We are delighted to announce the participation of artists-students Josias Buchweitz, Walla Capelobo, Claudia Hausfeld, Julia Saba from the MA Raumstrategien/Spatial Strategies program Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin in the one-day symposium “Witnessing Otherwise” conceived and curated by Heba Y. Amin, which took place on Sunday 12 April 2026 at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.
To what extent do landscapes, plants, light, and waste bear witness to forms of structural violence that exceed human perception and historical narration? How do the body, and contemporary tools for recording, mapping, and visualizing the world participate in the ongoing production of memory, evidence, and narrative? Developed in dialogue with Dr Marianna Liosi, the presentations by Josias Buchweitz, Walla Capelobo, Claudia Hausfeld, Julia Saba explore a series of case studies that span from examining the yerba mate (ka’a) as plant that operates as a Guaraní cosmotechnic; waste as a more-than-human entity embodying memory, the region of Lausitz as a territory of extraction, ruins and archiving; the relationship between absolute darkness and total visibility with a focus on machine vision through the human eye.
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Conceived by Heba Y. Amin, the conceptual starting point of the symposium “Witnessing Otherwise”is the neurological phenomenon of blindsight - a paradox in which blind people are still able to process visual stimuli. Blindsight becomes a political allegory of a present in which perception and understanding are increasingly drifting apart. In a world oversaturated with images, visibility no longer guarantees recognition. Instead, images circulate anonymously through systems that monitor, process, and filter them. It is here where it is determined what can appear and can be known to whom.
The symposium brings together artists, theorists, and scholars to explore how forms of structural violence are inscribed in landscapes and materials and how they can be made visible. At the same time, the contributions examine images as instruments of control—and the diverse strategies for resisting them.
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ROUND UP #6
🌟 The booklet 📖
✨ A Collection of Essays by Mahmood Al Shaer, Dennis Dizon and Gabriella Hirst, published by Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, 2025 ✨
The booklet gathers commissioned and found texts by research-based artists and writers Mahmood Al Shaer, Dennis Dizon and Gabriella Hirst.
SPOILER❗ YOU CAN GET A COPY FOR FREE 🪁📖
QR code in the last slide 😉
Displayed in the exhibition, each text is an artwork in dialogue with others. The reader is also a gift ❣️conceived to travel from the art gallery, to domestic spaces across connected geographies.
The booklet is a project of the exhibition Techno-Ecologies and Bodies of Memory: the Environment as Battleground (18 July - 5 October 2025)
A project by @kunstraumkreuzberg
Curated by Marianna Liosi @mariannaliosi
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes
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Full details 👇🏽
A Collection of Essays by Mahmood Al Shaer, Dennis Dizon and Gabriella Hirst, ed. by Marianna Liosi, published by Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, 2025
ISBN 978-3-00-083489-9
Language: English
Special thanks: Elisa Tosoni, Agnese Fabbri.
✨ ROUND UP # 5
🪩 Film screening and live performance
The Stone Opera, 2022 (59')
by Haythem Zakaria @haythemzakaria
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As part of the program of guided tours, workshops, film screenings and conversations that accompanied the exhibition Techno-Ecologies and Bodies of Memory: the Environment as Battleground (18 July - 5 October 2025), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
A project by @kunstraumkreuzberg
Curated by Marianna Liosi @mariannaliosi
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes
#techno #ecologies #gafsa #tunisia #memory
✨ ROUNDUP # 4
Walkshop with Al-Block
with Sireen Alawi and Areej Alshhab
@alblock@sireenalawi@areedge 🙏🏽❤️💥
As part of the program of guided tours, workshops, film screenings and conversations that accompanied the exhibition Techno-Ecologies and Bodies of Memory: the Environment as Battleground (18 July - 5 October 2025)
A project by @kunstraumkreuzberg
Curated by Marianna Liosi @mariannaliosi
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes
✨ ROUNDUP # 3
Workshop
Caring and Learning with Lake Balkhash
with Aigerim Kapar
@aigerimkapar 💙🌊🙏🏽
@artcom.platform 🫧
As part of the program of guided tours, workshops, film screenings and conversations that accompanied the exhibition Techno-Ecologies and Bodies of Memory: the Environment as Battleground (18 July - 5 October 2025)
@kunstraumkreuzberg
Curated by Marianna Liosi @mariannaliosi
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes
✨ ROUNDUP #2
Workshop
Walking-with Memories of Water
with Natural Contract Lab
An emotional and sensorial journey around and across the Erpe river
@naturalcontractlab 💙
As part of the of the program of guided tours, workshops, film screenings and conversations that accompanied the exhibition Techno-Ecologies and Bodies of Memory: the Environment as Battleground (18 July - 5 October 2025)
@kunstraumkreuzberg
Curated by @mariannaliosi
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes
The 2026 starts with a roundup of the rich program of guided tours, workshops, film screenings and conversations that accompanied the exhibition Techno-Ecologies and Bodies of Memory: the Environment as Battleground (18 July - 5 October 2025)
⚡ # 1
🌱 Bodenwirtschaft: an Ecopolitical Tour
Gehrenseestrasse 1
with Marina Resende @marinaresende.s & Zoran Oruc
&
🌱 Procession of the Weeds
A collaborative parade
With Marina Resende & Luu Bich Ngoc @ioechipchip
as part of Bodenwirtschaft: mit Höpfen für Johann, 2025 by Marina Resende Santos
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@kunstraumkreuzberg
Curated by Marianna Liosi @mariannaliosi
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes
✨ ...and what a magnificent screening of the video The Stone Opera, 2022 by Haythem Zakaria at CinéMadart!
