program

• 2 June – 30 July 2022

  Rathausvorplatz (Town Hall Square) & Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art

  Movement Research ACROSS

  Inhabitable Outdoor Stage and Indoor Exhibition

  Opening 2 June at 5 PM

  For the occasion of ACROSS, visual artist Viron Erol Vert created “Flexible Colour Circle”, a public and inhabitable stage, set in Wedding's town hall square (Rathausvorplatz). It serves as a Movement Research area for performances and a space for encounters with and for the people of Wedding.This outdoor part of ACROSS is complemented by an indoor exhibition at Galerie Wedding with works by RA Walden and Jimmy Robert with interventions a.o. by André Uerba and Angela Alves, exploring the moment of arrested or accidental movement.

  
  
  

  Flexible Colour Circle by Viron Erol Vert, © Paul Springfeld (3D Image)
• 2 June 2022, 5.30 – 6 PM & 7.30 – 8 PM

  Rathausvorplatz & 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.

  
  
  

  Moran Sanderovich, © Daniel Hanoch

• 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.

  
  
  

  Lois Alexander, © Kimani Schumann
• 2 June 2022, 6.30 – 7.15 PM

  Galerie Wedding & Rathausvorplatz

  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. 

  
  
  

  walk + talk, Anna Nowicka, © Mariusz Marciniak

• 2 June 2022, 8 – 10 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  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)
• 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.

  
  
  

  Lois Alexander, © Kimani Schumann

• 3 June 2022, 5 – 8 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  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 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.

  
  
  

  Éva Mag, (Bierpinsel 2021), © Iman Gele
• 3 June 2022, 8 – 8.45 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  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, ILYCH, and a special guest.

  
  
  

  Justin F. Kennedy, © Alana Lake

• 4 June 2022, 3 – 4 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  Faux-Pas

  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”.

  
  
  

  Jule Flierl, UFO Portrait, © Marc Andrea Bragalini
• 4 June 2022, 4 – 7 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  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.

  
  
  

  Éva Mag, Bierpinsel, © Iman Gele 2021

• 4 June 2022, 7 – 7.40 PM

  Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art

  Slides, A Letter To Dance

  Performance by Roni Katz

  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.

  
  
  

  Roni Katz, (Still), ©
• 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 Nitsan Margaliot.

  
  
  

  Alexandra Hennig, © Katja Strempel

• 4 June 2022, 9 – 10 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  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)
• 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.

  *Preregistration required via www.galeriewedding.de

• 10 June 2022, 3 – 5 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  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.

  *Preregistration required via www.galeriewedding.de

  
  
  

  Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, © Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez
• 10 June 2022, 5 – 6.15 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  Dabke Community Dancing

  Dabke Community Dancing Workshop by Medhat Aldaabal

  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)

  *Preregistration required via www.galeriewedding.de

  
  
  

  Medhat Aldaabal, Freunde von Freunden, ©

• 10 June 2022, 6.30 – 8.30 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  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.

  *Preregistration required via www.galeriewedding.de

  
  
  

  Colin Self, Xoir, ©
• 10 June 2022, 9 – 10 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  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. The result is a spectrum of sound and raw idea. It is captivating at once, but still takes time to fully evolve and take its place in the subconscious."(Travis Taylor)

  New Album by Namosh "PARTY ALONE" will be released on 13 June 2022 on WELTGAST MUSIC.

  
  
  

  Namosh, @ Simone Gilges

• 11 June 2022, 1.30 – 2 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  Dice

  Performance by Medhat Aldaabal

  “I was named by chance
  
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)
• 11 June 2022, 2 – 6.30 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  JAM ACROSS & BATTLE

  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 what level, everyone is welcome to jam! 

  
  
  

  Tatjana Mahlke, ©

• 11 June 2022, 7 – 8 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  Landscape of Comfort (beware of rtistic spelling)

  Performance by Rachel Monosov

  A singer is present inside the colour circle. In the second circle is the audience. Around them, Ze haYe a third circle for the dancers. The\ are creating moYement in a loop, marking territor\ Zith their bod\ moYement, Zhich brings to question the repetition of a circle of histor\, cruelt\, and the endless shift betZeen comfort and discomfort. The performers are Tamar Grosz, Camilla Brogaard, Julia Shelkovskaia.
• 11 June 2022, 8 – 8.30 PM & 9.30 – 10 PM

  Rathausvorplatz

  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)

• 11 June 2022, 8.30 – 9. 30 PM

  Galerie Wedding & Rathausvorplatz

  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. 

  
  
  

  André Uerba, Fires Starte #2, ©
• 30 July 2022

  Rathausvorplatz

  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.

  
  
  

  Carrie Hampel, Freelancer Performance, © Carrie Hampel

• 30 July 2022

  Rathausvorplatz

  TBD

  Va-bene Elikem Fiatsi ​​[crazinisT artisT]

  As a performer and installation artist, crazinisT investigates gender stereotypes, prejudices, queerness, identity politics and conflicts, sexual stigma and their consequences for marginalised groups or individuals. With rituals and a gender-fluid persona, sHit confronts issues such as disenfranchisement, social justice, violence, objectification, internalised oppression, anti-blackness and systematic indoctrination among others.

  
  
  

  Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, rE·gen·er·at[e], 2016, courtesy of the artist