Lunar Tides and the Spirals of the Universe. Encounter/dinner with Luiza Prado De O. Martins
Dates: Thursday July 27th
Time: 19:00-20:00
RSVP is required at luiza@luiza-prado.com
“Lunar Tides and the Spirals of the Universe” is a food installation and performance-dinner; a ritual exploring the separation of food from the realm of the commons, to its positioning as commodity mediated through spectacle and performance under capitalist and colonial systems. Looking at spiritual practices meant to invoke both forces of change as desire, extinction, fertility and death, this edible artwork explores the ongoing historical pathways of an ancient spice, medicine, and aphrodisiac called silphium — a plant overharvested to extinction during the Roman Empire, triggering waves of destruction and chaos that echo through time and space. The work takes as a starting point the Cult of Sylphis — an ancient religious practice revolving around the planting, tending, growth, protection, sharing, and consumption of silphium in Antiquity — to explore changing forms of worship and spiritual practices in the context of climate disaster.
BIO
Luiza Prado De O. Martins is an artist, activist and researcher. Her work moves between installation and food, using performance and ritual as a way of invitation and activation for audiences. Her practice explores relations and knowledge between food, infrastructures and technology, and questions what structures and process are needed for collective concerns of care. She holds a PhD from the University of the Arts Berlin, and an MA from the University of the Arts Bremen. Her ongoing artistic research project, “Un/Earthings and Moon Landings” narrates the extinction and later reappearance of an ancient contraceptive, aphrodisiac and spice, called silphium, through a series of artworks. She has exhibited and performed work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Savvy Contemporary, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Kampnagel, among others. She is currently based in Berlin.
RSVP: luiza@luiza-prado.com
Event held onsite: Donaustr. 84, 12043 Berlin
Image credit: Luiza Prado De O. Martins
Wednesday 19. July. Threads and Thresholds. An encounter with Nikki Lam
Wednesday, July 19th 2023
Time: 19:00-21:00
In this talk, Hong Kong-born Melbourne based artist-curator Nikki Lam will share her research as a practitioner who works relationally. From her moving image and text-based practice to her curatorial and community work with Hyphenated Projects—an Australian network of artists with the Asia-Pacific—she will share perspectives on Asia-Australia and the shifting political and cultural contexts for artists working within the global Asian diaspora. There will be a screening of Lam’s selected moving image works and an open presentation where attendees will be invited to contribute to conversations about positionality, protest and power.
BIO:
Nikki Lam (b.1988 Hong Kong) is an artist-curator based in Narrm/Melbourne. Working primarily with moving images and text, her work explores memory through contemplation on time, space and impermanence. Her work deals with the complexity of migratory expressions: its tensions, fragmentation, poetic threads of personal and collective histories.
Nikki’s work has been shown widely across Australia and internationally, including as part of Primavera: Australian Young Artists 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney, Melbourne Now (2023) at National Gallery of Victoria, as well as at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI), TarraWarra Museum of Art and Pier 2 Art Center in Taiwan. Her recent work the unshakable destiny_2101 has been shortlisted for multiple art prizes across Australia and is awarded Best Audio Visual Project at Jakarta Independent Film Festival. Her writing has been published in Meanjin Quarterly, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), Liminal and others. She was recently awarded the ACME Residency London by Australia Council for the Arts.
With an expanded practice in writing, community building and festival making, Nikki is drawn to relational modes of practice across her artistic and curatorial work. Nikki is co-director of Hyphenated Projects and Hyphenated Biennial, curator-at-large at The Substation and co-founder of Slow Burn Books. She was the Artistic Director of Channels video art festival, alongside many hybrid and leadership roles in the arts. Nikki is a current PhD (Art) candidate at RMIT University. Her practice-led PhD is about moving images in the Hong Kong Diaspora.
No RSVP required
Event held onsite: Donaustr. 84, 12043 Berlin
Monday 5. Tip of the tongue. An encounter with Claudia Claremi
June Monday 5
19:00-21:00
The experience of having something on the “tip of the tongue” is a common psychological phenomenon. In a way, it represents a place in memory that is just out of reach, waiting to be accessed. Claudia Claremi’s work in exploring collective experiences, memories, and shared imaginaries is like delving into the realm of the “tip of the tongue,” exploring the depths of memory and the unconscious to reveal structures of Western modernity that are hidden from view. By creating experiential spaces and utilizing participatory processes, films become powerful tools for addressing issues such as embodiment, memory, diaspora, and coloniality. Her films create physical and sensory experiences for the viewer, and her approach to moving images is multidisciplinary, including video, analogue film, installation, photography, archive, or text. ‘Colonial amnesia’ and ‘La memoria de las frutas’ are some of the projects that we’ll be discussing in this session.
