of the extension, a terrace will be created that is visible from afar and can be accessed by the public; it will become an exhibition space and meeting place as an "urban stage". Here, urban art, urban innovation and neighbourly cohesion will be made accessible and celebrated without barriers.

The partial opening of the extended part of the building is planned for the end of 2023, with full commissioning in 2024. The design, planning and implementation for this are the work of Peter Grundmann Architekten, which won the "House of the Year" award this year.

The expansion is funded by the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Berlin within the framework of the Future Initiative for Urban Districts, Social Cohesion Programme.

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(c) Sophie Kirchner, 2022

07/12/2022

ZK/U AUSBAU // RICHTFEST

Am 17.11.2022 wurde mit Grußworten der Staatssekretärin für Mieterschutz und Quartiersentwicklung, Ülker Radziwill, des Stellvertretenden Bezirksbürgermeisters und Bezirksstadtrates für Stadtentwicklung und Facility Management, Ephraim Gothe und der Quartiersrätin Jutta Schauer-Oldenburg endlich das Richtfest für den neuen Gebäudeteil des ZK/U gefeiert.

Um dem gewachsenen Interesse lokal und überregional gerecht zu werden, ist das ZK/U seit 2019 im energetischen und räumlichen Ausbau. Die bisherige Veranstaltungshalle wird durch eine transparente Hülle eingehaust und dabei in ihrem ursprünglichen Charakter erhalten bleiben. Auf der Halle entstehen Arbeits- und Veranstaltungsräume, die dem dringenden Raumbedarf von kulturellen und sozialen Initiativen nachkommen. Auf dem Dach der Aufstockung entsteht eine weithin sichtbare, öffentlich begehbare Terrasse, die als „Urbane Bühne“ Ausstellungsfläche und Versammlungsstätte wird. Hier wird urbane Kunst, städtische Innovation und nachbarschaftlicher Zusammenhalt barrierefrei zugänglich gemacht und zelebriert.

Die Teileröffnung des erweiterten Gebäudeteils ist für Ende 2023 geplant, für 2024 die Vollinbetriebnahme. Entwurf, Planung und Durchführung dafür stammen vom Büro Peter Grundmann Architekten, das dieses Jahr den Preis für das „Haus des Jahres” gewonnen hat.

Der Ausbau wird durch die Europäische Union, die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und das Land Berlin im Rahmen der Zukunftsinitiative Stadtteil, Programm Sozialer Zusammenhalt, gefördert.

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Photos 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 (c) Nadja Bülow, 2022
Photos 5, 6 (c) Raquel Gomez, 2022

06/12/2022

ZK/U FELLOW INTRODUCTION // SANDEEP TK // OCT 29 - NOV 30 2022

Sandeep TK works with the idea of relationships, desire, oral histories, and fictional narratives in the context of specific spaces that he inhabited or experienced by exploring the role of his Q***r, Caste, Colour identity, and its experience in everyday life.

Sandeep TK and Suresh Jayaram are in ZK/U with their project, “We walk together under the rainbow”. During their stay in ZKU, they will be documenting stories of alternative families, especially rainbow families.

A project supported by Crossing boarders Robert Bosch Stiftung.

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© Elisa Georgi, 2022

06/12/2022

ZK/U FELLOW INTRODUCTION // SURESH JAYARAM // OCT 29 - NOV 30 2022

Suresh Jayaram is a visual artist, art historian, arts administrator, writer and curator from Bangalore. He is currently involved in art practice, urban mapping, archiving, curation, and arts education. His keen interest in environmental and urban developmental issues influences his work.

Sandeep TK and Suresh Jayaram are in ZK/U with their project, “We walk together under the rainbow”. During their stay in ZKU, they will be documenting stories of alternative families, especially rainbow families.

A project supported by Crossing boarders Robert Bosch Stiftung.

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© Elisa Georgi, 2022

29/11/2022

22.09.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // RETROSPECTIVE PART 2

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Reflektierend über die Themen Zeit, Übergangsphasen, Bias, Zufall, Ethik, Q***rness, Technologien und Art(en) des Verstehens, bedankt sich das ZK/U bei allen Besucher:innen und Residents für die inspirierenden Einblicke und vorfreudigen Ausblicke. Bis nächstes Jahr zum OPENHAUS JANUAR.

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Reflecting on ideas about time, liminality, bias, randomness, ethics, q***rness, technologies and mode(l)s of understanding, ZK/U would like to thank all visitors and residents for all the inspiring insights and anticipatory prospects. See you next year for OPENHAUS JANUARY.

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TEILNEHMENDE / PARTICIPATING RESIDENTS
Amy Boulton / Sarah Ciston / Sara Culmann / Jesse Gerard / Leor Grady / Suresh Jayaram / Boris Jöns / Mari Mattsson / Urban Mining Moabit / MOHA / Stacey Ejiroghene Okparavero (Stacey Ravvero) / Pedro Oliveira / Emily Thomas / Sandeep TK / Huda Zikrey

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(c) Elisa Georgi, 2022

29/11/2022

22.09.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // RETROSPECTIVE PART 1

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Reflektierend über die Themen Zeit, Übergangsphasen, Bias, Zufall, Ethik, Q***rness, Technologien und Art(en) des Verstehens, bedankt sich das ZK/U bei allen Besucher:innen und Residents für die inspirierenden Einblicke und vorfreudigen Ausblicke. Bis nächstes Jahr zum OPENHAUS JANUAR.

