CATALYZING COEXISTENCE CHAPTER 2: DIS/CONTINUITIES
How can trust endure when diversity itself becomes politicized?
The second chapter of Catalyzing Coexistence, “DIS/CONTINUITIES” focuses on the fractures and interruptions that exist within the walls and sees them as possibilities for new connections, those that are not necessarily guided by common discourse but instead engage with imagination, creativity, and ancestrality as modes of living when life itself is devoid of ground.
Moving away from “discourse” as something formal and exercised through reasoning to more artistic, incomplete, vulnerable and fragmented formats, “DIS/CONTINUITIES” asks: how can we reclaim and strengthen collective alliances, political action and artistic imagination across different identities, particularly those complex and conflicting senses of “self” that migration creates?
One answer might lie in listening. Not “listening” as something romanticized, a flattened mode of attention. Rather, a listening that engages with the unsaid, with the absence of words, with the little pauses that happen when one switches languages. A listening to the infrasonic frequencies of living within the walls.
The contributions to the discourse program engage with artistic, sonic, and scholarly forms of addressing these questions, while also speculating on and rehearsing modes of working from the fractures, gaps, breaks, and interruptions on ways of living and being together in diaspora, across past, present, and future.
With: Sara Mikolai, Viviane Tabach, and Tiara Roxanne.
Co-Curated by: Pedro Oliveira.
How to participate
DIS/CONTINUITIES is a free admission gathering, but registration is required due to limited capacity.
The event is primarily supported by the IMPACT Program of the Berlin Senate. Like many independently organized cultural projects, the funding often only partially covers the overall production costs. While a large part of the programme is supported, some aspects of the gathering, including food preparation, additional production needs, and the collective labour surrounding the event, still need to be sustained through self organization, donations, and community support.
To help sustain these shared practices and make the gathering possible, we warmly encourage donations starting from 10€.
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