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sand stories #3 Future Desert with Ida Soulard, Abinadi Meza, and Viola Graef July 10, 2022, 5 pm @lothringer13 The last Sand Stories gathering is also the closing of the exhibition N U R T U R Æ L We meet writer and curator Ida Soulard and artist Abinadi Meza who will present and discuss their publication "Manual for a Future Desert" (Mousse, 2021). The book “determines the coordinates for finding a future desert without deserting the future” and was an important source for the performance Solastalgia. Together, we will unpack the editor's artistic research and their approach to thinking, learning and unlearing with the desert. Some books will be available for you with us at Lothringer 13. The book launch will be followed by closing reflections on the themes introduced by the exhibition. This will be accompanied by a conversation with Viola Graef, a public health researcher working at the intersection of mental health, psychosocial well-being and the climate and ecological crisis. Accompanying the performative installation SOLASTALGIA as part of the exhibition N U R T U R Æ L at Lothringer 13 Halle in Munich in June 2022, the conversation format Sand Stories explores alternative narratives of catastrophism. What can be imagined with and out of the desert?

N U R T U R Æ L 09.06.-10.07. @lothringer13 With works by Kanako Azuma, Sarah Doerfel, Nile Koetting and THE AGENCY NURTURÆL, neologism composed of to nurture, nature, reality/fiction to nurture also: to nourish, to feed, to nurse nature from Latin "natura" for essential quality, in antiquity for "birth". The term describes phenomena of the physical world and life on earth. Although humans are part of nature, even if only a small part of the earth's biomass, human activities are often understood as separate from natural phenomena. Depending on the context, “natural" is understood as the opposite of "unnatural" or "supernatural". reality / fiction According to Elena Esposito, real reality is notionally unrealistic. It is contingent: the coincidental and the actually quite improbable can happen at any time. Fiction, on the other hand, is an explicitly invented, alternative reality. It presents a possible world that is so plausible that it could be true. check lothringer 13 halle website for the upcoming program, performance dates and www.nurturael.site in cooperation with @glasshouse.berlin for process and research insights photos by @mirkoschutz N U R T U RÆ L is a production by THE AGENCY in cooperation and coproduction with Lothringer 13 Halle. Funded by the cultural department of the municipal city of Munich

NURTURÆL - sand stories with Kiran Pereira Sunday, April 17th, 6pm CEST, online via Zoom - register by Sunday 12am via the link in bio or dm your mail Preceding the performative installation SOLASTALGIA by THE AGENCY as part of the exhibition NURTURÆL, the conversation format Sand Stories explores alternative narratives of catastrophism. What can be imagined out of the desert when sand is an ephemeral resource? Our guest speaker and conversation partner is Kiran Pereira, author of the book ‘Sand Stories - surprising truths about the global sand crisis and the quest for sustainable solutions’ as well as founder and storyteller at SandStories.org NURTURÆL will be on view with works by Kanako Azuma, Sarah Doerfel and Nile Koetting from 9th of June 2022. The performative activations by THE AGENCY will premiere on June 23rd by and with Kate Strong, Liina Magnea, Challenge Gumbodete, Nile Koetting, Amina Nouns, Veronika Müller-Hauszer, Sarah Johanna Theurer, Belle Santos, Yana Thönnes and Sofie Luckhardt. Coproduced by Lothringer 13 Halle. Funded by Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München.

NURTURÆL - sand stories Sunday, Jan 9th, 6 pm, online - register by Jan 8th via @lothringer13 link in bio or their website Preceding the performative installation NURTURÆL by THE AGENCY, Sand Stories explores alternative narratives of catastrophism. What can be imagined out of the desert when even sand is an ephemeral resource? Our guest speaker is anthropologist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli. NURTURÆL will be on view with artworks by Kanako Azuma, Nile Koetting and Sarah Dörfel from 9th of June 2022. The performative activations will premiere in June 2022 By and with Liina Magnea, Kate Strong, Challenge Gumbodete, Nile Koetting, Amina Nouns, Veronika Müller-Hauszer, Sarah Johanna Theurer, Belle Santos, Yana Thönnes, Sofie Luckhardt. Hosted and coproduced by Lothringer 13 Halle. Funded by Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München #NURTURÆL #sandstories #elizabethpovinelli #bethpovinelli

KARADENIZ thxxx to all the accomplices involved! 10.-12.09.2021 @tanzhausnrw 17.-19.09.2021 @hauberlin @canerteker__ widmet sich in der Uraufführung von KARADENIZ der Theatralität von Hochzeitspraktiken aus der Türkei. Sie begegnen uns als Rituale, als hetero- und homonormative soziale Institutionen und schließlich als inszenierte Ereignisse mit choreografierten Sequenzen und traditionellen Tänzen aus der Türkei, wie dem Halay oder dem Zeybek. Mit der Figur des „Köçek“, der androgynen Bauchtänzer*in, die für ihre*seine Sexarbeit berüchtigt ist, werden caner teker und Kompliz*innen diese Bezüge aus einer diasporischen Perspektive betrachten. Die Zuschauenden sind als Zeug*innen eingeladen, Teil einer temporären Gemeinschaft zu werden, die orientalistische Blickrelationen in non-hierarchische Zeug*innenschaft zu transformieren sucht. KARADENIZ Konzept, Performance, Choreografie: @canerteker__ ; Künstlerische Produktion, Produktionsdramaturgie: Sofie Luckhardt; Performance: Ewa Dziarnowska, Billy Morgan, caner teker; Musik-Regie, Performance: LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam, Colin Hacklander); Instrumentalisten: Ali Hasan, Deniz Mahir Kartal; Dramaturgie, Text: Lou Drago; Advisor: Göksu Kunak, Black Joy, Ahmet Öğüt; Styling: Billy Lobos; Kostüm: Olivia Ballard; Raum, Set: Katharina Pia Schütz. Outside Eye Produktion: Martin Bien Eine Produktion von caner teker / PARASITES PROJECT, koproduziert durch das tanzhaus nrw und HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Gefördert durch Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste. Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Koproduktionsförderung Tanz, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

