with Mahshid Mahboubifar

Meeting point: Kottbusser Tor, Kreuzberg
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Accessibility:
- The meeting point is at U Bahn Kottbusser Tor (U8), which has step-free access.
- En-route support personnel available for people with disabilities.
- The route is wheelchair accessible via marked sidewalks and park paths.
- Accessible bathrooms are available (mostly in bars and restaurants nearby) en route and end point of the route.
- Route is approximately 400m with rest opportunities along the way.
- Contact us with your access needs: cruisingcurators@gmail.com

A bridge emerges where the road appears to end—reshaping limits into links. It holds the in-between: between streets, between directions, between movements. Unfolding across the span, we begin at the conjunction point—where we walk, pause, observe, and make our presence visible. This walk invites participants to step into a space of tension and transformation, where every step reflects the larger systems that govern us: systems of state-sanctioned police violence, racialized violence, and the right to demonstrate.

Mahshid Mahboubifar is an artist and filmmaker from Iran, currently based in Berlin. Working with still and moving images, her practice fosters a direct bond with her immediate surroundings, interviewing research, objective reality, and subjective perception. Through the reconstruction of archival materials, she explores how narratives are constructed and preserved. Mahshid Mahboubifar holds a diploma in Expanded Cinema from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and a bachelor’s degree in visual communication from Alzahra University in Tehran.

PATH 3: STREETS AND PROTEST (on movements and demonstrations)
With contributions from Elena Biserna, Carolin Genz, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Suelen Calonga, Rüzgâr Buşki

Protest means disturbing, interrupting, or altering social rhythms; it sets something static into motion or halts something that is moving too fast. Streets are a stage for protest, and today, they become ever more critical spaces where collective movement through public space creates a context for citizens from different backgrounds and social spheres to urgently assert their voices and seek change.

This Path explores how walking, marching, occupying, and gathering in public space become acts of resistance. From women walking at night as a gesture of reclamation (Elena Biserna), protesting gentrification and the housing crisis in Berlin (Carolin Genz); to collecting evidences of police violence against peaceful demonstrations (Mahshid Mahboubifar), disrupting the institutional forgetting embedded in colonial museum collections (Suelen Calonga), and community screenprinting of protest banners (Rüzgâr Buşki) ‒ each contribution reimagines how movement resists, remembers, and reclaims.