RHAPSODY IN THE RUINS
Saturday 28 June 2–6pm
What must we let go of in this ruinous civilization? What must we hold on to? What might we offer to those who come after us?
We gather in the threshold month of June for a ritual-building workshop to cast our imaginations seven generations forward to look back at ourselves from the eyes of future beings. Together, we will compose a shared song and create seven flags to fly in honour of the futures we long for, and the stories we hope will remain. The word rhapsody comes from the Greek rhaptein – to stitch – and oide – song. In this spirit, we will weave voices and sew flags as offerings of connection, vision, and care.
With Dani Mo and Lucy Powell
DANI MO is a performer and interdisciplinary social artist working at the intersection of performance, activism, and community engagement. Her practice blends participatory art and collaborative creation to open space for critical reflection and creative resistance. She has led and co-created projects such as Carnival for the Future, Monologues at the End of the World, and Songs for Change, which invite shared imagination, emotional processing, and political action through art. Dani collaborates with grassroots movements and cultural collectives to co-create spaces where grief, joy, and visionary futures can co-exist and be expressed.
https://www.instagram.com/danimo_musings/
LUCY POWELL co-founded hildegard at end of 2022 as part of her artistic practice and wider commitment to inner and outer activism in the service of social-ecological transformation. She works outdoors, collaboratively and in participative formats, integrating meditation and mindfulness practices. Her other collaborative projects include the more-than-human artistic research project Holobiosonics (2019–2021), Satellite Salon for art-science conversations in Berlin and Edinburgh (2011–2017), and Salon Universitas at Kassel University & Kunsthochschule.
https://lucy-powell.com/
INVOLVING IN UNCERTAINTY
1 June – 21 December 2025
Where evolution is a rolling outwards and differentiating according to competitive pressures, involution suggests a curling inwards, an entangling and enfolding, an intimate co-becoming. In this time of creeping collapse, is it possible to resist the polarization, paralysis and destabilization caused by toxic certainties, and instead look for ways to grow closer in the vulnerability of not-knowing? Eight days of collective practices offer an opportunity to get involved – and explore uncertainty as possibility, perhaps even as hope.
INVOLVING IN UNCERTAINTY is funded by Bezirksamt Lichtenberg Berlin from the Bezirkskulturfonds
