Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

[ENG]
every MONDAY between May 6th and July 15th

9-11am

Space for practice is a regular movement practice within the irregular conditions of the rainwaterdetention basin of Floating. This years edition is convened and facilitated in changing constellations by Lea Martini, Ghyslaine Gau and Sabine Zahn. We start on time and thus hold the space together. You don´t need to register. It is free of charge. It takes curiosity and commitment to work things out, but you don´t need professional movement knowledge. See you! (In English and German) 

[DE]
Jeden MONTAG, 6. MAI BIS 15. JULI,
von 9.00 bis 11.00 morgens.

SfP ist eine regelmäßige Bewegungspraxis in den unregelmäßigen Bedingungen des Regenwasserrückhaltebeckens der Floating. DIeses Jahr leiten und moderieren wir im Trio; Lea Martini, Ghyslaine Gau und Sabine Zahn. Wir beginnen pünktlich und halten den Raum zusammen. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung. Ihr braucht Neugier, um mit uns Praktiken zu erkunden, aber keine professionellen Bewegungskenntnisse. Wir freuen uns! (englisch mit deutsch) 

Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau, graphic recording Sophia Tabadatze.

Space for practice is possible through the Basisförderung of the Senat of Berlin and forms part of the wider activities of The Choreographic Milieu.

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

[ENG]
every MONDAY between May 6th and July 15th

9-11am

Space for practice is a regular movement practice within the irregular conditions of the rainwaterdetention basin of Floating. This years edition is convened and facilitated in changing constellations by Lea Martini, Ghyslaine Gau and Sabine Zahn. We start on time and thus hold the space together. You don´t need to register. It is free of charge. It takes curiosity and commitment to work things out, but you don´t need professional movement knowledge. See you! (In English and German) 

[DE]
Jeden MONTAG, 6. MAI BIS 15. JULI,
von 9.00 bis 11.00 morgens.

SfP ist eine regelmäßige Bewegungspraxis in den unregelmäßigen Bedingungen des Regenwasserrückhaltebeckens der Floating. DIeses Jahr leiten und moderieren wir im Trio; Lea Martini, Ghyslaine Gau und Sabine Zahn. Wir beginnen pünktlich und halten den Raum zusammen. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung. Ihr braucht Neugier, um mit uns Praktiken zu erkunden, aber keine professionellen Bewegungskenntnisse. Wir freuen uns! (englisch mit deutsch) 

Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau, graphic recording Sophia Tabadatze.

Space for practice is possible through the Basisförderung of the Senat of Berlin and forms part of the wider activities of The Choreographic Milieu.

[ENG]
PLANETARY CONFLUENCES: streaming riparian solidarities.
workshops, lectures and screenings
July 12th and 13th 2024, 2 – 10 pm in Floating University Berlin

How can we confront climate change based on the hopes and struggles of the most affected communities? // How can we generate planetary solidarity based on the struggles of those most affected?

In cities around the world, inhabitants of riparian zones are experimenting with novel ways of inhabiting and living with degraded landscapes, including the generation of knowledges and devices for planetary healing. Since 2022, urban collectives of artists and activists from São Paulo, Jakarta and Berlin have built a network with academic researchers in the context of the BUA Exploration project “Rescaling Global Health” and the South Designs project “Designing with the Planet”. The collaboration aims to build a sustainable infrastructure of mutual aid and mutual learning by connecting practical knowledges about devising evidencing devices and healing protocols, about exchanging practices as well as stories and narratives, about hosting, gifting and visiting. 

For July 12 and 13, we are organizing a moment that brings together these collectives and the academic partner in Berlin, with activists from other European cities and everybody interested to experience those tactics by engaging in activities like water testing, storytelling, drawing and embroidering, costume making and parading, mosquitoes trapping and plant health sensing, cooking and film screening session at Floating University Berlin, organized in partnership with BUA TD Lab.

