#1 // A SUMMER SERIES AT ZK/U ON REHEARSAL AND PRACTICE FOR POSSIBILITIES BEYOND STRUCTURES OF EXTRACTION AND POWER // WEDNESDAY, 02.08.2023, 18:00-22:00

Free and outdoor at @zku.berlin

We encounter the stinging nettle as a familiar yet curious companion for the first evening in the series, with which to think and from where to branch off towards different practices and considerations. We start with a nettle weaving workshop, spending attention with nettles growing around ZK/U, engaging in a multisensory dialogue, with Elis Ottosson. With the dinner by Jasmine Parsley we further explore interspecies relationships with plants growing self-seeded in Berlin. Brenda Alamilla and Daniela Medina Poch think with the nettle and other so-called weeds to perceive them beyond binary structures like the civilized and the wild, the planned and the spontaneous or unwanted towards an untamed listening. Which leads us to a collective deep listening practice with Tatiana Heumann, rehearsing multiple layered sensing and being open for what we may find together.

@ehhhlis - Post-St(r)ing - nettle weavings & conversations, workshop
@bre_alamilla -Hierba Mala - Performance poetry
@danielamedinapoch - If You Listen to Nettles, They Won’t Sting You - reflection on untamed listening
@qeeiqeei - Interwoven Listening - deep listening rehearsal
@jasmineprsly with Catherine Greiner - dinner with plant flavours of Berlin
@aliceyuanzhang - participatory installation