Katharina Ludwig “Woundlickers' Gloves” (ongoing work cycle), photo: Katharina Ludwig.
On Timeliness: Fragments between Past and Future
14. December 2024, 15.00-19.30
With Ghayath Almadhoun, Katharina Ludwig, Mykola Ridnyi
Screening Mykola Ridnyi “Regular Places” (film, 16 minutes)
Awareness Mine Pleasure Bouvar
Co-hosted/curated by Anna-Lena Werner & Katharina Ludwig
For the fifth encounter of the discursive series On(going) Trauma at Vierte Welt Berlin guests and audience present are invited to collectively address questions regarding trauma’s complex effects on temporality and how these are being explored, transformed or conveyed in artistic (and research) practices. Together, we will be focusing on the repetitive and sudden presence (– the timeliness –) of traumata between past experiences and possible future scenarios, on non-linear fragmentation of individual and collective memories, and on its transgenerational traces inscribed throughout personal histories. Trauma will be discussed as holes and portals for temporalities and voices, as un-healing wounds in poetry, texts, and language as such (Katharina Ludwig), as vocal echos of past violences shifting in time within the streets of Ukraine’s city Kharkiv (Mykola Ridnyi) and as a poetic excavation of identity, displacement and the collective scars of conflict, exploring how trauma reshapes language, with poetry bearing witness to the unspeakable effects of ongoing crises (Ghayath Almadhoun).
On(going) Trauma offers a forum to talk about and learn from artistic and curatorial research practices in dealing with trauma from plural perspectives, as well as repositioning its concept. Different practices are being presented, in which situated knowledges, systematic power and (state) violence structures are discussed. In six rounds of encounters, the series addresses the image politics of violence; the growth of right-wing presence; bodily collectiveness and multiple personas as strategies of resistance; fictional counter-narratives and irritations; the fragmentary temporality of trauma (14.12.24) as well as private conflicts and public discourses (25.01.25). On(going) Trauma acts as an experimental format of exchange and encounter, designed as an open conversation format and a space of solidarity and humanitarian perspectives.
On(going) Trauma is a discursive series in 6 parts (May 2024 - January 2025), initiated by Anna-Lena Werner and Institut für Widerstand im Postfordismus / Elisa Müller in cooperation with Vierte Welt Berlin. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Find more info about the discursive series and speakers' bios here.
TICKETS
Seats are limited, participation is free via
VIERTE WELT
Am Kottbusser Tor (1. Floor / Balcony)
Adalbertstr. 96, Berlin
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Workshop, 9 July, 2024
The Quality of Slownesses in Expanded Neural Networks
With Dario Rodighiero, Helene Nymann, Ilya Vidrin, Joseph Dumit, Lins Derry & KMM Students
Hosted and conceived by Anna-Lena Werner & Sophie Erlund
Based on interdisciplinary, practice-based research contributions by data scientist Dario Rodighiero artist Helene Nymann, research-practitioner Ilya Vidrin, anthropologist Joe Dumit and choreographic designer Lins Derry, this interactive workshop examines the plasticity of “Slownesses” and suggests it as a quality or modality, rather than a temporality. Exploring so-called “attentioning”, in terms of physical and neural movements, as well as more-than-human-perspectives, participants will explore how memories may be imagined in spaces of the future. This workshop is a collaboration between the research networks Experimenting, Experiencing, Reflecting (EER) and metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin.
SR 103 Institut für Theaterwissenschaft
9.30-18.30 (Hybrid from 14:00)
Find the full program here: geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de
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ADA INVITATIONS [Forthcoming]
A publication resulting from the inter-institutional research project "Invitations – Archive as Event" (-> https://ada-invitations.de) between Freie Universität Berlin and Archiv der Avantgarden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) and HKW Berlin, design by Studio Pandan, published by Spector Books, Leipzig, November 2024.
Editors: Annette Jael Lehmann, Rudolf Fischer, Anna-Lena Werner
Co-Editors: Marcelo Rezende, Helene Romakin