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Thank you Kais&Amal and the team @cinemadart for hosting us ❤️
As part of the satellite program of Techno-ecologies and Bodies of Memory: The Environment as Battleground
A project of @kunstraumkreuzberg
Curated by @mariannaliosi
In partnership with @mecam_tunisie
💙 Caring and Learning with Lake Balkhash
Workshop by Aigerim Kapar at Goethe-Institut Tunis 🌊
@isbas_university@isbat___
Satellite program of Techno-ecologies and Bodies of Memory: The Environment as Battleground
Curated by Marianna Liosi
A project by @kunstraumkreuzberg in partnership with @mecam_tunisie
A throwback of the empowering workshop Caring and Learning with Lake Balkhash held by curator Aigerim Kapar @aigerimkapar@artcom.platform
and
“Sufism and Nature: Two Faces of the Same Coin”, a short lecture by Dr Cyrine Kortas @cyrinekortas (MECAM Fellow)
with the participation of the talented students of Curatorial Practices from ISBAS Sousse @isbas_university (Professor Fatma Derouiche @fatma_derouiche ) Professor Chiraz Mosbah
and the students of @isbat___
Grateful for this intense day of weaving connections!
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A project by @kunstraumkreuzberg , curated by @mariannaliosi in partnership with @mecam_tunisie , kindly supported by @goetheinstitut Tunis
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes
![We are delighted to announce the participation of artists-students Josias Buchweitz, Walla Capelobo, Claudia Hausfeld, Julia Saba from the MA Raumstrategien/Spatial Strategies program Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin in the one-day symposium “Witnessing Otherwise” conceived and curated by Heba Y. Amin, which took place on Sunday 12 April 2026 at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.To what extent do landscapes, plants, light, and waste bear witness to forms of structural violence that exceed human perception and historical narration? How do the body, and contemporary tools for recording, mapping, and visualizing the world participate in the ongoing production of memory, evidence, and narrative? Developed in dialogue with Dr Marianna Liosi, the presentations by Josias Buchweitz, Walla Capelobo, Claudia Hausfeld, Julia Saba explore a series of case studies that span from examining the yerba mate (ka’a) as plant that operates as a Guaraní cosmotechnic; waste as a more-than-human entity embodying memory, the region of Lausitz as a territory of extraction, ruins and archiving; the relationship between absolute darkness and total visibility with a focus on machine vision through the human eye.**Conceived by Heba Y. Amin, the conceptual starting point of the symposium “Witnessing Otherwise”is the neurological phenomenon of blindsight - a paradox in which blind people are still able to process visual stimuli. Blindsight becomes a political allegory of a present in which perception and understanding are increasingly drifting apart. In a world oversaturated with images, visibility no longer guarantees recognition. Instead, images circulate anonymously through systems that monitor, process, and filter them. It is here where it is determined what can appear and can be known to whom.The symposium brings together artists, theorists, and scholars to explore how forms of structural violence are inscribed in landscapes and materials and how they can be made visible. At the same time, the contributions examine images as instruments of control—and the diverse strategies for resisting them.[Caption continued in comments ⬇️]](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6739314872321638467244_0_c92476fbb7c1a4613d11119a922711b4.jpg?o=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&h=c43bc93fe77f006dbd1d96783bcff501)
