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14/12/2022

HACKING ANTI-COLONIAL KUIR POETRY THROUGH THE TROPICS
By Jô Osbórnia and Jota Ramos

Another with current web residents from the 18th call for web residencies »Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience« and we are delighted to share the project by Jô Osbórnia and Jota Ramos with you!

»HACKING ANTI-COLONIAL KUIR POETRY THROUGH THE TROPICS« is a digital and collective attempt at disrupting the colonial ordering of the world through LBTQIA+ works and languages from the Global South. Through Futura Trōpica Netroots, Jô Osbórnia and Jota Ramos for KUIR Poetry aim to connect communities from Colombia, DR Congo, and India, strengthening especially cis-hetero non-normative perspectives.

KUIR POETRY is an independent, collaborative, collective, and multilingual project of LBTQIA+ poetry and performance from an anti-colonial perspective. Since its foundation in 2019, KUIR has been present in Berlin, São Paulo, and Thessaloniki.

Jô Osbórnia (she/her) is a poet, performer, translator, and curator from Rio de Janeiro/Brazil. Jota Ramos is a transmasculine nonbinary multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin/Germany.

Find more information on www.kuirpoetry.com as well as on our website: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/project/web-residencies/

All images: Courtesy the artists.
1: HACKING ANTI-COLONIAL KUIR POETRY THROUGH THE TROPICS, 2022.
2: Portrait Jô Osbórnia.
3: Portrait Jota Ramos.

13/12/2022

We are very pleased to share an exhibition in Munich featuring former Solitude fellows Zoltán Lesi and Ricardo Portilho with you! The exhibition »TO BE SEEN. q***r lives 1900 – 1950« at Munich Documentation Center is devoted to the stories of LGBTQI+ in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century.

Through historical testimony and artistic positions from then and now, »TO BE SEEN« traces q***r lives and networks, the areas of freedom LGBTQI+ enjoyed, and the persecution they suffered. The historical exhibition is accompanied by contemporary artistic positions, including collaborative works by former Solitude fellows Zoltán Lesi and Ricardo Portilho on sports and gender in the context of National Socialism in the 1930s. In the collaged, three-dimensional boxes by Zoltan and Ricardo, fiction and reality of the Olympic Games of 1936 in Berlin/Germany – organized by the N***s for the purposes of propaganda – merge. Between reporting and narration, they address

Find more information on www.nsdoku.de

Images: Installation view of works by Zoltán Lesi and Ricardo Portilho in the exhibition »TO BE SEEN. q***r lives 1900 – 1950«, 2022. Credits: NS-Dokumentationszentrum München/Photo: Connolly Weber Photography

12/12/2022

Starting into this week with a recommendation for people in and around Zurich, Switzerland: In a performative action called »Chænelings« former Solitude fellow Kiran Kumãr together with Lucie Tuma and Mamela Nyamza deal with occult and mediumistic practices.

The joined bodies of three dancers become a particular kind of medium, transmitting a never-ending and constantly flowing collection of data. This data includes the transmission of the human body's abilities to mutate and heal. Within the context of the global health crisis at the latest, questions about forms of recovery have become as present as they are urgent.

The evening opens the space for an intimate encounter between present and absent, (in)visible bodies. Dance and choreography as fragments from different times, music and sound as massage, voice and song as transmission from elsewhere, manual work with textile objects and olfactory materials serve as a basis. In this setting of practice, the moments of show, performance, studies and séance take place simultaneously.

»Chænelings« at Gessnerallee Zürich takes place at five evenings from December 16 until December 21.
Please find more information about the event online at https://www.gessnerallee.ch/en/event/1152/Lucie_Tuma

Photo: Caroline Palla

09/12/2022

First snow at Solitude this winter

09/12/2022

– Today, we are pleased to introduce current Solitude fellow Peter Gray to you!

Peter Gray is an equal cross of Oscar Wilde, Henry David Thoreau, and the entire cast of The Muppets. As a writer of plays, poetry, and fairy tales, he crafts dynamic stories of unapologetic playfulness that invigorate and disrupt the status quo. He seeks out unconventional forms that drift seamlessly into lands of dream, myth, and vision. From the Salem Witch Trials to the modern day »Karen meme«, his work charts brave new futures by investigating the myths that have built us. Peter's work is an empowered reclaiming of ritual, hope and q***r epic.

At the Akademie, he's writing the play »Brotherhood« which explores the stories we tell through two sets of German brothers: the Brothers Grimm as they gather their fairy stories and two brothers fighting the pull of the Hi**er Youth movement in 1930s Germany. Additionally, he is developing a play about q***r wizards discovering themselves at a wizarding school.

Peter imagines and reimagines each day.

Find out more about his work on his website: https://www.peterwgray.com/

Images
1: Peter Gray. By Monica Czyzyk
2-6: by Michael Alvarez

07/12/2022

Today, we are very pleased to introduce current web residents Islam Shabana and Luiz Zanotello with their project »A Knot in Motion: On the Accident of Rain« to you!

For the »Magical Hackerism« web residency, Islam Shabana and Luis Zanotello propose tying a knot between El Kharja oasis (near the Tropic of Cancer) and Jundiaí (near the Tropic of Capricorn) by tracing the material/discursive/poetic accidents around one topic of interest: the rain. They propose to set up two nodes of the Futura Trōpica Rhizome, collecting/spreading rain-data on both sides for future intertropical exchange.

