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Quantummmecosommm When: Friday 27th March 2026, 5-9 pmWhere: APL Studio, Georg-Coch-Platz 2Language: English (German possible)Project founded by Hufak [Hochschüler_innenschaft der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien].   Quantummmecosommm is a workshop and the framework, which aims to find answers to these questions and others appearing in the diffractive dialogue between somatics and ecology, on one side, and philosophy and quantum physics, on the other.  + Where do we start from?     - Karen Barad’s theory from Meeting the Universe Halfway [agential realism]     - A queer-feminist and post-human understanding of bodies + Our Approach     - Ecosomatics: critical theory and practice     - 2 guiding concepts: Subjectivity and (Non)Locality With this multi-disciplinary approach we want to move, sense, and explore landscapes together to understand how our bodies, environments, and power structures are deeply entangled. + What will you expect?     - Somatic scores and guided movement      - Collective readings     - Improvisational experiments (solo, duo, group)     - Outdoor or site-specific sensing     - Reflection through voice, drawing, or writing + Who is this workshop for?     Artists, dancers, somatics practitioners, physicists, students, non-students and whoever is interested in the topics. + Accessibility    The workshop is open to every body at any level of movement. All exercises can be adapted for different bodily conditions. The building is wheelchair accessible via the entrance on: Wiesinger Straße 4.  + Other Info There will be a break and snacks. Please wear comfy clothes and bring your water bottle.For REGISTRATION and any questions or specific access needs, don't hesitate to contact via: [email protected].

Its been a couple of month since we published our 2nd magazine! For Berlin-based beings: write me a dm if you want to have a copy of the... 𝒦𝑜𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒾𝑒𝓇𝓉 𝒲𝑒𝓇𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝑀𝒶𝑔𝒶𝓏𝒾𝓃 #𝟤 Contamination, pollution, mingling. Urban nature/cultures and the relationships between people and plants are diverse. In encounters and exchanges, mutual transformations take place and without collaborations living and surviving would not be possible. In these ongoing moments of transformation, we ask: How do such processes take place close to us? What does it mean to become contaminated? Who is contaminating whom? 𝑒𝒹𝒾𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓈 Alena Trapp, Jann Mausen, Jona Möller, Mirjam Oschwald 𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓈 Alba Morcillo Sans, Annika Troitzsch, Ceren Hiç, Elena Ferrari, Elena Antoniolli, Inci Sağırbaş, Jann Mausen, Jasmine Parsley, Johann Reißer, Jul, Katharine Tyndall, Lena Schubert, Lisa Hoffmann, Maja Avnat, Narumi Mastroscianni, Social-Body Apothecary, Super Terram, un:sealing, Ursula Seeger, Vitor Garcia de Almeida, Yann Colonna 𝓈𝓊𝓅𝓅𝑜𝓇𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓎 Proofreading: Philipp Hofen, Neil Kedar, Hannes Kupfer Collaborators: Anna Eckert, Anne Wagner, Bettina Stötzer, Construct Lab, Floating e.V., Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux, Kristin Laz, Maja Avnat, Markus Bader, Myriam Lemberger, Nelly Binner, Silvia Gioberti, Robert Stock, Ulrike Sturm, Vera Thoß, Yann Colonna The seminar group: Alena Trapp, Antonia Albrecht, Benedict Weishuber, Fabian Faylona, Friedrich Lorch, Greta Ihnen, Jasmine Parsley, Jul, Lea Baur, Lena Löhnert, Lena Schubert, Lotte Thierbach, Maja Avnat, Merit de Buhr, Mirjam Oschwald, Myriam Lemberger, Narumi Mastroscianni, Nelson Ari Wilhelm, Philipp Hofen, Sophie Dilg, Timo Voßhagen, Tizian Luca Schneider, Véra Pajot-Laux, Vitor Garcia de Almeida 𝒻𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓎 Berlin University Alliance, Stadtlabor Humboldt-University, Humboldt-Universitäts-Gesellschaft

This ongoing performance series is a collaboration with @drusnoise (Steve Williams), a sustainable energy transition researcher, live techno performer and sound artist. We continuously had and have chats about concepts of nature-culture, specifically plant-human relationships and developed a dance-sound performance, which is based on improvisation and is evolving over time. A recurring topic in our conversations was the idea of decentering "the human", and that it is an illusionary, imperial thinking, that humans could be isolated from "a rest" of a world and be pure. The concept of purity is a concept of western scientific and white supremacist tendencies, to establish certain logics, claiming them as universal and violently pull them over all kinds of ecologies. In the performance, potted plants, which itself have a bound to colonial histories in their paths, become protagonists through making them the integral part of the circulation system of Steve's modular synths. They shape the sound of the room and the movement of the dancer. They play in their own unique scales and notes, not following any convention. FURTHER TEXT IN THE COMMENTS!

