Catwings

The Collective Autonomy Reading Group invites you to join 𝘈 𝘋𝘦𝘣𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱. For at least 4 consecutive rehearsals, the group will engage with DEBT in its many shapes and apparitions, including: the historical relationship of debt with social institutions; the politics of the commons and capitalist accumulation; unpayable debt; the role of debt relations in the neoliberal project. Taking David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” as a starting point, the reading group will let DEBT unfold in all directions, weaving through Silvia Federici, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, Maurizio Lazzarato, Lamia Karim, Verónica Gago, Max Haiven and others. 𝘈 𝘋𝘦𝘣𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 culminates in a fuzzy-shaped open rehearsal of notes on debtor and creditor roles. Come add your marginalia.  rehearsal schedule (so far): 31 March Tuesday 13 April Monday 28 April Tuesday 11 May Monday 26 May Tuesday 19:00-21:00 at Cittipunkt, Brüsseler Str. 36A, 13353 Berlin Texts are shared in advance, sessions generally last 2 hours, and texts/discussions are in English. Anyone interested in learning together is warmly invited to join; just dm or email [email protected] to sign up.

19/3 17.00 Second Score Reading Group by Catwings Our second reading group session turns to specific historical moments in which artists, writers, and cultural workers demanded radical transformation of the conditions of cultural production. Starting with a score and notes left in the margins, we engage with different movements that did not simply remain in critique, but attempted to reconfigure how art is made, shared, and lived. Working with a score for collective reading, we will read aloud, pause, repeat, and discuss together. Following these texts, we ask what it means to re-read these movements now: not as closed chapters, but as unfinished propositions for which reenactment could function as a radical strategy. What does it mean to rehearse the gestures, methods, and imaginaries of past struggles in the present moment? Where do their urgencies resonate, fracture, or demand revision? Texts will be shared in advance, and spontaneous drop-ins are warmly welcome. We will read excerpts together in person and experiment with different forms of collective engagement. The session lasts about 2 hours and takes place in English. __________________ All events are donation-based. To participate, email [email protected] with the subject line: [Facilitator’s Name]. Performances do not require registration. School of Performance Art (SOPA) March 18-20 2026 Kunsthaus KuLe Augustrasse 10 10117 Berlin

Hey beloved community, We are back with a fourth iteration of SOPA at @kuleberlin On March 18-20, we present a performance program centering collective practices, peer-support, and forms of togetherness—proposing them as alternatives to the individualism promoted by capitalist systems. Join us as we gather through performance, discussion, reading, and peer-learning formats. Contributing artists/facilitators: Berkay Sokan and Azul @berghais & @azulwellimean Catwings @catwings_space Tingan Ying @thistingdances Zeynep Sami @zthemarvellous The full schedule will follow shortly. __________________ All events are donation-based. To participate, email [email protected] with the subject line: [Facilitator’s Name]. Performances do not require registration. School of Performance Art (SOPA) March 18-20 2026 Kunsthaus KuLe Augustrasse 10 10117 Berlin

At the end of October, an iteration of the Cultural Abolitionisms Reading Group unfolded at the Kunsthaus KuLe @kuleberlin as part of the School of Performance Art (SOPA) @schoolofperformanceart programme this year. This session of the Cultural Abolitionisms Reading Group took up abolitionism as a performative and prefigurative method of self-organisation in the arts, less as a metaphor, and more as a rehearsal for ways of working together. As a group, we read from an annotated reader, understood and performed as a score, with texts by Dominique Rothier, Guillaum Maraud, Marina Vishmidt and Fred Moten. If you’d like a pdf copy, please send us a DM and we’ll send it your way. The concept of the score builds on the ongoing work of the Collective Autonomy Reading Group, which rehearses every second week at cittipunkt in Berlin. Thank you to all who participated and the organizers of SOPA!!

