with Alternative Monument

Meeting point: nGbK Rooftop

Accessibility:
- The meeting point is approximately 5 minutes from Alexanderplatz (U2, U5, U8, S3, S5, S7, S9), 10 minutes from Jannowitzbrücke (S3, S5, S7, S9, U8), or 3 minutes from the bus stop Memhardstraße (Bus 200). These stations listed have step-free access.
- On-site support personnel available for people with disabilities.
- The site is wheelchair accessible.
- Accessible bathrooms are available on-site.
- Seating provided on-site.
- Event has DGS translation.
- Contact us with your access needs: cruisingcurators@gmail.com.

‘ADfD seeks forms that connect migration experiences and public memory culture. As a result of the current toxic discourse on migration in Germany, we feel an urgent need to connect and counteract. The purpose of our efforts is to establish a positive frame for migration discourse and counter current xenophobic movements.’

During Dissident Paths, the augmented reality monument ADfD (Alternatives Denkmal für Deutschland) will be showcased on the rooftop terrace of the nGbK near Alexanderplatz, offering an immersive exploration of migration’s traces via the Monuments AR app.

Alternative Monument is an interdisciplinary collective of artists, researchers, activists, and cultural practitioners focused on reimagining public memory and commemorating migration. Founded in Berlin, the collective blends art, technology, and social engagement, activating diverse communities in co-creating artistic content, ensuring the monument reflects the lived experiences of those it represents. For a full list of people involved in the monument see here: https://adfd.info/TEAM

Part of PATH 2: TRESPASS & TRANSIT (on migration and access)
With contributions by Alternative Monument, Nour Sokhon, Minh Duc Pham, Project In/Visibility (Samirah Siddiqui & Tasnim Elboute)

To be in motion is at the core of migration, dislocation, and displacement — a quiet unraveling from a once-known ground. Such movements can be chosen or forced, desired or inevitable. These movements may be voluntary or forced, driven by hope, necessity, or survival. Borders, both visible and invisible, dictate who moves freely and who must trespass.

This Path explores movement as both lived experience and political condition. The contributions consider what a monument to migration in public space might look like (Alternative Monument); the revisiting of a former refugee camp of East German citizens through the act of collecting flowers (Minh Duc Pham); containers in a harbor as symbol of motion and vessels of emotion through sound (Nour Sokhon); and the urgency of decolonial engagement by walking a colonial site, addressing the erasure of Palestinian solidarity and the limits of remembrance culture in Berlin. (Project In/Visibility).