h a p t i c a f f i n i t i e s: public workshop by Isabel Lewis / #isabellewis Erotic Sociability (for Webcam) online - language: english, live close captioning [transcript/subtitles] available info and tickets via FFT Düsseldorf and us In this online workshop, Isabel Lewis shares ideas around sociality and embodiment. No formal training of any kind is required to participate, and all adults with a curiosity about dance and other embodied practices are encouraged to attend. Lewis will introduce feminist sociologist Roslyn H. Bologh’s notion of “erotic sociability” as a form of interhuman sociality and guide a conversation about this as an alternative to the dominant 20th century relational modes of competition, conflict, and coercion. This workshop will then focus on the tuning and heightening of the senses in order to facilitate a state of hyper-presence that will aid in the move towards generative and affective forms of being together. The figure of the „unambitious stripper“ serves as a metaphor; guiding us to connect with our inner worlds in order to become more radically receptive to our outer worlds. The outward-oriented gaze of the stripper that usually reaches out to address and arrest the client with the ambition of monetary gain is turned in on itself in this scenario. In this movement workshop, instead of stripping off our clothes, we will use our imagination to turn our attention inward, toward the surface of our own skin, and imagine peeling away layers of social constructs and identity to access a personal inner space. Isabel Lewis (born 1981, Santo Domingo, DR) is an artist and choreographer who creates spaces of alternative sociality between human and other-than-human agents in the format she has named “the hosted occasion”. Lewis’s multi-sensorial occasions and other live artworks have been presented internationally, most recently by Kunsthalle Zürich, Sharjah Biennial, Gropius Bau, Roskilde Festival, Dia Art Foundation, and Tate Modern, among others. Part of the #TakeCare Residenz “Touch, Theatre and Performance”. #eroticsociability #embodiment #curiosity #webcam #gaze #unambitiousstripper #metaphor #movementworkshop #hyperpresence

h a p t i c a f f i n i t i e s: public lecture by Laura U. Marks I Tactile looks - creating haptic encounters in live and mediated performance online - language: english, live close captions [transcript/subtitles] available 5€ tickets via FFT Düsseldorf Performances are capable of establishing embodied connections with the audience. Laura U. Marks will suggest practical ways to enhance the multisensory qualities of said connections. These suggestions draw on Laura Marks’ concept of haptic visuality, as well as on a broader concept of embodied empathy. Even if performance moves online, it remains possible to establish intimacy as images, sounds and words are compressed in order to travel across networks. This kind of low-fidelity engagement is not only satisfying for the audience but healthier for the planet, as we will see during the lecture while engaging with selected works from the Small File Media Festival. Laura U. Marks works on media art and philosophy with an intercultural focus as well as an emphasis on appropriate technologies. Her most recent book is Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image. Along with Azadeh Emadi, she is a founding member of the Substantial Motion Research Network. Marks is Grant Strate Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. h a p t i c a f f i n i t i e s is initiated by Anneliese Ostertag, Belle Santos, Rahel Spöhrer and Sofie Luckhardt and hosted by FFT Düsseldorf. Part of the #TakeCare Residenz “Touch, Theatre and Performance”. Funded by the Alliance of International Production Houses e.V. within the framework of the „Neustart Kultur: #TakeCare“ programme supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. and sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media. #lauraumarks #hapticvisuality #embodiedempathy #hapticencounters #smallfilemediafestival #multisensory #multisensoryexperience #multisensoryart #performance #tactility #skinofthefilm #touch #multisensorytheory #hapticaffinities

h e y h a p t i c a f f i n i t i e s - a research group on touch, haptics, and intimacy in the arts *swipe for program calendar* The online research group h a p t i c a f f i n i t i e s meets weekly - Monday evenings, 6pm (CET) - to explore touch as a contact zone among different organs, senses, and media. The meetings alternate between facilitated and open research sessions to encourage and accommodate different forms of research, conversation, and exchange. Participation in any of the sessions is free of charge. ➠ Continuous participation is appreciated and the number of participants for each session is limited! ➠ If you would like to participate, please send us an email: [email protected]

set up moods for KIRKPINAR by and with @ibne__ @lou__drago @r_aoni.m_uzho at fleshy interface festival @theaterneumarkt

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kewt preparations for KIRKPINAR shows at FAVORITEN 2020 with caner teker, Raoni Muzho Saleh and Lou Drago

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