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Reflecting on ideas about time, liminality, bias, randomness, ethics, q***rness, technologies and mode(l)s of understanding, ZK/U would like to thank all visitors and residents for all the inspiring insights and anticipatory prospects. See you next year for OPENHAUS JANUARY.

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TEILNEHMENDE / PARTICIPATING RESIDENTS
Amy Boulton / Sarah Ciston / Sara Culmann / Jesse Gerard / Leor Grady / Suresh Jayaram / Boris Jöns / Mari Mattsson / Urban Mining Moabit / MOHA / Stacey Ejiroghene Okparavero (Stacey Ravvero) / Pedro Oliveira / Emily Thomas / Sandeep TK / Huda Zikrey

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(c) Elisa Georgi, 2022

23/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // THE „URBAN MINING MOABIT“ GROUP

Urban Mining Moabit – Soil Samples Rubble Mountain //

In Moabit, near Berlin's main train station, two mountains rise more than 50 meters high. Called simply "Rodelberg" on the city map today, traces of gone life, ideas and spaces are hidden here. In a two weeks long reserach process we will dig into the ground, searching for narrations of memory and future.

Research Project funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR.

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(c) urban mining moabit

23/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // MARI MATTSSON

Time Teller //

Presented in studio 4 are some thoughts and tests from researching a graphic score for an ensemble, that later will be the foundation of a sound installation. The research was made with a sound recorder and in the company of writings by Octavia E. Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin and composer Pauline Oliveros, on how sound can potentially evoke other imaginations of past, present and future beyond the singularity of sight.

Funded by the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm with support from Hähnels Stipendiefond.

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(c) Mari Mattsson

23/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // STACEY EJIROGHENE OKPARAVERO

Ókakò r’Évu —bringing in the leaves //

Ókakò r’Évu" in Urhobo (means plant womb) and it is an installation made from translucent fabric in the shape of a pyramid, with an entry hole for people to come in and sit). It is a plant womb that will transform gradually, as seeds have been planted in the earth within and around it and even within its pockets so they germinate in the spring time and the womb becomes an evolving eco-liminal space where people can enter and feel the life of the earth mother pulse.

It is a safe space for the earth to birth but also for us to mindfully transform our minds as we engage thoughtfully with the earth knowing we are nestled in her sacredness, feeding on her energetic pulses but also giving offerings of water and love within the space as an exchange. Bringing in the leaves is a performance centered around collectively gathering leaves from the neighborhood in Moabit. These leaves will then be tenderly placed within the plant womb installation to cover the earth (mulching)

Through this work, Stacey's creative practice intersects with her plant nurturing and meditative practices which raises consciousness on living mindfully, embodying softness, healing, forming communities centered around collective awareness of these intersections. Ókakò r’Évu, holds within itself an eco-liminal space that draws from intuitive and ancestral wisdom for collective sharing.

Stacey Ejiroghene Okparavero is the artist selected for the LAGOS-BERLIN residency programme by the Goethe-Institut Nigeria together with the partners 16/16, SAVVY Contemporary and ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics.

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(c) Stacey Ejiroghene Okparavero

23/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // MOHA WITH ZSOFIA PACZOLAY

Who Cares? //

A private care company (4beimir in Moabit/Berlin) holds each week a team meeting to discuss relevant topics about their clients, their questions on boundaries, and their growing economical struggles among others. On November 24th this meeting will be held publicly in the art space of ZK/U with an invitation for anyone to attend.

The project is supported by Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie and BKF, cofounded by Bezirkskulturfonds Berlin Mitte in collaboration with ZK/U Berlin.

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(c) MOHA

22/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // HUDA ZIKRY

Commune Zero: ماذا يلزمنا لنكتمل //

During Openhaus, Huda will be showing a minimal mind map of the keywords behind “commune zero”, a long term research project concerned with formats of collectivity in the arts. The keywords will serve as conversation starters and the studio will be a location for holding impromptu interviews, collecting testimonials, and having open conversations around collectivity and the experience of working with others.

Funded by the TURN2 programme of the (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media)

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(c) Huda Zikry, 2022

22/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // SANDEEP TK

We walk together under the rainbow //

After decades of grass root activism, India’s supreme court ruled section 377 is unconstitutional, which criminalized the physical intimacy between two consenting same-sex adults on 6th September 2018. How much has the life of Q***r people in India changed after decriminalizing homosexuality? Do they still receive the respect they deserve from society? Are they treated equally? Are q***r children growing up without facing any bullies?
As much as I and my fellow q***r friend's experience, coming out of the closet in India is a privilege only enjoyed by the few. Su***de news of LGBT+ people is frequent in India; often, they don’t get the media attention, and there are unsolved trans murder cases that didn’t find any justice.
This is why it is essential to talk about Q***r people and Q***r lives, so it keeps reminding our existence.

Crossing Boarders is supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung, conducted in cooperation with Literarisches Colloquium Berlin

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(c) Sandeep TK

22/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // EMILY THOMAS

Outside In / Downside Up //

During her residency at ZK/U, Emily has been exploring 6 Berlin Modernism UNESCO housing estates. These include the Hufeisensiedlung, Gartenstadt Falkenberg, Siedlung Schillerpark, Wohnstadt Carl Legien, Weiße Stadt & Großsiedlung Siemensstadt. In the upcoming OPENHAUS Emily will be presenting her sculptures, photography and works on paper inspired by this research.

