Program: Day 2
Walk with your ears, hear with your feet
May 5 | 10:00 | Walk | Outside program / Bethanien yard
Let us know here if you want to attend this walk. The event is for kids older than 4. Sometimes running fast, sometimes very slowly, sometimes lingering, we explore a previously determined walking path on which we encounter a wide variety of noises. We devote ourselves entirely to our ears and the rhythms of our bodies: How fast does our heart beat when we run, how does the garbage truck sound when our eyes are closed, how often do we breathe per step? With the help of small “instruments” for all participants, the empathy for the acoustic and architectural situations is strengthened: small pebbles, misused chopsticks, sleeping masks and water bottles help us to discover the I in here and there, inside and outside.
Map Me Happy Walk (Sensorial glimpse of Ukrainian cities in Berlin)
May 5 | 14:00-14:30 | Walk presentation | Studio 1 / Kunstquartier Bethanien
The organizers present their walk project that will take place on May 6. You are welcome to come and delve into the details.
We use our senses to discover familiar glimpses of Ukrainian cities in Berlin. We will smell, touch, and hear the unknown city, believing it becomes more friendly or understandable at the end of the walk. Perhaps, together we will discover some common fragments for both cities or just experience Berlin differently. We strongly believe that senses and people can overcome distances and help to feel safe in space. Map Me Happy — a user-generated platform for collecting and sharing sensorial experiences in a built environment.
Berlin urban hike №1
May 5 | 14:30-15:00 | Walk presentation | Studio 1 / Kunstquartier Bethanien
The organizer presents their walk project that will take place on May 6. You are welcome to come and delve into its story and details.
25 km with everyone who wants to join! I have been walking with people around Kyiv for more than 10 years. Now I invite you to walk around Berlin with me. This city is very similar in size and variety to Kyiv, and it’s been a long time since I wanted to try urban hiking there. Approximate route: Neukölln, Tempelhof, Schöneberg. You can join and leave us at any time. (!) This is not an excursion but a hiking trip. The walking pace is above average. Don’t forget to wear comfortable shoes (we walk through natural landscapes, mud/sand/dirt, everything), and any protection from wind/sun/rain. It will be a good idea to take food/tea with you. There will be short stops for rest.
Vanishing Kreuzberg & Lost Places. Photowalk
May 5 | 15:00-15:30 | Walk presentation | Studio 1 / Kunstquartier Bethanien
The organizer present their walk project that will take place on May 6. You are welcome to come and delve into into its story and details.
In search of the soul of Berlin, the photographer has been documenting changes within the urban environment for more than a decade. In Berlin, as in many cities, the consequences of gentrification are becoming increasingly visible: small family-run stores are disappearing, sub- and “Kiez”- culture is losing its open spaces, faceless large-scale construction projects are springing up on former wastelands. Alexander Steffen captures places & signs that we will remember wistfully, though we did not think we would ever miss them. Focusing mainly on brownfields, storefronts, brick walls and graffiti, the photographer is a witness to the transition of his own city, which he strolls like a drifter without a specific destination. The marked locations in the accompanying map (work in progress) for the photowalk “Vanishing Kreuzberg” are intended to offer participants inspiration for their individual “Dérive.” The integrated photographs document the transformation of the city using the example of one of its most popular districts. For details on the photo walk please visit the link.
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Palimpsests – Alexanderplatz
May 5 | 16:00-16:30 | Walk presentation | Studio 1 / Kunstquartier Bethanien
The organizers present their walk project that will take place on May 6. You are welcome to come and delve into its story and details.
Since ancient times Palimpsests describes a rewritten paper, a process to recycle a carrier of multiple texts. With this in mind the project, Palimpsests deals with the surroundings of Alexanderplatz. Consisting out of a map and a walk it uses the method of psychogeography to enfold and access the specific moment of long-lasting standstill and the current prospect of change. It will tackle site-specific questions by examining a feeling many people share when entering Alexanderplatz: Discomfort. Looking for the initial triggers of this affective reaction besides tourism and consumerism which encourages one or the other “to be on the run,” Palimpsests also searches for places of refuge to rest.
Tracing Benjamin's One-Way Street
May 5 | 16:30-17:00 | Walk presentation | Studio 1 / Kunstquartier Bethanien
The organizer presents their walk project that will take place on May 6. You are welcome to come and delve into its story and details.