Islam Shabana is an interdisciplinary artist and a digital media designer from El Kharja and Cario/Egypt. Islam’s work is in the intersection of technology within the human’s mental faculties, mythology, and Islamic philosophy.

Luiz Zanotello is a media artist, researcher, and educator based in Jundiaí/Brazil and Berlin/Germany. In his current artistic research practice, he reappropriates emerging technologies toward a renewed understanding of time, space, and movement within a postcolonial condition

Find out more about all the projects of the »Magical Hackerism« call on our website: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/project/web-residencies/calls-2022/magical-hackerism-or-the-elasticity-of-resilience/

Images
1: Islam Shabana and Luiz Zanotello, »A Knot in Motion«. Courtesy of the artist.
2: Portrait of Islam Shabana. Courtesy of the artist.
3: Portrait of Luiz Zanotello. Courtesy of the artist.

06/12/2022

EXHIBITION: »Mutations« by KfW Stiftung
**Still on until December 11, 2022!**

We already had a great opening of the »Mutations« exhibition by KfW Stiftung at Villa 102 in Frankfurt a.M.
Join us for the finissage with a guided tour on December 11, 2pm or tune in online for a virtual lecture about »Exhibiting Artistic Research« by Dr. Brigitte Franzen and the participating artists on December 19, 1:30pm.

»Mutations« was born out of the interdisciplinary thematic residency program realised in 2020/2021 as a cooperation of KfW Stiftung with Akademie Schloss Solitude.

With works by Sabina Hyoju Ahn, Angela Anderson, Grayson Earle, Ana María Gómez López, Clara Jo, Maxwell Mutanda and Joana Quiroga.

Curated by Daniela Leykam and Rose Field.

Images:
Mutations. Eine Ausstellung in der Villa 102, Frankfurt am Main © KfW Stiftung, Fotos: Jens Ge**er

Find more information on our website:
https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/event/exhibition-mutations-at-villa-102-in-frankfurt/

05/12/2022

Out now! CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
RESIDENCY PROGRAM IN NAMIBIA FOR ARTISTS FROM GERMANY

Akademie Schloss Solitude together with the National Art Gallery of Namibia and the Goethe-Institut Namibia is establishing a new residency program that will be committed to a long-term artistic and cultural exchange between Namibia and Germany. Artists across the fields of visual arts, literature/journalism, and digital practice can apply for a four-month residency for the period of June 1 to September 30, 2023.

We especially welcome Black persons and/or persons of African descent living in Germany.

The fellowship will provide the opportunity to engage artistically with the project’s topics restitution/reparation, cultures of remembrance, and digital colonialism.

You are welcome to apply until January 10, 2023.

Find more information about the call on our website right here: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/news/stipendienausschreibung-residenzprogramm-fuer-kuenstlerinnen-aus-deutschland-in-namibia/

The German version of the call can be found under the following link: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/news/stipendienausschreibung-residenzprogramm-fuer-kuenstlerinnen-aus-deutschland-in-namibia/

The residency program is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg as part of the Namibia initiative of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Image: Ateliergebäude / Studio building in Namibia. Photo: National Art Gallery of Namibia

02/12/2022

Today on , meet cooperation fellow Hemal Naik, who introduces himself:

»A part of me is trying to develop technology to understand the natural world (Project MELA). Another part of me wants to sit, observe and talk about the sound of birds, trees, colorful flowers and blue skies. At Akademie Schloss Solitude, I played both parts interchangeably while trying to understand how different artists communicate their ideas through their practice. Personally, I am interested in the discussion on integrating the practice of knowledge dissemination side by side with the practice of knowledge creation.

In Project MELA, our team focuses on the study of leking, a rare mating behavior of Blackbucks (antelopes) in India. At the same time, we want to use art to facilitate a dialogue between the various stakeholders in the project.

I also want to write a collection of short stories (with sketches and sounds) based on my understanding of the relationships between species throughout the project.«

Hemal Naik’s residence is part of »Field Trip« – a new transdisciplinary residency program between Akademie Schloss Solitude and Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz.

Images
1: Vivek Sridhar
2+3: Hemal Naik

01/12/2022

When was the last time you had the chance to enjoy a hand massage or joined a massage circle? If you are in Stuttgart or around, you are warmly invited to Tanya Villanueva’s workshop »Holding Hands« at FF*GZ Stuttgart on Tuesday, December 6.

Current Solitude fellow Tanya Villanueva together with Olive Villanueva will offer hand massages for the community of FF*GZ as a means to connect and provide care work for the men and women of the feminist center. Each participant will get a 15 minute hand massage. As a group activitiy, all guests are invited to for a massage circle, where they will all simultaneously give back massages to one another in a circle formation as a means to give friendly care and intimiate relief to each other.

Hand massages will be given from 7 to 8 pm to a total of eight persons. The massage circle will start at 8 pm.

The event will be held mainly in English and is free of charge. FF*GZ would be grateful for an appreciation contribution for the center. The workshop is aimed at people of all genders who feel connected to FF*GZ. Due to limited spaces, please register by December 6, 12 noon, via [email protected].

Image: Tanya Villanueva, Marija Vicente, Gail Vicente, »Beautiful Life Revenge«, 2022. Photo: Timmy Harn

30/11/2022

On this , meet current web resident Chidumaga Uzoma Orji and his project »Achebe’s Internet«!

