The Exhibition of Missing Vibes
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| free admission |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer. |
| German |
| Foyer |
| Part of: Humboldting! |
What are vibes? What determines or changes a mood or atmosphere? What vibes are there in the Humboldt Forum? And above all: which ones are missing? Some people say of museums that they are boring and not particularly inviting places. What does a young audience want to see and experience in a museum?
And what happens when young people create their own art installation? For this part of the project, the pupils of the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium have taken on a special challenge: they observe what feelings different spaces in the Humboldt Forum trigger in them and thus investigate their vibes. In collaboration with director Mirah Laline, set designer Sarah Seini and sound designer Fabiano Lima aka K’Boko, the students create four interactive installations that invite the audience to a shared experience of the missing vibes.
Sun, ice cream and deck chairs create summer vibes on the roof terrace of the Humboldt Forum. In the Mechanical Arena in the foyer, the students go in search of a spiritual vibe and investigate the meaning of ritual practices from different religions, which are thematised in the Humboldt Forum through objects. What is art allowed to do? What boundaries are there and should there be between exhibits and audience? In the Werkraum, a creative vibe is created together with the audience to blur these boundaries.
In the final part of the installation in Room 2, everyone is invited to experience the diversity of living vibes: what does it mean to feel alive in a museum?
After a joint welcome in the foyer, all visitors are invited to look at the individual stations one after the other in three groups – and where they want – to actively participate.
Biographies
Mirah Laline was born in 1988 in Belém, in northern Brazil. She studied directing in southern Brazil. A DAAD scholarship led her to study directing at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch Berlin in 2015. In 2011 she founded the group ATO CIA.CÊNICA and won several awards for the productions Der Hässliche by Marius von Mayenburg.
She also worked in the site-specific, spoken word and musical theatre Trago Sorte Mentira e Morte, directed by Isandria Fermiano and Kalisy Cabeda. In 2015, Mirah staged the street theatre piece for children Puli-pulá with the group CERCO, which received the Tibicuera Award for Play of the Year and Best Dramaturgy, among others. From 2012 to 2015, Mirah Laline was a performer and founding member of the theatre carnival group BLOCO DA LAJE.
In 2019, Mirah wins the prestigious Braskem Award for Best Director for the guest performance of the play The Ugly One, at the 14th International Festival Porto Alegre em Cena. She currently lives and works in Berlin. Since 2019, she has been part of the Berlin Candomblé temple ILÊ OBÁ SILEKÉ. In the same year, she performed The Magic of Healing, a work that took place as part of the Rituals of Care, Connected BTS event at Gropius Bau, directed and choreographed by Baba Murah Soares. Also in 2019, the Candomblé group is developing the women’s project Ìya Agbára, Strenght of the Mothers, which was presented at the 11th Berlin Biennale. 2020 she directs the single Yomma by Displaced Ideas Crew feat. Amon, sung in Arabic and Kurdish, a tribute to mothers from a personal as well as global perspective.
In 2021, as an actress, dramaturge and director, she developed the theatre project Juntos/ Bî Hevra, an atmospheric Kurdish-Brazilian wedding celebration that weaves a web of migration and family stories and invites guests to become part of a new community. In 2022, she worked with the Humboldt Forum and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities on a series of performative lectures on Alexander von Humboldt. Beginning in the 2023/24 season, she will work as a theater pedagogue and cultural mediator at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.
Sarah Seini is queer emerging artist of Nigerian and Polish descent living in Berlin, who studied costume design at Universität der Künste, Berlin. Sarah has worked in film, theater and performances as a costume and stage designer. Sarah’s artwork centers on the expression of fragmented intersectional, identities, postcolonial aesthetics and queerness. In Sarah’s interdisciplinary artwork mediums such as postcolonial aesthetics and non-binary forms of expression, sculptural and fragmented textile design are combined. Furthermore, as an artistic director Sarah has directed two performances.
Fabiano Lima is a Brazilian percussionist, researcher and music educator, who has been living in Europe for over 15 years. He conducts research, teaches and disseminates traditional Afro-Brazilian rhythms at workshops and at schools around the world (Brazil, Europe, Asia, Caribbean, and Africa). In Europe he has worked in international percussion festivals such as “Samba Syndrom”, “Musik am Ohr der Welt” and “Klangwelten”, as well as in the music schools Musikschule City West, Global Music Academy and Landsmusikakademie in Berlin.
He is the founder of the groups “Baque Forte Berlin” for percussive music from the northeast of Brazil (Maracatu) and “Afro Diaspora Groovez”.
As a musician he had the opportunity to play in the biggest festivals in Europe and worked alongside names like Vitor da Trindade (Brazil), Dudu Tucci (Brazil), Guy One (Ghana), Gentleman ( GER )Alemayehu Eshete (Ethiopia), Karol Konka (Brazil), Xenia Franca (Brazil) Yarah Bravo (Germany) among others.
In his current project K’boko he experiments with with electronic music and Afrodiasporic rhythms. Besides his musical work in Berlin, Biano Lima also develops social projects with refugees where he uses rhythm as a therapeutic and inclusion tool.
The Exhibition of Missing Vibes is part of Humboldting!, a long-term project of the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss at the intersection of education and art. Artistic direction: Alice Fleming und Darren O’Donnell.