This project is funded by the Stiftung Kunstfonds through their NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium.

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(c) Emily Thomas

22/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // SARAH CISTON

Intersectional AI (experiments in progress) //

What profound shifts in infrastructure, language, communities, and perspectives need to occur to make machine learning more ethical, more equitable? The Intersectional AI Toolkit argues that anyone should be able to understand what AI is and what AI ought to be. In-studio experiments build on Intersectional AI principles gathered during zine-making workshops, in order to experiment with approaches to machine learning made tangible and approachable, caring and wild.

This residency is funded in collaboration with Junge Akademie der Künste Berlin under the program “AI Anarchies”.

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(c) Elisa Georgi, 2022
(c) Sarah Ciston

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21/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // BORIS JÖNS

A soft tongue breaks the bone //

Drawing from a vast body of jewish ethical texts, called “The Musar”, this participatory installation invites the audience to comment on selected passages of the Musar. Written comments and interpretations approach the Musar in a sonic environment, creating a musical arrangement of understanding.

More information: www.felsenbein.com

MusART is an artist-in-residence program developed by the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Jewish Moralistic Writings (Musar) of the Early Modern Period: 1600–1800” and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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(c) Boris Jöns

21/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // LEOR GRADY

Footnote //

Footnote is a series of tracings on paper based on notes found in a study book. The drawings are made by following anonymous learners' notes.

MusART is an artist-in-residence program developed by the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “Jewish Moralistic Writings (Musar) of the Early Modern Period: 1600–1800” and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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(c) Leor Grady

21/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // SARA CULMANN

Agency of Nowhen //

The Agency of Nowhen is a series of episodes that explore everyday math and perception towards concepts of success, failure, coincidence, randomness, and bias. Several agents, new in each episode, tell their own stories that involve cognitive distortion of information and data. The Agency of Nowhen is a roundtable of negotiations that never took place, it's a symbol of different systems of measurements that are waiting to be synchronized.

Funded by the Junge Akademie der Künste Berlin under the AI Anarchies program.

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(c) Sara Culmann

21/11/2022

24.11.2022 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022 // PEDRO OLIVEIRA

Visitors to the Openhaus will be invited to listen to a series of sound sketches and experiments which expand Pedros inquiry into the long history of “technical listening” in Germany as an instrument of power, from forced phonograph recordings of prisoners of war, synthesizer development as a show of ideological prowess, to the use of artificial intelligence in asylum processes.

This time, Pedro is exploring the connections between the “Labor für akustisch-musikalische Grenzprobleme” founded in 1956 in East Berlin, and the deployment of the so-called “dialect recognition software” by the German migration authorities in cases of undocumented asylum seekers since 2017.

Funded by the Junge Akademie der Künste Berlin under the AI Anarchies program.

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(c) Pedro Oliveira

19/11/2022

24.11.2022 // 19:00 - 23:00 // OPENHAUS NOVEMBER 2022

Am 24. November ab 19 Uhr öffnen die Residents des ZK/U Berlin die Türen ihrer Ateliers für das OPENHAUS NOVEMBER.
Das OPENHAUS lädt dazu ein, die vielfältigen Interessen der Residents zu erleben, die sich in Installationen, Skulpturen, Performances, Fotografie, Sound, Forschung und Text widerspiegeln. Die Residents freuen sich darauf, ihre Ideen und laufenden Arbeiten zu den Themen Zeit, Übergangsphasen, Bias , Zufall, Ethik, Q***rness, Technologien und Art(en) des Verstehens vorzustellen. Das ZK/U freut sich auf das letzte OPENHAUS im Jahr 2022. Neben den Präsentationen der Künstler:innen sorgen warme Getränke und ein Lagerfeuer für einen gemütlichen Novemberabend.

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On 24 November from 7 pm, the residents of ZK/U Berlin will open the doors of their studios for OPENHAUS NOVEMBER.
The OPENHAUS invites to experience the diverse interests of the artists in residence, reflected and resonating in installations, sculptures, performances, photography, sound, research and text. The residents are looking forward to share their ideas and work-in-progress about time, liminality, bias, randomness, ethics, q***rness, technologies and mode(l)s of understanding. ZK/U Berlin is looking forward to welcoming you to the last OPENHAUS of 2022. Next to the artists’ presentations, warm drinks and a bonfire will make this November evening a cozy one.

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TEILNEHMENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN / PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Amy Boulton / Sarah Ciston / Sara Culmann / Jesse Gerard / Leor Grady / Suresh Jayaram / Boris Jöns / Mari Mattsson / Urban Mining Moabit / MOHA / Stacey Ejiroghene Okparavero (Stacey Ravvero) / Pedro Oliveira / Emily Thomas / Sandeep TK / Huda

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OPENHAUS SEPTEMBER 2022, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi © Elisa Georgi, 2022

14/11/2022

ZK/U RICHTFEST // BIOTOP ZK/U // 17.11.2022 13:00 - 18:00

Wir freuen uns, am 17.11. gleich zweifach einzuladen:

zwischen 13 und 16 Uhr wollen wir urbane Praktik auf eine sehr haptische Art und Weise erleben: in einem Aktionsparcours rund um das Biotop ZK/U. In Workshops, ungewöhnlichen Begegnungsformaten und (Wissens-)Austauschrunden werden sowohl bestehende Formate als auch Satelliten vorgestellt und das zukünftige Programm des ZK/U gemeinsam gestaltet.

