Performance
7.05.22, 4 p.m.
Birte Opitz shares material snippets from her current research on anger. Through dance, voice work and methods of feminist empowerment / self-defense, she explores the empowering and transformative potential of rage. She searches for physical expressions in which it is embraced, felt, and embodied. To act with anger in a self-empowered way, without letting the power of anger get the better of you.
Birte Opitz lives and works in Berlin as a freelance performer, dance educator and feminist empowerment and self-defense trainer and is currently receiving the #takeheart Rechercheförderung about anger. On and off stage she works mainly with movement and voice improvisation, immersive and participatory formats, intimacy and empowerment. She is an activist against sexualized violence and is producing the podcast Not Your Opfer.
Photo: Sarah Berger
Performance
8.05.22, 7 p.m.
Zine Presentation
7. & 8.05.22, 3 - 10 p.m.
“Earthache” is a poem cycle inspired by a need to begin processing my personal experience and emotions around climate change and ecocide, following the different stages of grief. “Earthache” will be presented as an installation throughout the Extended URGE 2021, and as a live reading on Sunday, May 8. The poem cycle will also be available to take away in zine form as part of a collaboration with artist Florence Freitag.
Brendon is a Canadian writer based in Berlin who writes fiction, poetry and non-fiction. His writing engages with issues of queer love, spirituality, and ecology. He has a Master's of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and is currently working on his first novel, a queer coming-of-age climate story.
Performance/Sound/Visuals
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
An audiovisual landscape will arise through Film, videotape field recordings, live video captures and modulated interruptions in dialogue with the sounds and voice of Shanti Suki Osman.
Dafne Narvaez Berlfein is an artist & researcher working with film and video. Her praxis is based on the development of intersectional collaborative processes appropriating analogue technologies from a DIY / DIWO (do it with Others) approach.
Performance
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
Barely There is based on the questions 'How does dance appear and disappear?' and 'What does dance produce?', to investigate a dance that seems to go nowhere and is constantly on the cusp of something else.
Ongoing collaboration between Denise Lim and Stina Ehn
Performed by Denise Lim
Denise Lim is a Singaporean dancer and choreographer, currently based in Berlin. She situates her practice between movement and language – how ideas can inform the dancing and how the dancing can, in turn, transform these ideas. Denise holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen. She is a member of Altes Finanzamt since Jan 2022.
Workshop
8.05.22, 3 p.m.
EN
In a short workshop, Diana will share their 8-month research on the topic of gender in dance as part of the Dis-Tanz Solo scholarship. They share a little theoretical input and will then invite you into your own movement exploration.
Bring comfortable clothing, no previous experience necessary.
DE
Diana wird in einem Kurz-Workshop ihre 8-monatige Recherche im Rahmen des Dis-Tanz Solo Stipendiums zum Thema Gender in Tanz mit euch teilen. Sie teilt einen kleinen theoretischen Input und wird dann gemeinsam in die eigene Bewegungsexploration kommen.
Bringt bequeme Kleidung mit, keine Vorerfahrung nötig.
45-60 min
Gardening/Reading
8.05.22, 3 - 5 p.m.
Zine Presentation
7. & 8.05.22, 3 - 10 p.m.
For this year’s the Urge to… Florence is a collaborative gardener, shifting between giving care to the Altes's backyard, reading from their poetry zine created with Brendon Goodmurphy and inviting you to put your hands and feet in the soil. The channelled words in the zine are a collection of memories, conversations and activations with support of the ocean, trees and puddles of all kinds. Maybe we sit with them for a moment and take a moment to land.
Workshop
7. & 8.05.22, 3 p.m.
Das Projekt “Schildbildwiderstand” möchte über einen mobilen Workshop Menschen aus den verschiedensten Kontexten zusammenbringen, um gemeinsam Schilder für Demonstrationen herzustellen. Denn durch das getragene Schild werden die Tragenden zu Handelnden*und somit zu Handlungsträger*innen. Die Schilder werden ebenso nachhaltig und aus recycelten Materialien hergestellt.
Anmeldungen unter altesfinanzamt@googlemail.com
performance/ritual
8.05.22, 5 p.m.
one character from our chiaroscuro catalogue of euronormative archetypical scenes will be individually and temporarily assigned to volunteer visitors. together we would then like to symbolically restage, transform and resolve the scene through a performative artistic ritual, recorded on video. the ritual aims to counteract the perpetuation and idealization of traumatic chapters from the canon of european tales, myths and culture.
hugo x tibiriçá
i am a queer non-binary visual, video and performing artist born and raised in rio de janeiro, brazil. i descend from the colonizers and the colonized, and i allow all the contradictions of such heritage to inform both my sense of identity as well as my artistic practices.
jakob klaffs
i was born and grew up in and around hamburg and live in berlin since 2009. i am an artist, working with video, visual and performing arts. major topics of interest for me are rituals, melancholy, queerness and a critical reference to my personal origins and european cultural history.
Sound/Poetry
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova is a Czech-Sorbian artist and curator. At Urge, they will perform together with John Broback as their poetry-synthesized music duo Lightbush. Lightbush brings together Magda’s poems, and other mouth sounds in which they try to invent portals and cheap party tricks to escape the hellhole of capitalism, and John’s improvised synthesized music combining deep bass whales and jazz-like sequences. Lightbush is the ultimate electro-poetic maintenance for your clogged pipes. It is business in the front, party in the back.
Sound/Listening Station
7.05.22, 3 - 5 p.m.
