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Lesen am See: Reading#1: kelps – archives – connecting bodies of water
Saturday 20. August at 6:00 pm

With „Lesen am See“ we start the reading events dedicated to different voices, approaches to the performed text as a form of knowledge‘s sharing. For the first reading we invited a reading group who focuses on the unique nature of kelps, water bodies, and water itself.

„This session is an invitation to meet at the shore of the lake Tegel to join an interdisciplinary group for a collective reading and listening session. In these hot days of summer, sweating and hiding from the sun, while our riverbeds lay dry and bodies (human and nonhuman alike) are exposed to water scarcity, pollutions, and displacements, we seek out healing knowledges and practices that connect our diverse experiences of living with water as a precious and precarious substance.

Building on our different backgrounds, experiences and projects we dive into texts about bodies of water and bodies in water that will flow together in an attempt to trace hydro–logical cycles, saturations, memories, and water politics followed by a breathing exercise and a discussion open to the public. We invite you to join us in this fluid exploration of wayward waterways, queer algae, and feminist futures.“-Galina Yarmanova, Jahia La Sangoma, Marianna Szczygielska, Marianna Szczygielska, Sybille Neumeyer, Svitlana Shymko.

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In the frame of the cycle „Lesen am See“ we would like to invite diverse reading groups and collectives to share their practices, related to the dialogical nature of text itself as well the community of readers & listeners. This cycle happens in the very particular place of Strandbad Tegelsee: on the one hand remote, in the woods on the Tegel lake, and at once in the middle of the city of Berlin. The presentations will be followed by the discussion. Readings take place on Saturdays in the Strandbad Tegelsee/Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung. Participation is free of charge, registration is not required.

upcoming events:

Lesen am See #2
27. August, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
COVEN Berlin

Lesen am See #3
10. September, 4:00– 8:00 pm
Literarische Diverse — Traum Lesebühne

Address: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin

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Galina Yarmanova teaches feminist and queer theory. Currently, she is a fellow at Bard College Berlin. Galina works with visual and textual archives and uses decolonial queer feminist approaches in her research and activism.

Jahia La Sangoma (she/her) is an academic, artist, and land-based activist based in Berlin, Germany. Her connection with waters comes from her experiences in transboundary journeys and the healing nature of water. Jahia is an ecofeminist and participant in intersectional justice movements. Her work focuses on the theme that climate justice is social justice, and using degrowth as a method of improving human and non-human nature relationships.

Marianna Szczygielska (she/her) is a feminist researcher of human-animal relations. Her interests include environmental humanities, queer ecologies, and science and technology studies. Currently, Marianna works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and teaches at Bard College Berlin. She is also an Associate Editor of the Humanimalia journal.

Sybille Neumeyer (she/her) is an artist and researcher with focus on environmental issues and relationships between humans and non-humans. Through polyphonic narration, installations, walks, performative lectures and video essays she is examining the intersections of biocultural diversity loss and climate crisis, searching for ecocentric perspectives and multispecies justice.

Svitlana Shymko (she/her) is an independent documentary filmmaker from Ukraine, a graduate of the DocNomads international MA program in documentary film directing. Svitlana is working on developing political, social, and feminist topics in documentary cinema.

Lesen am See is a part of the two-year collaborative project Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Berlin.
Co-funded by European Union and Foundation Between Bridges.

Erde-Workshop / Strandbad Tegelsee / So. 14. August 13:00 – 17:00 Uhr

„Als Musikerin und Sängerin nutze ich meine Stimme, meinen Körper und die Umgebung um Musik zu produzieren.“

Ein Workshop mit der Vokalistin und Komponistin Biljana Pais

Im Workshop wird Koala-Sampling-App verwendet um Wasser, Sand, Bäume, Wind, Müll, Sprache, Teller aufzuzeichnen.
Das aufgenommene Material wird dann modifiziert, gemixt und verändert mit Effekten und Filter wie Delays, Echos, Beat-Repeater, Reverse-Effekte um Klangcollagen und experimentelle Musik entstehen zu lassen.

Erde-Workshops finden sonntags im Strandbad Tegelsee/Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung statt. Die Teilnahme an den Workshops ist kostenlos, Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich. Die Workshops werden von den Mitgliedern des Moabit Mountain College geleitet und konzentrieren sich auf künstlerische Praxis in Verbindung mit Ökologie und Nachhaltigkeit. Das Strandbad Tegelsee dient uns hier als ganz besonderes Labor unter freiem Himmel.

