A presence that is felt constantly in Berlin Kreuzberg is a revolutionary feeling, the struggle for freedom and the desire to live together peacefully. This work comes from observation, which led to a series of questions. Can art (dance) break down the walls that divide us? During moments of celebration it seems like it can. But what if we took dance into everyday life, for … Continue reading Dance with Me in Berlin
Animal rhythms between Britzer Garten and the former Tempelhof Airport, Berlin. Video by Luna Paese shot during our workshop “Visual Storytelling”. Continue reading Rhythms
Berlin-Tempelhof as a place of past, present and future. The former airport is occupied and its spaces reused by different communities. You can meet different social, animal, vegetable microcosms. Physical and sensory abnormalities manifest in the place. Video by Luna Paese Continue reading Berlin-Tempelhof | Distorsion
This work, shot in Kreuzberg, one of the most populated, multicultural and distinctive districts of Berlin, aims at grasping what characterizes it. In this second part the focus is on the woman looking at the neighbourhood from various angles, relating herself, through her dance, with the space she meets, thus establishing a connection game between space, time, body. Video by Elisa Sbaragli – Dancer: Maruska … Continue reading Exploring Kreuzberg with dance: a story of space, time and body
This work, shot in Kreuzberg, one of the most populated, multicultural and distinctive districts of Berlin, aims at grasping what characterizes it. In the first part of the work the images capture the diversity and features of the main streets, the cafés and the Turkish market in Kreuzberg, both from an architectural point of view and a cultural/historical one. Video by Elisa Sbaragli (Collettivo K) Continue reading In the middle of Kreuzberg | The point of view #1
A thin membrane is the one which separates man from the place he lives in. A constant interchange occurs between an individual and the city he inhabits. Is it man to give identity to the environment in which he breathes or is it the contrary? ‘Osmosis’ talks about the spontaneous and continuous exchange in which human beings and places mutually define themselves. Their being liquid … Continue reading Osmosis
Melting Colours is a work by Simone Lanari that aims to map the Schöneberg district through images suggested by the lyrics of the album Lodger by David Bowie, who lived in the same neighbourhood in the late ’70s, right during the writing of his famous Berlin trilogy (Low, Heroes, Lodger). As the figure of Bowie encompasses many aspects, different and sometimes opposing one another, in … Continue reading Melting Colours
The above video is the result of the workshop “The (in)Visible City – Digital Storytelling for New Media Formats and Webzines” (Berlin Summer University of the Arts 2015) attended by artist Paola Ponti as part of her research for the cultural mapping project RootsMe. Continue reading What Space Does Not Remember
Italians in Belgium is a documentary edited and directed by Marta Scocco and produced within the context of the project “ShareCulture Creative Mobility”. It collects 15 interviews filmed across Belgium in 2014 documenting stories of the local Italian community. If once being Italian meant miner, it is no longer so: what is the Italian community in Belgium today? And is it still a community? How … Continue reading Italians in Belgium
4 Italian video artists will work two weeks in Berlin en-plain-air and curate a video exhibition about Berlin. They will get involved in creative discussions about the city with the online community, publishing their creative process daily in a lively dialogue. The artists involved are: – Maruska Ronchi – https://associazionek.wordpress.com – Isobel Blank – http://www.isobelblank.com – Luna Paese – http://lunapaese.net – Elisa Sbaragli – https://associazionek.wordpress.com … Continue reading Dialoge über Berlin – coming in May 2016
