Iranian security forces have killed at least 41 people — most of them women — for protesting the oppression and subjugation of women in the name of #MahsaAmini. This number is probably wildly underreported and will continue to rise. 18-year-olds, 20-year-olds, mothers of children — they took to the streets unarmed, knowing that the Iranian security forces would inflict violence and brutality on them. The bravery Iranian women and men are showing right now is truly remarkable.
Sharing in solidarity and because the internet has been blocked in Iran. Learn how to be a Snowflake proxy and help out below. 
post from @yourhumanrightsllawyer
cover photo by @9_s_a_m_

Snowflake is a system that allows people from all over the world to access censored websites and applications. Similar to how VPNs assist users in getting around Internet censorship, Snowflake helps you avoid being noticed by Internet censors by making your Internet activity appear as though you're using the Internet for a regular video or voice call. There are numerous tools available, such as Snowflake, that "transform" Internet activity, each using a different technique. Some redirect Internet traffic to appear to be coming from popular cloud providers like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Others scramble Internet traffic in order to make it appear completely random. It therefore becomes costly for censors to consider blocking such circumvention tools since it would require blocking large parts of the Internet in order to achieve the initial targeted goal. As a user in a not censored country you can help by installing the Snowflake on your Chrome or Firefox browser, and just let it run in the background. You will operate as a Proxy then for uses who want to connect through you. Your IP address will not be revealed and of course, nothing can be downloaded to your computer. See details here.

Documenta closed its doors this past weekend. It took 100 days and 100 years. May it rest in peace. 

Wednesdays, 5.30pm–7pm: Every Wednesday, there is an opportunity to meet and talk with individual artists.
Further events:
Tuesday, 18 October 8pm – 10 pm: Tender Reels: Film screening and talk (free admission)
Filmrauschpalast Moabit, Lehrter Str. 35, 10557 Berlin

Sunday, 30 October 2022, 3pm–5pm- Finissage
With an exhibition tour with art historian Julia Meyer-Brehm (in German). 
www.goldrausch.org  
www.kommunalegalerie-berlin.de

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:00, at Changing Room. Hunting Music: New music for animal calling

Lukatoyboy with Abigail Sanders, Jee Sim, Nenad Popov
+ Animal related cassette collection listening station
As part of the Hunting Music series and in collaboration with Changing Room's "More-than-human: Music from Other Species" Lukatoyboy hosted a two-day workshop introducing the idea of using animal calling and hunting objects as musical instruments to then collaboratively develop a notation system and a composition.
Free of charge, and no registration is needed!

Changing Room

Lüderitzstr. 11
13351 Berlin

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 12:00-18:00 at SOMA 300: Clone of Seed Systems

Closing event!

with Alison Bennett (AUS) | Nicholas Delap (UK) | Matthew D. Gantt (US) | Mohsen Hazrati (IRN/DE) | Nadine Kolodziey (DE) | Lauren Moffatt (AUS/DE)
Grappling with climate change and collective cooperation, a collaboration emerges as the XR art exhibition: Seed Systems. Six international artists specializing in virtual world-building and plant knowledge explore speculative approaches to future human-nature relationships, using new digital media art to cultivate an immersive garden of growth and foliage. Surpassing borders and moving between realities, Seed Systems brings perspectives from other places to Berlin as an exchange between the exhibition visitors and artists responding to our current climate crisis and envisioning potential futures together.

Initiated by STYLY- Curated by Miriam Arbus (Sky Fine Foods) and Peggy Schoenegge (peer to space)
In cooperation with SOMA Berlin and Radiance

SOMA 300

Eylauer Str. 9
10965 Berlin

Fri, 30 Sep 202218:00-22:00at Neun Kelche: Leisure Lessons, Pleasure Sessions with Berlin Strippers Collective, Melo Börner, Moving Mountains (Fannie Sosa & Navild Acosta) & Sunny Pfalzer

The first group exhibition of the project space Neun Kelche brings together the artistic positions of Melo Börner, the Berlin Strippers Collective, Moving Mountains (Fannie Sosa & Navild Acosta) and Sunny Pfalzer under the title Leisure Lessons, Pleasure Sessions. The exhibition spans between the thematic poles of the physical experience of pleasure and excitement, and physical rest and relaxation. Both are distributed unevenly in social contexts and, despite their universal necessity, are not equally accessible to everyone. The sessions take the form of performances, screenings and gatherings in the exhibition space, wherein socio-political experiences are explored on the basis of individual bodily memories: Which bodies are structurally more challenged than others? Which bodies can move freely? How do we remember our own bodily experiences? The artistic positions are connected by the fact that they create counter-models to normative images of society and invite the audience to think about alternative models of agency in form of leisure and pleasure in a shared experience.

