with Pol Merchan

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Meeting point: Habermannsee, Marzahn
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Slobber Moss Pee explores the interconnectedness of space—natural and urban, visible and invisible—and its inhabitants, human and non-human, tracing the traces of their multiple interactions. The project engages with Karen Barad’s concept of intra-action, Laura U. Marks’ theories on hapticity and tactility in the image, and the eco-sexual practices of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. Through collage and remixing of audiovisual material—self-produced and borrowed—an audiovisual ecosystem is generated that transcends the mere function of an archive to become a tool for sensory stimulation. A projection at the Kaulsdorfer Baggersee (Habermannsee) places the artwork, the screen, and the viewers within a dynamic of intra-action. The screen integrates with the landscape, while ambient sounds and birdsong form the soundtrack. The lake, a habitual setting for nude bodies and fleeting encounters—including cruising—becomes a confluence of pixels, celluloid, humans, worms, fish, bodily fluids, pee, and other traces.

Pol Merchan is an artist, filmmaker and curator of the Xposed Queer Film Festival in Berlin. He graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and completed the Master Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts. His artistic practice explores the audiovisual medium and is influenced by queer, trans and feminist studies and practices. Experimenting with analog media and the techniques of appropriation and collage, his works blur the boundaries between historiography and autobiography as well as fiction and documentary. His works have been exhibited and awarded internationally in institutions and film festivals such as Museo Reina Sofía Madrid, Centre d’Art La Panera Lleida, IFFR Rotterdam, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Lichter Art Award Frankfurt, Kassel Documentary Film Festival.

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.