with Elena Biserna

Registration required via anmeldung@ngbk.de
Participants should wear resonant shoes (not necessarily heels).
This walk is for women, non-binary and queer people.

Meeting point: GlogauAir garden
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Accessibility:
- The meeting point is approximately 17 minutes from Schlesisches Tor (U1, U3), which has step-free access. It is approximately 2 minutes from Glogauer Str. bus stop (M29) https://wheelmap.org/node/11991996319
- En-route support personnel available for people with disabilities.
- The route is wheelchair accessible via marked sidewalks and park paths.
- Accessible bathrooms are available en route.
- Contact us with your access needs: cruisingcurators@gmail.com

This collective walk aims to be a platform to reflect together on gendered (listening) experiences in public space and to unlearn some of the behaviors that are assumed as appropriate, safe or expected when we walk. Some first steps to question asymmetrical power relations and to imagine together practices of care, solidarity, re-appropriation or overturning that might feed other spatial configurations and practices. We will collectively perform scores by Pauline Oliveros, the Blank Noise collective and Elena Biserna herself to experiment with the limitations and potentialities of our silence, voice, noise and collective movement. This iteration of the walk will take place at Görlitzer Park, a public site currently embroiled in conflict in relation to its potential closure at night.

Scores entertain a paradoxical relationship with time. In music, they are compositional tools, while in other disciplines such as dance they have a primarily memorial function and can be imagined as traces or archives of past performances ready to be re-enacted in the future. In the same way, the two scores activated during Feminist Steps – The Resounding Flâneuse and The Resounding Flâneuse, Ηχώ - Ανάμνηση – contain the traces of Biserna’s past experiences in public space as well as an invitation to write together possible futures.

Elena Biserna is a researcher and curator based in Marseille, France. She writes, talks, facilitates workshops or collective projects, curates events and sometimes performs. Her interests are focused on listening and on contextual, time-based art practices in relationship with urban dynamics, socio-cultural processes, the public and political sphere. She currently serves as artistic director of LABgamerz and Lips festival, Aix-en-Provence. Her writings have appeared in several international publications (Les Presses du Réel, Mimesis, Le Mot et le Reste, Errant Bodies, Amsterdam University Press, Cambridge Scholar, Castelvecchi, Bloomsbury, Routledge, postmedia, Electa, Silver Press, etc.) and journals. She has recently edited two books: Walking from Scores (Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2022) and Going Out. Walking, Listening, Sound-Making (Brussels: umland, 2022). She co-edits the feminist column wi watt’heure of Revue & Corrigée with Carole Rieussec. She has collaborated with or presented her projects in different venues/organisations, such as B’sarya for Arts (Alexandria), Errant Sound (Berlin), LUFF (Lausanne), Padiglione Italia, Venice Biennale; Tavros and Fondation Onassis (Athens), La muse en circuit and Sonic Protest (Paris), Festival Plataforma (Santiago de Compostela); Oscillation festival, CIVA and Q-O2 (Brussels); City of Women, TO)pot festival and Cona (Ljubljana); ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), GMEA, Albi; La Membrane, Manifesta 13, Unité d’Habitation Le Corbusier and La Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille); 3bisF-centre d’arts contemporains, LABgamerz, Locus Sonus and Fondation Vasarely (Aix-en-Provence); soundpocket (Hong Kong); Standards (Milan); NUB (Pistoia); Radio India (Rome); Sant’Andrea degli Amplificatori, Xing, Radio Città Fujiko (Bologna); Saout Radio; p-node. She has taught at ESAAix-École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence, Aix-Marseille University, the Academy of fine art of Bologna and Paris 8 University.

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.