[DE/EN] Resonant Bodies / Im Resonanzkörper Körper- & Stimmarbeit spielerisch verbinden Neues Format: In einem explorativen Prozess verweben wir Stimme, Bewegung und Wahrnehmung und erforschen Körper und Stimme ganzheitlich jenseits fester Normen. ***** Connecting bodywork and the voice playfully New format: In an explorative process, we interweave voice, movement, and perception, and explore body and voice holistically beyond fixed norms. register via: [email protected]

Tomorrow 24/04, come to 90MIL for the art school showcase (free entry). At 20:00, the site-specific performance group led by Lauren Pringel will showcase what we have been working on for 2 months. Through corporeality and connection (to the space and other bodies), we will share with you how the last two months resonated with us. Also, we learned that 90MIL used to be a car factory, so we included that in the narrative too. And there will be many other showcases as well! led by @laurenjaynepringle @90milartschool performance by @ochjoa @whyalix @roevardotter__ @naeherdran.ne @lieberjoshua Milan Eric Eva Aron Emma Gabriella Live music by @roevardotter__ @90milmovement Michaelbrücke 1, Berlin

Inside the machine, becoming one piece of an engine ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ That's a glimse on today's session of Site Specific Performance in 90Mil today! 90mil used to be a car factory, so we brainstormed on the concept of industrial machines and toxicity. We created mechanism from our bodies, where shape and collective play was at the center. In reseach today, we represented how bodies could create a machinery through repetitive and glitchy movement, and following a pulse together. We will show you the result of this site specific work on the showcase of the 24th of April in 90mil This workshop is lead by @laurenjaynepringle for the @90milartschool 💛 #sitespecificperformance

Tomorow from 19:00 : Idomatically Questionable (@ochjoa & @rubenbassart )present De-dreaming. A performance working with a text, movement, singing, modular synthesizer, electronics revolving associatively around questioning the concept of Western, globalized dreams as a specific method for imagining the future. Spatially Performed on the acousmonium style sound system of the @s4ntp_gencomp utlizing 28 speakers. Makeup by the beautiful @radu.riv Presented in the frame of the societies two week residency at @hosekcontemporary Further performances by @ricodjaneiro and @muyang_lyu Poster by @ay_la_yak Come by!

Join us Tuesday, March 17, 2026, for the following lineup: / Max Arsava - zither, toy keyboard, electronics Erbse - movement // Yen Hsuan Wu - guzheng Fabian Neubauer - piano, drums, electronics Sue Koppel - corporeal mime //////_____________ doors at 19:30 music sharp at 20:00 Sign up for our newsletter: [email protected] _______ #richten25 #weddinglivemusic #interdisciplinary #intercultural #soundart weddingcomunity berlincommunity { design by sanja star }

Samstag, 19.30 Uhr In Performing Futures treffen vier Künstler:innen aus Sparten wie Musik, Performance, Tanz und bildender Kunst aufeinander und setzen sich mit möglichen Zukünften der Klassik in Hamburg im Jahr 2040 auseinander. Ausgangspunkt sind vier Szenarien, die Anfang 2025 gemeinsam mit zehn Expert*innen der Hamburger Klassikbranche in einem mehrmonatigen Zukunftsforschungsprozess Anfang 2025 erarbeitet wurden. Diese Szenarien werden performativ erfahrbar gemacht: In Klang, Bewegung, Szene und Raum. Im Anschluss kommen wir gemeinsam ins Gespräch und fragen uns: Welche Zukunft wünschen wir uns eigentlich für die Klassik in Hamburg? ___ @philippe.gaspoz — Klavier, Projektleitung Alena Trapp aka Erbse @ochjoa — Performance, Tanz, Gesang, Konzept Livia Brocke @peacorn — Künstlerin 🎟️ Pay what you can an der Abendkasse und im TONALi Ticketshop via link in bio 🪑Freie Platzwahl

