Reading List # 92
An entirely subjective list of things happening in Berlin
June 9
Context Collapse. Ryan Ruby and Saskia Vogel
As part of the Poesiefestival’s Lesungen im Grünen author Ryan Ruby will be performing his long form poetry essay Context Collapse together with writer and translator Saskia Vogel in the garden of silent green.
Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, from the creative writing departments of the American Midwest to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley. Cheekily introducing academic discourse, media studies, cybersemiotics, literary sociology, and heterodox economics into his blank verse study of poetry, Ruby traces the always delicate dance between poets, their publishers, and their audiences, and shows how, time and time again, the social, technological, and aesthetic experiments that appear in poetic language have prefigured radical changes to the ways of life of millions of people.
Headphones will be provided
(EN)
12 am | silent green, Gerichtstraße 35
June 11
In Celebration of Pippa Garner
Born in 1942, the U.S.-American artist and author Pippa Garner died late last year. She used to say that, "the more success I get, the closer to death I get. I can't have both: success and life." For over five decades, Garner pushed back against systems of consumerism, marketing, and waste, creating a dense body of work that included drawing, performance, sculpture, video, photography, design, and installation. As her efforts gained increasing attention during her final years, audiences hailed her as a prescient icon, a comedic truth teller, and radical trans pioneer.
CCA Berlin is pleased to host an evening of readings and performances in celebration of the life and work of Pippa Garner, organized by Kunstverein München and Bierke Books with readings by Fiona Duncan, Maurin Dietrich, BLESS, Nadia Marcus, Hamishi Farah, Markues and Matt Hilvers
(EN)
6 pm | CCA Berlin, Breitscheidplatz (Foyer Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche
June 13 & 14
Patrik Gräb: Histoire de la vie privée
“After a long journey, you come back to your apartment, which is not yours.”
Taking it’s title from the landmark series by Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, Histoire de la vie privée is not a work of history, but a literary installation. It invites participants to inhabit the protagonist of a short story that is set in a private apartment, merging spatial reality with the realm of literary fiction.
Admission and location can be requested via reply to this newsletter.
(DE/EN)
all day | location upon request
June 13
PLANT STORIES #1 Transformation Dinner
As plants travel across geographies and epochs, interacting with the different practices of care, exploitation and ritual that humans create, they are transformed. From sustenance to symbol, medicine to ornament, weed to weapon, human understandings of and relationships with plants are in constant flux. Meanwhile, far beyond the human imagination, plants follow their own journeys of transformation and change that remain unknowable to us.
Celebrating the opening of the event series, PLANT STORIES starts with a communal gathering in the form of a dinner party: Taking place across the different spaces of Z/KU, this dinner features a series of interventions by artists, researchers, filmmakers, gardeners, and musicians, with each offering another reflection on plant transformation.
Conceived by Bethan Hughes, with contributions by Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro, Bethan Hughes, Bilge Emine Arslan, Ece Eldek, Fetewei Tarekegn, Galo E. Rivera, Tang Han, Leslie García, Sina Ribak, T. Rudzinskaitė Memorial Amateur Lichenologists Society (Sumugan Sivanesan and Tessa Zettel), Tlayolan, Umut Azad Akkel. Dinner planning and preparation by: Eliza Chojnacka.
Free entry. Food by donation
(EN)
7 pm | ZK/, Siemensstraße 27