Friday 12th
Raising awareness: Dengue in Berlin 
14-16h
Co-organisers: the BUA Re-Health Lab: Sandra Junglen (Charité) and Uli Beisel (Freie Universität)
When the rainwater retention is filled with water, you hear them humming: mosquitoes. They are a nuisance for human visitors but for the local amphibians, birds and bats they are an important source of food . In this workshop we take a closer look at mosquitoes! We will learn how to anesthetize them and look at their colors, scales and hairstyles under the microscope – and then watch them wake up. Learn all about the mosquitoes in Berlin and which viruses they transmit, what you can do against them and get to know our research projects here and in Africa. We show mosquito traps and place them on the Floating University site for further research.
14h in English, Sporthalle + Workshop Area
15h in German, Sporthalle + Workshop Area
no registration necessary  

Transdisciplinarity meets Improvisational theatre: Narratives of water
14-15h
Co-organisers: Luise Grell, Aldo Spahiu, Sorka Tzschabran
Would you like to get to know improvisational theater techniques and try them out for yourself? Through this workshop, you have the chance to approach the topic of water in a playful and creative way: An expression of the global climate crisis or the commons of the future? Which narratives will you develop together with the other participants? In the workshop, you will learn about the principles of improvisational theater (with no prior knowledge needed) and how they are used in transdisciplinary research to collaboratively define fields of action and develop research projects.
workshop upon registrations: sorka.tzschabran@berlin-university-alliance.de

 
Post-natural Creatures:  Costume workshop with emerging materials
15-18h (part 1)
Co-organisers: Les Gammares (with Salve Saracura)
Les Gammares is a French collective revoicing a hidden river, Les Aygalades, in North Marseille. As a key member of Gammares Collective the artist group Made in the River (mitrcollective) continues to explore with the river, to hear its stories and make them more visible by creating river creatures that emerge from the hybrid materials made in the river environment. Mitrcollective see this co-creation with local inhabitants and the riparian environment as central to engendering radical, sustainable change; a way of altering the narrative by enriching our perception of the river system and working to restore our relationships to this post-natural environment. 
For Post-Natural Creatures we invite you to create costumes, masks and ritual props as we explore the basin territory. And as we make, we exchange stories, restore and transform the materials together. The workshop will be continuing through the 2 days, and the emerging creature costumes will form a vital part of the parade on Saturday evening.workshop upon registrations: counterproductions.director@gmail.com

 
Cooking Feijoada
16-18h: Cooking Session  
18-19h: Public Buffet
Join the LebensMittelPunkte, a group of committed Berliners from Mehringplatz working together to bring the food revolution to the neighborhood !! Discover the classical Brasil (vegetarian) Feijoada recipe.

 
Performed Conversation: CONFLUENCES 
19h30 – 21h
Part 1: Water stories from four streams, finding planetary ways of resisting and repairing damaged riparian zones. 
 A fluid and performative presentation and conversation will gather voices from Salve Saracura and Ground Atlas, Labtek Apung, Les Gammares and Floating University sharing stories of their context and work, and discussing strategies developed locally and globally to resist and repair watersites. Moderated by Laura Kemmer and Jamie Baxter.

Film Screening
21h30-22h45
A selection of short films from different sites, exploring riparian stories, presented by some of their authors will be screened in the dusk of the Floating site, resonating with frogs singing and birds flying around celebrating the coming of the night. 
•  Rema nascentes (rowing the river spring) 2021, 16:44 min
The collective struggle for São Paulo as a multispecies cosmocity in the ancestral land of Quilombo Saracura, Bixiga neighborhood.
Film by: Ж;
 
•  Eyga (working title), 2024
9:30 min
A short film based on scientific and artistic research around the Aygalades river in the industrial areas of Northern Marseille.
Film by: Bulat Sharipov
 
•  Confluências do Sur (Southern Confluences), 2024
15 min
Short documentary about De-Saracura/Reading the Sediments activities in São Paulo in October 2023.
Film by : Lúcio Telles

• Fluid Lagos, 2024
11min
Ebbing, fluvial, dripping… we are all bodies of water. Our film explores what this means and looks like in Lagos, Nigeria – through a boatman, a vessel, and a passenger…
Film by: Fluid Lagos Collective (Justine Chima Unanka, Kamnelechukwu Obasi, Kenneth ‘Laboomz’ Donatus, Lateefah Mayaki, Morola Odufuwa, Nora Mandray, Peace Olatunji ‘Dopay’, Ramon Shitta, Uwana Anthony ‘Churchy’, Wami Aluko)
Featuring: Osan Kola, Tola Adu. III: The Passenger — DP: Rufus Eniola, AC: Temidayo Ogunremi, Costume Design: Isabelle Irabor. 