Adresse: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin

Erde Workshopis is a part of the two-year collaborative project Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Berlin.
Co-funded by European Union and Foundation Between Bridges.

Strandbad-Residency 2022: public talk with Alina Dzeravianka: On women’s crafts, textile, embroidery – working with rural

18:00 public talk with Alina Dzeravianka
15:00 silk printing workshop with Sveta Husakova

Saturday, August 6 at 18:00
Address: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin

Talk with our researcher in residence Alina Dzeravianka, where she will present her practice working with rural and share her experience with the audience.

During the Strandbad-Residency 2022 Alina Dzeravianka focuses on her research on women’s crafts, textile, and embroidery in the village of Zburazh (Brest region, Belarus). She runs it together with her colleague, artist and designer Svetlana Husakova while participating in the Rural School of Economics, a trans-local project of knowledge-sharing and cultural co-production in rural communities by Myvillages.org.

Alina Dzeravianka and Sveta Husakova will organize a silk printing workshop where they will use the designs and patterns inspired by Zburazh village in Belarus. The visitors could choose a print and have it on the t-shirt or bag (please bring your own plain color item). You are welcome to join workshop from 15:00.

Alina Dzeravianka is a researcher, activist, and cultural worker from Brest, Belarus. She has great expertise in the organization of socially engaged cultural activities, research, and work of NGOs. She worked as a director of Brest Fortress Development Foundation and currently co-leads the research project STATUS: Role of Artists in Changing Society. She is a visiting lecturer at the Cultural Heritage Development of European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania).

Sveta Husakova is an artist and designer from Zburazh, Belarus. She studied textile and surface design and worked many years for different brands and projects, creating  textile prints and embroideries, new materials and surfaces, art objects and more. Now her activities are  about collaborations, sociality, interactivity and ecology in the local context.

Strandbad-Residency is a part of the two-year collaborative project Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Berlin.
Co-funded by European Union and Foundation Between Bridges.

fantastic feminist futures

Sun 31. July at 15:00
with Jelena Fužinato, Bojana Fužinato and Endi Tupja 

Erde Workshop is a part of the two-year collaborative project Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Berlin.
Co-funded by European Union and Foundation Between Bridges.

fantastic feminist futures #1 

with Rupali Patil 

Saturday 23. July 18:00 – 20:00
Address: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin

Image: Rupali Patil „Pipeline“ 2022

With this artist talk we start the cycle fantastic feminist futures. In the frame of the cycle, we will invite artists who relate to intersectional feminist perspective to introduce their artistic practices. We are interested in bringing to light the processes, the small changes rather than the spectacular leaps, the knowledge of what often remains in the shadows. This close reading of practices happens in the very particular place of Strandbad Tegelsee/Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung: on the one hand remote, in the woods on the lake Tegel, and at once in the middle of the city of Berlin. This gives us the trigger to embrace the artistic practices outside the traditional context of the white cube while connecting and reconnecting to the environment. The presentations will be intertwined with the joint preparation of food, walks or readings, engaging different future orientations.
fantastic feminist futures is started by Nadira Husain, Agnieszka Kilian and Marina Naprushkina.

Rupali Patil’s visual arts practice spans across print-making, drawing, and installations. Her subjects mainly focus on social issues, especially the subject of water and natural mineral crises. In some of her work which relates to the term “Ecofeminism”, she also depicts destitute farmers from areas that became industrialized. Workers who became visual metaphors in her drawings inhabit an imaginary, geographically unspecified world of Patil’s. She also uses cartography and heterotopic landscapes and architecture in her drawing, which looks dangerously completely devoid of human existence. In frame of feminist fantastic future, she will talk about how these previous projects connect to the current idea she has been developing The Coalition of Waters: From geopoetics to geopolitics (and back to poetics). Rupali Patil reaches for this complex and seemingly contradictory hydro-logic: connecting and separating, taking on shapes (surrendering?) and simultaneously giving shape and a peculiar malleability, which uses a certain regime of visibility and invisibility of water. This ambivalent order is supported by knowledge different from that of strict concepts and divisions, as well as different politics.