16 Uhr zu unserem Richtfest auf dem Vorplatz des ZK/U-Geländes

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We are pleased to invite you twice on 17.11:

between 1 and 4 p.m. we want to experience urban practice in a very haptic way: in an action parcours around the biotope ZK/U. In workshops, unusual encounter formats and (knowledge) exchange rounds, both existing formats and satellites will be presented and the future programme of the ZK/U will be shaped together.

4 p.m. for our topping-out ceremony on the forecourt of the ZK/U site

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Siemensstrasse 27
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Located in a former railway depot surrounded by a freshly landscaped park, ZK/U Berlin is the cornerstone of a concept developed by the Berlin-based artists‘ collective KUNSTrePUBLIK (Einhoff, Horst, Sachs)

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TURN Residencies // TURN2 Talks // In conversation with Essé Dabla-Attikpo Karina Griffith talks to curator and TURN2 Resident Essé Dabla-Attikpo in her ZK/U studio about her curatorial project „Black gaze – Black Bodies”. Essé Dabla-Attikpos interest focuses on exploring Black Masculinities through the prism of hip hop culture. Through readings, interviews with hip hop artists and industry players, she collected soundbites. She also collaborated with Ghanaian hip hop archivist and photographer Selorm Jay to produce unique portraits of Berlin based Black rappers. This research constitutes a starting point for Essé's future exhibition as she wishes to create a positive, multi-faceted, multi-layered and non-linear audio-visual narrative that celebrates Blackness and Black masculinities far from the usual clichés. Essé Dabla-Attikpo is an Accra-based independent Curator, Art Consultant and Cultural Producer from Togo and Benin. Clementine Butler-Gallie is a mentor of the TURN2 Residencies programme. /// Find the full talk on our youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFiQW1hxlo0 The TURN2 Residencies are funded by the TURN2 programme of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (@kulturstiftungdesbundes). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media). /// © Jack Wingate for ZK/U Berlin, 2022 #Turn2Residencies #Turn2Talks @kulturstiftungdesbundes @trianglenetwork #ZKUBerlin #ArtResidency #curatorsresidency

FIRST PODCAST EPISODE by @parkomplex is out! Today we’ve created a big circle of collaborators @sisucrew @threadsradio and @subtextradio to produce the very first podcast of @parkomplex ! You can hear about who we are, how we’ve formed the collective and where we’re heading to. 🔗 Dive into the episode on: https://www.mixcloud.com/parkomplex/parkast-21/ or find the link on @parkomplex instagram profile This project is part of "Blues Licht im Park” funded by Fonds Soziokultur @fonds_soziokultur U25

25.11.2021 // OPENHAUS November 2021 // Pablo Santacana López (@pablosantacana) IPER is a fictitious institution created to investigate practices of embodied historization and historical reenactment as powerful tools for reteling hegemonic narratives. IPER departs from a new definition of historical restagings (renactments) that takes into account how such practices overflow the authentication of historical sources as they factually propose new alternatives for the present, working towards contingency and trans temporality. For this purpose, reenactments are researched going besides, beyond, and towards their original definition, and therefore become para-enactments. IPER investigates collective practices of embodied heritage in public space through the analysis of case studies, the construction of genealogies, and the recollection of theory. iper.cargo.site Research with the support of the Research Training Group DFG 227 "Identity and Heritage". Residency funded by Becas de residencia en el extranjero para jóvenes artistas (2021) de la Comunidad de Madrid and #softcorehistoricism #paraenactment #paramuseum #criticalheritage #reenactment #identitätunderbe #zkuberlin #OPENHAUS #OPENHAUSnovember

25.11.2021 // OPENHAUS November 2021 // Some Call Us Balkans Some Call Us Balkans (@SCUB) shares its ongoing process and work in OPENHAUS November. SCUB is a Creative Europe cultural cooperation project and a transdisciplinary research and community aiming at mobilizing moments of collective production of knowledge and imagination in order to enable multivocal impressions of the “Balkans” beyond stereotypical narratives and representation of it. In a living and interactive format SCUB shares some of the outcomes of the conducted Practices Based Artistic Research "Myths and Misconceptions" by inviting the audience to bring about new nuances, impressions and understandings while pondering and acquiring new words to reflect on how and why we speak of the "Balkans". The research revolves around an overarching objective of reclaiming the term Balkan, and its ingrained beauty, while contesting social structures that produce divides in between people and other people, people and their environment, people and other species. Evolving around three main research streams The Commons and right to the city, Cultural Heritage and Cultural practices, Migration and Labour, the conducted researches envision new ecologies, modes of inhabiting the Balkans and come together on a common ground. // (c) Performative intervention Morphing Reality with artist Smirna Kulenovic (@smismismismi), The Foundation of a travelling imagination Florence. #SCUBcommunity #SomeCallUsBalkans #westernbalkans #creativeeurope #cooperation #project #art #myths #cocreation #collaboration #re-imaginignBalkans #ZKUBerlin #OPENHAUS #OPENHAUSNovember #openhouse #residency #residents #berlinresidency #berlinartresidency #research #art #urbanistics #urbanism

