Dissident Paths: Walking towards the decolonial urgencies of today
with Project In/Visibility (Samirah Siddiqui & Tasnim Elboute)
Registration required via anmeldung@ngbk.de
Meeting point: Artwork on Manga-Bell Platz
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Accessibility:
- En-route support personnel available for people with disabilities.
- The route is wheelchair accessible via marked sidewalks and park paths.
- Accessible bathrooms are available at the meeting point and end point of the route.
- Rest points available along the way.
This walk opens up a fugitive learning space: one that resists prescriptive solutions and instead embraces the messy, liminal terrains where transformation takes shape. Moving through Rehberge Park — a landscape marked by histories of militarization, Nazi-era leisure site, and everyday renewal, Rehberge lies in a district shaped by diasporic presence and working-class struggles. Through personal narratives, shared readings, and collective dialogue, the walk engages with themes of migration, memory, and resistance.
Project In/Visibility is a research collective led by anthropologist and marine biologist, Tasnim Elboute and Samirah Siddiqui. Project In/Visibility troubles and disrupts dominant narratives in environmental and conservation university classrooms by amplifying perspectives and lived experiences from the forefront of Indigenous and local communities working on ecological restoration and preservation. They combine and build from the experience of Project Myopia, a participatory crowdsourcing platform that amplifies diverse voices in arts and humanities academia, and frontline environmental workers, activists, and stewards.
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).