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Throughout the day
Printing for Abolition with Rüzgâr Buşki

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.

12.00–1.00 pm
TRACES Walk-Throughs
in German & English

Parallel walk-throughs for children and adults will be led through the space of TRACES, at times intersecting in playful overlap. Walking together becomes a method for mediation: reflecting, contextualizing the wider project, and activating the space, including our Kids’ Corner.

1.00–2.00 pm
Wie fühlt sich Geschichte an? with Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling

In this clay workshop facilitated by Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling, the participants will exchange experiences and thoughts on material memory culture and try to make monuments from the past, present, and future visible and tangible. This workshop follows from their walk-event for the Dissident Paths program that took the form of a tactile tour at Spandau Citadel’s exhibition Unveiled – Berlin and its Monuments.

This workshop will be offered in German and is open to everyone aged 16 and above.

2.00–3.30 pm
Mind the Gap: From Critical Thinking to Epistemic Disobedience with Suelen Calonga

Mind the Gap explores the limits of critical thinking as the dominant language of reflection in art and cultural institutions. Starting from familiar forms of critique, the workshop asks what happens when we pay attention to gaps, absences, and silences instead of complete explanations. Drawing on artistic practices that resist classification and operate at the edges of legibility, the session frames epistemic disobedience as a shift toward questioning how knowledge is produced, validated, and circulated, and who gets to be recognized as a knowing subject.

3.30–4.00 pm
Pause to Question: A Monument to Migration with Alternative Monument

This activation invites you into Alternative Monument’s ongoing collective research on what a monument to migration might be, who it is for, and what it can carry into the future. Through a series of gentle questions, participants are encouraged to share responses that will feed into the group’s evolving monument-making process. Positioned as a pause within the day’s program, the activation takes the form of a poetic interlude, with lokum sweets shared over tea and coffee.

4.30–5.30 pm
Conversation with the FriendsssssssssSsss with ssssSssssssss (Ashkan Sepahvand & virgil b/g taylor)

Artists Ashkan Sepahvand and virgil b/g taylor, who together form the collective ssssSssssssss, will reflect on their walk ‘spread (after)’ that was part of the Dissident Paths program. Part after-party and part manifesto to friendship, the concepts and collaborations that led to this walk’s creation will be shared in this informal couch-conversation.

5.30–6.30 pm
Crossings: a deep listening encounter with Liz Rosenfeld

In this reading performance, Liz Rosenfeld reads from their most recent book “Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising,” co-written with Professor João Florêncio. “Crossings” is a creative dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic, reminiscing about and thinking with their cruising experiences. The book takes queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making. It is a collaborative auto-theoretical work between queer kin that explores cruising beyond its homonormative structures, and as a mode of thinking with the body while communicating through sexuality.

6.30–7.30 pm
Embracing The Eternal Present: Crossing Thresholds, Holding Connections with hand breast heart kollektiv

In this performance and gathering the audience embarks on a cathartic journey propelled by the energy of collective healing and the promise of a new future. Through poetry, movement, and sound, a portal to convert sorrow into joy is to be created. The session draws from the collective’s walk Crossing Thresholds, Holding Connections from the Dissident Paths program; a walk that revisited the past in order to forge new beginnings that fuse the present, past, and future. 

7.30–8.00 pm
Notes from Beneath the Surface with Gabriel Francisco Lemos

In this performative reading, Gabriel Francisco Lemos expands his essay Silent Networks into a spoken, sonic, and poetic field. Moving between memory, foraging, fungal ecologies, and altered perception, the text unfolds as a constellation of personal and ecological encounters. Accompanied by a live sound performance, the reading explores mushrooms not only as biological organisms, but as teachers of attention, impermanence, and entanglement. Voice and sound weave together slowly, allowing language to decay, resonate, and reassemble. The performance invites the audience to listen with the body, to follow without rushing, and to consider foraging as an art of coexistence rather than extraction. It is an invitation to walk inside a thought older than language, and to remember that we, too, are temporary fruiting bodies of something larger.

8.00–8.30 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.

8.30–10.00 pm
DJ set

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)