Rupali Patil (IND) was born and brought up in Pune. She completed her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Bharti Vidyapeeth Pune (2007) and Master’s in Printmaking from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2011).  Her works were presented at the Biennales such as the 2020 3rd Industrial Art Biennial in Croatia, Ride into the sun, Habit cohabit (Pune Biennale 2017), and Saltwater theory of thought-form (14th Istanbul Biennale 2015). She has also participated in several group exhibitions such as Eros (Parasite, University Museum, and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 2014), Inserts curated by RAQS media collective (IGNCA Delhi), Kamarado (St Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2015), ‘Harbinger of Chaos’ (Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary art in Krakow 2016-17), Dreams and dramas law as literature  NGBK Berlin 2017), We the people (Central Slovakian Gallery in Banska Bystrica, 2018), This Rare Earth Artefact (STUK Leuven 2018), and Seeds are being sown (Shrine empire 2020). Also, in 2014, Clark House Initiative in Mumbai hosted her debut Solo exhibition ‘Everybody Drinks but Nobody Cries’. She was one of the members of the Shunya Art Collective. She lives and works in Pune.

Participation in fantastic feminist futures artist’s talk is free of charge, no registration is required.

fantastic feminist futures is a part of the two-year collaborative project Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Berlin.
Co-funded by European Union and Foundation Between Bridges.

Liebe Freund*innen, wir beginnen unsere Reihe von Erde-Workshops, die in den kommenden Wochen jeden Sonntag im Strandbad Tegelsee/Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung stattfinden werden. Die Workshops werden von den Mitgliedern des Moabit Mountain College geleitet und konzentrieren sich auf künstlerische Praxis in Verbindung mit Ökologie und Nachhaltigkeit. Das Strandbad Tegelsee dient uns hier als ganz besonderes Labor unter freiem Himmel.
Die Teilnahme an den Workshops ist kostenlos, Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich. Kommt und mach mit.

Erde Workshops / Termine: 

So 17. Juli 13:00 – 17:00 Uhr mit Greta Cazzola und Nicola Schüschke
So 24. Juli 13:00 – 17:00 Uhr mit Edoardo Micheli
So 31. Juli 13:00 – 17:00 Uhr mit Cam-Anh Luong und Roland Sookias
So 7. August 13:00 – 17:00 Uhr mit Cam-Anh Luong
So 14. August 13:00 – 17:00 Uhr mit Biljana Pais

Adresse: Strandbad Tegelsee /Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung
Schwarzer Weg 95, 13505 Berlin

Erde Workshop #1: Sonntag 17. Juli 13:00 – 17:00

IMPRINTS – Workshop on mapping and printing with Greta Cazzola and Nicola
We want to map the traces of findings that we make on a common stroll around the Strandbad. As a first step, we go on a walk looking for human trash traces as well as natural and organic materials. We will then sort our findings and print them on paper.
If you can – bring a rolling pin.

Erde Workshop #2: Sonntag 24. Juli 13:00 – 17:00
The Noise is Changing: a creative music lab on geophony in the shifting soundscape of the Anthropocene with Edoardo Micheli
Composer, performer, and Head of Sonic Explorations of Moabit Mountain College, Edoardo Micheli will take over Erde Workshop this Sunday and guide us through the soundscape of Strandbad and beyond.
Through a practical and creative workshop, using acoustic musical instruments, natural materials, and electronic sounds we will try to reproduce and listen to some of the changing patterns in the soundscape of the Anthropocene with a particular focus on geophysical sounds, and we will try to translate this into a communitarian musical practice.
Feel free to bring your musical instruments and your friends.

Erde Workshops are a part of the two-year collaborative project Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Berlin.
Co-funded by European Union and Foundation Between Bridges.

In den Berliner Sommerferien gibt es wieder eine Sommerschule im Strandbad Tegelsee. Wie letztes Jahr wollen wir zusammen malen, weben, drucken, fotografieren, schwimmen, Gedichte schreiben, mit Ton arbeiten, draußen sein, picknicken und Spaß haben.

Das Angebot richtet sich an Kinder ab 6 Jahre (ab 3 Jahren in Begleitung eines Elternteils) aus Familien mit einem Fluchthintergrund.

Die Sommerschule wird durchgeführt von Künstler*innen und angehenden Pädagog*innen aus dem Studio der Neuen Nachbarschaft / Moabit.

Termine: In den Sommerferien vom 14. Juli bis 14. August jeweils donnerstags -sonntags, 11-17 Uhr.

Am 14. August wird es eine Ausstellung zum Abschluss geben.

Die Sommerschule ist kostenfrei, Anmeldung bitte über info@neuenachbarschaft.de.

