THE PETRICHORN
Saturday 20 September 2–5pm
“The recent cataclysm of events, tumbling over one another, whose sweeping force leaves everybody, spectators who try to reflect on it and actors who try to slow it down, equally numbed and paralyzed…” Hannah Arendt, Home To Roost
Taking inspiration from Hannah Arendt’s essay from 1975, this workshop creates space for collective reflection on urgent crises, and transforms them into embodied responses. We will begin by creating a shared map of concerns and then read Arendt’s text together to create a theoretical lens with which to process these issues. Finally we will translate them into collective expression through improvised performances. The aim of the gathering is to explore how to make the shift from passive consumption of news towards active meaning-making, creating a visceral and participatory form of civic dialogue.
With the artist Jeremiah Day
This workshop will be held in English
Places are limited so please reserve HERE, free of charge
Jeremiah Day (1974, USA) is an artist who employs photography, speech, and body language to re-examine political conflicts and resistances, unfolding their subjective traces. From 2014–2019, he focused almost exclusively on live performance, often with musician Bart de Kroon, combining improvised movement and text with documentary investigations into military bases, anti-war organising efforts, historic and contemporary town-meeting forms. Jeremiah’s recent work focuses on structures of group improvisation in which political themes are explored through forms of production which themselves propose models of working and struggling together.
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