Can we create a modern information system premised on the foundational wisdom of [Igbo]proverbs? What would the internet look like if it were designed to mirror ancestral systems of knowledge production that prioritize the dissemination of wisdom over mere information? These are the questions at the heart of »Achebe’s Internet/Proverbial Protocol«, a research project that seeks to situate ancestral wisdom ecologies within contemporary technological frameworks, now being further developed and distributed through the 18th web residency »Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience.«

Chidumaga Uzoma Orji is a visual/digital/web artist and creative/spiritual technologist. His work is concerned with unpacking postcolonial crises of identity, fueling imagination in service of progressive African futures, and exploring ancestral spirituality through a contemporary lens. He lives and works in the serene hills of Abuja, Nigeria.

Find out more about all the projects of the »Magical Hackerism« call on our website: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/project/web-residencies/calls-2022/magical-hackerism-or-the-elasticity-of-resilience/

Images
1: Chidumaga Uzoma Orji, »Achebe’s Internet«. Courtesy of the artist.
2: Portrait of Chidumaga Uzoma Orji. Courtesy of the artist.

29/11/2022

This Thursday, December 1, former Solitude fellow Ana Filipovic will present the lecture performance »Craigslust: ‘We’ll Have S*x and You Don’t Need to Pay Much for the Flat’« as part of the symposium »LABOUR/ARBEIT/İŞ« at Arbeitsgericht Stuttgart.

Offering free or discounted rent in exchange for s*x, online marketplaces enable predatory behaviour in housing markets overheated by crisis. When the market-oriented housing system meets deregulated virtual space, opportunities open up for bypassing the regulations for equal access to housing. In the case of Craigslist, an online marketplace established in 1995 that has since spread to over 70 countries, the housing section “rooms & shares” features adverts offering free or heavily discounted accommodation in exchange for s*xual favours.

The performance lecture will take place on Thursday, December 1, at 4 pm.
Location: Arbeitsgericht Stuttgart, Johannesstr. 86, Stuttgart-West.

Find more information on the entire program of the symposium (December 1 and 2) on www.abk-stuttgart.de.

Images: Installation view from the exhibition »LABOUR/ARBEIT/İŞ« at Arbeitsgericht Stuttgart, 2022, and screenshot from the project »Craigslust: ‘We’ll Have S*x and You Don’t Need to Pay Much for the Flat’«. Courtesy of the artist.

28/11/2022

Last Thursday, Akademie Schloss Solitude hosted a network meeting with curators from Baden-Württemberg, which also included studio visits with current fellows and a joint discussion round.

Four years ago, the network was initiated by the Akademie with the aim of creating synergies between art and cultural professionals in Baden-Württemberg as well as to initiate a vivid communication within the network. The studio visits also offer the opportunity to gain insight into the artistic practice of present fellows and to expand international contacts through mutual exchange.

In the evening Çağla Ilk and Misal Adnan Yıldız, directors of Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden gave a keynote speech on the topic of art and cultural institutions in times of change.
A big thank you goes to all curators and fellows for sharing their time and experiences with us!

25/11/2022

It's again and we are pleased to introduce political artist and writer Victoria Lomasko to you!

Prior to March 2022, she lived in her home country Russia; she is now in exile. Lomasko is currently the author of three volumes of graphic journalism: »Forbidden Art«, »Other Russias« and »The Last Soviet Artist«. In 2018, »Other Russias« was awarded the London-based Pushkin House Prize for the Best Book in Translation and has been described by The Guardian as one of the five best books for understanding contemporary Russia.

During her time at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Lomasko prepared sketches for a new monumental Five Steps series consisting of five panels: Isolation, Escape, Exile, Shame, Humanity. The new series is shown in a large solo exhibition of Fondazione Brescia Musei in Brescia, Italy, at the Santa Giulia Museum. Akademie Schloss Solitude is a partner of the project.

Images
1. Portrait of Victoria Lomasko. Photo by Fondazione Brescia Musei, by Alberto Mancini
2. Editions of »Other Russias«
3. The first edition of »The Last Soviet Artist« in Catalan
4. Sketch of »Exile for Five Steps«
5. Working process on the panels »Five Steps«
6. The fragment of panel »Escape«
7. The Santa Giulia Museum

24/11/2022

In the last workshop of a series on developing a mission statement for the emerging field of artistic and cultural mediation at Akademie Schloss Solitude, staff members reflected on the process of the past six months, stretching from the first three internal workshops to the past four with external experts. How can future formats of participation be shaped?

Moderated by Vatan Ukaj from WERTansich(t), personal perspectives and experiences were shared and exchanged. The team discussed the achieved progress and identified questions and fields that need further attention.

The targeted funding of the project »Junge Perspektiven« within the framework of the »Weiterkommen!« program by the new Zentrum für Kulturelle Teilhabe Baden-Württemberg (ZfKT – Center for Cultural Participation Baden-Wuerttemberg) enables the development of a mission statement for the currently emerging field of artistic and cultural mediation at Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Photo: Saskia Ackermann

23/11/2022

We are back with , introducing the current Web Residents and their projects to you!

In the framework of the project »Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience«, SAVVY Contemporary and Akademie Schloss Solitude’s Digital program offer four web residencies to practitioners and communities within the tropical belt, exploring situated knowledges, forming local DIT (Do It Together) community networks, and/or connecting intertropically on a planetary level.

