Movement Research ACROSS
2 June – 30 July 2022, Rathausvorplatz & Galerie Wedding, Berlin
Creative space making through dance, performance and a social inhabitable stage
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Medhat Aldaabal, Lois Alexander, Angela Alves, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, Jule Flierl, Carrie Hampel, Alexandra Hennig, Roni Katz, Justin F. Kennedy, Éva Mag/Krump Berlin, Tatjana Mahlke & Sonia Robak, Rachel Monosov, Namosh, Anna Nowicka, Jimmy Robert, Moran Sanderovich, Sloush+Zarrt, Colin Self, André Uerba, Viron Erol Vert, RA Walden
Movement, Diversity, Festivity, Transformation. With ACROSS we ask how we as neighbours, as people with diverse biographies, human beings with vulnerable bodies, can come together in public space through artistic intervention, reaching across communities and crises. During our research in the last two years of lockdown, we identified a strong need for corporeal and immediate encounters and meetings, for exploration through exchange and interaction. How can multiple artistic interventions turn the public space in Berlin Wedding into a safer space for all people? ACROSS brings together international Berlin-based dancers, artists, musicians and a diverse audience in an urban setting, with a focus on unconventional movement.
2 June - 30 September 2022
Social Stage Design by Viron Erol Vert
2 June - 30 July 2022
Exhibition by RA Walden & Jimmy Robert with Interventions by Angela Alves and André Uerba
2 – 5 June I 10 – 11 June I 30 July 2022
Dance, Performance, Music, Workshops
Curated by Nitsan Margaliot, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Kathrin Pohlmann
Executed by XO Curatorial Projects in cooperation with Galerie Wedding
Programme
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2 June – 30 July 2022
Rathausvorplatz (Town Hall Square) & Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art
Movement Research ACROSS (Exhibition)
Movement Research ACROSS: An Inhabitable Outdoor Stage and an Indoor Exhibition
With works by Viron Erol Vert, RA Walden and Jimmy Robert. With interventions by André Uerba and Angela Alves.
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Flexible Colour Circle by Viron Erol Vert © Paul Springfeld (3D Image)
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30 July 2022, 4 - 6.30pm
Rathausvorplatz Wedding / Wedding Town Hall Square
INTI-mate Heal-inG
INTI-mate HealinG is a public performance installation by artist, activist and curator Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi (also known as crazinisT artisT) that expands the discussion about bodies seen as sick, imperfect, illegal and uncultured. The performance challenges notions about the representation of marginalised groups in mainstream media and the discriminatory policies that lead to economic, religious, medical and social exclusion. In INTI-mate Heal-inG, the audience is invited to participate in a collective, embodied solidarity and healing body care, and to reflect on their own vulnerabilities, fears and privileges.
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Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, rE·gen·er·at[e], 2016 © Courtesy of the artist
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30 July 2022, 7 - 8pm
Rathausvorplatz Wedding / Wedding Town Hall Square
Best Wishes for Wedding
Performance by Carrie Hampel
An artist, acrobat, and future mobility journalist, Carrie Hampel, will perform a public ritual performance with a sound piece based on interviews with Wedding residents and workers about their wishes for the district. Street cyclists and professional bicycle acrobats will perform a choreography for the resident’s wishes as Hampel conducts the public ritual.
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Carrie Hampel, Freelancer Performance © Carrie Hampel
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PAST PERFORMANCES
To see which performances have already taken place, just scroll down.
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11 June 2022, 1.30 – 2 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
Dice
Performance by Medhat Aldaabal
“I was named by chance
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and belonged to a family by chance,
and inherited its features, traits, and illnesses
I played no role in who I became
It was by chance that I became a male
I could have not existed.”
(“The Dice Player" by Mahmoud Darwish)
© Robert Rieger
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11 June 2022, 2 – 6.30 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
JAM ACROSS & BATTLE
hosted by Tatjana Mahlke & Sonia Robak (House Szene Berlin)
JAM ACROSS combines different street dance styles such as breaking, hip hop, popping, house and waacking into one single jam. One hour each of funk, hip hop and house music in their finest form. The House Jam also serves as a qualifier for the dance battle that follows - House 7 to Smoke. No matter which level you are, everyone is welcome to jam!
