Pigeon notes – Siebdruck-Workshop und Talksession

In the organizer's words:

Saturday, December 14, 2024, 3-7:30 p.m.

Waiting Room #4

Pigeon notes - screen printing workshop followed by a talk session with Q&A

3-5 pm: Screen printing workshop with Talya Lubinsky & Eleni Mouzourou

6-7:30 pm: Talk session with artist Eleni Mouzourou, architect Lydia Karagiannaki and urban dust expert Karin Schneider

As part of Waiting Rooms, a series of events organized by the initiative Adalbert Neun bleibt e.V. for the preservation of the Kreuzberg art and culture location at Adalbertstraße 9

Pigeon notes - screen printing workshop and talk session

In the fourth and final part of the Waiting Rooms series, the focus is on the pigeon, the resistance companion of the Adalbertstraße 9 studio community. Against the background of the acute danger of losing the studio building due to the termination of the rental contracts at the end of January 2025, we will dedicate a screen printing workshop and a talk session to the city pigeon, which knows how to assert its habitat even under the most adverse circumstances.

The afternoon begins with a screen-printing workshop where you can learn how to print "Adalbert Neun bleibt" pigeon motifs and thus become part of the ever-growing "swarm network". Participants should bring their own T-shirt, bag or other piece of fabric of their choice.

Afterwards, three exciting short lectures will shed light on the urban pigeon from different perspectives: Eleni Mouzourou, artist, will present the collective performative intervention "Pigeonswarm" and report on how the urban pigeon became the resistance companion of the "Adalbert Neun bleibt" initiative. Lydia Karagiannaki, architect, speaks from a planning perspective and presents architectures for and against bird species. Karin Schneider, urban pigeon expert, will discuss the role of the urban pigeon as the "heraldic animal of the Anthropocene". She explains how humans created these birds, but now no longer need them and simply want to make them disappear.

The screen printing workshop will be held in English & German. The talk session and Q&A will be held in German.

With the kind support of the Kulturförderung project fund of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Department of Culture and History