Content Notes / Sensory Stimuli

April 12, 2025, 3:00–6:00 PM
Tentacle Feeling – A Storytelling Workshop
With Wanda Dubrau & Juliet Meding

Format: Workshop
Max. participants: 12
Languages: EN + DE

This workshop is based on a mutual exchange about participants’ experiences of discrimination and marginalisation. Using storytelling techniques, we will playfully develop empowerment strategies (or: scenarios beyond discrimination).
As it is an open conversation, no exact content notes can be provided. Possible topics include:
Ambivalences, vulnerabilities, experiences of exclusion, discrimination, ableism.

The workshop is approximately three hours long, including a 30-minute break. It takes place in a relaxed environment with a variety of seating options.
At the beginning of the workshop, exercises for calming the nervous system will beintroduced. The workshop will be accompanied by an access friend. We aim toreduce social pressure.

Content Notes:

April 13, 2025, 1:00–3:00 PM
Kinship Walk
With Lorena Carràs and Jean-Marie Dhur (Zabriskie – Bookshop for Culture and Nature) + Sina Ribak

Format: Neighbourhood Walk
For: 15 participants / Fully booked
Language: EN
Meeting point: Entrance of Alter Luisenstädtischer Friedhof (Südstern 8–10, 10961 Berlin)

In cooperation with the Protestant Cemetery Association Berlin Stadtmitte

The Kinship Walk is a two-hour walk through the Alter Luisenstädtischer Friedhof. Itincludes collective practices such as walking, site-specific reading, listening (e.g. tobird calls), deep listening, and sharing experiences.

The walk takes place at a gentle pace and in a calm atmosphere. Regular breaks areplanned. People who require support are warmly invited – the walk will beaccompanied by an access friend.
As the exchange is open-ended, no specific content notes can be provided.

Accessibility Information for the Path:

Content Notes for Read Texts:

April 17, 2025, 6:00–8:00 PM
Indefinite Terrains
With Bureau of Transitioning Landscapes

Format: Reading Group
Open to all / Registration recommended
Language: EN

This event is an open reading group. An optional online preparation meeting will take place on April 10. Participation in this preparatory session is not required for the main event on April 17. During the event, a 15-page text will be read aloud in turns by participants, followed by an open discussion.

Content Notes for the Text:

April 20, 2025: 3:00–5:00 PM 
Listen–Transmit–Listen–Transmit
Aiko Okamoto

Format: Workshop
For: 10 People
EN+DE+JAP

This event is an open workshop. Participants will create their own radio broadcast.

Content Notes:

• Participants move actively through the space
• Sounds are recorded by interacting with materials and sculptures
• The workshop includes an introduction in which topics such as COVID-19 and isolation are discussed
• Participants may read exhibition texts aloud
• Voice recordings
• Direct acoustic engagement with the exhibition

Sensory Stimuli:

• Various materials in the space can be touched, manipulated and recorded (e.g. textiles, clay, surfaces)
• Rubbing, scratching, or scraping sounds produced by clay sculptures
• Metallic High-pitched sound
• Sudden or overlapping sounds from live recording and playback
• One’s own voice or the voices of others may be recorded and played back
• Radio-like noises and electronic interference sounds may occur
• Movement in the space during recording and listening phases
• Close listening via headphones possible

April 26, 2025, 3:00–5:00 PM
Napping with hoops
hoops ( Lena Astarte Posch & Nicola van Straaten)

Format: Workshop
For: 10 People
EN+DE

The event is dedicated to the state of half-sleep as a state of consciousness. It is a participatory performance featuring guided meditation, a sound journey, poetic texts, and quiet collective resting. At its core is a guided nap, accompanied by soft soundscapes, spoken texts, and moments of silence.

Content Notes:

• Introduction in the form of a ritual welcome with tea and optional intake of blue lotus tincture (contains alcohol, mildly psychoactive)
• Themes of sleep, half-sleep, and dream states as a collective experience
• Texts include metaphorical and poetic language related to embodiment, vulnerability, memory, transformation, nature, mushrooms, and identity
• References to spiritual practices, dreamwork, and hypnagogic states
• Narrative sections reflecting on collective dreaming, vulnerability, letting go, regeneration, and posthuman perspectives
• Softly ironic staging as a “Sleeping Temple” with performative elements
• Invitation to physical rest in the presence of others (encouragement to lie down, doze, or relax in a group setting)
• Gentle play with cultic or spiritual elements without religious affiliation
• Voluntary participation with the possibility to withdraw or move at any time
• Option to lie on carpet, blankets, or cushions
• Potential physical proximity to other participants
• Text passages with occasionally intense imagery (transformation into mushrooms, constellations, bodily surrender)