BIO:
Claudia Claremi is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Madrid, Spain. She has earned degrees in Documentary Film from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba), Fine Arts from University of the Arts London (UK), and the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana (Cuba). Her work has been exhibited in art galleries and film festivals worldwide, including screenings and awards at festivals such as Ann Arbor, Raindance, Ji.hlava, Oberhausen, FIC Guadalajara, Documentamadrid, Márgenes, Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Vienna Shorts, Makedox, and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, among others.
No RSVP required
Event held onsite: Donaustr. 84, 12043 Berlin
Thursday 22 and Friday 23 June.The wretched take the screen. Amaia Sanchez-Velasco and Jorge Valiente Oriol from Grandeza Studio.
Amaia Sanchez-Velasco and Jorge Valiente Oriol from Grandeza Studio.
Title: The wretched take the screen
Dates: June Thursday 22 and Friday 23.
Times: 16:00-20:00
Philosopher Marina Garcés calls us to “embody critique”. In her words, “The problem of critique has traditionally been a problem of conscience. Today, it is a problem of the body. How do we incarnate critique? How does critical thought acquire a body?”
Engaging with Garcés´s invitation and refuting the reductive reading of Berlin as an urban testimony of past glories and traumas, this workshop frames the city as a centre stage in which to incarnate the most radical political and epistemological questions of our time. In an act of performative profanation, participants will bring to life (and put in crisis) a series of seminal texts by contemporary philosophers, artists and other thinkers in different urban locations in Berlin. The workshop invites participants to put their bodies in service of a collective rehearsal, of a trial and error, of hypothesis making, and of a necessary process of collective unlearning.
BIO:
Amaia Sanchez-Velasco and Jorge Valiente Oriol are artists, architects, researchers and educators. In 2011, they co-founded GRANDEZA STUDIO with Gonzalo Valiente in Madrid. Their work studies late-capitalist spaces and narratives to identify – through critical analysis – and challenge – through political imagination – the mechanisms that veil and normalize neoliberal violence. In 2019, the team co-directed the Australian pavilion for the XXII Triennale di Milano: “Teatro Della Terra Alienata”, which received the Golden Bee Award for the best international contribution. The work was acquired, in 2020, by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) for the museum’s permanent collection of Contemporary Design and Architecture. Grandeza’s work operates at the intersection of research, creative practice and pedagogy and has been widely published and exhibited in Germany (Bauhaus Dessau in 2014), USA (1st Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015); Chile (XX Chilean Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in 2017, and Campus Creativo at Universidad Andrés Bello in 2022); Spain (XIV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in 2018, and Arts Santa Mònica in 2022); Italy (XXII Triennale di Milano in 2019); the Netherlands (Bureau Europa in 2019); and Australia (Mildura Arts Centre in 2016, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery in 2017, Bank Art Museum Moree in 2018, Tin Sheds Gallery in 2018, Australian Design Centre in 2018, MADA Gallery in 2020, and National Gallery of Victoria in 2022).
RSVP:
https://AuroraVol2Grandeza.
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Aurora vol. II. A Platform On Social Recipes, Filmmaking and Mutual Aid is a project of The Institute for Endotic Research (Shoufay Derz and Lorenzo Sandoval) in collaboration with Aouefa Amoussouvi with invited guests. It follows on from Aurora. A Platform on Ecology, Interdependence and Mutual Aid, initiated by Aouefa Amoussouvi, Benjamin T. Busch and Lorenzo Sandoval in June 2022.
“Aurora” is an interdisciplinary project that departs from the idea of mutual aid in order to better understand the connections between ecology and interdependence. Aurora, which stands for dawn, is among the most common symbols of hope. The project goes beyond criticism, proposing actionable strategies for imagining better futures. Aurora vol. II. hones in on the connections between methodologies of food culture, filmmaking and storytelling as much-needed tools for reshaping our present and future. It is a platform for our entangled narratives and the creation of commonalities with others across geographical distances and time.
As we move towards climate collapse at an accelerated rate, the practice of collaborative storytelling is a necessary response. Art historian Claire Bishop speaks about how filmmaking recognises the complexity of collaborative work by naming the various workers contributing to the realization of a project. Mutual aid is activated through the art practice of filmmaking both through its inherent organisational structures of production and through its narratives. In an age where screens are virtually ubiquitous, where devices enslave and entrap us in contemporary alienation, we are at the mercy of constant disinformation, emotional modulation and seduction so that capitalism can continue its metabolic absorption.
