Reading List # 68
An entirely subjective list of things happening in Berlin
November 7
Susie Ibarra: Rhythm in Nature
Over eight weeks of six participatory research workshops, five communities in Berlin came together for Rhythm in Nature to support two elementary schools; Nürtingen Grundschule in Kreuzberg and WiKO TXL School, a school for Ukrainian refugees on the airfield at the former Tegel Airport.
The communities learned and developed relationships in the urban natural environment through listening, recording, and creating sound and music. The concepts, as well as both field and classroom methods, were taught from Susie Ibarra’s recent book Rhythm in Nature: An Ecology of Rhythm, released by her label, Habitat Sounds.
Conceived and led by the Filipinx-American composer, sound artist, and percussionist Susie Ibarra and the Berlin-based German Kulturagent and anthropologist Carsten Cremer, the group was able to spend time in the landscape of the closed Tegel Airport, an important ecological site for Berlin’s ecosystem and climate. At daadgalerie and Nürtingen Grundschule, the children could meet in class in the heart of Kreuzberg, where the school welcomes current and new immigrant pupils.
(DE/EN)
from 4 pm-7 pm | daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161
November 7
Theresa Patzschke: Tender Air
Performance by Theresa Patzschke, on the occasion of the exhibition Pamela Rosenkranz Spill Retina.
In Theresa Patzschke's performances music and language meet in their similarities and differences and dissolve the categorical in favor of a deconstructivist approach. The vocabulary of each medium unites into electrifying, atmospheric experiences. Language becomes music and music becomes language. The newly conceived, site-specific performance TENDER AIR by Patzschke enters into a subtle dialogue with the current solo exhibition Spill Retina by Pamela Rosenkranz at the n.b.k.
Theresa Patzschke is a German writer and musician from Berlin. Her fiction has appeared in literature and art magazines such as Starship and Das Wetter – Magazin für Text und Musik as well as in exhibition catalogues, and has been performed at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, among other venues. She has also published in Kaleidoscope, Interview Magazine, SSENSE, and 032c. Besides her musical solo projects, she plays in a duo with Eleni Poulou and is part of Etude, an ensemble dedicated to playing the music of Philip Corner. Her literary debut, Verweile Doch, was published by Korbinian Verlag in 2024.
Free admission.
(EN)
7 pm | Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Chausseestraße 128-129
November 9
Literaturen im Exil: Vanessa Vu und Ahmad Katlesh
What traces do experiences of war, flight, asylum and racism leave behind? How do they inscribe themselves into the body, the psyche, the way we live and love?
Syrian writer Ahmad Katlesh, who came to Germany in 2016, and journalist Vanessa Vu, the child of Vietnamese guest workers who spent several years in an asylum seekers’ home in Lower Bavaria, met while dancing tango. For over two years, they exchanged emails to gain a deeper understanding of each other – he in Arabic, she in German.
Their joint essay Komm dahin, wo es still ist. Eine Erkundung will be presented by Ahmad Katlesh and Vanessa Vu in a multimedia performance as part of the “Literatures in Exile” series on November 9 at Kunsthaus ACUD. It is the personal story of two lovers, about ghosts and borders, internet cafés and misunderstandings, and about what it means when politics consistently invades private life.
The event series Literatures in Exile is dedicated to the work, experiences and realities of authors who have had to leave their home countries due to war or political repression and now live in Berlin or Germany. In regularly held evening events, two authors of different origins present their texts and discuss their experiences of exile as well as the opportunities and challenges in the (German) literary scene.
(DE/AR)
7 pm | Lettrétage/ACUD Studio, Veteranenstraße 21
November 10
Ein literarischer Spaziergang durch das Tiergartenviertel
In „Die verschwundene Stadt - Das Tiergartenviertel“ author Brigitte Landes traces the lives of literary figures and residents of the Tiergarten district. The voices of Tiergarten’s former residents– extracted from memoirs, diaries, biographies and literature – take us through 100 years of the neighborhood: from 1845 to 1945, from its creation to its destruction.
The testimonies collected by Landes talk about neighbors, houses, streets, studios and salons, art collections and collectors. Of political and cultural upheavals. They give a vivid impression of life and the eventful history of what was once such an attractive residential area in Berlin's “New West.”
Entrance is free. No registration necessary.
(DE)
11.15 am | Kulturforum, Matthäikirchplatz