Anyone interested is welcome to join a psychogeographical walk dedicated to One-way Street, an experimental text by philosopher Walter Benjamin. There, he portrays an imaginary street filled with signs, objects, situations, mindsets, and landscapes. Sixty autonomous short prose pieces named after urban phenomena — from Filling Station to Planetarium — and elaborating on topics from love to revolution, are scattered around any metropolis, illuminated with the miscellany of Benjamin’s ideas. Together, split into groups, we will collect their traces in the streets of Berlin. Each group is to pick up a piece, find a place that echoes it, and revoke Benjamin’s images with discussions.
How is it going?
May 5 | 17:00-17:30 | Walk presentation | Studio 1 / Kunstquartier Bethanien
The organizers present their walk project that will take place on May 6. You are welcome to come and delve into its story and details.
During the walk, we will immerse ourselves in the history of Berlin’s former canal and explore how people used to move around the city. We’ll also learn about the city’s past reservoirs and walls, visit several gardens, and cross multiple borders while experiencing an immersive ambient composed specially for this walk. The duration of the walk is 1 hour. To make the most of the experience, please ensure that you have a fully charged smartphone, mobile internet, and headphones with you.
Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu berlinois. Psychogeographic experiment by George Perec
May 5 | 18:00-19:00 | Walk presentation | Studio 1 / Kunstquartier Bethanien
The organizer presents their walk project that will take place on May 6. You are welcome to come and delve into its story and details.
David Wagner undertakes the attempt to exhaust Rosenthaler Platz, in a collective standing around, drifting, and yes, in an occupation of the square, which, as anyone who has ever been there knows, does not actually exist. At the specified place there is only a life-threatening intersection. The title is, of course, a quote from George Perec, who was not a situationist, but a great psychogeographer.
Why is the landscape beautiful? The Walk Science by Lucius Burckhardt
May 5 | 19:00-20:00 | Lecture | Studio 1 / Kunstquartier Bethanien
This is a lecture dedicated to the Swiss sociologist Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003). He associated the science of strolling, promenadology, or strollology, with the idea that there must be an interdisciplinary intersection of urban planning, architecture, art history, design, and sociology that determines every perception of landscape or urban space and takes a critical look at urbanism and mobility. With his research, he brought mobility, perception and design together and can therefore be considered a pioneer of spatial planning that transcends disciplines, combines technology and aesthetics, architecture and art, and enables participation and co-determination in the implementation of building concepts. As early as the early 1950s, he prevented the demolition of Gothic houses in his hometown of Basel, which were to make way for car-friendly conversions.
Is the city mentally stressful? A sociological reflection
May 5 | 20:00-21:00 | Lecture | Studio 1 / Kunstquartier Bethanien
Psychiatric research has reinforced the thesis that urban living is a fundamental cause of mental health risks through empirical research. The humanities and social sciences follow this causality hypothesis and investigate which aspects of everyday urban life cause mental stress. At the same time, they also consider whether and to what extent urban life can have beneficial effects. Different forms of social relationships, material environmental factors, classifications and evaluations as well as economic and political processes are of particular interest. These are analyzed in
in terms of how they become relevant in the lives of individuals and social groups.
Postwar Avant-Garde.
Elke and Arno Morenz collection
Guided tour of the EAMC collection
May 5 | 14:00 | Tour | Meeting point: Kunstquartier Bethanien
May 6 | 12:00 | Tour| Meeting point: Kunstquartier Bethanien
Sign up for the tour here. Elke and Arno Morenz started the collection back in 1968, the year of the May revolution in Paris. Because of Elke’s friendship with the Lettrist artist Maurice Lemaitre since 1962 the couple collected works of the prevailing counter cultures. They focused on art, which also was politically inspired such as “Lettrisme” and “Internationale Lettriste” (later “Internationale Situationniste”). The seven avantgardes represented in the EAM-Collection today reflect five decades of collectors’ search. Artwork and documents of historical importance were acquired directly from the artists. The collectors decided that in their view three outstanding illuminators and changemakers paved the way of the history of art and social development in the Post War period: Isidore Goldstein-Isou (1926-2008), Asger Jorn (1914-1973) and Guy Debord (1931-1994). The avantgardistic movements in the EAMC were all led or influenced by one or several of those three artistic personalities.
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