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The one-year-long art project was initiated by artistic director Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Berlin in 2021, and now culminates in an international final exhibition at Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) in Tamale, Ghana, opening in January 2022. Based on the idea that there is no return to"normality" as it were before the crises and we need to find ways of exiting otherwise, the curatorial team including artists Isabel Lewis (Institute for Embodied Creative Practices, Callie's Berlin) and Ibrahim Mahama (SCCA) have been invited to co-curate and co-host the project. Whereas Lewis' performances, hostings, and choreographies transform our relation and idea of being together in order to help us to gain more intimacy among each other, Mahama rethinks our relation with material and history. The curatorial team have been working with all the invited artists from both continents to form a vision of how we can exist otherwise, materially, digitally, and relationally.

Existing Otherwise – For a New Politics of the Senses is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, kindly supported by the DAAD Artists-in- Berlin Program with Funds of the Federal foreign Office and executed and directed by XO Curatorial Projects (Kathrin Pohlmann & Solvej Helweg Ovesen) in close collaboration with the following partners:

2021 © Galerie Wedding. Photo Juan Saez

Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art, a communal exhibition space in Berlin under the artistic direction of Solvej Helweg Ovesen.
www.galeriewedding.de
Callie’s im September 2020 © Callie’s. Photo Ink Agop

The Institute for Embodied Creative Practices, Berlin Wedding, an ambulatory corpus of particular concerns and the sensorial currently operating from Callie’s Berlin, Shedha Lle Zürich, among other locations and the methodologies for addressing them founded by artist and choreographer Isabel Lewis in 2016.
callies.berlin/en/residents/4-isabel-lewis
© Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art. Photo Nii Odzenma

Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Tamale, Ghana, founded by Ibrahim Mahama, who is an artist and lecturer in art and architecture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
www.sccatamale.org