ON VIEW 1 Oct-23 Oct 2022

Neun Kelche

Pasedagplatz 3-4, Zugang über „An der Industriebahn"
13088 Berlin

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 19:00at SCOTTY: Wir sind zu-kunft!

Carolin Boerl, Julius Behler, Christin Brandt, Bettina Dreier, Max Hellfritsch, Jule Küppers, Layla Kübler, Yaheb Kübler, Daniela Wersig, Roma Mintschenko, Lisa Hell, Kristin Löwe, Hedda Magdalena Schmelting, Frank Seeger Hupperten, Jonasz Janiszewski, Malwina Kuczyńska, Kamil Pilarski, Agata Krupińska, Natalia Purgal, Jakob Student

SCOTTY curates an exhibition on the annual theme „We are too-future! In cooperation with the WannseeFORUM Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and ZK/U Berlin. The thematic focus of the project is the visibility of young people in public space. After two years of pandemic, the complex emotional world of young people regarding the future is to be brought back into focus. The project makes clear that young people are neither „too“ young nor „too“ inexperienced nor „too“ naïve to have a say, but that they have the right to be seen and heard as the „future“ of society. The exhibition will feature the work and results of the young people, who have been working intensively on the topic „We are too-future!“ in workshops and surveys.

Image: © Jule Kueppers

1 Oct-5 Nov 2022

SCOTTY

Oranienstr. 46
10969 Berlin

until Oct 24, OPEN END with Petra Karadimas / Gabriele Künne  at Axel Obiger

Petra Karadimas and Gabriele Künne use Photography and Sculpture to interrogate a perception based on seemingly incidentally found urban scenarios, departing from details in urban environments and addressing the fragments of nature and landscape in the interstices of the city. The dialogue between the two artists that preceded the exhibition is included as a form of presentation.  
 

pictured: “in the studio”, Petra Karadimas / Gabriele Künne 2022

Axel Obiger

Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst 

Brunnenstraße 29 

10119 Berlin 

until 29.Oct at thx again: UMRISSENE WELTEN- An exhibition by Saïdou Dicko

The upcoming exhibition at ARTCO Galery Berlin sets Saïdou Dicko‘s (born 1979 in Burkina Faso) early photographic work in the context of his latest digital collages. Now living and working in Paris, Dicko creates a world of lyrical storytelling in which people are far more than just shadows. Instead, the artist hands out an invitation to engage with the characters on a deeper level, to put yourself in their place, and to enter his contoured universe. 

thx again

Frobenstr. 1
10783 Berlin

until Oct 29th at Showroom Galerie Georg Nothelfer: cccc

with Michael Buthe, Nadine Fecht, Gerhard Hoehme, Elmira Iravanizad, Lucia Kempkes, Miriam Salamander, Jan Voss. The Title cccc stands for collect-cut-compose-cobble. Four adjectives that describe the creation process of collages. 

The exhibition takes place at both locations.
Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Corneliusstraße 3 
Showroom Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Grolmanstraße 28

until Oct 29th at Dittrich & Schlechtriem: Keith Boadwee Spiritual Abstractions

DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM is pleased to present the first solo show in Berlin by KEITH BOADWEE (b. 1961, Meridian, Mississippi, USA; lives and works in Emeryville, California, USA). Portrait subjects -frogs, poodles, and fish- are depicted in multi-planer dimensions, posed and peering through cocktail glasses, prisms, and fish bowls, geometrically divided, multiplied, and reflected. The new artworks have evolved now into a realm of spiritual abstraction. On the occasion of the exhibition, the gallery will produce and publish a catalog of the works with a new essay from David Rimanelli, in German and English, available in September 2022. 

Dittrich & Schlechtriem

Linienstraße 23
10178 Berlin

Until 10. November at L40: Carlos Noronha Feio (sunclipse!) / (sunsight!)
An installation in public space, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 27 + 28, Berlin Mitte

With (sunclipse!) and (sunsight!), the Portuguese artist Carlos Noronha Feio alludes to the architect and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller and his conviction that the wrong use of language perpetuates outdated realities. The latter was convinced that we will never be able to rid ourselves of the mistaken belief that we are the centre of the universe as long as we use scientifically outdated words such as sunset and sunrise, for example. Buckminster therefore proposed new terms for sunrise and sunset, namely sunclipse and sunsight. The neologisms point beyond the lingering geocentric bias of pre-Copernican celestial mechanics and specifically describe how we see – or don’t see – the sun depending on the constellation of earth’s movement and our individual geographical position. A simple change of language can therefore change attitudes.

At the same time, the two opposing quotes fit perfectly into the urban planning conditions on site. The north-south orientation of Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. means that the west side only gets sun in the morning and the east side only in the evening. (sunclipse!) and (sunsight!) thus describe concrete phenomena.

A German version will replace the English one in the spring of 2023.

L40

Linienstrasse 40
10119 Berlin

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