In this sense, Aurora Vol. II confronts screen culture through a programme of workshops, reading groups and seminars that seek to engender narratives of commonality, collaboration, interdependent working structures, mutual support and empathic spaces that allow us to develop strategies of solidarity. To find effective and sustainable responses, it is necessary to reimagine existing epistemological frameworks with an intersectional and interdependent approach. Presented from March to June 2023, the program prioritises collaborative production, therefore it facilitates the project’s aims of both understanding and practising mutual aid.
These events are free of charge, but registration is essential as spots are limited
If for any reason you cannot attend the event after registration, please cancel your tickets ASAP so that we can fill your place.
The health and safety of our community is our priority. Please do not attend this event if you are feeling unwell.
For the 2-day workshops: We recommend coming on both days. However, if you are only coming on one day, please indicate in your registration if you are only coming on one day and which one (day 1 or day 2).
Aurora vol. II. A Platform on Social Recipes, Filmmaking and Mutual Aid is supported by
Wednesday 21 June. Memory Jars. Sujatro Ghosh
Workshop: Sujatro Ghosh
Title: Memory Jars
Dates: June Wednesday 21.
Time: 16:00-18:00
We will cut, prepare, and eventually preserve the ingredients provided during the workshop. Participants are prompted to think about a memory that they desire to preserve as an element of preparation for the workshop. They are encouraged to bring an item that represents their memories. It could be a letter, a piece of text, a picture, a house-hold item, a flower, a book, a key, etc.
Canning jars and materials will be provided.
BIO:
Sujatro Ghosh is a multidisciplinary artist-activist and a curator from Kolkata, currently based in Berlin. His practice attempts to initiate a conversation about social action and political protest which produces the conditions for other voices to be heard. His works weave across conceptual and material adventures produced by radical thought primarily around queer rights, diasporic tensions, women rights, climate change, gastro-politics and transnational migration. He works across film, performance, poetry, fabric works and photography. He is currently working on the relationship between food, memory, violence and justice.
RSVP:
https://AuroraVol2SujatroGosh.
Event held onsite: Donaustr. 84, 12043 Berlin
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Aurora vol. II. A Platform On Social Recipes, Filmmaking and Mutual Aid is a project of The Institute for Endotic Research (Shoufay Derz and Lorenzo Sandoval) in collaboration with Aouefa Amoussouvi with invited guests. It follows on from Aurora. A Platform on Ecology, Interdependence and Mutual Aid, initiated by Aouefa Amoussouvi, Benjamin T. Busch and Lorenzo Sandoval in June 2022.
“Aurora” is an interdisciplinary project that departs from the idea of mutual aid in order to better understand the connections between ecology and interdependence. Aurora, which stands for dawn, is among the most common symbols of hope. The project goes beyond criticism, proposing actionable strategies for imagining better futures. Aurora vol. II. hones in on the connections between methodologies of food culture, filmmaking and storytelling as much-needed tools for reshaping our present and future. It is a platform for our entangled narratives and the creation of commonalities with others across geographical distances and time.
As we move towards climate collapse at an accelerated rate, the practice of collaborative storytelling is a necessary response. Art historian Claire Bishop speaks about how filmmaking recognises the complexity of collaborative work by naming the various workers contributing to the realization of a project. Mutual aid is activated through the art practice of filmmaking both through its inherent organisational structures of production and through its narratives. In an age where screens are virtually ubiquitous, where devices enslave and entrap us in contemporary alienation, we are at the mercy of constant disinformation, emotional modulation and seduction so that capitalism can continue its metabolic absorption.
In this sense, Aurora Vol. II confronts screen culture through a programme of workshops, reading groups and seminars that seek to engender narratives of commonality, collaboration, interdependent working structures, mutual support and empathic spaces that allow us to develop strategies of solidarity. To find effective and sustainable responses, it is necessary to reimagine existing epistemological frameworks with an intersectional and interdependent approach. Presented from March to June 2023, the program prioritises collaborative production, therefore it facilitates the project’s aims of both understanding and practising mutual aid.
These events are free of charge, but registration is essential as spots are limited
If for any reason you cannot attend the event after registration, please cancel your tickets ASAP so that we can fill your place.
The health and safety of our community is our priority. Please do not attend this event if you are feeling unwell.
For the 2-day workshops: We recommend coming on both days. However, if you are only coming on one day, please indicate in your registration if you are only coming on one day and which one (day 1 or day 2).
