We cordially invite you to the closing event of the exhibitions by Rachel Libeskind, Peng Yi-Hang, Nellie Lindquist, Myriam Jacob-Allard, Natsuki Oshiro, and LABA Berlin at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, featuring a varied program.
Program:
2-7 p.m.
Disobedient Dreamscapes 2.0 Worldbuilding Against All Odds
Workshop with Sumona Dhakal
Location: Studio 203, Regina-Jonas-Straße 41-43, Lichtfabrik, Aufgang A, 2. OG
Language: Englisch
Please register HERE!
For the second time at Künstlerhaus Bethanien – after its first part within Specters of Sultana (Chapter 3 of Becoming B) the Cocoon of Shifting Dreams returns to Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Once more, it becomes a space for worldbuilding exercises: a site for timetravel, memory, imagination, and collectivity to converge against all odds. We will train our collective imagination in which utopia meets dystopia, where dream(lessnes)s get treated, challenged or nurtured.
As comrade-travelers on this revolutionary journey, you will be invited to embody a specific function like being the time botanist, the capitalism sabouteur, the linguistic hacker or the sweet-saline COM officer, though which you can share:
- which hegemonies (geographic, social, psychic) shape or haunt your dreamscapes?
- how comradeship looks like across (community) fractures and structural obstacles?
- what your time travel kit needs to stay disobedient against imperial fascism and capitalism?
We will be using the techniques of collage and assemblage (through painting, stitching, creative writing and more), expanding the collective dreamscape with our protest banners, community and special abilities announcements to inscribe our dreams, nightmares and refusals into the present.
Although crafting tools, snacks, cushions and mats will be provided, please bring something that makes you comfortable (hot water bottle, blanket, a book or poem, a song etc.) and/or your favourite crafting tool along.
3 pm
SHOWCHOIR
Performance
In It’s Just a Matter of Attitude, Rachel Libeskind invites the Berlin-based SHOWCHOIR, led by Jessica Gadani, not simply to accompany the exhibition but to intervene within it. Their performance extends the spatial arrangements with a mobile, breathing layer of sound. Through the human voice, the exhibition’s themes are renegotiated: meanings shift as melodies move through the installation, bodies mark presence, and voices sculpt the room. The choir becomes a living echo of the artworks—shaping moods, breaking them open, intensifying them. In this way, a temporary organism of image, movement, and sound emerges, recalibrating the relationship between artwork, audience, and artist, and transforming the exhibition into a performative constellation.
3.15 pm
Landscapes of Poetry
Workshop with Natsuki Oshiro
Language: Englisch
Expanding on Natsuki Oshiro’s multidisciplinary practice, in which poetry, painting, and drawing flow into one another, participants are encouraged to engage physically by folding small zines and drawing on them. Based on Rainer Maria Rilke’s Klage, a poem about stars and the night sky, the workshop expands the exhibition into a performative, intimate act of creation. Starting from Natsuki Oshiro’s graphic exploration of changing perspectives within a landscape, visitors create a three-dimensional object that becomes a vessel for their own interpretations of landscape and verse. Guided by the artist, the workshop offers a shared space to connect with each other and with their evolving ideas.
3.30 pm
SHOWCHOIR
Performance
4—5.30 pm
Guided Tour through the exhibitions
Language: Englisch
2–7 pm
Book Sale & mulled wine stand