Dissident Paths: Stroll a Debilitated World
with Saverio Cantoni & Noah Gokul & Lo Moran & Iz Paehr
Accessibility
- The meeting point is at the T4 memorial - 10 minutes from Potsdamer Platz (U2 / S1, S2, S24), which has a lift, or the bus stop Philharmonie (M41 or 200). https://wheelmap.org/nodes/x8ynE8zY5hBzDJWfZ
- The overall walking distance is 1.2km.
- En-route support personnel available for people with disabilities.
- We will take breaks every 20 minutes and make stops along benches and wheelchair accessible toilets.
- Accessible bathrooms are available at the meeting point via Kulturforum as well as en route.
- Access copies are available.
- DGS interpretation is available.
- There will be snacks and drinks.
- We end the walk at Bundestag.
- Contact us with your access needs: cruisingcurators@gmail.com
This walk/stroll begins from our situated hirstories (not his, nor her, but hir) in Berlin and moves with our questions, desires and uncertainties as disabled people who are witnessing disabling violences unfold locally and transnationally. Four crip comrades gather around the Aktion T4 memorial, to share annotations in disabled life, and mourn those who have been murdered. Calling on crip knowledges from the past, we learn how disabled people have shifted our mourning practices for the violences of National Socialism euthanasia into public memory, and draw on the wisdom of our crip ancestors to question the politics of disposability of disabled bodyminds in their current local and global entanglements. On our way through Tiergarten, we walk along the question of how to foster a transnational axis of solidarity and we lie down together to dream up futures that we actually want.
Iz Paehr, Lo Moran, Noah Gokul, and Saverio Cantoni met during the peer support group session held by the Sickness Affinity Group (SAG). They are all based in Berlin and are active members of SAG.
Iz Paehr is an artist-designer whose work explores access, anti-ableist hacking, and trans*feminist worldbuilding through a Disability Justice lens. Informed by their experiences as a disabled and autistic person, they are currently developing a haptic virtual interface to archive touch.
Lo Moran is an interdisciplinary artist whose socially engaged, collaborative projects explore community support, accessibility, and alternative ways of being together. Through practices like printmaking, pedagogy, and archival methods, they investigate cultural divides and embrace fluidity to imagine radical, emergent futures.
Noah Gokul is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and healing educator whose work spans sound, performance, painting, and video. Centering collaboration, care, and liberation, their practice blends art and healing to envision new forms of connection and collective transformation.
Saverio Cantoni is an oral-Deaf artist whose practice explores sound through haptics, assistive technologies, and participatory performance, creating multi-sensory access points to shared narratives. Rooted in Crip and Queer theory, their work challenges ableism and reimagines sensory experience by blending noise, text, visuals, and sound to build counter-narratives and disrupt normative structures.
Part of PATH 1: SPACES AS THRESHOLDS (on crossovers and commons)
With contributions by Saverio Cantoni & Noah Gokul & Lo Moran & Iz Paehr, hand breast heart kollektiv, Mirja Busch, Harun Morrison, House’ it going? (Laura Margarete Bertelt & Uli Kneisl)
Where does a threshold begin, and what does it divide? Bridges, borders, passageways – cities are full of in-between places where people come and go, meet and move apart, where some things are easy to see and others remain hidden. Some thresholds invite and include, others reinforce exclusion. How do we find common ground within sites of multitudes?
This Path is guided by the belief that urban spaces should be understood as public resources and communal goods that are accessible to all members of society, human and non-human. The contributions explore aspects of invisibility and accessibility in a fractured world (Saverio Cantoni & Noah Gokul & Lo Moran & Iz Paehr); climate shifts and puddle-watching as new forms of attention (Mirja Busch); the role of waterways and changing landscapes (Harun Morrison); memory culture and erasure through a mythological lens (hand breast heart kollektiv); and the evolving architecture threatening common land (House’ it going?). Together, they trace how bodies move through thresholds shaped by environmental fragility, layered histories, and urban transformation.