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© Tatjana Mahlke
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11 June 2022, 7 – 8 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
Landscape of Comfort
Performance by Rachel Monosov
Within the Landscape of Comfort, we will collectively explore the human body's adaptation to structures and objects. Objects that purportedly give freedom to movement, here may create confusion and frustration, inviting and imposing sets of habitual, if unnatural, behaviors. The performance questions how the endless shift between comfort to discomfort embodies resistance to surrendering to the power structure.
Dancers: Camilla Brogaard, Tamar Grosz
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Singer: Julia Shelkovskaia
Musician: Pablo Ritter
© Rachel Monosov
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11 June 2022, time to be confirmed
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
Faux-Pas
by Jule Flierl
PERFORMANCE CANCELLED DUE TO SICKNESS
To touch the ground is to massage the earth and to speak with the soles of one's feet. Faux-Pas is an anti-march, a research into patterning rhetorics and experimental announcing. Faux-Pas is an integral part of the artist's study for the “School of Attunement and Tactlessness”.
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Jule Flierl, UFO Portrait © Marc Andrea Bragalini
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11 June 2022, 8.30 – 9. 30 PM
Galerie Wedding & Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
FIRE STARTER #2
Performance by André Uerba
Seven performers play with concepts of togetherness and explore how the encounter between the performers, the audience, and also the audience members amongst each other, can manifest. Fire Starter #2 is a space for research where the audience can decide on their role: they watch, they move or they dynamically change role. The performers themselves can at times turn into caretakers, “tour” guides that conduct the experience during the piece. Another work by Uerba is INVITING MOMENTS OF STILLNESS, a film presented in Galerie Wedding, touch, slowness and togetherness are key themes. In the film a choreographic-performative exploration of the practice of touch is presented. By slowing down and focussing on the body, he and his co-residents test different forms of becoming acquainted with, and sensing, one another as a means of uncovering togetherness.
Performers:
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Luisa Rodriguez
Lyllie Rouvière
Michela Filzi
Manoela Rangel
Marcell Proske
Pauline Payen
© André Uerba
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10 June 2022, 3 – 5 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
Deep (body) Movement (for restricted spaces)
In-situ soundscape by Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez
The artist will compose an electronic sound piece and create a large-scale carpet for people to sit or lie on while listening to the in-situ soundscape. The presence of the carpet will make the public realm more private, and inversely, as we, the audience enter into an inner space, we will slowly change how we perceive the outer space that surrounds us.
*Please register in advance HERE
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© Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez
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10 June 2022, 5 – 6.15 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
Dabke Community Dancing
Workshop with Medhat Aldaabal and Musician Adel Sabawi
For several years now Sasha Waltz & Guests and Berlin Mondiale have been presenting “Dabke Community Dancing” with Medhat Aldaabal and Adel Sabawi and will now for the first time invite participants to dance at ACROSS. The traditional circle dance is popular in the Middle East and now also in Berlin. “When I see that people are happy and smiling, then I feel that I become part of this country and the country part of me”. (Medhat Aldaabal)
Adel Sabawi, a Syrian guitarist living in Berlin, started playing the instrument back home in Damascus and has been practising and performing for more than 20 years now. This vast experience allowed him to achieve excellency in creating remarkable transitions between quarter and half notes on the guitar.
*To register for the workshop, please click HERE
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Dabke Community Dancing 2021, Gropius Hain, Sasha Waltz & Guests © Anna Limantava
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10 June 2022, 6.30 – 8.30 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
XOIR
Vocal Workshop by Colin Self
XOIR is a vocal workshop led by Colin Self focused on alternative forms of group singing. Rooted in somatic research and experimentation, the goal of XOIR is to foster an environment for individuals to connect with their voice on an individual and collective level. XOIR is open to anyone interested in exploring their voice as a tool for learning or building a new relationship to singing and listening.