• Wata, 2024
3min
We journey in water, following a prayer sent from the sacred river of Osun in Nigeria, all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, via the Lagos Lagoon.
Film by: Nora Mandray. Assistant Director & Translator: Lateefah Mayaki

+ Soundscape Installation
ONGOING through the 2 days – near the Sauna
Immersive sound installation, streaming voices, words, and soundscapes from different shores and bodies of water, including a piece of the Ground Atlas featuring Carla Guagliardi. 

+ Embroidery Exhibition
ONGOING through the 2 days – Urban Forest (upstairs)
Featuring embroideries from the São Paulo „Bixiga Lowlands – Rio Saracura“ by Solange Lisboa and the collectively embroidered “Herbarium of Healing Plants” by Solange Lisboa and the Bordadeiras do Viveiro-Horta Denuzia Pedreira Bastos.

+ Documentary from Labtek Apung
ONGOING through the 2 days – Urban Forest (upstairs)
IMMERSING IN MUARAGEMBONG: How Saltiness Shapes Us Humans and Our Nonhumans Kins (Kerabat Lama)
 

[DE]
ZUSAMMENSTRÖMEN: Wassergeschichten und Strategien für eine gemeinsame Zukunft.

Workshops, Lesungen und Filmpräsentationen

12. und 13. Juli 2024, 14 – 22 Uhr in der Floating University Berlin

Wie begegnen wir dem Klimawandel mit dem Wissen und den Kämpfen der am stärksten betroffenen Gemeinschaften?

Initiiert von akademischen Forscher*innen im Rahmen des BUA Exploration-Projekts “Rescaling Global Health” und des South Designs-Projekts “Designing with the Planet” haben Künstler*innen und Aktivist*innen aus São Paulo, Jakarta und Berlin ein Netzwerk aufgebaut, um eine nachhaltige Infrastruktur gegenseitigen Unterstützens und Lernens aufzubauen. Im Austauschen von “Mitbringseln” zirkulieren Geschichten über das urbane Leben am und mit Wasser. Diese erzählen von praktischem Wissen und nähren so politische Strategien, um Wasser-Ressourcen für Stadtbewohner*innen zugänglich zu machen und nachhaltig zu schützen. 

Am 12. und 13. Juli 2024 kommen diese Kollektive mit Partner*innen aus Berlin und Marseille in der Floating University Berlin zu einem transdisziplinären Austausch zusammen und laden interessierte Besucher*innen ein, in unterschiedlichen Formaten Teil des Wissenstransfers zu werden. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem TD-Lab der Berlin University Alliance bieten die Aktivist*innen und Künstler*innen Workshops zu Citizen-science Methoden an, teilen künstlerische Archiv-Praktiken und poetische Briefe an den Fluss. In Filmvorführungen und performativen Lectures können die Besucher*innen Hintergründe zu den politischen Kämpfen der Aktivist*innen im South Design Netzwerk erfahren.

More info and detailed program here oder hier

[ENG]
PLANETARY CONFLUENCES: streaming riparian solidarities.
workshops, lectures and screenings
July 12th and 13th 2024, 2 – 10 pm in Floating University Berlin

How can we confront climate change based on the hopes and struggles of the most affected communities? // How can we generate planetary solidarity based on the struggles of those most affected?

In cities around the world, inhabitants of riparian zones are experimenting with novel ways of inhabiting and living with degraded landscapes, including the generation of knowledges and devices for planetary healing. Since 2022, urban collectives of artists and activists from São Paulo, Jakarta and Berlin have built a network with academic researchers in the context of the BUA Exploration project “Rescaling Global Health” and the South Designs project “Designing with the Planet”. The collaboration aims to build a sustainable infrastructure of mutual aid and mutual learning by connecting practical knowledges about devising evidencing devices and healing protocols, about exchanging practices as well as stories and narratives, about hosting, gifting and visiting. 

For July 12 and 13, we are organizing a moment that brings together these collectives and the academic partner in Berlin, with activists from other European cities and everybody interested to experience those tactics by engaging in activities like water testing, storytelling, drawing and embroidering, costume making and parading, mosquitoes trapping and plant health sensing, cooking and film screening session at Floating University Berlin, organized in partnership with BUA TD Lab.