Sensory Stimuli

• Soft to moderately loud soundscape including gongs, electronic ambient sounds, and low-frequency vibration
• Phases of complete silence, signaled by gong sounds
• Scent of herbal tea (lemon balm, mint, mugwort)
• Dim, warm lighting throughout the space
• Calm, monotone, and soothing speech by the facilitators
• Slow transitions between sound pieces, soft singing, and whispered language
• Use of a gong to mark time

April 27, 2025, 4:30–7:00
huuummming
with Kallia Kefala

Format: Participatory reading and singing performance
For: 10 People
Multilingual: The working language for the participatory performance is German and English. Greek is also possible – please contact us if needed. For the collaborative development of songs and stories, all languages for speaking and singing are warmly welcome. We will improvise and experiment with them.

Participants are invited to bring their favorite texts. These texts will not be available before the event, so no content notes can be provided in advance.

Content Notes for event:

• This is a participatory event involving reading, writing, vocal, and performative elements.
• Participants may bring their own texts in any language.
• The first phase focuses on the shared reading of an excerpt from “Dawn” by Octavia Butler and texts brought by the participants.
• Alternatively, excerpts from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” (O. Vuong), “Theogony” (Hesiod), and “Marrow” (U. K. Le Guin) will be read together.
• Text elements will then be combined using cut-and-paste techniques, expanded upon, and reassembled into a collective narrative.
• This text assemblage will be read aloud together – in different vocal registers, volumes, and speaking modes – and accompanied by quiet sounds made with objects or amplified through a microphone.
• The second part includes collective vocal exercises inspired by XOIR (Colin Self) and Pauline Oliveros’ Tuning Meditation.
• This part focuses on bodily resonance, mutual listening, somatic perception, and sound-based exploration.
• The text assemblage will be read as a lullaby or bedtime story, while other participants hum and take turns lying in the middle of the group and listening.
• No prior musical or vocal experience is required.
• Participation is voluntary, and it is possible to leave or take breaks at any time.

Content Notes for the texts:

Octavia E. Butler – Dawn

• Themes of isolation and captivity
• Loss of bodily and psychological autonomy
• Encounters with alien beings
• Fear, loss of control, and alienation
• Post-apocalyptic setting after nuclear disaster
• Physical alteration of the human body
• Themes of trust, adaptation, and surveillance

Ocean Vuong – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

• Emotional and physical family violence
• War experiences and migration
• Experiences of racism and classism
• Queer identity and internalized shame
• Language loss, trauma, and memory
• Physical intimacy and vulnerability
• Mental health challenges

Hesiod – Theogony

• Violence within familial and divine structures
• Power struggles, patricide, castration
• Patriarchal order and control
• Hierarchies among beings and gods
• Cosmic conflict between order and chaos

Ursula K. Le Guin – Marrow

• Physical transformation
• Metaphorical portrayals of pain and vulnerability
• Reflection on identity and dissolution of boundaries
• No explicit violence, but intense symbolic language

Sensory Stimuli

• Quiet to moderately loud ambient sounds (cutting paper, gluing, rustling)
• Sounds amplified through microphones including voices, objects, and tones
• Group humming, singing, rhythmic vocal sounds
• Layering of voices
• Movement through space including walking, jumping, physical exercises
• Circle structure with participants lying in the center, possible proximity to others
• Visual stimuli from scattered texts, materials, and collages
• Possibility of touch through gentle physical exercises (massage, rubbing)
• Warm, relaxed atmosphere with low lighting conditions

May 3, 2025, 4:00–6:00 PM
On staying soft and being gardens
with Kallia Kefala, Kim Bode and Suza Husse

Format: Tea Talk
For: open for all
In German with English whisper translation

This event is an open conversation on the themes of the exhibition. Therefore, it is not possible to provide exact content notes.

Content notes (possible topics):

• Reflections on nature, the body, and inner landscapes
• Boundaries between the human and non-human
• Experiences of vulnerability and care
• Critique of binary categories (e.g. nature/culture, public/private, linear/queer)
• Utopian or speculative visions of the future
• Queer perspectives on coexistence
• Blurring of reality and imagination
• Sensory experiences involving touch, scent, and sound
• Personal associations triggered by the experience of the installation