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Fri14Jun202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, 10€
A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Experimental Arts. With Vincent Laju X Yurika Saito, Sam Albatros, Mire aka Andreea Hriscu X Renée T. Coulombe, Days Like Television & Growthrings
Moderation:Tom Bresemann
© Andreea Hriscu CONVERGENCE is an evening of experimental, multi-sensory performances organized by Kross Collective, which explore dialogues between sound, text and visuals.
In their third event they present Vincent Laju X Yurika Saito showing improvisations and interactions between visual (inc. performative installation) and sound (cello, Shakuhachi) forms. We will then screen two short films, in the video-poetry genre, from the queer artist and poet Sam Albatros, featuring music from Von Jeglichem Wort. After this Growthrings will enter the stage. Two extended musical sets will follow - an immersive, sono-poetic and performance installation by composers Renée T. Coulombe of Banshee Media and Andrea Hriscu of Mire, that weaves together improvisation, automatic writing, resonant ambiences, and AI prompting to probe the collaborative possibilities of artistic intelligence in real time. Whilst Days Like Television will preview material from his upcoming album- ‘This Will Have Been the Past’ (released June 5 on Bonambi Records) in an A/V performance.
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Sat15Jun202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, free admission
Performative Reading
©Pablo Hassmann On June 15, SIESTA celebrates its third and final Panoramas of Latin American Performative Literature in Berlin 2024, bringing together, for one last time, the emerging voices of three authors: Angélica Freitas opens the night with a vibrating and sharp performance on alopecia, sagging boobs, and menopause, pushing us to talk about how to survive the passage of time in a world made for men. Later, Franco Marcucci invites us to look through a deep cut into bacteria, fungi, & putrefaction, presenting living words that grow into network of breathing matter. Closing this last Panoramas, Cristian Forte brings us back to the stage with open ears, diving into the sound archives made of found footage-style-words-turned-into-poems.
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Thu20Jun202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission: free
Lecture with Maher Masoud
Moderation: Dr. Amany Alsiefy (Ibn Rushd Fund/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
The lecture will be held in Arabic and English.
The Ibn Rushd Fund for Free Thought invites to the lecture 'The Body and Ethics Philosophically'. The lecture will explore the concept of the body in its relation to both love and ethics, as well as the role of social norms and political forces in constructing and defining the identity of the body and our perceptions of it.
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Fri21Jun202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, 10€
Lesung & Performance mit Ioana Cristina Casapu, Ambika Thompson, Shlomit Lasky, Ruby Russell, ”Mire”, Sivia Laporta, Lili Khoury & Dana Berghes
© privat How compelling must a woman be to meet society's expectations? Feminine, vulnerable, but also strong, skilled in a variety of tasks, able to manage both housework, freedom, friendship, family and career. Able to fix a washing machine, have negotiation skills, manage the emotional labor in a couple and at the same time accumulate wealth. Remember to defend her territory when necessary, be attractive and take care of her appearance. Don’t complain too much, smile more, be fully available while self-caring, and maintain an aura of mystery while enduring pain. Be leftist, powerful and determined while being demure. All these aspects seem incompatible, like the contrast between a lioness and a lily, between a motherly saint and a witch. The ripples of this contrast still spread far and wide. And are not sustainable.
In art, this contrast is perhaps most visibly represented. Cinema, literature, music, performance, as mirrors of society, have often been challenged for their stereotypical portrayal of women characters, often limiting them to superficial roles and to their physical appearance, instead of their ever-evolving, transformative, and perhaps uncomfortable bodies of work. -
Wed26Jun202419:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Eintritt frei
Lesung, Filmvorführung, Gespräch, Eintritt frei
©Lena Szankay Das seit 2012 existierende Unterprojekt des Festivals Latinale bringt im Jahr 2024 Fragen rund um menschliche Intelligenz ins Sprach- und Filmlabor:KI-Petitions-Aktivistin Isabel Fargo Cole und die jüngste Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Cristina Rivera Garza treten in Dialog: Welche Limits gelten für Sprachgeneratoren, wenn (verwundete) Territorien (Wüsten, Wälder, etc.) (sinnen)sprachlich erfasst und dann kulturell und historisch übersetzt werden sollen?Weiter geht es filmisch: Latinale.académica 2024 startet im Museum für Industriekultur in Osnabrück mit der deutschen Premiere des Lorca-Poetryfilms der argentinischen Filmemacherin Lena Szankay. In Berlin wird der Film mit New Yorker Schlachthaus-Skyline und Flamenco-Staccato in mehrfachen, auch musikalischen Dialog (Jordan Lee Schnee) gebracht. -
Fri28Jun202419:30Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Eintritt frei
© privat We’re back! And we too can hardly believe that it’s already been a fall and a spring of workshops and writing! But all these poems have been composed, essays envisioned, and fiction imagined. Time must have passed! Join us and the rest of The Reader Berlin community to hear what everyone's been working on this past year—and to celebrate the summer’s advent. Our writers in Berlin have been penning personal essays and memoirs, spinning out speculative flash fiction, writing poetry, and polishing short stories for submission. Stop by for a listen.
Tutor and writer Sanders Isaac Bernstein will moderate the evening of readings.
Ankerinstitution für die freie Literaturszene Berlin