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Opening Program
Doors open: 6.00 pm

6.00–7.00 pm + 9.00–10.00 pm
Printing for Abolition with Rüzgâr Buşki

Throughout the opening and across the 3-day program, Rüzgâr Buşki will be live screen printing a new edition of 400 prints, that are created to fit the size of the publication Walk Notations. You are welcome to come by and print together with them, then slide them into your publication copy. Consider this a ritual: a moment to honor those who have stood their ground to exercise their basic rights against police violence in Berlin.

7.00–8.00 pm
Publication launch: Walk Notations

Walk Notations brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025. Moving between artistic practices, curatorial conversations, and reflections, the book approaches walking as a method for being together in public space. Some contributions revisit specific sites or gestures while others move further afield, driven by personal memory, archival research, theoretical analysis, or speculative fiction. Conceived as a portable companion, Walk Notations invites the readers to navigate the city otherwise—attentive to detours, thresholds, and the possibilities that emerge when paths are made collectively.

The curators of the groups ReRouting and Cruising Curators will present the book to kick-off the TRACES opening.

8.00–9.00 pm
a-mal-a-malgam with Yasmeen Al-Qaisi

Yasmeen Al-Qaisi invites us to break fast with a daily mash for hope, assortments of grains and stories that are meant to nutritiously welcome life into our bellies. a-mal-a-malgham is an Arabic-English word construction that stands for a mass (الملغم al-malgham, amalgam) and a mixture of hope (أمل amal). Through the collective meal we will be invoking protection of the sweetness of flowers, fruits and spices against destructive “purity”-claiming politics that dominate our environments. As ever before, Iazmin, will be invoking the knowledge and power of our grandmothers and grain-mothers, while inviting the guests to use their hands, their original tools, and put intention and wishes into the act of eating together pan-culinary-world recipe-less dishes.

TRACES Installation

Across the 3-day program some of the participating artists are sharing physical traces from their walks in the form of a collective installation, integrated with research material from the curators’ library.

Contributions by: Lucía Alfaro Valencia, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, Mirja Busch, Suelen Calonga, Gabriel Francisco Lemos, Carolin Genz, Jane Hwang, Pol Merchan & Sarah Martinus, Pitchaya Ngamcharoen, Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling, Liz Rosenfeld, Natthapong Samakkaew, Lauryn Youden, Alternative Monument, ssssSssssssss (Ashkan Sepahvand & virgil b/g taylor)