25.11.2021 // OPENHAUS November 2021 // Jerker Beckman Beehives Berlin. The city thinks, dreams and acts. We are constitutional cells or bacteria in it's belly. Certain species of ants form what is known as supercolonies, which are a number of separate colonies living in relative civility within the same physical structure. The biggest such supercolony observed consisted of 306 million individuals, and around 300 different queens and thus societies. Likewise, Berlin is a structure of millions of individuals relatively peacefully coexisting, while they are themselves living within social subgroups or societes. Just like a bee is at the same time an individual and part of a thinking hive, we are individual people and still part of a thinking entity we call the city. Residency funded by The Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and the Swedish Author's Fund // (c) Jerker Beckman, 2021 #ZKUBerlin #OPENHAUS #OPENHAUSNovember #openhouse #residency #residents #berlinresidency #berlinartresidency #research #art #urbanistics #urbanism

14.11.2021 // 3 p.m. // RE-TURN 02: Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum // Doris Dziersk // AIRNSHARE Join us for AIRNSHARE by Doris Dziersk (@dorisdziersk), November 14, 3 p.m., Location: Stallschreiberstraße 41 (outdoors) Please join to blow up an inflatable sculpture whose volume references the official minimum living space for one person in Berlin! With guests and neighbours from Stallschreiberstraße, we literally want to collect our breath in solidarity, and recognise those who can’t afford the rising costs of rent. AIRNSHARE is performed with a non-return valve. Please come vaccinated, recovered or tested. Testing on site is possible at 2:30pm. © Martina Pozzan & Alberto Stievanin, 2021 /// #ZKUBerlin#KUNSTrePUBLIK #RETURN#skulpturenpark

14.11.2021 // 6:30-7 p.m. // RE-TURN 02: Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum // Lukas Matthaei // Imitation of Life: remake Berlin Join us for a film screening: Lukas Matthaei, Imitation of Life: remake Berlin In September, Lukas Matthaei staged the shooting of a scene from Douglas Sirk's 1959 film 'Imitation of Life together' with residents of Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum. This last melodrama that the German émigré made in Hollywood negotiates upward mobility and family relationships as effects of social conditions. Or as Rainer Werner Fassbinder said, "A great, insane film of life and death!" Attention: This event does not take place at ZK/U Berlin but at Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum. © Martina Pozzan & Alberto Stievanin, 2021 /// #ZKUBerlin#KUNSTrePUBLIK #RETURN#skulpturenpark

14.11.2021 // 6-6:30 p.m. // RE-TURN 02: Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum // Lydia Karagiannaki // http://de.construction.fantasies⠀ ⠀ Join us for the screening of Lydia Karagiannakis essay film http://de.construction.fantasies, 14. November, 6-6:30 p.m., Seydelstrasse 19.⠀ ⠀ The script of the film is performed live by poet and radio host Bitsy Knox. The musical accompaniment is made by sound artist Marco Schröder / item.⠀ ⠀ http://de.construction.fantasies is a contemplation on the transience of architecture as matter and symbol. Seemingly solid and timeless, buildings and infrastructures are closely linked to the socio-economic and political circumstances of their time. By following the transformation of Berlin's cityscape, cycles of construction and deconstruction processes and material extraction and wear, the work draws attention to the ephemeral side of architecture as well as the finiteness of lived presence. ⠀ ⠀ © Martina Pozzan & Alberto Stievanin, 2021⠀ ⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ #ZKUBerlin#KUNSTrePUBLIK #RETURN#skulpturenpark

14.11.2021 // 4-5 p.m. // RE-TURN 02: Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum // Kämme mein Haar⠀ ⠀ Join us for “Daseins Zentrum: Kämme mein Haar; Fakten und Fakten”, 14. November, 4-5 p.m. at Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum.⠀ ⠀ KUNSTrePUBLIK & Boris Jöns position themselves in an enriched entertainment format to encounters, references facts and poetry of Daseins Zentrum at Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum.⠀ ⠀ (c) Martina Pozzan & Alberto Stievanin, 2021⠀ ⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ #ZKUBerlin#KUNSTrePUBLIK #RETURN #skulpturenpark

14.11.2021 // 5-6 p.m. // RE-TURN 02: Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum // Martin Conrads Join us for Martin Conrads (@desperatecapital) speculative walk through the area of Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum on November 14 from 5-6 p.m. Berlin must rebuild its old city! After the social discord of the past decades, urban society needs a fundamental reorientation. The reconstruction of the historic "Fellini Residences" on the grounds of the Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum only marks the beginning of a model project for the city of the future. © Martin Conrads, 2021 /// #ZKUBerlin #KUNSTrePUBLIK #RETURN #skulpturenpark

05.11.2021 // 4-6 p.m. // RE-TURN 02: Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zetrum // Pink Cell Tower // Julian Oliver Please join us to test German’s first independent GSM tower Location: Daseins Zentrum, Stallschreiberstr. 29, 10179 Berlin In his piece Pink Cell Tower Julian Oliver intervenes upon the privatisation of our communication infrastructure, producing a fully functional GSM cell tower fit for the commons. A luminouis hot pink alternative to our beige and state-monitored cellular networks, Pink Cell Tower accepts connections from any mobile phone, assigning them a new 6 digit phone number in turn. This allows them to text and call others connected to the network for free, and entirely in private. The instructions for rebuilding the Pink Cell Tower are made available over the network. /// #julianoliver #pinkcelltower #ZKUBerlin #KUNSTrePUBLIK #RETURN #skulpturenpark

