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• Artistic narratives on collective and individual wounds
• A discursive series in 6 parts

• Sa., 14.12.2024, 15:00

'Timeliness: Fragments Between Past and Future' in the frame of 'On(going) Trauma'

How do artistic practices address current and past violence, wars and humanitarian crises? Which readings, which methods of communication and which future scenarios do they develop? How to talk about trauma when words fail; How to inform about violence without repeating violence? In joint efforts with curators, guests and participants, the 6-part discursive series On(going) Trauma provides a forum to talk about and learn from artistic and curatorial research practices in dealing with trauma from plural perspectives.

• 1Photo © Katharina Ludwig “Woundlickers’ Gloves” (ongoing work cycle)
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On(going) Trauma offers a forum to talk about and learn from artistic and curatorial researchpractices in dealing with trauma from plural perspectives, as well as repositioning its concept. Different practices are being presented, in which situated knowledges, systematic power and (state) violence structures are discussed. In six rounds of encounters, the series addresses the image politics of violence; the growth of right-wing presence; bodily collectiveness and multiple personas as strategies of resistance; fictional counter-narratives and irritations; the fragmentary temporality of trauma (14.12.24) as well as private conflicts and public discourses (25.01.25). On(going) Trauma acts as an experimental format of exchange and encounter, designed as an open conversation format and a space of solidarity and humanitarian perspectives.

About the venue

VIERTE WELT KOLLABORATIONEN

In 2010, the actors group Lubricat initiated the founding of Vierte Welt at Kottbusser Tor, located in the Neues Zentrum Kreuzberg. Vierte Welt is a production platform organised by the artists themselves, as a performative space of thinking, as a cutting edge between discourse & art and as a location for events. The central aim is the development of new collaborative work situations. Vierte Welt tries to develop a production practice that is based on exchange with other artists and formations out of which “programmes” can emerge. Performances, political plenums, philosopher talks and exhibitions are filled up by the task to learn a new culture of negotiation, questions and an open exchange are enabled.

http://www.viertewelt.de 

About the series

Timeliness: Fragments Between Past and Future

For the fifth encounter of the discursive series On(going) Trauma at Vierte Welt Berlin guests andaudience present are invited to collectively address questions regarding trauma’s complex effectson temporality and how these are being explored, transformed or conveyed in artistic (andresearch) practices. Together, we will be focusing on the repetitive and sudden presence (– thetimeliness –) of traumata between past experiences and possible future scenarios, on non-linearfragmentation of individual and collective memories, and on its transgenerational traces inscribedthroughout personal histories. Trauma will be discussed as holes and portals for temporalitiesand voices, as un-healing wounds in poetry, texts, and language as such (Katharina Ludwig), asvocal echos of past violences shifting in time within the streets of Ukraine’s city Kharkiv (MykolaRidnyi) and as a poetic excavation of identity, displacement and the collective scars of conflict,exploring how trauma reshapes language, with poetry bearing witness to the unspeakable effectsof ongoing crises (Ghayath Almadhoun).

About people

Team & Guests

Anna-Lena Werner is a Berlin-based researcher and curator. Since 2019 she is member of the staff at the Institute for Theatre Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, seminar for Culture and Media, where she completed her Ph.D. with the study "Let Them Haunt Us. How Contemporary Aesthetics Challenge Trauma as the Unrepresentable.“ She (co-)conducted several inter-institutional research projects i.e. with Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and HKW Berlin and runs the online magazine artfridge.de since 2011. In her current post doc research, she focuses on historical and current artistic deconstructions of the (media) image politics of war and zones of conflict.

With: Ghayath Almadhoun, Katharina Ludwig, Mykola Ridnyi.

Detailed Biograpies can be found here.

Screening: Mykola Ridnyi “Regular Places” (film, 30 minutes)
Awareness: Mine Pleasure Bouvar
Co-hosted/curated by Anna-Lena Werner & Katharina Ludwig