Aurora vol. II. A Platform on Social Recipes, Filmmaking and Mutual Aid is supported by
Thursday 15 and Friday 16 June. Anti–hot desk: A fantasy writing workshop for Writers and Non-writers. Ju Bavyka
Workshop: Ju Bavyka
Title: Anti–hot desk: A fantasy writing workshop for Writers and Non-writers
Dates: June Thursday 15 and Friday 16
Times: 16:00-20:00
In this two-day workshop, we help each other find the writing location of our dreams and engage in healing visual and writing activities that will soothe, satisfy and inspire. Participants are asked to bring a memory of a scene (from a life event, movie, story) or an image to place themselves in a perfect writing location, considering scenery, objects and other environmental factors. We will work with lists as subsets of categories like objects (e.g. piano), room concept (e.g. minimalist), companions (e.g. cat), plants, equipment (notebooks and other tools), environmental factors (breeze, open window), smells (incense), music and books, as well as emotions like anger, joy and pain. Consider: Did you ever listen to ‘90s music to get yourself into a rebellious state of mind for writing? Write from the “underground”, maybe next to Gertrude Stein, or Marina Tsvetaeva, or while waiting in a queue?
There will be scheduled times for imagining, remembering, writing, dreaming and sharing cups of tea. Together we will come to better understand our desires.
Languages: eng, ukr, de, ru, or bring your own. Open to anyone, migrant and queer participants and topics are centered in the workshop.
Ju will also share their recent text “Can we call this home?”, an essay that is currently being developed into a book in English and German. “Can we call this home?” deals with the question of how people with diasporic and queer identities might navigate choice, inheritance and agency in their lives. Drawing on lived experience, Ju’s writing attempts to go beyond conventional storytelling and notions of authenticity to find more complex perspectives.
BIO:
Ju Bavyka is a writer and interdisciplinary artist living in Sydney on the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Wangal peoples. They write, publish, collaborate and exhibit from a queer migrant perspective. Recent published texts include ‘Can we call this home?’, Liminal (2022); ‘What if I die tomorrow?’, Runway (2022); ‘On the floor’, un Magazine (2021); and the self-published poetry collection ‘the moment you realise what you don’t have to be’ (2022). They have cultural ties to Kazakhstan and Germany and are a member of artist- and non-artist-run space Frontyard Projects in Marrickville, Sydney.
RSVP:
https://AuroraVol2JuBavyka.
Event held onsite: Donaustr. 84, 12043 Berlin
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Aurora vol. II. A Platform On Social Recipes, Filmmaking and Mutual Aid is a project of The Institute for Endotic Research (Shoufay Derz and Lorenzo Sandoval) in collaboration with Aouefa Amoussouvi with invited guests. It follows on from Aurora. A Platform on Ecology, Interdependence and Mutual Aid, initiated by Aouefa Amoussouvi, Benjamin T. Busch and Lorenzo Sandoval in June 2022.
“Aurora” is an interdisciplinary project that departs from the idea of mutual aid in order to better understand the connections between ecology and interdependence. Aurora, which stands for dawn, is among the most common symbols of hope. The project goes beyond criticism, proposing actionable strategies for imagining better futures. Aurora vol. II. hones in on the connections between methodologies of food culture, filmmaking and storytelling as much-needed tools for reshaping our present and future. It is a platform for our entangled narratives and the creation of commonalities with others across geographical distances and time.
As we move towards climate collapse at an accelerated rate, the practice of collaborative storytelling is a necessary response. Art historian Claire Bishop speaks about how filmmaking recognises the complexity of collaborative work by naming the various workers contributing to the realization of a project. Mutual aid is activated through the art practice of filmmaking both through its inherent organisational structures of production and through its narratives. In an age where screens are virtually ubiquitous, where devices enslave and entrap us in contemporary alienation, we are at the mercy of constant disinformation, emotional modulation and seduction so that capitalism can continue its metabolic absorption.
In this sense, Aurora Vol. II confronts screen culture through a programme of workshops, reading groups and seminars that seek to engender narratives of commonality, collaboration, interdependent working structures, mutual support and empathic spaces that allow us to develop strategies of solidarity. To find effective and sustainable responses, it is necessary to reimagine existing epistemological frameworks with an intersectional and interdependent approach. Presented from March to June 2023, the program prioritises collaborative production, therefore it facilitates the project’s aims of both understanding and practising mutual aid.
These events are free of charge, but registration is essential as spots are limited
If for any reason you cannot attend the event after registration, please cancel your tickets ASAP so that we can fill your place.
The health and safety of our community is our priority. Please do not attend this event if you are feeling unwell.
For the 2-day workshops: We recommend coming on both days. However, if you are only coming on one day, please indicate in your registration if you are only coming on one day and which one (day 1 or day 2).
Aurora vol. II. A Platform on Social Recipes, Filmmaking and Mutual Aid is supported by