Come As You Are: ein Tag offener Praktiken

Come As You Are: A day of open practices

Sunday, May 17, 12:00 - 20:00
Admission free of charge & possible at any time

On the Sunday after the opening, the exhibition space will be transformed into a place for encounters, conversation and collective practice, open to all without fixed registration. Come at one, at two, at half past three; come at any time in between.

At 1pm, artist Edmundo Torres will open with a workshop on costumes and headdresses - inspired by the characters he has created and embodied. Working with recycled materials, open to all ages and rotating over two hours, the workshop welcomes up to ten participants at a time until the materials are exhausted. In Spanish, with translation into German and/or English if required.

At 3 p.m., exhibition curator Juana Awad leads a dialogical tour of the exhibition, moving from work to work and engaging in conversation with the artists present. The tour follows the questions that connect the fourteen positions and opens up space for visitors' questions.

At 5 pm , the room changes perspective again. An open forum brings together early thinkers and makers of the Carnival of Cultures, friends of the exhibition and all those present to reflect together on viewing regimes and expectations: on what the carnival should be, what it became and what it still keeps open. Participants in the discussion include: Marta Galvis de Janzer and Wolfgang Janzer, masterminds and authors of the first concept for the Berlin Carnival of Cultures when it was still called "NewKölln Carnival"; Juana Awad, co-director of the 2013-2014 Carnival of Cultures; Aissatou Binger and Anna-Maria Seifert, directors of the Carnival of Cultures.