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.
Please register HERE!