*To register for the workshop, please click HERE
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Colin Self - XOIR © Colin Self
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10 June 2022, 9 – 10 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
Party Alone
Concert by Namosh
"Namosh mirrors his music on a physical level to the point that it is difficult to separate art from artist. With expressive movements not unlike a silent film actor, a story takes shape through motion as well as sound. He could at times be perceived as a character or persona, were it not for an undercurrent of sincerity and lack of pretense. On his new album "Party Alone" - the follow up to "Music Muscle" (2018), there is a further refinement in production style and intricacy of arrangement. Despite this high level of detail, the album contains a spontaneous, unpredictable quality as well. It is captivating at once, but still takes time to fully evolve and take its place in the subconscious." (Travis Taylor)
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Namosh @ Simone Gilges
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4 June 2022, 9 – 10 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
DJ Set by Sloush + Zarrt
Sloush + Zarrt is a Berlin based Artist/DJ Team playing diverse electronic sounds “for extra smart babies as well as beat horny grown ups. Slugging over the genres, making them one slippery trail full of shiny pearls from different couleur and diamonds from all over the world.” (Cashmere Radio)
© DJs Sloush + Zarrt
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2 June 2022, 5.30 – 6 PM & 7.30 – 8 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square & Galerie Wedding
ANASTATICA
Performance by Moran Sanderovich
In ANASTATICA wounds and traumas act as portals, enabling a human evolution that relies on the fantastic potential of "new" and "other" bodies and develops beyond the normative and binary. ANASTATICA describes abnormal bodies as supernatural that draw power from their otherness, all the while asking questions about the never-ending cycle of victim and victimiser within systems of patriarchal violence.
Concept, choreography and performance: Moran Sanderovich
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Dramaturgy and co-choreography: Lyllie Rouvière
Musician: Ludwig Wandinger
© Daniel Hanoch
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2 June 2022, 6 – 6.20 PM
Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art
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Performance by Lois Alexander
Inspired by what scholar Tina Campt describes as ‘textured identities’, artist Lois Alexander uses the embodied nature of dance and performance to articulate an in-between, a migratory state from various black feminist perspectives. Alexander will especially explore phenomena of watery bodies and pluralistic perceptions of selfhood, kin-making and being together in her performance.
Musician: Grégoire Simon
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© Kimani Schumann
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2 June 2022, 6.30 – 7.15 PM
Galerie Wedding & Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
walk+talk
Lecture performance by Anna Nowicka
walk+talk is a lecture performance series initiated by Austrian choreographer and dancer Philipp Gehmacher. During walks+talks choreographers are invited to create a solo work where moving and talking run in parallel. The topic is the artists’ concepts, the individual understanding of their body-in-motion and the history of their practice.
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Anna Nowicka, walk + talk, © Mariusz Marciniak
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2 June 2022, 8 – 10 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
DJ Set by Sloush + Zarrt
Sloush + Zarrt is a Berlin based Artist/DJ Team playing diverse electronic sounds “for extra smart babies as well as beat horny grown ups. Slugging over the genres, making them one slippery trail full of shiny pearls from different couleur and diamonds from all over the world.” (Cashmere Radio)
© DJs Sloush + Zarrt
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3 June 2022, 4 – 4.20 PM
Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art
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Performance by Lois Alexander
Inspired by what scholar Tina Campt describes as ‘textured identities’, artist Lois Alexander uses the embodied nature of dance and performance to articulate an in-between, a migratory state from various black feminist perspectives. Alexander will especially explore phenomena of watery bodies and pluralistic perceptions of selfhood, kin-making and being together in her performance.
Musician: Grégoire Simon
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Lois Alexander © Kimani Schumann
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3 June 2022, 5 – 8 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
PLETHORA
Performance by Éva Mag & Krump Berlin
Together with Krump dancers Mario Perez Amigo, Timothy SteelRage Kakeeto, MICKY KNOXX, Nicole Kufeld, Iman Gele, Joel Borgel and DJ Peter Holm, artist Éva Mag engages in a durational hip hop performance investigating the term “plethora” (Greek: “excess”) with the help of clay, latex, krump and music. Krumping is a street dance characterised by expressive, exaggerated and highly energetic movement. It conveys raw emotions in a powerful, yet non-violent way.
