with Lauryn Youden (feat. Dylan Kerr)

Registration required.
Please register in advance via: anmeldung@ngbk.de

Meeting point: Pedestrian Underpass at Leipziger Straße: Google-coordinates

Duration: approximately 30 minutes

Love Made Her Mouth a Weapon; Her Throat Held a Thousand Graves is a site-specific intervention exploring the use of acoustic weaponry as a form of resistance and a mourning practice rooted in embodied grief and collective care. Set against the backdrop of collapsing support structures for chronically ill and disabled communities—as the machinery of fascism reemerges and systems of care are further replaced by the violence of ableism—the work foregrounds the need for tools of resistance that do not replicate harm or exclusion. Centering chronically ill and disabled individuals, the piece reclaims voice, breath, and the scream as tools of disruption—accessible technologies that emerge from the experience of being disabled itself. When care systems collapse and structural violence intensifies, sound becomes survival. Vulnerability becomes resonance.

Lauryn Youden is a Canadian sculptor, poet, performance and installation artist. Her practice derives from her research and navigation through the medical industrial complex / colonial medicine, ‘alternative’ healing practices and traditional medicine for the treatment of her chronic illnesses and disabilities. By publicly presenting her personal experiences and queer Crip reevaluations of history, her work illuminates and advocates for repressed, marginalized and forgotten forms of radical care and Crip knowledge. Youden is currently a participant in BPA// Berlin program for artists and was recently in residence at Nasu Alfar, Mexico City.

Accessibility and information on the event:

The space is wheelchair accessible.
A bathroom is available nearby.
Seating will be arranged, and warm tea will be served.
For any accessibility inquiries, please contact: cruisingcurators@gmail.com

Part of PATH 5: CRUISE (on cruising and queer route-making)  
September 2025

With contributions from Liz Rosenfeld, “ssssSssssssss” Ashkan Sepahvand & virgil b/g taylor, Pol Merchan, Lauryn Youden, Natthapong Samakkaew   

Queer practices of reimagining and reinterpreting hidden urban spaces frame this Path. In these spatial grey zones, desires are openly negotiated, giving rise to both community and conflict. How can different groups adapt to and appropriate urban structures to fulfill needs for connection, intimacy, and safety? This collection of events highlight how the “mainstreaming” of queer lifestyles has affected the shape of cruising spaces and relates to ongoing struggles for rights and visibility.

Contributions include a performative exploration of cruising ecologies and how memory is queered (Liz Rosenfeld); approaching the „after“ as a moment to gather in and out of time, in which friendship is forever (“ssssSssssssss” Ashkan Sepahvand & virgil b/g taylor); a reflection on moss as metaphor and witness to queer presence near cruising paths (Pol Merchan); and a sonic procession reclaiming the voice and the scream as disabled tools of disruption and care (Lauryn Youden). Throughout the Path, live drawings will capture movement, gestures and shifts on site (Natthapong Samakkaew). Together, these works trace unruly lines of desire, survival, and solidarity through the city.