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6.00–7.00 pm
Printing for Abolition with Rüzgâr Buşki

Across the 3-day program, Rüzgâr Buşki will be live screen printing a new edition of 400 prints, 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.

7.00–7.30 pm
Harbouring Voices: Rhythms of Transit with Nour Sokhon

This performance operates as a live composition shaped by recorded footsteps, walking routes, bodily gestures, and spatial markings gathered on site. Recorded voices and whispered responses from participants of the Dissident Paths program workshop form a vocal layer within the score, functioning as rhythms, cues, and sonic triggers that guide the performance in real time. Audience presence plays an active role: listening, movement, and vocal responses influence the timing, density, and direction of the piece. Each iteration remains open and responsive to the site and bodies present. Initiated in 2021 through a site-specific intervention in Beirut, this is part of an ongoing participatory research project unfolding through live performance. This early research laid the groundwork for a broader series of works exploring voice, space, and collective listening in contexts shaped by rupture and transit. The current work-in-progress emerged from a sound workshop held at Berlin’s Westhafen in June 2025 as part of Dissident Paths, marking a shift from collective fieldwork toward a performative score.

With thanks to the Harbouring Voices Westhafen workshop participants and Augusto Gerardi Rousset for supporting the on-site workshop recordings.

7.45–8.30 pm
Biased noise, aural justice with Saverio Cantoni and Dana Cermane

Biased noise, aural justice is a performance by Saverio Cantoni who is joined by Dana Cermane to interpret spoken words and sonic improvisation into sign language. The work weaves personal experience and lived reality, dealing with questions of sonic justice in transitory improvisation and transtemporal nocturnal storytelling. Conceived through aesthetics of access, sound is not only heard but made visible: spoken words (in English) are live subtitled, accompanied by sound captions and a spectral visualizer. Simultaneous interpretation in German Sign Language (DGS) is curated by Dana Cermane. Some sounds may be loud or harsh; earplugs and balloons are available, quiet areas can be accessed, and the audience is free to move, leave, or engage as they wish.

8.30–9.00 pm
a-mal-a-malgam with Yasmeen Al-Qaisi

Following on from her opening food performance, Yasmeen will be nourishing us for the full program with various dishes and desserts that connect with her concept of a-mal-a-malgam—an Arabic-English word construction that stands for a mass (الملغم al-malgham, amalgam) and, a mixture of hope (أمل amal). See TRACES day 1 for full details on the food performance.

9.00–10.00 pm
The Muscles Are Tense with Mahshid Mahboubifar

Assembled from archival footage from the 2024 Palestine protests in Berlin, this film-essay is centered on the police camera, recording and archiving protestors’ bodies, and the protestors’ body; on the corporeal struggle to claim the streets and the exposure of those bodies to the police surveillance and violence. A composition of public space in which the historical origins of the police, its militarization, and its racial targeting emerge.

16 min., English/German/Arabic with German subtitles
With an introduction by the artist and a Q&A.

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)