We are very delighted to share the selected projects and artists with you:

»Achebe’s Internet: Proverbial Protocol« by Chidumaga Urzoma Orji, Abuja/Nigeria

»A Knot in Motion: On the Accident of Rain« by Islam Shabana (El Kharja and Cairo/Egypt) & Luiz Zanotello (Jundiaí/Brazil, Berlin/Germany)

»HACKING ANTI-COLONIAL KUIR POETRY THROUGH THE TROPICS« by Jô Osbórnia (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, based in Berlin/Germany) & Jota Ramos (Alegre/Brazil, based in Berlin/Germany)

»Cloudrunner: The Pinatubo Field Guide to Solar Geoengineering« by Adaptive Radiations Working Group (Araw), Zambales/Philippines

Find all project descriptions and artist information on our website: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/project/web-residencies/calls-2022/magical-hackerism-or-the-elasticity-of-resilience/

Images
1: Design by Juan Pablo García Sossa (JPGS)
2: Chidumaga Uzoma Orji, »Achebe’s Internet«. Courtesy of the artist.
3: Islam Shabana and Luiz Zanotello, »A Knot in Motion«. Courtesy of the artists.
4: KUIR POETRY, screenshot from »KUIR – an online magazine for anti-colonial q***r poetry«. Courtesy of the artists.
5: Adaptive Radiations Working Group (Araw), »Cloudrunner«. Courtesy of the artists.

22/11/2022

We are very excited about the launch of Solitude Journal 4 »Time After Time« happening next week in Berlin!

Solitude Journal and special editions communicate the topics emerging from Akademie Schloss Solitude’s network. The fourth iteration, »Time After Time«, is based on the perceptions of time inscribed in and reproduced through colonial systems, as a decolonial approach to the length and/or parameters of time. Writer and editor Dzekashu MacViban was invited to develop a theme for this edition with co-editors Jazmina Figueroa and Denise Helene Sumi.

Join us for the launch event with present authors at , Berlin, on Wednesday, November 30, 7.30 pm!

Find more information on our website: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/event/launch-of-solitude-journal-4-time-after-time/

Image Credits: For the cover of Solitude Journal 4, »Time After Time«, Beton.Studio processed a drawing from the series »Studies in Aqueous Time« by former fellow Zahra Malkani. We would like to thank the artist for the possibility to use one of her drawings as the cover subject. Reproductions of the original drawings can be found in the journal.

18/11/2022

Today on , say hola to Solitude fellow Nicolás Vizcaíno Sánchez, an artist-etc. based between Bogotá and Quibdó, Colombia, currently amazed by the Stuttgart car culture.

»Since I have your attention... I did not come just to entertain you. History repeats it to us: just as between 1905 and 1916, when the Russian platinum mines closed because of the war, and American, British and German capital came to Chocó to dredge the Condoto river bed to supply the metal, today, Germany at war with Russia, increases the purchase of coal from the departments of La Guajira and Cesar in Colombia. Platinum, among other uses, is in car exhaust systems to mitigate polluting emissions. The coal will burn to ensure that nothing stops in here. Buenas noches Europa.«

Images related to the following projects:
A. Asamblea Ordinaria, curatorial collective by and
B. Abrecaminos, paint and video still, at gallery, Bogotá, 2018
C. Michelin (el bueno), mascot, 2014
D. Foto Ajena, editorial project with , 2017
E. »Toma más Viche«, campaign for the promotion of this traditional home-brewed spirit, 2016
F. Modelo Estéreo Vol. 1, music album made by artists incarcerated in the national modelo prison, produced with .grande.colectivo, 2016 (Etching for the CD cover made by Miller Ruíz)
G. Sin título (mola Caimán Nuevo), hand-made textile made by the women of the Guna Dule community of Caimán Nuevo, Necoclí, 2019
H. Fiebre Super Nórdica, sculpture in the EVA International Ireland Biennial, Limerick 2018 (photo by )
I. WOW, music video for produced by (photo by )
J. CXT01, shirt wear it by in vicheministerio, Bogotá, 2019 (photo by )
K. Cabezota, sculpture conceive and made with the inmates in juvenile prison of Quibdó, a project, 2021
L. »Su moda es cíclica por el comercio triangular«, poster with the brand , 2022

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»Meeting of Future Diplomats« | Act V of »Acting Care! A Performance on the Meadow«, September 25, 10 am to 1 pm, Bad Boll The final act on Sunday morning is designed as a meeting for all, bringing together everyone who is interested in BECOMING A FUTURE DIPLOMAT FOR THE UNKNOWN. Artists will have the opportunity to meet regional experts. Stakeholders from the participating institutions can meet decision-makers from the region and employees from their administration. You can attend and contribute coming from afar or from close by. Of course always »Under Utopia«. For the meeting we are very happy to welcome political scientist and democracy care worker TAMARA EHS from Vienna and MONIKA GONSER, head of the Intersectoral School of Goverance! Both will give us guidance into how best to create a new constitution for the future unknown. Don’t miss! You can reach Bad Boll very easily from Stuttgart main station with the regional train to Göppingen ZOB. A shuttle will be waiting for you in Göppingen to take you to Bad Boll for the »Meeting of Future Diplomats«. More info on the shuttle here: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/event/acting-care/ »Acting Care!« is a production of Bureau Baubotanik (@BureauBaubotanik) within the context of the festival ÜBER:MORGEN, hosted by the KulturRegion Stuttgart (@KulturregionStuttgart), and is taking place in cooperation with the municipality of Bad Boll (https://www.facebook.com/Gemeinde-Bad-Boll-111459995014950) , WALA Heilmittel GmbH (@walaarzneimittel), the Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll (@EvangelischeAkademieBadBoll), the Stiftung Lebenshilfe Zollernalb (@lebenshilfezollernalb) and the fellowship program »Under Utopia« initiated by Akademie Schloss Solitude (@Akademie.Solitude) and the artist duo Geers/Drescher. Find the full program and further information on our website: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/event/acting-care/ Video: Bureau Baubotanik #akademiesolitude #bureaubaubotanik #walaarzneimittel