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY! // TURN2 RESIDENCIES // OPEN CALL UNTIL 24 OCTOBER Only 3 more days left. Don't miss your last chance to apply for a funded TURN2 Curatorial Research Residency in Berlin. This call invites emerging curators and cultural practitioners with a curatorial interest living in the African continent, to undertake a funded 3-month residency at ZK/U Berlin. The TURN2 Residencies promote the initiation of curatorial partnerships and transcontinental networks between emerging curators and established art and cultural institutions as well as the exchange between the respective art scenes. The TURN2 Residencies are a joint project of Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation), ZK/U Berlin and Triangle Network, and are carried out in collaboration with Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute @ncai254 , G.A.S. Foundation in Lagos @gasfoundation and Bag Factory in Johannesburg @bagfactoryart To apply, follow link in bio.⁠ ///////////////// #Turn2Residencies @kulturstiftungdesbundes #ZKUBerlin #ArtResidency #trianglenetwork @trianglenetwork

27.08.2021 // OPENHAUS // 19 - 23 Uhr // Daniella Mooney (@daniellamooney) Extending limbs, making moves / or, the stones we carry, is a small laboratory which takes shape over the space of two months at ZKU. During her residency stay the artist Daniella Mooney looks to flesh-out a fledgling toolbag for resourcefulness. Drawing on previous projects and collaborations started in Berlin over the past two years, Mooney takes inspiration from dancers who are friends, builders who care and makers at the edges. Developing on from a sculptural background, she looks for a more integrated and embodied art-practise, tentatively extending gestures and tools into new urban environments. The project, still in progress will be realised as an installation at ZK/U as well as urban intervention. Daniella Mooney is a Berlin-based artist born in South Africa working across multiple mediums, with a focus on wood, stone, and more recently the body in art-making. Her current research includes using embodied strategies and processes to explore participatory projects involving the choreographies of shared spaces and social design. ///// (c) Extending limbs, making moves / or, the stones we carry; Daniella Mooney, 2021 #ZKUBerlin #OPENHAUS #OPENHAUSJune #openhouse #residency #residents #berlinresidency #berlinartresidency #research #art #urbanistics #urbanism

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21.08.2021 // RE-TURN Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum // Julio Linares: Neighbourhood Value Creation Workshop, August 21, from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. The two-day workshop with economic anthropologist Julio Linares introduces participants to the cryptocurrency Circles UBI to then creatively re-imagine exchange and value systems anew, weaving a community together with local residents. The Circles currency system is based on the principle of an unconditional basic income, with each member receiving 240 CRC units per month. Circles is based on trust. The design of Circles is made to avoid speculation and encourage circulation in order to revitalise regional economies and democratise money. Circles is not a digital asset but a series of IOUs, thus undermining the principle of other cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, which is known because of financial speculation. /// Film (c) Marina Pozzan & Alberto Stievanin, 2021 #KUNSTrePUBLIK #ZKUBerlin #Skultpturenpark #SkulpturenparkBerlinZentrum #RETURN

21.08.2021 // 16:45 Uhr // Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum ⠀ FALLOUT / Eine performative Begehung von Balz Isler Join Balz Isler on his performative site inspection FALLOUT, August 21, 4:45pm at Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum⠀ Balz Isler leads the audience through Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum. In an act of "processual appropriation" the artist and musician draws pictorial, sonic and spatial levels of reference. Personal observations meet real-political facts; socio-cultural peculiarities ecological conditions. The resulting collage paints a complex picture of our present, which Balz Isler approaches in a sensitive, humorous way. ⠀ .⠀ Balz Isler Opus⠀ ⠀ http://www.skulpturenpark.org/directions/⠀ ⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ #ZKUBerlin #Skulpturenpark #kunstrepublik

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Instagram Takeover by Australian artist/writer Josephine Mead @josephinemead : "Depending on the vicissitudes of such a listening, the ear is disquieted, is reassured, weaves intimate relations with the unknown, or forges knowledge through language. The ear is a delicate thing. It is under the influence. " - François J. Bonnet. Go to zku's instagram stories to answer questions posed by Josephine relating to acts of deep listening. Responses will inspire the creation of new works that will be shortly posted online, as part of Josephine's new research project, 'An Act of Deep Listening.' Work pictured: 'Keep an ear to the ground.' 2020, Josephine Mead, video, work courtesy of the artist. #josephinemead #anactofdeeplistening #deeplistening #zku #zkuberlin #zentrumfurkunstundurbanistik #openhaus #bonnet

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07.05.-19.05.2020 // DIGITAL OPENHAUS // Anabelle Lacroix (3/3) //////// (Non)Sleep as Social Practice, 2020 //////// How can I sleep less and be more efficient? Or, how can I defy this cognitive-capital logic? The very tensions and contradictions between sleep and unsleep, and labour and resistance, are at the centre of this research. After a workshop with ZK/U residents in collaboration with @byungseo_yoo and @gustavosanromanvazquez (IAUZK/U), I developed (Non)Sleep as Social Practice, an all-night program of sound, music and interviews that was broadcasted and produced during confinement by Threads*sub_ʇxǝʇ radio. More info and play back details are on my page on ZK/U DIGITAL OPENHAUS and sub_ʇxǝʇ. Entire DIGITAL OPENHAUS; link in bio. © Anabelle Lacroix, 2020 #ZKUBerlin #DIGTALOPENHAUS #Berlin #freedomofsleep #queering #functionaldiversity #deviant #routinism #cognitivecapitalism #timemanagement @_ah_oui @threadsradio #sub_ʇxǝʇ #radio