Dieses Angebot wird unterstützt durch Ingeborg und Eberhard Beckherrn Stiftung

und Foundation Between Bridges

Calling Justice

Freitag, 27. Mai 2022 von 19.00 bis 20.30 Uhr
Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Beusselstrasse 44, 10553 Berlin

Round Table & Diskussion mit Anfangs-Inputs von Zuzanna Hertzberg, Jelena Jeremejewa und Valeria Schiller
Moderation: Agnieszka Kilian

(for English see below)

Bild: Kateryna Allinyk, Politisch-medizinische Fantasie über Luhansk

Jelena Jeremejewa: Arbeitet als freie Autorin und Regisseurin an der Schnittstelle zwischen Forschung und Kunst. An der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar promovierte sie über die Unsichtbarkeit des Traumas als Individual- und Kollektiverfahrung im zeitgenössischen russischen Dokumentarfilm. In ihren Filmen „Der Ernst des Lebens“ (SWR) und „Irgendwo dazwischen“ (WDR) thematisierte sie Fragen der Bildungsgerechtigkeit und Chancengleichheit unter Jugendlichen mit Migrationserfahrung.

Valeria Schiller: Kunsthistorikerin, Kuratorin, Autorin und Herausgeberin. Sie arbeitete als Junior-Kuratorin im Pinchuk Art Centre und ist Mitglied des Kurator*innenteams am Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre. Seit 2019 unterrichtet sie Kunstgeschichte an der Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. Derzeit ist sie Chefredakteurin des Online-Mediums artslooker.com.

Agnieszka Kilian: Kuratorin und Autorin mit juristischem Hintergrund. Ihre Projekte konzentrieren sich auf Claim Making Prozesse und Gerechtigkeit.Die Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen von “Institutions Extended“ (2019 – 2022) statt. Das Programm „institutions extended“ wird finanziert über den „Netzwerkfonds –Zukunftsinitiative Stadtteil II (ZI II), Programm Sozialer Zusammenhalt“.

19.00 Uhr: round & discussion with contribiutions by Jelena Jeremejewa, Zuzanna Hertzberg and Valeria Schiller
Moderator: Agnieszka Kilian

The event is a continuation of the workshop “Calling Justice” organized in April 2022 by Agnieszka Kilian with the participation of Zuzanna Hertzberg, Yelena Jeremejeva, Marina Naprushkina, Anna Schapiro.

Observing public debate about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, one may spot differences between so-called Western and Eastern perspectives: one side formulates pacifist demands, express concerns about becoming a war party and fear of further escalation.The other criticizes a generality of such slogans, ignorant of war reality, as well the “Western” and “colonial” attitude.

Is the Ukrainian struggle to be seen only in the light of nationalism? How can one articulate desires for freedom and not be ‘hijacked’ by the nationalistic paradigm? What role does play here the arguments made upon historical narrations, and arguments of fascism. As Eva Illouz has pointed recently Nazis became an avatar in the Role playing Game.
With this round table, we want to analyze verbal and visual language present in public debate, and discuss a possible counter-narrative together, since we believe that also a form of making a claim affects understanding of demands. Starting with inputs given by Zuzanna Hertzberg and Jelena Jeremejewa, we hope to create a space for an alternative strategies towards better understanding.

Zuzanna Hertzberg is an interdisciplinary artist, artivist, and researcher. Her art includes painting, performance, textiles, and assemblage. She is interested in the interweaving of individual and collective memory, and in the search for identity in the mechanism of appropriation and restitution of minority heritage, especially women’s heritage, as well as issues of geopolitics and strategies of marginalisation of uncomfortable narratives. She is the co-founder of the Jewish Antifascist Block, a member of the Antifascist Coalition.

Jelena Jeremejewa works as a freelance writer and film director at the interface between research and art. She received her doctorate from Bauhaus University Weimar. In her PhD thesis she focused on the invisibility of trauma as an individual and collective experience in contemporary Russian documentary film. In her films “Der Ernst des Lebens” (SWR) and “Irgendwo dazwischen” (WDR), she addressed issues of educational equity and equal opportunities among young people with migrant experience.

Valeria Schiller is an art historian, curator, author, and editor of texts. She had been working as a Junior Curator of the Pinchuk Art Centre and a Curatorial Team Member at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre. Since 2019 she has been teaching art history at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. Currently, she works at the online media about contemporary art artslooker.com as an editor-in-chief.

Agnieszka Kilian is a curator and an author with a juridical background. Her projects focus on the claim making processes and justice.

The event is part of the “institutions extended” program (2019-2022). The “institutions extended” program is financed by Netzwerkfonds –Zukunftsinitiative Stadtteil II (ZI II), Programm Sozialer Zusammenhalt“.