We are very excited to announce the launch of »Acting Care! A Performance on the Meadow« by Buerau Baubotanik in Bad Boll on September 24 through 25! Care work in the form of care for others assumes a special importance in these challenging times. How can we create a shared sense of responsibility in a moment of crisis to refocus our collective attention on the core issues of mindfulness and care for people and nature? How can we embark on a new start into an uncertain future as a caring community? On September 24 through 25, the architect duo Bureau Baubotanik invites you to attend the launch of their project »Acting Care! A Performance on the Meadow« and explore new ways of being together. In Bad Boll, the duo, together with the artists Niki Matita and Florian Model, is creating an installation in a meadow which is designed to serve as a venue for visitors from near and far to test out the future of a new culture of care in public space. »Acting Care!« is a production of Bureau Baubotanik within the context of the festival ÜBER:MORGEN, hosted by the Kulturregion Stuttgart, and is taking place in cooperation with the municipality of Gemeinde Bad Boll, Wala Heilmittel GmbH, the Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll, the Stiftung Lebenshilfe Zollernalb and the fellowship program »Under Utopia« initiated by Akademie Schloss Solitude and the artist duo Geers/Drescher. For more about the program, see: www.bureau-baubotanik.de/acting-care #akademiesolitude #kulturregionstuttgart #ubermorgenfestival #walaarzneimittel #evangelischeakademiebadboll #lebenshilfezolleralb #badboll #underutopia #bureaubaubotanik #actingcare #vorstellungaufderwiese

Are you looking for plans for the weekend in Stuttgart? – We have a recommendation for you: Current Solitude fellow Sebastian Klawiter and Denise Madsack are declaring the public space an excavation site! On Saturday and Sunday, they invite everyone on a trip through the city searching for hidden layers of time and history while linking them to current and future realities, and rediscover urban space. On this dialogical discovery process you will pass by 5 places where the artist Norbert Radermacher placed his so-called »Stücke für die Stadt« (pieces for the city) in 1987. Where: in the traffic circle at Österreichischer Platz, Stuttgart, access under the Paulinenbrücke When: April 23, 12–6pm and April 24, 12–5pm Credits: @markjulienhahn & @matterof.online #stadtforschung #stückefürdiestadt #solitudefellows #akademiesolitude Stadtlücken

Last Thursday and Friday current Solitude fellow Mounir Saeed was giving his internal presentation at Akademie Schloss Solitude, showing his project »(UN)-identified movements«. Consisting of a video screening and a performance the project focuses on creating a multidisciplinary installation, merging between dance, music and visuals. Mounir addresses the ghostly movements that are necessary for every individual to find its way through the crowds and traffic chaos of Cairo in everyday life. How is it possible for us to move between such a mass of cars and other people and what happens to our bodies? The dancers in the video come from Egypt, Morocco, France, Germany and Italy. Involved are: Nourane Radwane, Salah Mourad, Stephanie Roser, Giulia Piana, Solveig Eger, Mostafa El Banna, Sara Ezzell, Chorouk El Mahati, Kamel Ragab, Iole La Sala, Mohamed Ghareeb and Viola Busi. Video: excerpt of »(UN)-identified movements« by Mounir Saeed Music by Mounir Saeed (Electronic) and Judith Hamann (Cello) #akademiesolitude #solitudefellows #internalpresentation

Interview with Luana Lojić

#insidehorizons As the current »Horizons« exhibition at Solitude is an open-format series that is intended to make creative processes of artists visible, we asked Luana Lojic, one of the participating fellows, about the values and chances of opening up artistic contributions to the public. This Saturday on January 22, from 1–4pm, Luana will be in the metal workshop at the Akademie where she is currently working to give an insight into her »Work in Progress« and invite visitors to exchange ideas and thoughts. The exhibition is still open until January 30, every Saturday and Sunday from 1–4pm. So come on over and broaden your horizon! #akademiesolitude

Today, we would like to draw your attention to a recent work by our current art coordination fellow Jazmina Figueroa. Jazmina was invited to participate in the Beyond Matter research project at ZKM Karlsruhe. As a result, her work »Call Signs«, 2021, is partly machine-generated and partly sensory. It is based on the subversive, radical traditions of expanded media for information exchange and transference. Throughout history, shells were used as currency. Their biological architectures reflect the genesis of a new currency that is characterized by iteration, in other words, all of that which was and is tallied into previous attempts. The endeavor to sequence entities deriving from the culmination of a whole can be visualized through the study of a shell: the calcified material network – the arrangement of oblique lines and relief-like patterns with obscured interpretive origins. For what it’s worth, all of what makes up a mollusc’s shell is also part of the force that drives movement across the Atlantic Ocean. Visit »Call Signs« online in the virtual space »fantastic confabulations«! https://fantastic-confabulations.beyondmatter.eu/ With support of Beyond Matter EU , ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, and Creative Europe Curator: Theodoulos Polyviou Mastering: Tobias Koch Spatial effects made with Andrew Madden Special thanks to the Beyond Matter Team: Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás and Felix Koberstein #akademiesolitude #solitudefellows #zkmkarlsruhe #virtualexhibition