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Éva Mag (Bierpinsel 2021) © Iman Gele
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3 June 2022, 8 – 8.45 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
Recap of an Alien Garden
Performance by Justin F. Kennedy
Recap of an Alien Garden is a sci-fi opera conceived and choreographed by community dance and vocal artist, Justin F. Kennedy. Recap posits the Alien Garden at the public square in Berlin as a site for emancipation. The performance uses the history of Ska music to address the topics of AlienNation and displacement. The infectious Ska basslines, overlaid with alienating lyrics and riffs invite into an “effervescent skank”. The piece is performed by Kennedy, ILYICH and a special guest.
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Justin F. Kennedy © Alana Lake
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4 June 2022, 4 – 7 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
PLETHORA
Together with Krump dancers Mario Perez Amigo, Timothy SteelRage Kakeeto, MICKY KNOXX, Nicole Kufeld, Iman Gele, Joel Borgel and DJ Peter Holm, artist Èva Mag engages in a durational hip hop performance investigating the term “plethora” (Greek: “excess”) with the help of clay, latex, krump and music. Krumping is a street dance characterised by expressive, exaggerated and highly energetic movement. It conveys raw emotions in a powerful, yet non-violent way.
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Éva Mag, Bierpinsel © Iman Gele 2021
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4 June 2022, 7 – 7.40 PM
Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art
Slides, A Letter To Dance
Performance by Roni Katz (a production from 2017)
A choreographer invites the audience to join in dancing from the past and to the political realities of the present. While acknowledging inspiration and heritage, and the impossibility to undo education and training, her feelings are exposed. The entanglement of dance with her body and her ability to detach follow her during her search for the reasons why she began, and why she continues dancing.
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© Roni Katz (Still)
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4 June 2022, 8 – 9 PM
Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art
Talk & Discussion with Alexandra Hennig & Nitsan Margaliot
Alexandra Henning moderates a discussion with dancers and performers together with choreographer, dancer and curator Nitsan Margaliot.
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Alexandra Hennig © Katja Strempel
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5 June 2022, 1.30 – 5.30 PM
Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art
PAUSE & Unfolding Dreams
Workshops by Anna Nowicka
PAUSE is a workshop. Within every pause lies the potential of an exploration of the act of stopping. Nowicka is interested in pauses as particular states of being within dancing; pauses as a quiet, expanded space to sense, feel and respond.
“Unfolding dreams” is an invitation to plunge into recent night dreams and to collectively unravel their deeper meanings. It is a two hour workshop where one dream will be chosen and "opened", following the dream opening® procedure from The School of Images.
*To register for the PAUSE workshop, please click HERE
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*To register for the "Unfolding dreams" workshop, please click HERE*
© Nawojka Gurczyńska
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11 June 2022, 8 – 8.30 PM & 9.30 – 10 PM
Rathausvorplatz / Town Hall Square
DJ Set by Sloush + Zarrt
Sloush + Zarrt is a Berlin based Artist/DJ Team playing diverse electronic sounds “for extra smart babies as well as beat horny grown ups. Slugging over the genres, making them one slippery trail full of shiny pearls from different couleur and diamonds from all over the world.” (Cashmere Radio)
© DJs Sloush + Zarrt
The Curatorial Team
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Nitsan Margaliot
is a choreographer, dancer and curator entangled with queer archives, fabulation, and impossible encounters.
He danced in the Batsheva Ensemble and Vertigo Dance Company. He has worked with Laurent Chétouane, Maud Le Pladec, Kat Válastur, Aoife McAtamney, Moritz Majce, Anne Collod and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop.
He holds an MFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, a program taking place between France and the U.S, he was a fellowship recipient with the support of the University of the Arts President's Fund for Excellence, Szloma-Albam-Stiftung, and the Norbert Janssen Stiftung.
He co-founded Mo.Ré, a collective for movement research in Berlin, and recently together with Sasha Portyannikova, he co-initiated touchingmargins.com, a web platform/counter archive showcasing dance archives from the margins, Nitsan is also an accomplice of the establishing Berlin Dance Archive (TanzArchiv Berlin).