07.05.-19.05.2020 // DIGITAL OPENHAUS // Anabelle Lacroix (2/3) ////////// (Non)Sleep as Social Practice, 2020 ////////// There are drugs that excite, and others that numb. Sleep has always been very seductive, we all want it, we long for abandoning ourselves to it, for being paralysed by it. Why persist at falling asleep if you can’t? What is your body whispering? What if we stopped sleeping? Would we be more politically awake? Would we be more, or less, human? There is a great deal of sleep pressure. Guilt. Culpability. Time poverty. Our bodies have been colonised by a western, capital-driven and patriarchal conception of time and by the medicalisation of sleep. Sleeping pills are a diffuse and perverse form of control, for self-regulation and self-silencing. Anxieties are to be supressed in a feel-good economy. However, they are the perfect alarm bell, urging us to take action and trust our resonating body as a sounding instrument for society. What if we practiced engaged listening, to yourself and to others? Recommended reading: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Charlie Kurth, Pauline Oliveros, Anna Della Subin. Entire DIGITAL OPENHAUS; link in bio. © Anabelle Lacroix, 2020 #ZKUBerlin #DIGTALOPENHAUS #Berlin #freedomofsleep #anxiety #drug #silencing #biocapital #biopolitics #optimisation #savior @_ah_oui

ZK/U OPEN CALL // ⚠️ FINAL REMINDER ⚠️ // Deadline: April 23

** English text below ** Am Donnerstag schließt der Bewerbungszeitraum unseres OPEN CALL für 2021. Mehr Info & Bewerbung: https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/open-call-2020-zku-residency/ // The deadline of this year's OPEN CALL for 2021 residencies is fast approaching. More info & application procedure: https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/open-call-2020-zku-residency/ //////// #ZKUBerlin #OPENCALL #ResidencyOpenCall #BerlinResidency #ResidencyInBerlin #BerlinArt #Residenzprogramm

ZK/U OPEN CALL for 2021 // 7 days to go // APPLY NOW!

7 more days until the deadline of the ZK/U OPEN CALL for 2021! For requirements, the application form, and more details on our residency programme, click here: https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/open-call-2020-zku-residency/ ///// #ZKUBerlin #BerlinArtResidency #ArtResidency2021 #BerlinArt

ZK/U OPEN CALL for 2021 // REMINDER

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Kommt im Kukumu vorbei!

[STUDIJSKO PUTOVANJE - BERLIN]
Ovog smo tjedna sudjelovali na studijskom putovanju u Berlinu s članicama Mreža društveno-kulturnih centara i predstavnicima organizacija iz cijele Hrvatske. Tijekom putovanja posjetili
smo neke od berlinskih kulturnih centara i na primjerima dobre prakse skupljali informacije i inspirirali se za naše projekte.
Prostor ZK/U, kao centar za umjetnost i urbanizam, okuplja umjetnike iz cijelog svijeta, koji kroz godinu u sklopu rezidencija borave u prostoru i stvaraju svoje radove. ZK/U ima i cijeli niz društvenih programa, dane otvorenih vrata jednom mjesečno i vrlo zanimljive koncepte poput stare cisterne koja je pretvorena u potpuno opremljen stambeni objekt za umjetnike.
Osim ZK/U imali smo priliku proći i kroz jedan od najvećih kulturnih centara u Europi, ufaFabrik. Mjesto je to koje okuplja različite dionike i djeluje kao pravi društveno-kulturni centar, a na 18.000 kvadrata nalazi se nekoliko prostora za izvedbenu umjetnost, prostori za različite radionice, škola, pekara, farma, dok se velika važnost daje na područje ekologije.
Oba centra jako su nas podsjetila na sadržaje koje imamo i u Koprivnici, ZK/U je ono što bi naša AK galerija mogla postati, dok je koncept ufaFabrik nevjerojatno sličan onome što se razvija u prostoru Kampusa. Modeli i načini koje su tamo upotrijebili, ali svakako i politička volja i podrška da se takvi koncepti razvijaju, doveli su ih u poziciju održivosti i primjera u kojem se smjeru kulturni i društveni centri mogu razvijati. Iz ovoga možemo samo učiti, primjenjivati na ono što razvijamo u lokalnoj sredini i težiti tome da ovako razvijene prostore jednog dana imamo i u Koprivnici. Iako je to Berlin, koncept je moguće realizirati bilo gdje i s tom idejom nastavljamo i razvoj FUNKa, nakon ovog odličnog studijskog putovanja.
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ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, ufaFabrik Internationales Kulturcentrum

Kommt mal im Kukumu vorbei! Zentral zwischen ZK/U, PAS und Lehrter Straße gelegen. Lesen kann uns näher bringen.

Join this workshop to explore the rights and role of the Pedestrian in Lagos.
This is an active experience that involves group work, open discussions and creative thinking.

We will talk paths, politics, spiritual practices, non-linear movement, radical environmentalism, urban enchantment and the free walking ideal.

There will be food provided and breaks are built into the process.

Please sign up at [email protected] or email for further questions.