#webreswednesday We‘re excited to introduce to you DCC as part of the web residency call »Solidarity is a Verb«! Distributed Cognition Cooperative is a practical research unit co-founded by Sasha Shestakova and Anna Engelhardt. DCC is interested in (de)colonial politics of algorithmic and logistical infrastructures in post-Soviet space. Concerned with infrastructure as a form of politics, DCC grounds its practice in writing, manufacturing and maintaining digital architectures. Their current project »Swarm« is a (plat)form of care built to help marginalised artists, researchers, and other practitioners develop their CV, portfolio, or write a funding application. It works as a peer-review repository organised by principles of mutual aid, meaning you can ask for feedback and provide yours in exchange, support someone and get support if your application is unsuccessful, and find materials that can guide you through the application process. We envision the »Swarm« as a termite mound, infrastructure that will create conditions for a swarm cognition to emerge. You can find more information on DCC on their website https://dccoop.info/. The projects of the web residency »Solidarity is a Verb« will be online on our website soon! #akademiesolitude #digitalsolitude #webresidency #solidarityisaverb

A little nostalgic flashback to the Sommerfest 2021 in September and hopefully an encouragement to come and visit the exhibition »War, bin, werde sein« – with contributions by former and current fellows – which took its start at the Sommerfest and will be on view until November 14. Meanwhile enjoy the video, filmed and edited by Martin Mannweiler. More info about the ongoing exhibition: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/event/ausstellung-war-bin-werde-sein/ #akademiesolitude #sommerfest2021

How do we want to live together now and in future? How can we live out solidarity with its inherent diversity, create local alliances and ultimately make these tangible through art? We are happy to present to you the exhibitions and installations opened on the occasion of this year's summer festival that can now be seen in the spaces of Akademie Schloss Solitude until November 14, 2021! Following the overall theme of »Solidarity«, positions of current and former fellows from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Cameroon, Colombia, Mexico, Namibia, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Hungary, and the USA will be shown. The exhibition will be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 6 pm. Find more information on our website: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/event/exhibition-war-bin-werde-sein/ #akademiesolitude #exhibition #solitudefellows

This year's Summer Festival at Akademie Schloss Solitude starts TODAY! At 5.15 pm, you will be welcomed by Petra Olschowski, State Secretary within the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg, and Elke aus dem Moore, Director, Akademie Schloss Solitude. Admission and registration is possible from 4.30 pm. Refreshments will be provided by local caterers. Current and former fellows and the Akademie team look forward to your visit! Admission free! Find more information and the entire program on our website: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/event/sommerfest-2021/ #akademiesolitude #sommerfest #opendoors

We are very excited for the storytelling and musical performance »En el principio todo era Cumbia – In the beginning there was Cumbia,« happening in the courtyard of Akademie Schloss Solitude on September 24, 9.15 to 10 pm! Colombian researcher and media creator Maria Cecilia Reyes, Colombian visual and performance artist Carlos Monroy and »gaita master« and composer Marlon Peroza as guest artist (online from Colombia) invite everyone to feel Cumbia as the original heartbeat, as a secret dance, as an introspective journey. Through narration, dance, and live-streamed music from Barranquilla’s downtown to Schloss Solitude, they connect in the essence of Cumbia, and explore the cosmogonies of Cumbia music, the meanings and stories comprised in this ancient rhythm, its instruments, its songs, and its dance. The video clip shows »gaita master« Marlon Peroza who will join online from the Colombian Caribbean, and will compose and record a special Cumbia song for the Sommerfest exclusively. Find the entire program of this year’s Summer Festival on our website: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/event/sommerfest-2021/ #akademiesolitude #sommerfest #opendoor #musicperformance #solitudefellows

Less than three weeks left until our Summer Festival starts! Celebrating the theme of solidarity, we are excited for all the contributions of former and current Solitude fellows. Stay tuned for their collaborations in the form of performances, video screenings, workshops, exhibitions, installations, readings, and more. This year's Solitude Summer Festival will take place on September 24, from 5 to 10 pm, and on September 25, from 2 to 6 pm. Find more information on our website: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/event/sommerfest-2021/ #akademiesolitude #sommerfest #opendoor #solitudefellows

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🌴📡 THE FOUR MAGICAL HACKERISM PROJECTS ARE ANNOUNCED 📡🌴

In the framework of the project »Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience«, SAVVY Contemporary and Akademie Schloss Solitude's Digital program offer four web residencies to practitioners and communities within the tropical belt, exploring situated knowledges, forming local DIT (Do It Together) community networks, and/or connecting intertropically on a planetary level.

