Saturday, November 17, 2018 

3:00 PM       DOORS OPEN - DRINKS . INSTALLATIONS . ART . PHOTOGRAPHY

                       Jinran Ha and Johanna Michel – Dialogue of the objects installation

www.jinranha.com/

                       Lecker Lecker Food – Mama Shabz and Khao Taan

Mama Shabz is Pakistani food inspired by Shabz's mother’s recipes. 

www.facebook.com/mamashabz/

Khao Taan will be offering delicious Thai desserts.

www.facebook.com/khaotaan/

3:30 PM       Book Presentation and Reading by Sheree Domingo

Sheree works as an illustrator and visual problem solver in Berlin. She will be presenting one of her comics and read from some of her work. With visuals and sound.

www.shereedomingo.com/

4:15 PM       Talk with Cadudasa - Photographer. Sharing stories from her book: WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

Cadudasa (Irma FS) is a freelance photographer and SEO content writer for the art and fashion industries. “WHERE ARE YOU FROM?” is a story compilation of Southeast Asian people experiencing harassment, sexism, racism and cultural appropriation in the western culture.

www.cadudasa.com/

4:45 PM       Talk with Jihee Lee - Graphic Designer and Visual Artist

Jihee Lee is a South Korean graphic designer, who has been based in Germany since 2011. Since moving to Europe she’s made it a project to draw attention to the ways that Asian stereotypes are encouraged in visual communication, as well as how she and other Asian women in Germany experience micro-aggression daily. (AIGA Eye on Design)

www.jihee-lee.com

iamangry.de 

5:30 PM       Talk with Scholar and Activist Saboura Naqshband. Moderation – Prem Borle.

Saboura M. Naqshband studied Arabic Studies, Political Science and Social and Cultural Anthropology in London, Cairo and Berlin. She works as an anti-discrimination and empowerment trainer especially for associations of and for LGBTI * Q refugees and migrants in Berlin and nationwide. She also works as a translator for w_orten and meer, a publishing house of anti-discriminatory action. In particular, she is concerned with the topics of (anti-Muslim) racism, Muslim feminism and religion, gender and sexuality. Saboura translated Lana Sirri's book Introduction to Islamic feminisms (2017) into German.

7:30 PM       Talk with Drago - Photographer

Born and raised in Xi'an, China. After he finished his bachelor in Milan, Italy, he soon moved to Berlin. Working as a fashion brand manager, he also enjoys photography as his passion. Only using an analogue camera, he loves touse photography language and translate the world in his eyes. Mainly focusing on the fact that modern aesthetic is shifting how people think what is beauty, he wants to use his photos to change that. As a queer himself, he's always keeping this element and acceptance in his work.

www.instagram.com/dragoxie/

8:00 PM       Performance by Audrey Chen – Musician

Audrey Chen is a Chinese-American musician. She turned to the cello at the age of 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialisation in early and new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sounds in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic.

Since then, using the cello, voice and occasional analogue electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral. Her playing explores the combination and layering of the homemade analogue synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language.

www.audreychen.com/

9:00 PM       Talk with Minh Duc Pham - Artist

Pham’s artistic practice is an approach and opportunity to investigate terms of ancestry and the concept of identity as well as integration by reflecting given structures and systems.The artist is influenced by post-colonial, post-gender and queer theories. Due to his education in Music, Architecture and Fine Arts, Pham works with different media and materials towards an interdisciplinary discourse. In other words, he is not committed to a specific medium but has a strong focus on conception eventually deciding the visual outcome such as installation, performance, sculpture etc. His work is mainly about the relation between subject and object, also transferable to individual and society, just as the importance of each part itself.

Awareness and empowerment, both inward and outward, as well as permanent interaction, are keywords in the artist’s practice. Pham examines questions about mutuality of activity and passivity, effects within scenarios of imbalance and (re-) achievement eventually aiming for a more conscious discourse.

9:00 PM       DISTINCTIVE JUN - DJ set

DISCO, HOUSE, TECHNO, ACID. 100% FUNKY FRESH.

www.soundcloud.com/distinctivejun

9:30 PM       Workshop with Anisha Gupta Müller - FemmeFitness 

Anisha Gupta Müller is an artist and activist about to begin her masters in Art in Context at the UdK. She specialises in feminist body practice where her main creative work has been founding and teaching a feminist dance workout class: FemmeFitness. She has given talks and workshops in London and Berlin including in collaboration with Berlin Film Society, Mobile Kino Festival and Spaces of Reflection at the Berlin Biennale.

www.facebook.com/FemmeFitness-776717709193199/

www.facebook.com/groups/370613963348535/

Event photos to be captured by Oy Kwon

www.oyphoto.com 
www.instagram.com/oy.photo/

SEE YOU ALL TOMORROW! 

