Inhabiting
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| Entry free |
| No ticket required |
| No language skills required |
| Humboldt Forum |
Since the summer of 2021, Berlin artists have been conducting research on the grounds of the Humboldt Forum as part of Moving the Forum.
The third chapter, “Inhabiting,” deals with the content of taking possession of the new controversial urban space, and addresses who or what was not included or thought about in the process.
Together with 10-15 participants each, three teams begin their artistic exploration on site for six weeks starting February 14.
The results can be experienced in various performances on March 26, 2022.
02:00 pm – 02:20 pm “Recollection in 3 Colours”
Sound installation | Concert, Foyer
02:20 pm – 03:00 pm “The Living Room”
Performance | Installation, Foyer
03:15 pm – 04:00 pm “The March”
Performance | Intervention, Video Panorama “History of the Place”, Passage and Hall 1
04.10 pm – 04:50 pm “The Living Room”
Performance | Installation, Foyer
04:30 pm – 04:50 pm “Recollection in 3 Colours”
Sound installation | Concert, Roof terrace
05:00 pm – 05:45 pm In conversation:
“The Living Room / Recollection in 3 Colours: intergenerational memories as a reconstruction of history, identity, and space”
Conversation, Foyer
05:15 pm – 06:00 pm “The March”
Performance | Intervention, Video Panorama “History of Place”, Passage and Room 1
06:15 pm – 07:00 pm In conversation:
“The March: performance as protest”
Conversation, Foyer
06:30 pm – 06:50 pm “Recollection in 3 Colours”
Sound installation | Concert, Exhibition space
Artistic concept and music: Rieko Okuda, Antti Virtaranta
Participants: Ignacio Rivas, Nicolas Concha, Marina Mengis, Hannes Mitterberger, Alessandra Fochesato, Robert Witkowski
History as the sum of memories – pianist Rieko Okuda and double bassist Antti Virtaranta have explored the relationship between memories and history together with their participants. Especially in a place as historically charged as the Humboldt Forum, history and memory meet in a tense way.
A sound installation with visual elements invites visitors to listen to the findings in the foyer, on the roof terrace and in the small foyer.
Artistic concept and choreography: Yotam Peled, Nitzan Moshe and Marie Klemm
Artistic collaboration and performance: Maria Wollny, Iza Wyzykowski, Walpurga Pauels, Christiane Sterz, Angela Haardt, Sonja Martins, Martina Glueck, Evelin Arnold, Sieglinde Olm, Heidemarie Wiese, Elisabeth Graff, Charlotte Hahn, Hiltrud Ellert, Eva Günther
The dancers/choreographers work with 14 participants of the age group 60+ and put the experienced body in the focus of their research. Together with the participants, they focus their work on the relationship of their bodies to the public urban space and investigate how they can function as a bridge between past and present. For the entire residency period, a permanent living room was installed in the foyer as a “home base.”
“THE LIVING ROOM” is a nomadic performance process, an exploration and extension of the spaces in the museum, interacting symbiotically with them.
We crash – We build our home – We explore – Co-create – Co-exist – We rise – We are a wild memory into a possible future.
A taste of the performance can be found here: https://vimeo.com/690833586
Artistic concept and choreography: Telmo Branco, Adrian Blount
Artistic collaboration and performance: Stella Spoon, Bela Hackenberg, Naima-Joanna Vanherle, Esdras Paes de Luna, Amanda Bergheim, Michelle Gutierrez, Selma Radzivanovich, Sasha Kills, Mandy Lan.
Together with a group of BIPOC and white LGBTQ+ individuals, the performance-protest highlights the experiences of those marginalized in colonial and postcolonial societies. THE MARCH is a gathering of bodies, of living wills. It is a funeral, a parade, an uprising, and a representation of the different and sometimes conflicting histories of BIPOC LGBTQ+ and white LGBTQ+ people.
Colonization was a process that took place inside and outside of colonized countries. A process endured by those whose individual and collective identities did not conform to the heteronormative culture of the colonizers. Land, knowledge, identities were colonized, bodies were colonized. Two choices remained: Resist and suffer, or conform and disappear. THE MARCH seeks to decolonize space and decolonize. For BIPOC LGBTQ+, it aims to acknowledge the suffering that colonialism has done to their bodies, minds, and ancestors, by honoring their right to exist. For white LGBTQ+ persons, it delves into the colonial legacy, while recognizing its violently and fatally imposed doctrine of gender and sexuality.
THE MARCH invites museum visitors* to a revolution. A revolution that aims to dismantle the imperial space created by the Berlin Palace by exposing the polarizing rift that opens up when those oppressed and marginalized by its legacy inhabit that space.
A taste of the performance can be found here: https://vimeo.com/690691148
Not only spaces and stories are capable of inhabiting our consciousness, but human encounter and performance can also engage this and transform it beyond inhibition.
The curatorial team “In Conversation: Bodies, Objects and Actions” invites you to reflect on the performances of this chapter of Moving the Forum and share memories that emerge with the audience. What constitutes a transformative moment in the encounter with performative acts and subsequent conversations?
In public conversations between the artists*, the audience, Hoda Salah, scholar of political science and women’s rights, and Prince Emrah (House of Royals), “Moving the Forum” seeks to answer these questions and hopes that the answer(s) will resonate during and after our residency at the Humboldt Forum.
Talk “The Living Room / Recollection in 3 Colours”: intergenerational memories as a reconstruction of history, identity and space (in German and
English, other languages welcome)
Talk “The March”: performance as protest (in english, other languages welcome)