We are delighted to share the selected projects and artists with you – they are:

·.o »Achebe’s Internet: Proverbial Protocol« by Chidumaga Urzoma Orji (Abuja/Nigeria)

·.o »A Knot in Motion: On the Accident of Rain« by Islam Shabana (El Kharja & Cairo/Egypt) & Luiz Zanotello (Jundiaí/Brazil & Berlin/Germany)

·.o »HACKING ANTI-COLONIAL KUIR POETRY THROUGH THE TROPICS by Jô Osbórnia (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, based in Berlin/Germany) & Jota Ramos (Alegre/Brazil, based in Berlin/Germany)

·.o »Cloudrunner: The Pinatubo Field Guide to Solar Geoengineering« by Adaptive Radiations Working Group ( Mica Cabildo, JM Quiblat) (Zambales/Philippines)

You find all project descriptions and artist information on our website.

The Last Soviet Artist
La prima e imperdibile mostra dell’artista russa Victoria Lomasko

Museo di Santa Giulia
Fino all’8 gennaio 2023

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Friends in Berlin: The Launch of Solitude Journal 4 »Time After Time«
will take place Nov 30, 2022, 19h30 at Hopscotch Reading Room.
Thank you Dzekashu Macviban for the opportunity to contribute to the journal, with Christ Mukenge and other incredible artists, writers, researchers:

Fatin Abbas, Camila de Caux and Eric Macedo, Nadine K. Cenoz, Sheila Chiamaka Chukwulozie, BF, Jazmina Figueroa, Wanjeri Gakuru, HuM-Collective, Chloê Langford and Jira Duguid (Fantasia Malware), Zahra Malkani, Dzekashu MacViban, Christ Mukenge and Lydia Schellhammer, Sada Malumfashi, Pratyush Pushkar and Riya Raagini a.k.a. BaRiya, Nicolás Vizcaíno Sánchez, Valentina Sciarra, Denise Helene Sumi, Tanya Villanueva, and Eirini Vlavianou

Special guest editor for Solitude Journal 4: Dzekashu MacViban
Co-editors: Jazmina Figueroa and Denise Helene Sumi

Published by Akademie Schloss Solitude, Elke aus dem Moore

Akademie Schloss Solitude

Мунир Саид е танцов и музикален артист и изследовател от Кайро, който гостува в България между септември и декември 2022. Като хореограф, той отправи покана към местните танцьори, с които да работи заедно по един солов и един групов спектакъл.

Сърдечно ви каним да видим заедно резултатите от тази колаборация между Мунир Саид и българските танцьори - на 24 и 29 ноември от 19:30 часа в Топлоцентрала.
🎟️ Вход свободен.

🟪 “I WAS THERE”
📍 24 ноември, четвъртък, 19:30 ч. | Солов танцов пърформанс
Информация: https://toplocentrala.bg/program/performance/i-was-there

🟪 “(UN)-IDENTIFIED MOVEMENTS”
📍 29 ноември, вторник, 19:30 ч. | Групов танцов пърформанс
Информация: https://toplocentrala.bg/program/performance/un-identified-movements
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Проектът е част от артистичната резидентска програма в партньорство между Akademie Schloss Solitude, Гьоте-институт България и Топлоцентрала.

Stuttgart, Chloroplast
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Inaugura questo sabato 12 novembre, ma con un’anteprima al pubblico domani alle ore 19:00 presso il Museo di Santa Giulia, la mostra “Victoria Lomasko. The Last Soviet Artist” a cura di Elettra Stamboulis, promossa da Comune di Brescia e Fondazione Brescia Musei, in collaborazione con il Festival della Pace, con l'alto patrocinio del Parlamento Europeo.

Victoria Lomasko. The Last Soviet Artist sarà visitabile domani fino alle 22:00 (ultimo ingresso ore 21:15) e dal 12 novembre con il consueto orario d’apertura museale.
© Enrico Fappani
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✨ I am super excited and honored to receive an eight-month residency and a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude to continue my artistic development! Thank you for your support!!!

The Akademie Schloss Solitude is an international and transdisciplinary artist residency. Its unique model provides artists and scientists with valuable freedom to develop their work and conduct research in both physical and digital space. The Akademie Schloss Solitude's wide-ranging fellowship program promotes the interweaving of art and science in all disciplines and fields of practice. Thematic focal points are set through changing special programs. With a wide range of public events, the Akademie Schloss Solitude provides access to artistic thought and action for a broad public.

Read more: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/news/neue-stipendiatinnen-fuer-die-jahre-2022-2024-ausgewaehlt/

Photo by Dominique Brewing

Laurynas Katkus (b. 1972) is a Lithuanian writer, editor, essayist, and translator. Katkus studied Lithuanian and Comparative literature in Vilnius, Norwich, Leipzig, and Berlin, and holds a PhD with a thesis on exile in modern poetry. His latest book, a collection of novellas, is titled: “Nakvynė Berlyne” (A Night in Berlin, 2022). He has published three books of poetry, the last being “Už 7 gatvių” (Behind 7 Streets), and a book of essays, “Sklepas” (The Basement), among other works. Katkus’s work has been translated into more than ten languages.
Katkus was a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, of the Junge Akademie of Berlin Academy of Arts, and of the International Writing Program in Iowa, and others. He has translated S. Sontag, W. Benjamin, F. Hölderlin, G. Büchner, E. Jünger, O. Paz, L. Seiler, and more, into Lithuanian. Katkus lives in Vilnius with his wife and three children, and works as a freelance author and translator.

