"Each time we heard the story we took some of it back, in our mouths, like damp chemicals or pulp + saliva. Then we spat it out to fill a hole or make the wall stronger." Bhanu Kapil - Pinky Agarwalia: Biography of a Child Saint in Ten Parts.
Vibrations become phrases become scores become habits. Repeat until you know them by heart, until meaning disperses into organs and everyone forgets where to locate the beginning. Who are the ones we're repeating for? What is the ritual but a set of rules and rhymes, shaping relations through repetition? "Mingling with Againness" is an invitation to engage with the ritualistic as collectivizing moments, forms of passing on knowledge and modes of resistance. The program encounters concepts of the ritual in it's various social, political, spiritual and somatic connotations to create impermanent spaces of sharing and togetherness.
GBB: Mingling with Againness traveling series of events with workshops, performances and screenings January - March 2023.
Curated by Catwings - Initiative for relational, situational and performative art and research in Leipzig.
Catwings is a new non-commercial initiative for relational, situational and performative art and research, focusing on initiating encounters between artists, cultural practitioners and recipients. The initiative approaches art and culture from a relational perspective and thus follows the intention to dissolve rigid demarcations between art, cultural production, mediation by understanding them as interwoven and mutually defining. Collective practices offer Catwings possible strategies for dealing with social, political, economic and ecological complexities and urgencies.
Participating artists: Pelumi Adejumo, Lauryn Youden, Boa Cha, Afrang Malekian & Iliada Charalombous, Andara Shastika & N.B. Spiders, Priska Engelhardt, Shifra, Osorio Whewell, Anastasia Sosunova, Marcus Woodfield & Lucie De Brechard.
Participating venues: Hall 14, Slug, Orinoco Books, Plast e.V.
The program is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony.
Saturday 07.01.23, 19h Performances by Lauryn Youden and Pelumi Adejumo Intervention by Boa Cha Slug, Eisenbahnstraße 5, Leipzig
Thursday 02.02.23, 7pm Sound performance by N.B. Spiders and Andara Shastika Intervention by Priska Engelhardt Orinoco Books, Mariannenstraße 18, Leipzig
Friday, 24.02.22, 7 p.m. Workshop by Afrang Nordlöf Malekian and Iliada Charalambous Halle 14, Spinnereistraße 7, Leipzig
Sunday, 26.02.23, 7 p.m. Screening with films by Shifra Osorio Whewell and Anastasia Sosunova Plast e.V., Stannebeinplatz 7, Leipzig
Friday, 17.03.23, 7 p.m. Closing dinner (registration via catwings.space[at]gmail.com) with Marcus Woodfield and Lucie de Bréchard, Slug, Eisenbahnstraße 5, Leipzig
Admission is free for all events.
More information:https://catwings.space