This workshop is hosted and run by with support from Goethe-Institut Lagos and hfactor.co – this program is further in association with ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik and SAVVY Contemporary

Save the date | 24.11 ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik

The first cohort of artists-in-residence of the Mus|ar|t program, Leor Grady and Boris Jöns, will be presenting their work at the upcoming OpenHaus at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U) in Berlin.

Info > https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/openhaus-november-2022/
https://www.musar.uni-hamburg.de/news/openhaus-1.html

Eisenhüttenstadt und Visaginas in Litauen haben einige Gemeinsamkeiten.

Beide Städte entstanden zu Sowjet-Zeiten als Planstädte um große Industrieanlagen drum herum und heute ist es die absolute Freiheit, die Zeit des Wandels und vorallem der Geist des Punkrocks, der in beiden Städten spuckt.

Grandios war der kulturelle und geistige Austausch beider Städte diese Woche im Museum Utopie und Alltag

Vielen vielen Dank für diese Möglichkeit, die dort geboten wurde. ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik

Alex nimmt jetzt eine Menge Leidenschaft und Herzblut aus dem Steelbruch mit nach Hause nach Litauen. Wir freuen uns auf ein baldiges und angeregtes Wiedersehen ❤

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🇬🇷 The final stop on our month-long journey in Ioannina had us thinking about our relationship with the environment, how to step out of human-centered narratives and how collective practices of care and protection play out in this region. We met with activists, artists and scholars who are engaged in the constant struggle of preserving nature as a common. We spent time with Dimitris Papageorgiou, Photometria Festival, local enviromental activists and the Epirus Mushroom Society. This trip concludes the travelling portion of , but the experience continues as our artists go off to process and create. We’ll be sharing deeper insights and new stories in the coming weeks! Read and see what we encountered in our story & Insta highlight.

Termokiss Tulla - Culture Center Tačka komunikacije Unsa Geto ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik ICSE & co. Biennale Of Western Balkans Teatro della Pergola

🇦🇱 During our visit to Tirana we reflected on memory - how it can oppose the official narrative, how it can reveal the layers of a place’s history, culture, political landscape and of environment. We shared encounters with individual and collectives of researchers, scientists and artists who pave the way to a more positive reality through revealing hidden histories, spaces and even informalities and injustices and by working together bring these dimensions of life to light.
We spent time with Bora Baboci, Arba Baxhaku, Taulant Bino, Bazament Art Space, Valentina Koca and the ZETA Contemporary Art Center, Ana Shkreli and Berk, the AOS-Albanian Ornithological Society, Radical Sense, the dancers of the Was bleibt kollektiv - Gentian Doda. As we move to the last stop on our journey, read and see what we encountered in our story & Insta highlight.
Termokiss Tulla - Culture Center Tačka komunikacije Unsa Geto ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik ICSE & co. Biennale Of Western Balkans Teatro della Pergola

Letzte Woche haben wir zum 12. Gartengespräch auf die Hanseat eingeladen. Mit dabei waren Ragnhild Sørensen von Changing Cities, Philipp Horst vom ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik und die Landschaftsarchitektin Anna Bernegg, die das Gespräch unter dem Titel "Alles Bundeswasserstraße?! - Über die Potenziale einer gemeinschaftlichen Rückeroberung urbaner Wasserflächen" moderierte.

Vielen Dank an die anwesenden Teilnehmer*innen und die anregende und tolle Gesprächsrunde! 💚

Fotos: Annette Hauschild | Agentur Ostkreuz

⭐️ Going to Kosovo had us reflecting on being on this journey together and on all the different ways that collectiveness and limitations interact in the region and in the arts. Through the lens of Manifesta Biennial, Dokufest and Shtatëmbëdhjetë we saw the different ways in which the artists, curators and activists we encountered deal with limitations that should be isolating, but through their work and collective imagination create new, vibrant spaces and realities.
We spent time with Nita Deda, the team of Dokufest and LUMBARDHI, Nita Zequiri and encountered the Manifesta Biennal. The artists also staged a collective creative action that celebrated the ways we interact and understand our collective as it moves through this journey.
Read and see what we encountered in our story & Insta highlight.
Termokiss Tulla - Culture CenterTačka komunikacijeUnsa GetoZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und UrbanistikICSE & co.The Ground Tour ProjectBiennale Of Western Teatro della Pergola

hi all a sloghtly urgent request. my friend and former zku resident from russia is applying for asylum to germany. he and his family need a place to stay and likely art related income as he is a street artist and academic. any leada esp from the founders would be hugely appreciated.

🏛 Our visit to made us rethink and rediscover architecture, archiving and imagination in ways only this city could. The artists, activists, researchers and curators we met with all shared their unique practices and understanding of the way meaningfulness can be preserved in physical spaces, in creative practices, in the way we relate to each other. We also started the beginnings of some collaborative creative works that we’re going to be exploring more as we move to Kosovo this week 👀
We spent time with Ivana Dragsic, Hristina Ivanoska, Bojana Janeva, Jana Kocevska, Meri Batakoja and sat in on a lecture by Ian Chambers & Boaventura de Sousa Santos curated by Viki Mladenova.
Read and see what we encountered in our story & Insta highlight.
ICSE & co. Biennale Of Western Balkans Unsa Geto Termokiss The Ground Tour Project ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik Tulla - Culture Center Tačka komunikacije Teatro della Pergola