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Sunday, November 18, 2018

12:00 PM    DOORS OPEN - INSTALLATIONS . DRINKS . ART . PHOTOGRAPHY

Lecker Lecker FOOD with Chung King Noodles .

Spicy numbing ChungKing style noodles. 

www.facebook.com/chungkingnoodles/

2:00 PM      Talk and workshop with scholar Aida Baghernejad

Aida Baghernejad is a writer, PhD researcher, and jack of all trades. She has spent the past ten years writing for a number German, Swiss, and British publications on music and food and how they intersect with the political. In her academic practice at King’s College London/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin she is working on an ethnography of Berlin’s street food scene and researching how questions of cultural identity play into self-employment. 

Her workshop will consist of a short talk on the concept of cultural appropriation and how it plays out in the hospitality industry. Afterwards, she will lead an interactive ‘fishbowl’-discussion focusing on questions of cultural identity, respect, and why fetishising cultures is really not that clever.

3:00 PM      Screen Printing Workshop with Diaspor.ART and Blown Away Studio

BRING BAGS, T-SHIRTS, CLOTHING, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO PRINT ONTO!

Will have some materials you can purchase there. 

Diaspor.ART is Queer Femme of Color, Asian-German. Illustrations and screen-printing based in Frankfurt.

www.instagram.com/diaspor.art/

Blown Away Studio and Workshops is a textiles studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg offering workshops in screen-print, block-print and hand-dye techniques. Open workshops of small groups, private group bookings and one to one sessions. From beginners classes to self-directed afternoons.

https://www.facebook.com/printberlin/

4:00 PM      SPACE !ONLY! FOR PEOPLE OF ASIAN DESCENT – EYE TO EYE

Discussing racism in a closed group only with people of Asian descent invited to partake in this meeting. Allowing for the diaspora to strengthen in Berlin; and better understand what is necessary in our community to find more solidarity and begin discourses with non-Asians. We cannot expect people to know better (actually, maybe yes), but let’s equip ourselves with knowledge and tactics in how to overcome everyday racism. 

Please respect this 1.5 hours meeting that will close the installation off. The top floor will still be accessible where you can enjoy some drinks, food and clips.

In association with DAMN - DEUTSCHE ASIATEN, MAKE NOISE

https://www.facebook.com/deutscheasiaten/

5:30 PM      Talk with Vanessa Ly from Berlin Asian Film Network - pitch for an all Asian cast film

The Berlin Asian Film Network connects people who are interested in films about Asia and the perspectives of the Asian Diaspora on arts and society. Our mission is to raise awareness of under- and misrepresentation of the Asian Diaspora in the German media. We promote young independent filmmakers by organizing open network meetings, film workshops, and Asian short film screenings including talks with the filmmakers.

http://www.berlinasianfilm.net/

https://www.facebook.com/BerlinAsianFilmNetwork/

6:00 PM      Spoken Word Performance with Seoyoung Won + Open Mic

In this performance, Seoyoung embodies a tree which has been recently transplanted. Through movement and voice, it communicates the challenges it faces throughout the process of growing its root down in the new soil. For a tree, constant experiences of discrimination and othering mean to be pulled off from the ground, to be de-rooted, over and over again. In order to build up a stable root system under such circumstance, not only sufficient tools and strategies are necessary but also a great deal of imagination about the future of the ground.

Seoyoung Won is a performance artist and musician based in Berlin. In her performances, she uses minimal and easy-to-find materials to create spaces for storytelling and situations which engages the participants to experience a sense of clarity, humour and intimacy. Her works are fine mixture of diverse disciplines such as music, dance and visual arts, which often reveal the entanglement of the personal and the political in highly playful ways.

vimeo.com/seoyoungwon

May we take these seeds and plant them deep within our existence 

May we tend to them by giving them light

May we never neglect them, and allow them to flourish

May we share them with others

May we pollinate and spread the awareness further

Let these sprouts crack the foundation our society was built on 

Let them thrive and live within a more sublime future.