📌 NMA asks: What does “the Baltics” mean to you? Could you summarize it in six words?
Laurynas: Stubborn forest dwellers near the sea.

📌 “It’s only now, when it’s all in the distant past, that I fully understand how much I was fooling myself and, more importantly, that I was doing it sincerely.” L. K.

📷 Martynas Aleksa

🔥Some hot memories 🔥It was so much fun working with so these wonderful artists and performing together on stage! "Evil Womxn" / “Böse Frauen*” | 27/10-30/10/2022 | a huge thanks to the amazing public for your support - every show was sold out! ✨

With: Fender Schrade Nina Sára Horváth Nesindano Namises Aleksandra Dzenisenia Debora Vilchez Sabina Jasmin Johana Gomez Lea Langenfelder Mounir Saeed and many others.

📸 Dominique Brewing

ℹ️ Evil women are mostly women with power, women who stand up for themselves / women who criticize men / women who are impudent / women who are clever / women who are unscrupulous / women who take what they want. Evil women are first and foremost self-determined. Six performers who already unite a diversity of being a woman* in themselves will be on stage. Together they are the protagonists of poetic pictures. Musically located between experimental music and punk, they take the stage playing and dancing.

In cooperation with ECLAT Festival / Musik der Jahrhunderte Theater Rampe Women of Music and Women of Music Hungary
With kind support of Akademie Schloss Solitude

Supported by the Cultural Office of the State Capital Stuttgart and the Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V. , as well as by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR, the Wüstenrot Stiftung and the Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart

Khoes (Nesindano Namises) is a performer, poet and vocalist. While working on radio as a news presenter, copywriter and voice artist she was introduced to the poetry movement, Spoken Word Namibia and co-organised the influential platform (with, among others, late filmmaker Oshosheni Hivelua), which has influenced and been a catalyst for a large number of Windhoek's contemporary performers and spaces.

As a performer, Khoes combines multilingual poetry and andsound-scaping in her mother tongue, Khoekhoegowab and in English and Afrikaans. With Christian Polloni, the duo, Blend was formed and saw the debut of one recorded album. She ventured back into performance in 2018 with the collaborative project: The House of Falling Bones.

Her current projects explore the practice of restoring the non-physical and the experimental play of storytelling with the aural. She is also a mother and aspiring afro-futurist.
- theKhoest - experimental poetry/sound. Presented in Stuttgart (Visible festival),
Windhoek (Oudano Africa), Barcelona (Africa Moment), Ondalate Naiteke and Skandaløs
festival, 2019/20, 21Distritos - Madrid (Oct 2021)
- The House of Falling Bones - A Namibia-South Africa-Germany music theatre. Munich,
Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Zurich, 2017/2020
- The Mourning/The Mourning Citizen - dramaturgy by Nashilongweshipwe Muushandja,
choreographed by dancer/teacher Trixie Munyama. (Namibia, online) 2018/2020

She is a recipient of the Namibian residency program by Akademie Schloss Solitude and also a resident for Flausen+ 2021.

On 27 October, the project “Evil Women", a production of InterAKT Initiative, will premiere at 20:00 in P1 at Theaterhaus Stuttgart / ECLAT Festival / Musik der Jahrhunderte
further dates: 28. + 29.10. at 20:00, 30.10. at 16:00.

Design: Arjann Jacob Härtner
Foto: Dominique Brewing

→ starting today!
Digital Solitude Assembly Tbilisi
Oct 21 – 24, 2022

A collaboration between the Digital Solitude program of Akademie Schloss Solitude, CYNETART Platform, and Untitled Gallery Tbilisi

The »Digital Solitude Assembly Tbilisi« is a project that is initiated by Untitled Gallery Tbilisi, and emerged from the Digital Solitude network and its 2022 festival edition »Fragile Solidarity/Fragile Connections.«

Untitled Gallery Tbilisi invites four artists from their respective communities, and four artists from the Digital Solitude network. This assembly brings together artists to develop new narratives and visions around digital media and technologies, and to promote works by South Caucasian artists working with digital media.

The assembly takes place in the framework of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennale 2022, which focuses on post-Soviet »temporalities« surrounding precarious living spaces, scarce resources, political instability, wars, or difficult means of income.

Since its founding in 2016, the Digital Solitude program has established a formidable network. The program acknowledges a lack of exchange with the South Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan), which is why it’s important for all partners to meet in Tbilisi and explore the possibilities of web-based projects such as Akademie Schloss Solitude’s Web Residency program.

The assembly will kick off with a joint exhibition at Untitled Gallery Tbilisi at 7pm on October 21, 2022, and will continue with discussions, talks, presentations, and joint working sessions for three more days.

With contributions by Salina Abaza, Banu Asgar, Ksenia Nam, Tatev Tsokolakyan (represented by Diana Sardaryan), Lasha Kabanashvili, Daniil Galkin, Kateryna Rusetska, Maria Espinoza and Shirley Chen, Panta Rhei Collaborative (Bene Wahlbrink, Eugenio Cappuccio, Jan Bauer) and Juan Pablo García Sossa.

The project is supported by the Goethe-Institut Georgien, and the TMA Hellerau. It is cofinanced by Akademie Schloss Solitude and the CREATIVE Europe program of the European Union within the framework of the New Cross-National Temporality Project (NCNTP).

Collateral event of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial / თბილისის არქიტექტურის ბიენალე