Introducing Catwings @catwings_space “Reading group” October 30 | 19:00-21:00 Location: Kunsthaus KuLe @kuleberlin Augustrasse 10, 10117 Berlin To participate in this session, email [email protected] with the subject line: [Facilitator’s Name] All sessions are donation-based. Suggested donations 5-15€ No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Friends, we are back next week with a third iteration of SOPA. Join us for a hearty program that critically questions performance art’s capacity to create and maintain communities of resistance in times of political turmoil. This time we are joined by: @analuwellimean & @berghais @catwings_space @hrihro @lemandaricioglustudio @lily__kensington @nagao_akemi & @sab.huth (@saturdaydigestion ) @thistingdances All events are donation-based. To participate, email [email protected] with the subject line: [Facilitator’s Name]. Performances do not require registration. School of Performance Art (SOPA) October 28-30, 2025 Kunsthaus KuLe @kuleberlin Augustrasse 10 10117 Berlin

Thank you to all who exchanged annotations, notes, poetics, glimmers, fragments, and movements during the 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵 1 last week @cittipunkt . The collective autonomy reading group is an ongoing rehearsal, a possible site of utopian longing, study, and prefiguration, and a refusal to accept that there is no alternative. Special thank you to Mariana Nascimento @data.desnascimento Tris Hedges @tris.hedges Eric Guo @guoric8 Beatrice Martini @notes__on Maj Færgemann Nick Koppenhagen @nickkoppenhagen Oliver Bulas @oliverbulas Katrine Hoffmeyer Tougård @shabbeejenteel Steph Joyce @_stephjoyce Any Angel @any9angel cittipunkt @cittipunkt + the entire collective autonomy reading group photos by @notes__on , @nickkoppenhagen , & @_stephjoyce

The Collective Autonomy Reading Group warmly invites you to 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵 2 The night will begin to unfold with a screening of Manthia Diawara’s film É𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘎𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘵: 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2009). Doors open at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, October 24th @cittipunkt  Brüsseler Str. 36a, 13353 Berlin

The Collective Autonomy Reading Group warmly invites you to 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵 1 In a night blending reading and performance, the group will retrace the arc of their year and a half of collective rehearsals at cittipunkt, interweaving excerpts from the texts they’ve engaged with and their own expanded annotations, notes, dialogues, poetics and fragments. Expect citations from Fred Moten, Sylvia Wynter, Gilles Deleuze, and Denise Ferreira da Silva, among many others; let’s ride the lines of flight into the sunset together 𓂃 𓃗☼𓂃 with Mariana Nascimento @data.desnascimento Tris Hedges @tris.hedges Eric Guo @guoric8 Beatrice Martini @notes__on Maj Færgemann Nick Koppenhagen @nickkoppenhagen Oliver Bulas @oliverbulas Katrine Hoffmeyer Tougård @shabbeejenteel Steph Joyce @_stephjoyce Any Angel @any9angel + more Doors open at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, October 17th @cittipunkt Brüsseler Str. 36a, 13353 Berlin

Thank you to everyone, who joined our reading group on Saturday, to @antiuniversitynow for organising this amazing program & @maydayrooms for offering your space. Send us a dm or email if you want to join our messenger group for further plans in London. Pictures by Chaerin Do & Theresa Zwerschke

Cultural Abolitionism Reading Group Saturday 18 October at 13:00 - 16:00 at Mayday Rooms (Reading Room) This reading group looks at abolition as a method for self-organisation and self-gouvernance in culture and the arts. Starting from approaches in art theory and cultural politics, we will read texts that approach abolition not as metaphor but as practice and horizon. In our reading group, we will engage with these three articulations of cultural abolitionism, exploring abolition not as a distant utopia but as a method of self-organisation to ask questions like: What does it mean to speak concretely of abolition in the arts?
How could an abolitionist cultural practice transform how we work, think, and make art outside of cultural institutions? What are existing historical and contemporary examples of cultural organisation operating through strategies of abolitionism?
 To receive texts and materials in advance, please write to [email protected]. Spontaneous drop-ins are warmly welcome.

Conspiratory Study Group May 2025 Part II pictures by @hussel_zhu & @tres___________