with Kaspar Schmidt Mumm

This workshop is for children aged 5-16. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Meeting point:
station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf Auerbacher Ring 41, 12619 Berlin
Google co-ordinates: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MqJCWwQKDzfSfLbM9

- The meeting point is approximately 3 minutes from Hellersdorf U-Bahn (U5), which has step-free access. https://wheelmap.org/node/12534871079 
- The route is wheelchair accessible. Please contact us in advance so we can support any access needs.
- Unfortunately, station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf does not have accessible bathrooms.
- Rest-points made available en route.
- Access contact: cruisingcurators@gmail.com.

Weltenwirbel is a participatory workshop and street performance for youth and their families in Berlin-Hellersdorf. On the 13th of August participants parade a papier-mâché sculpture from station urbaner kulturen. Through several days of local interactions Kaspar will gather local stories and build a tour centering local narratives and spaces. These contributions inspire stories and performances that are woven into a public parade through local playgrounds and space. Together we walk to playgrounds and other locations around Hellersdorf while decorating and performing the mobile sculpture. Each stop, stories are told, interventions unfold, and spontaneous play emerges, generated by local youth. The project culminates in the joyful destruction of the sculpture releasing symbolic offerings and reclaiming collective space. Through collective making and storytelling the project explores playful protest as a form of public dialogue and intergenerational exchange, reimagining youth’s space as both a site of resistance and communal joy.

The artist Kaspar Schmidt Mumm comes from three generations of migration on both sides of his family. He has lived in Australia for 23 years, where he leads a collective as a singer, theatre educator, and scenographer. Recently he completed a Master in Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts. The artist’s practice focuses on world-building—through costumes, music, sculptures, movement, and other artistic forms: cars become crocodiles, laughter choirs are conducted, robot Tamagotchis are built, and bread masks are baked.

Part of PATH 4: DECELERATE (on alternative temporalities)
August / October 2025
With contributions from Pitchaya Ngamcharoen, Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, Jane Hwang, Lisa Klein, Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling, Gabriel Francisco Lemos

To decelerate is not to withdraw, but to attune differently. To call for a slower and more sensorially engaged way of being in the world. This Path explores how we might tune into other temporalities—beyond acceleration or slowness—to sense and shape the city differently. By disrupting ingrained patterns of speed, extractive systems, and social disconnection, alternative ways of moving with and through the city are imagined.

The contributions trace migrant space-making through the language of scent (Pitchaya Ngamcharoen); let children set the tempo of encounter (Kaspar Schmidt Mumm); reimagine a funeral parade with co-created objects to reflect on mortality and gender (Jane Hwang); offer tactile experiences of monuments for blind and visually impaired communities (Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling); and listen to forest ecologies through their underground fungal networks (Gabriel Francisco Lemos). Together, they invite us to attune to other rhythms and relations, and to imagine new ways of being in the world.