SA. Dec 13, 2-6 p.m.: Kontaminiert Werden Magazin #3: Political Humans, Political Plants. An Invitation into the experimental Laboratory – DE/EN Free entry. The building is wheelchair accessible. as part of anatomia publica and Kontaminiert Werden Magazine #3 Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Campus Nord, Philippstraße 13/Haus 3, 10115 Berlin —Deutsche Version in den Kommentaren. The Kontaminiert Werden Network conducts interdisciplinary research on the relationship between humans and plants using artistic, design-based, natural science, and humanities methods. This research reveals how relationships between humans and plants form specific political constellations that are co-shaped by both humans and plants. For the next issue of Kontaminiert Werden Magazin, the question of the political between humans and plants will be placed at the center. What power systems can be identified in this relationship? What forms of plant and human resistance become visible? What ethics determine these relationships? On December 13, 2025, we invite you to a tour of the laboratory. Subsequently, the public is invited to explore these questions with us and actively participate at five different research stations. At the stations, personal experiences, knowledge, and creative ideas will be applied through mapping, speculative fabulation, determining the origins of one's own houseplants, or designing research instruments. The tours will take place at 2 and 4pm. The stations can be visited throughout the entire opening period.

Portrait Kontaminiert Werden (KW) Am 10. bis 13. Dezember 2025, Alena Trapp, Jann Mausen und MoA-Clustermitglied Maja Avnat werden als Gastforscher:innen am Tieranatomischen Theater (TAT) im Rahmen des Programms anatomia publica – Open Stage for Scientific, Aesthetic and Social Research Practices unter der Leitung von Paz Ponce (TA T) zu Gast sein. Als Teil des interdisziplinären Netzwerks Kontaminiert Werden erforschen sie urbane Ökologien und übermenschliche soziale Beziehungen. Vom 10. bis 13. Dezember ist die Öffentlichkeit eingeladen, ihr offenes temporäres Labor zu besuchenund an Veranstaltungen zum Wissensaustausch teilzunehmen. So werden beispielsweise Forschungsergebnisse und ökologische Feldmethoden wie Bioblitz in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Späth-Arboretum (Dr. Anika Dreilich) diskutiert, um künstlerische, kulturelle und wissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf urbane Ökologien zu verbinden. Die Verflechtungen zwischen Menschen und Pflanzen in der Stadt sind multidimensional – ästhetisch, technologisch und geprägt von Wissenstraditionen. Ihre Analyse erfordert inter- und transdisziplinäre Ansätze. Kontaminiert Werden arbeitet daran, ein öffentliches Forum zu schaffen, in dem situative Forschung und Debatten unter kritischer Berücksichtigung von Machtverhältnissen und historischen Kontexten diskutiert werden. Mit Unterstützung von anatomia publica wird die konzeptionelle Arbeit für das Kontaminiert Werden Magazin #3 fortgesetzt. Die offene Leitfrage lautet: Was ist das Politische zwischen Menschen und Pflanzen in der Stadt? Das Programm entnimmt ihr bitte unserem Beitrag Einladung 10. 12 – 13.12.. Wir freuen uns auf euch!

Kontaminiert Werden Labor | 10.12 15:00-17:30: Embodied Knowledge Production: A workshop on Ecosomatics with Alena Trapp and michela filzi - DE/EN as part of anatomia publica and Kontaminiert Werden Magazine #3 Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Campus Nord, Philippstraße 13/Haus 3, 10115 Berlin Deutsche Version in den Kommentaren. In this workshop we take bodyknowledge as a starting point to explore the political dimensions between humans and plants, between subject and object, and between activity and passivity. We work with embodiment as a form of knowledge production and transmission, using it to question exactly these kinds of dualisms. Ecosomatic exercises can be understood as a meeting ground of dance, philosophy, critical theory, and phenomenology. For us, they offer a method to approach the environment not as “a thing” placed before, beneath, or behind us, but to attune to the “through us”. We focus on the constant shifts and changes in bodies and the environment that arise through encounters with more-than-human beings. Thus, one of the central aims of ecosomatics for us is to make the tension between somatic perception (e.g. the use of the senses or the construction of bodily boundaries) and colonial ontologies (parceling, property, the separation of subject/object, etc.) experientially tangible, and to work with this tension in embodied ways. The question raised by author and ecosomatic practitioner Shannon Rose Riley in the book “Geographies in Us” accompanies our workshop design: “How can ecosomatics help us to encounter the world as ‘a swarm of vibrant materials’ or as a ‘many-voiced landscape’?” (p. 27). A embodied mode of (un)learning supports ways of engaging with agency, aliveness, and world-making beyond abstract academic concepts. With Alena Trapp and michela filzi. The workshop is free of charge. The exercises are not specifically dance-related; they are more focused on movement and somatics. No dance skills or prior knowledge are required! The space and all exercises are wheelchair accessible. Register via e-mail: [email protected] or via direct message.