Shannon Sea with Aaron Reeder, May the Muse and others
Curated by Melissa Perales
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| Free admission |
| Seats: ticket booking required. Advance booking: 21 days in advance. Extra tickets for walk-ups available on the night of the performances. Standing tickets: no booking required. |
| The event will also take place in case of bad weather. If necessary, rain ponchos will be distributed. Please comply with the hygiene rules below. |
| Doors open: 19:00 |
| English, German, No language skills required |
| Accessible for wheelchairs |
| Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard |
| Belongs to: Airing Out. Open Air in the Schlüter Courtyard |
A diverse programme with live concerts, DJ sets, discussions, video art and performances offers the spotlight on artists whose work is a statement for a polyphonic, hybrid, and interconnected idea of culture, history and identity, regardless of their musical genres or countries of origin.
Together, they aim to create an interdisciplinary and cross cultural stage which intersects with a local and global community, inviting the audience to celebrate their talents and be part of a dialogue. The Berlin-based music curator Melissa Perales has created a programme of events on the main stage to invite a diverse community of musicians, artists, performers, thinkers and activists into the Schlüter Courtyard. Melissa Perales said of her programme: “The audience is invited to join us on a journey: Over the course of six weeks, the programme will bring together a group of talents who claim space, through their music and words for a critical dialogue. Who bring forth their individual stories, ask difficult questions, and give a voice to their ancestors. Our hope is that this spark will continue beyond the summer in discussions inside the Humboldt Forum spaces, and resonate beyond.”
Fetewei Tarekegn aka DJ Fetesh studied at the Hareyama University, Ethiopia, and the Hohenheim University, Germany and is currently living and working in Berlin. His fields of expression are gardening, essays, media including short videos, radio shows and DJing. He converted an old cemetery into a garden and is currently working on an urban gardening project for the roof of ACUD MACHT NEU in Berlin Mitte.
Artist and activist, Maque Pereyra works with the human body, while visual artist Zheng Bo works with plants. Together they will discuss sensuality between plants and humans, in a discussion that reaches beyond ‘male/female’ to include a myriad of multi-species vibrations! Could human and plant make intimate connections, even make love? Could they learn to be better at listening to one another and coexisting? Artist and musician GOTOPO invites you to an evening of exchanges between people, plants, desire and coexistence. The second podium, Decolonising Culture #2, will follow on September 11.
English with translation into German.
Some people will already be familiar with the impressive voice of May The Muse from the soundtracks of the Netflix series Dark or Riverdale. The Berlin-based soul musician has a German mother with Danish roots and a father who is an African-American ex-soldier. Her own music is a deeply personal attempt to blend her own personal story with day-to-day city living in Berlin. Simultaneously complex and unconventional, the singer/songwriter’s songs are like musical snapshots of her memories and emotions.
Fusing traditional classical music elements with Malian styles, composer, sound artist and sound activist Shannon Sea, together with musical performer Aaron Reeder, will perform a selection of works addressing colonialism.
Shannon Sea & Aaron Reeder: “We touch on a variety of connections between museums and government policy and how cultural representation in Germany has been influenced by colonisation and independence in different regions of the global South. We believe that cultural institutions play an important role as agents for broader political change.”
Hygiene rules
- Visitors are required to complete the accreditation process before attending the event using the Robert Koch Institute’s “Corona Warn-App” (available via the Apple App Store and Google Play), which requires each visitor to submit their personal information.
- All visitors who are within the premises are required to carry along a medical mask that covers their nose and their mouth.
- Home-made coverings, scarves, cravats and non-medical masks are not considered acceptable replacements for medical masks.
- Visitors are required to wear their masks in all areas of the event where it is not possible to maintain a minimum social distance of 1.5m from other visitors. Masks may be removed when visitors are seated.
- There is no requirement for visitors to be tested for Covid-19 before visiting the daytime or evening events.