Dance residency at TATWERK and in Hasenheide
The UNKNOWN GEOGRAPHIES residency programme focuses on somatic and choreographic practices in conversation with public space and nature. The residency will hold Volkspark Hasenheide and the studio at TATWERK as the working locations, allowing the physical dimensions of urban space to be explored in depth. The curatorial focus of UKNOWN GEOGRAPHIES is somatic and choreographic practices that link urban ecology with post-human insights and inclusive concepts of agency. We seek to deepen geographies of movement, sound and human, and non-human narration. In this way, research and projects will be addressing ecologically sustainable and socially-just concepts that value and promote the diversity of human and non-human experience and expression.
The first artists group to be selected is formed by Taiwo Ojudun and Jere Ikongio, with their research Trümmerberg Cartographies: Rituals, Memory, and Counter-Archives in Public Space.
Trümmerberg Cartographies: Rituals, Memory, and Counter-Archives in Public Space is a movement and somatic research project exploring how to activate Berlin’s Volkspark Hasenheide, particularly its Trümmerberg, as a layered and living counter-archive. Drawing from decolonial theory (Mbembe 2019) and urban spatial politics (Lefebvre 1991), it proposes an embodied counter-archive that resists dominant historiographies. The work engages with what Mbembe calls “the politics of presence” in postcolonial urban space, using ritual and movement to inhabit and disrupt the exclusionary narratives that shape access to memory and public space.
The history of Hasenheide then very relevant to the research, and the questions it wants to arise are: what histories linger in the muscle memory of bodies crossing this park? What sonic residues float in its pathways? And how one might choreograph presence as resistance?
Through ritual activations, guided performance labs, community co-creation sessions, and an evolving digital counter-archive, the park becomes both subject and stage.
Graphics by Aurora Kellermann based on a Vector file by vecteezy.com.
Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin.
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