Saturday 13th
Subterranean Encounters: Solidarity and health in the root network 
14-16h
Co-organisers: Jamie Baxter, Richard Pauwels, Anna Romeo
The subterranean confluence of plant and fungal roots, known as the mycorrhizosphere, contains diverse forms of life that interact in a multitude of ways. These interactions can be mutualistic, where both species support each other’s cohabitation, or parasitic, where the host species’ health may be compromised, leading to disease or death. 
In this workshop, we will take a closer look at these relations. We will learn simple techniques to prepare fungi from roots on site and look at them under the microscope. Through this lens, we will see when fungi and plants support each other’s health and when others can become a threat to plant and tree health and survival. We will discuss how these relations are affected by climate change and think about how human health is entangled in this knotty confluence.  We record our observations in drawings and simple sculptures and put them together to form a joint network map as a way of getting to know subterranean life in other ways. Finally, we will end by reflecting on the ethical and political challenges of cohabiting and navigating health relations with forms of life we only indirectly encounter.
workshop upon registrations: ncp@floating-berlin.org

Collective healing through threads practices
15-17h
Co-organisers: Designing with the Planet team
This hands on embroidery workshop is a continuation of an activity held already with the group formed by the Designing with the Planet group. A piece of cloth, naturally dyed and embroidered at Floating in early 2023 was taken to Sao Paulo where it was continued by local hands, and will return once more to the site. 
In threads practices, like quilting or embroidery, lies a potential for coming as a community and sharing stories while keeping your hands busy. In the textiles will be interwoven and assembled intimate and collective stories, entities and wishes based on the exchanges from the past two days. 

Riverain Creatures: Costume workshop with riparian materials
15-18h (part 2)
Co-organisers: Les Gammares (with Salve Saracura) 
For this Riverain Creature Workshop we invite you to help us create several creaturely elements, creature masks and ritual hybrid materials as we discover the basin territory. 
Using found material from Floating terrain and its watery environs we offer another way to restore and transform the materials together. See the element of water and ground mingling together to create new post-natural material, that tell of a new unseen vitality that guides, animates and repairs. These creature elements will form a vital part of the parade on Saturday evening, intermingling with costumes, masks and ritual from other riparian sites (Sao Paulo, Jakarta, London).
workshop upon registrations: counterproductions.director@gmail.com

Cooking Gado Gado
16-18h : Cooking Session  
18-19h: Public Buffet
Join the LebensMittelPunkte, a  group of committed Berliners from Mehringplatz working together to bring the food revolution to the neighborhood !! Discover the classical Indonesian dish : Gagdo gado !

Ritual, Parade and Performances:
CONFLUENCES 
19h30-21h30 
Part 2: Free the waters ! 

From storytelling to action, an open and participative format to explore riparian struggles and to elaborate messages of planetary solidarities. 
Collective and plurilingual voicing of the waters: performative reading of letters to the rivers, exhibition, rituals and grand parade. 
Join us for this final multimedia and interactive political performance to advocate for the rivers and waters as well as all the beings and spirits depending on them to exist.

We present a ritual-performance by Ground Atlas, letters from Mar Menor (Lorenzo Sandoval), from La Loire (Camille de Toledo) from students from the
«Planetary correspondence» studio (TU,Anna Romeo), from The Reeder #1 & #2 (Floating University by David Morsi and Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux), accompanied by creatures by MITRcollective and the multimedia performance by Lúcio Teles: «Confluence of the center: South no more».

+ Soundscape Installation
ONGOING through the 2 days – near the Sauna
Immersive sound installation, streaming voices, words, and soundscapes from different shores and bodies of water, including a piece of the Ground Atlas featuring Carla Guagliardi. 

+ Embroidery Exhibition
ONGOING through the 2 days
Featuring embroideries from the São Paulo „Bixiga Lowlands – Rio Saracura“ by Solange Lisboa and the collectively embroidered “Herbarium of Healing Plants” by Solange Lisboa and the Bordadeiras do Viveiro-Horta Denuzia Pedreira Bastos.

+ Documentary from Labtek Apung
ONGOING through the 2 days – Urban Forest (upstairs)
IMMERSING IN MUARAGEMBONG: How Saltiness Shapes Us Humans and Our Nonhumans Kins (Kerabat Lama)
 

[DE]
ZUSAMMENSTRÖMEN: Wassergeschichten und Strategien für eine gemeinsame Zukunft.