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Solvej Helweg Ovesen
obtained her MA in Arts and Cultural Studies from Copenhagen University and also completed the De Appel Curatorial Training Program in Amsterdam in 2003. Since 2015 she is artistic director of Galerie Wedding - Raum für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin where she co-curated the yearlong exhibition series Post-Otherness Wedding (2015–16, Emeka Ogboh, Henrike Naumann, Sol Calero) and “Unsustainable Privileges" (2017–18, Viron Erol Vert, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Simon Fujiwara) in collaboration with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. 2019-2020 she co-curates the programme “Soft Solidarity” in Galerie Wedding with Natasa İlic and Övül Durmuşoğlu (Sissel Tolaas, Alice Creischer, Rüzgâr Buşki, Rajkamal Kahlon). In 2021 Ovesen has invited choreographer and artist Isabel Lewis and artist as well as founder of SCCA Ibrahim Mahama onboard as co-hosts and co-curators of the art programme “Existing Otherwise - For a New Politics of the Senses”, Galerie Wedding, Institute of Creative practices, Callies, Berlin and SCCA, Tamale, 2021-2022. Ovesen is currently the artistic director, co-founder and teacher of the curatorial studies programme CURARE, 2020-, for the City of Berlin. She is also the curator of the interdisciplinary and electronic music stage “Ambereum” at the Roskilde Festival, Denmark, 2019-2022.
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Kathrin Pohlmann
is a production manager, activist, curator, and collectively working artist. She studied Fine Arts (Diploma 2008) and Cultures of the Curatorial (Master of Arts 2012) at HGB Leipzig. Since 2014 she produces a. o. venues exhibitions in Galerie Wedding, Berlin. From 2003-18 she was part of the artist* collective VIP and is co-founder of "die bedingungslose akademie" (2011-), an interdisciplinary site-specific format. 2018 she co-founded ACAB (Artists Care About Bridges) - a collaboration which brings activism into art. Together with curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen, she founded XO Curatorial Projects for research, investigation, design and elaboration of concepts of sustainable curatorial formats, artistic research and international (art) projects, among others, with a focus on re-schooling ideas, e.g. in 2021/22 with “Existing Otherwise - For a New Politics of the Senses”, in cooperation with Isabel Lewis/ The Institute for Creative Embodied Practices, Callie’s, Wedding Gallery, Berlin, and Ibrahim Mahama/ SCCA, Tamale, Ghana.
The Team of Movement Research ACROSS
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XO Curatorial Projects
curator - Solvej Helweg Ovesen
curator - Nitsan Margaliot
curator & production - Kathrin Pohlmann
production - Fine Freiberg
production - Imma Scarpato
press - Lea Pischke -
Galerie Wedding
Assistant Curators & Exhibition Production & Public Relations
Maja Szmosna
Malte Pieper
Tina Quednau -
Translators
Saskia Köbschall
Alexandra Voaides
Amer Chamaa
Şeyda Nur Güneş
Lea Pischke
Nikita Tsyganok
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Videography
Svea Immel
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Photography
Juan Saez
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Graphic Design
Miriam Busch
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Awareness Team
Miriam Bender
Johanna Niehaus
Michael Winklmeier
Amr Karkout
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Life Speakers
Michela Filzi
Şeyda Nur Güneş
Julia Uchman-Łyszcz
Teobaldo Lagos Preller
Pia Gottschalk
Vreda Marschner
Antonia Dengel -
"Food" - Performative contribution to Movement Research ACROSS by Miriam Lappenberg"Food means taking care II" - Food Installation & Coffee Ceremony by Luis Carlos Reyes Tinoco
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Technicians
Tine Giebeler
Ariella Ranz -
Riggers
Alexandra Gaul
Michael Winklmeier
Solvejg Hockins
Katja Stoye-Cetin
Sarah Ama Duah
Juan Betancourth
Falk Springer -
Manufacturing of "Flexible Colour Circle"