Upcoming event
EMANCIPATIONS AND COLLECTIVE RESILIENCE: ON THE BODY AND TRAUMA
Saturday, 21.09, 15-19.00h, at Vierte Welt Berlin
with Isaac Chong Wai, Iz Öztat, Jenny Mahla, Natis | Awareness Mine Pleasure Bouvar
Co-curated by Alper Turan and Anna-Lena Werner
Storing experiences and knowledges, the body is a physical reminder of both visceral vulnerability and more-than-human (collective) resilience. It is being instrumentalised to continue hegemonic narratives, hierarchical systems and violence against groups. For the 3rd iteration of the discursive series "On(going) Trauma" at Vierte Welt Berlin, artists and the audience present are invited to share their strategies, engaging in the entanglements of the body, memory and trauma through their distinctive practices. Methods of dis-embodiment and dis-identification, fictional or ritualized bodies, as well as adaptions of different personas and collectivized selves will be critically discussed as possibilities to reclaim historical and political truths, rights, and narratives.
ON(GOING) TRAUMA – ARTISTIC NARRATIVES ON COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL WOUNDS. A DISCURSIVE SERIES IN 6 PARTS. In joint efforts with curators, guests and participants, the discursive series acts as a format of exchange and provides a forum to talk about and learn from artistic and curatorial research practices in dealing with trauma from plural perspectives – a space of solidarity. In six rounds of encounters, discourses will be addressed that will focus on media representations and image politics of violence; the growth of right-wing everyday presence; trauma embedded in and seen through bodily perspectives; traumatic witnessing and fictional (counter-)narratives; private conflicts and public discourses; as well as the fragmentary and transgenerational temporality of trauma. On(going) Trauma was initiated by Anna-Lena Werner and Elisa Müller / Institut für Widerstand im Postfordismus. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Find more info about the discursive series (& team, bios, past and upcoming encounters) here.
TICKETS
Seats are limited, participation is free via
VIERTE WELT
Am Kottbusser Tor (1. Floor, on the 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, Spring 2024.
Editors: Annette Jael Lehmann, Rudolf Fischer, Anna-Lena Werner
Co-Editors: Marcelo Rezende, Helene Romakin