[Translate to Deutsch:] Lee Dawson

[Translate to Deutsch:] This set of projects Dawson will be executing during her stay at ZK/U will touch on the themes of urban infrastructure and the human prototype. The projects will be painted and recorded to be used as instruments to push the universal understanding of cultural diversity as a necessary and interrogated exchange of cultural diversity. By providing a visual narrative of this connection through the commonality of subjects in their translation to paint and video installations I hope to question modern diversity and art in a civic infrastructure. The goal of these projects is to extract the beauty of diversity that an urban civilization propagates and present it in the same raw, untouched, unprocessed format accessible to all. By celebrating the differences in artistic communication that can help rectify the divide in cultures that cause tension we can enable compassion and empathy to create altruistic urban artivism.

[Translate to Deutsch:] Heather Nicol

[Translate to Deutsch:] Resident artist Heather Nicol  and visiting collaborative partner Martin Julien will demonstrate and invite audience to try out the participatory sonic sculptural forms she has been creating for their upcoming performance event Kangfest Hier! On November 5th  at 17:00, all are invited to gather in ZK/U’s HALL for a  unique interactive performance that puts the audience at the centre of a choral adventure. Nicol’s work at ZK/U is focused on the exigencies of sound-making and listening as integral aspects of communication. Active listening bridges self and other, and makes fluid the divisions between the singular and the plural. She is exploring the nexus of individuated and collective voice, as well as the occupation of shared space.

[Translate to Deutsch:] Ben Nathan & Matthew Robinson

[Translate to Deutsch:] October Openhaus at ZK/U will showcase the first collaborative work by Artists Ben Nathan and Matthew Robinson. The artwork will take the form of a multimedia film installation, documenting the metaphysical process of bathing. The audience will be immersed in an abstracted recreation of the environment of which it was born out of. It is the juxtaposition of industry and nature within Berlin that is explored within this work.

[Translate to Deutsch:] Soyoung Chung

[Translate to Deutsch:] <Tectonic memories> is a project experimenting the experience of time controlled by place. Including video and sculptural works, the project questions how the structure of memories are built within our society and how personal narratives generate in the city. Using 'Geology' as a main language to visualize sequences of history, the first part of the project, 'Chapter I. A Romance' is a video depicting a journey of minerals throughout various spots of London. Investigating how geological history of London generated the modern urban landscape of the 18-19th century, the video questions the way how we look back to the past. The second chapter in progress investigates the state of double. Through objects and sketches, the politics of relation will be questioned from the personal to historical level of the post-war world in Berlin.

[Translate to Deutsch:] nomadicArt

[Translate to Deutsch:] nomadicArt is an art and research platform which will present its latest public project Moabit Stories, an archive of family histories, memories of the neighborhood and latest critical viewpoints of Moabit residents on its development and possible future. In similar way nomadicArt approached visitors of ZK/U Gütermarkt, where interviews took place this summer, the team would like to continue on addressing its activity during OPENHAUS towards public, in a critically-creative and actual-associative way. nomadicArt members will present themselves in a performative way and you are invited to take part.  

More information in: nomadicart.org/CULTURAL-PROJECTS/Moabit-stories

Photo/Illustrations by Linh Nguyen

[Translate to Deutsch:] Orhan Esen

[Translate to Deutsch:] Orhan Esen, has a background in social and economic history, is active as a urban researcher and guide, and is based in Istanbul and Berlin. Currently he is investigating the possibility of setting up a system to evaluate the sustainability of urban transformation projects from the perspective of the inhabitants. For this end, he is involved in dialogue with academicians and professionals in the fields of built environment, with housing right activists and representatives of inhabitants' associations. Members of the project advisory board will convene on occasion of the zk/u open house from 16 00 - 18 00 . The meeting (to be held in german) will be open to any citizen interested in matters of interventions in the realm of housing: "As inhabitants how would we evaluate these interventions ?" The discussions of the meeting will be recorded, and the audio track will be broadcasted in the same meeting room during the open house studio visits, to encourage further participation.

Join the open meeting on thursday! You can find more information within this link

[Translate to Deutsch:] Nathan Gray

[Translate to Deutsch:] Taking Frederic Jameson’s statement that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” as a call to arms for the imagination. Nathan Gray’s recent lectures and live readings invite audiences to collectively imagine better futures, alternate histories and other possible presents.

For ZK/U’s next Openhaus he presents a new work entitled After The Party, in which the audience overhears a phone call where the narrator talks of an encounter with a strange creature while coming home from a party in the snowy streets of a Berlin winter. The work uses science fiction tropes to address ideas of language and political subjectivity.

[Translate to Deutsch:] URBAN BEES – Bärbel Rothhaar and Virág Major with special guests

[Translate to Deutsch:] “URBAN BEES – bees, ecology, democracy“ is an art project, which investigates the questions of living together, democracy and ecology. In the framework of the project a neighborhood beekeeping group was founded and the roof of a container in front of the ZK/U was developed as a bee observation terrace.

More info: http://www.zku-berlin.org/satellite/urban-bees-2

Our presentation at OPENHAUS centers around a transparent observation hive. We will explore into the world of the wasps as well, juxtaposing it to the life in our observation beehive. Next to diverse installations, partial in collaboration with ZK/U resident Heather Nicol, we will present our newly printed documentation and offer a honey tasting. We further intend to collaborate with former ZK/U resident Andrew Rewald.

[Translate to Deutsch:] Andrew Rewald

[Translate to Deutsch:] Andrew Rewald and the Urban Bees  are bringing together the themes of bees, pollination and the ongoing threat by agrochemical and biogenetic policies.Andrew will offer Alegría, an ancient honey- and Amaranthus-cake of the Americas and present a map to outline his research.

[Translate to Deutsch:] Anonym

[Translate to Deutsch:] Relics.

Since our childhood, we learned that violence is the weakest instrument of expression.

Over time, I learned who has the right, doesn't use weapons to express it ...

But in fact, governments are not so, it's very easy that our brains will be washed as much as possible... soldiers become heroes, violence is always available, weapons are authorized, and the Taxes spent to kill others... with weapons and ammunition Nationally manufactured... and sometimes conscription for military service -like my country.

I come from a place conquered by the army since 1952, and those who share my convictions fall under the list of traitors ... and their military service becomes a prison for at least a year ...

In this period I learned three things ... I have to survive the situation without being brainwashed like the rest of the soldiers, while insisting on my believes.. I comprehended how this military machine functions and how it is mapped... and finally learned how to love my country secretly...

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We are all prisoners.. in different dimensions!