Workshops, Lesungen und Filmpräsentationen

12. und 13. Juli 2024, 14 – 22 Uhr in der Floating University Berlin

Wie begegnen wir dem Klimawandel mit dem Wissen und den Kämpfen der am stärksten betroffenen Gemeinschaften?

Initiiert von akademischen Forscher*innen im Rahmen des BUA Exploration-Projekts “Rescaling Global Health” und des South Designs-Projekts “Designing with the Planet” haben Künstler*innen und Aktivist*innen aus São Paulo, Jakarta und Berlin ein Netzwerk aufgebaut, um eine nachhaltige Infrastruktur gegenseitigen Unterstützens und Lernens aufzubauen. Im Austauschen von “Mitbringseln” zirkulieren Geschichten über das urbane Leben am und mit Wasser. Diese erzählen von praktischem Wissen und nähren so politische Strategien, um Wasser-Ressourcen für Stadtbewohner*innen zugänglich zu machen und nachhaltig zu schützen. 

Am 12. und 13. Juli 2024 kommen diese Kollektive mit Partner*innen aus Berlin und Marseille in der Floating University Berlin zu einem transdisziplinären Austausch zusammen und laden interessierte Besucher*innen ein, in unterschiedlichen Formaten Teil des Wissenstransfers zu werden. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem TD-Lab der Berlin University Alliance bieten die Aktivist*innen und Künstler*innen Workshops zu Citizen-science Methoden an, teilen künstlerische Archiv-Praktiken und poetische Briefe an den Fluss. In Filmvorführungen und performativen Lectures können die Besucher*innen Hintergründe zu den politischen Kämpfen der Aktivist*innen im South Design Netzwerk erfahren.

More info and detailed program here oder hier

Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating

[ENG]
every MONDAY between May 6th and July 15th

9-11am

Space for practice is a regular movement practice within the irregular conditions of the rainwaterdetention basin of Floating. This years edition is convened and facilitated in changing constellations by Lea Martini, Ghyslaine Gau and Sabine Zahn. We start on time and thus hold the space together. You don´t need to register. It is free of charge. It takes curiosity and commitment to work things out, but you don´t need professional movement knowledge. See you! (In English and German) 

[DE]
Jeden MONTAG, 6. MAI BIS 15. JULI,
von 9.00 bis 11.00 morgens.

SfP ist eine regelmäßige Bewegungspraxis in den unregelmäßigen Bedingungen des Regenwasserrückhaltebeckens der Floating. DIeses Jahr leiten und moderieren wir im Trio; Lea Martini, Ghyslaine Gau und Sabine Zahn. Wir beginnen pünktlich und halten den Raum zusammen. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung. Ihr braucht Neugier, um mit uns Praktiken zu erkunden, aber keine professionellen Bewegungskenntnisse. Wir freuen uns! (englisch mit deutsch) 

Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau, graphic recording Sophia Tabadatze.

Space for practice is possible through the Basisförderung of the Senat of Berlin and forms part of the wider activities of The Choreographic Milieu.

We warmly invite you to join the ‘SWAMPOSIUM’ this years Learnscapes Symposium on July 17 2024 at Floating. We would like to use the opportunity of coming together once again to collectively shape next year’s Learnscapes Programme at Floating and think further about a Learnscapes community of practice.

The Learnscapes Symposium: SWAMPOSIUM invites past, present and future participants of the Learnscapes Programme for a days of exchange, presentations, talks and get-togethers – an opportunity to take a deeper dive into the floating landscapes of knowledge production and practices of un-, co- and re- learning beyond academia.

This season we aim to reflect practices of un-, re- and co-learning through the notion of becoming the swamp – questioning established planning processes, breaking out of institutional borders and entrenched learning methods, developing new ways of practice-based knowledge production, envisioning alternative futures and narratives and exploring spatial transformations of the basin and beyond. 

14 – 17h
presentation of student works
(with TU Berlin, University of the Arts Berlin, Berlin International University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig School of Arts, TH Nürnberg, kunsthochschule weissensee, kontaminiert werden, and more) 

17 – 18h
presentation and exchange with Urban Rooms Network 

18 – 21h
swampy discursive dinner

Save the date! 

This will be the day to show your love and support for Floating University and Floating e.V! 

More info soon.