about
Centrum is a project space in the Flughafenkiez district of Neukölln, Berlin. We work with international and local artists, offering space and support for experimentation and the development of new work.
Centrum was founded in 2009 and since September 2014 is currently run by Mareike Spendel; since March 2015 supported by Max Weiland. In September 2016 the team was joined by Aurica Kastner. Since 2020, Centrum is run by Jorgina Stamogianni as artistic director and Katerina Gnafaki as curator of sound.
Bemerkungen
Join us for a conversation and Sea Soma exhibition closing on Saturday 30th of April.
From 4 to 6 pm, Dora Đurkesac will share details of the process behind the exhibition, explain the ecosystem practice, and the importance of rehearsing collectivity.
After the talk, we enjoy the last hours of the Sea Soma experience.
Thank you for everyone who joined our opening of @doracelll solo exhibition.
The exhibition Sea Soma is on until May 1st Thur-Sun 14:00-19:00 or by appointment.
Dora Đurkesac, Sea Soma, 2022 Opening tomorrow 8.4 at 19:00 🐡 @doracelll
Dora Đurkesac
Sea Soma 9 April - 1 May 2022
soft opening on April 8th at 19:00
The sea sq**rt swims freely in the sea until it finds a place on a rock where it remains for the rest of its life. It digests its nervous system as it doesn’t need it in its static form. This creature provoked a theory that the brain evolved among species following the complexity of bodily movement. In flat encounters, humans experience each other through the infosphere and cycles of data. How do we return to the idea of touch as vision, which is known to be our earliest mode of interaction and feeling of the world? How does dance intertwine the inner and outer stimuli and how does skin become the interface between them? To be in society, one first needs to know how to be alone, perhaps think through liquidity, sea creatures, contradictions, changes.
Sea Soma is a fictional ecosystem that strives to understand bodily intelligence, touchscreens, and the potential of water and digital objects as healers. It functions through cycles of media transformations, content generators, and mobile apps that capture dancers’ embodied knowledge. It encompasses exploration of the sea, dance, and UX design in the shape of transparent foils, phones, videos, text animations, touch-book, and online diagrams.
The project is a part of the ongoing practice Ecosystems - Rehearsing Collectivity (rehearsing-collectivity.com).
Created in collaboration with Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez, Stella Krämer Horta, Lukas Hondrich, Sarah Baron Brljević, Nina Gojić, Seán Marrett, Louise Borinski.
Dora Đurkesac is a Berlin-based author in the fields of design, contemporary dance, and new media art that she explores within temporary communities. Her work is shaped through archival, performative, and methodological research of social choreography, collective poetry, and hybrid ecosystems.
The project was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media. Curated by Rachel Monosov.
Dora Đurkesac
Sea Soma
9 April - 1 May 2022
soft opening on April 8th at 19:00
The sea sq**rt swims freely in the sea until it finds a place on a rock where it remains for the rest of its life. It digests its nervous system as it doesn’t need it in its static form. This creature provoked a theory that the brain evolved among species following the complexity of bodily movement. In flat encounters, humans experience each other through the infosphere and cycles of data. How do we return to the idea of touch as vision, which is known to be our earliest mode of interaction and feeling of the world? How does dance intertwine the inner and outer stimuli and how does skin become the interface between them? To be in society, one first needs to know how to be alone, perhaps think through liquidity, sea creatures, contradictions, changes.
Sea Soma is a fictional ecosystem that strives to understand bodily intelligence, touchscreens, and the potential of water and digital objects as healers. It functions through cycles of media transformations, content generators, and mobile apps that capture dancers’ embodied knowledge. It encompasses exploration of the sea, dance, and UX design in the shape of transparent foils, phones, videos, text animations, touch-book, and online diagrams.
The project is a part of the ongoing practice Ecosystems - Rehearsing Collectivity (rehearsing-collectivity.com).
Created in collaboration with Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez, Stella Krämer Horta, Lukas Hondrich, Sarah Baron Brljević, Nina Gojić, Seán Marrett, Louise Borinski.
Dora Đurkesac is a Berlin-based author in the fields of design, contemporary dance, and new media art that she explores within temporary communities. Her work is shaped through archival, performative, and methodological research of social choreography, collective poetry, and hybrid ecosystems.
The project was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media. Curated by Rachel Monosov.
@doracelll @jorginastamogianni @rachelmonosov @centrumberlin
🔥SAVE THE DATE 🔥
New cycle, new logo. Thanks to @laurensmariabauer 🖤
SEA SOMA
Solo exhibition by Dora Đurkesac
8 - 24.4.2022
Dora Đurkesac, Sea Soma, 2022, Installation, Video still
Logo Design by Studio Laurens Bauer
🔥 Amazing Linda Lamignan (a.k.a Linda Lazer)🔥
Reminiscing their performance presented at Centrum earlier this month as part of Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM.
🔥Linda Lamignan (aka Linda Lazer) tomorrow @ Centrum 🔥