When discovering and mapping the sonic surroundings of my new home, I came across sounds that collide and meet: Two main figures can be heard from my balcony, a Crane, constructing a new house, and a church with bells and its own schedule. These sonic figures bring up the known discourse between the old and the new. This topic evolves in the audio piece to questions about the philosophy of discourse, as it was experienced in my personal history, starting at the age of 13, while working on a school project about the Eichmann trial and continuing into the reality of today.
Maya Guttmann is a Musician, sound artist and sound engineer. She is a member of the feminist sound collective Sound Systers and of Altes Finanzamt. Maya has composed and arranged sound pieces for different dance and performance projects in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Berlin and Vienna. She always sees her artistic work as a reaction to political and social realities. In her music and sound art, whether the influence is punk, experimental or electro-acoustic, she creates spaces for her personal voice to interact with these realities, questions them and deconstruct them if needed.
Sound & Dance Performance
8.05.22, 7 p.m.
samples and gehampel*
laid back ground dancing
sound waving hands on
bumm tschack bumm bumm tschack
*fidgeting
Florian: Dance
Rosa: Drums
Workshop
7.05.22, 5 p.m.
Together with her artistic collaborator and breath practitioner Lisa Densem they invite participants to an approx. 45/50 min workshop that combines perceptible breath work instructions (by Ilse Middendorf) and poetic speculations where breathing together can be experienced as a physical and imaginative force.
Lisa and Miriam share an interest in Breathing as a healing practice which they want to further develop in group constellations. The irregular movement of breathing that can never be contained enfolds in a cyclical rhythm of being-in-relation beyond linear movement.
Photo: Phil Dera
Musical Storytelling Raid
7. & 8.05.22, 3 - 5 p.m.
EN
"Poplore Flashology" is Qwiki‘s alchemical experiment with hit tunes, old and new stories, folk instruments and spontaneous art raids. We welcome you to savor our ongoing, in-depth study of the combustible mix of Schlager and traditional tales in live public settings.
Qwiki (Qwigo Flux & Kiki Maggie) is an unlikely performance duo making mischief on the eastern edge of Berlin. After rocking various coasts of the Americas as solo artists, together they finally achieved world fame in the neighborhood senior band in suburban Schöneiche. As a tandem act, they insatiably draw everything under their spell, be it ukulele pop, folk tales, the German language or cheesecake, leaving nothing unchanged.
DE
"Poplore Flashology" ist Qwikis alchemistisches Experiment mit Oldie-Hitmusik, alten und neuen Geschichten, Volksinstrumenten und spontanen Kunstaktionen. Wir laden alle zum Beschuppern ein, auf unsere fortlaufende, eingehende Studie der brennenden Mischung aus Schlager und traditionellen Geschichten in öffentlichen Live-Settings.
Qwiki (Qwigo Flux & Kiki Maggie) ist ein unwahrscheinliches Performance-Duo, das am Stadtrand des Berliner Ostens seinen Unfug treibt. Nachdem sie als Solo-Künstler_innen diverse Küsten der Amerikas beschallt hatten, erreichten sie zusammen endlich Weltberühmtheit beim Seniorenband in Schöneiche bei Berlin. Als Tandem-Akt ziehen sie unersättlich alles in ihren Bann, sei es Ukulele-Pop, Volksmärchen, die deutsche Sprache oder Cheesecake und hinterlassen nichts unverwandelt.
Performance/Lesung
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
Körperöffnungen ist eine poetische Performance mit zum Teil interaktivem Charakter, an der die Künstler_in seit 2019 kontinuierlich arbeitet. Körper, Gender, Sexualität, Intimität, Sehnsucht und Einsamkeit sind auch hier die zentralen Bezugspunkte, anhand derer Berger Text & Bildelemente immer wieder neu und anders arrangiert.
Sarah Berger ist Autor_in, Fotograf_in und Performencekünstler_in und bespielt verschiedene sozialmediale Formate mit autofiktionalen Texten und Fotografien. Zu Bergers Publikationen gehören das 2017 im Frohmann Verlag erschienene Match Deleted – Tinder Shorts. Es folgten weitere bei Sukultur, im Metamorphosen Magazin, Pop Kultur und Kritik und in der Berliner Zeitung. 2020 veröffentlichte Berger u.a. den Kurzgeschichtenband Sex und Perspektive im Berliner Herzstück Verlag und eine Sammlung an Social-Media-Collagen unter dem Titel Lesen und Schreien im Frohmann Verlag. Sarah Berger, 1985 in Timișoara geboren, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
Photo: Asal Dardan
Ausstellung
7. & 8.05.22, 3 - 10 p.m.
Körper, Gender, Sexualität, Intimität, Sehnsucht und Einsamkeit – dies sind die zentralen Bezugspunkte in Sarah Bergers fotografischer Aktstudie HOLES, an der die Künstler_in seit 2018 kontinuierlich arbeitet. Die Reihe ist getrieben von feinsinniger Neugier für Rückzugsräume, ihre Vorzüge und die hemmungslose Freizügigkeit von Privatheit. Die Motive sind nicht in Inszenierungsnarrative eingebettet, stattdessen entstehen sie aus den Gesprächen mit den Modellen, im Abgleich mit deren Bedürfnissen und aus den Momenten, in denen Privaträume sich zögerlich zu öffnen beginnen. Sarah Bergers fotografischer Blick trifft die portraitierten Individuen im Innen. Er tastet die Bereitschaft, sich zu entblößen, explorierend wie offen voyeuristisch ab.
Sarah Berger ist Autor_in, Fotograf_in und Performencekünstler_in und bespielt verschiedene sozialmediale Formate mit autofiktionalen Texten und Fotografien. Zu Bergers Publikationen gehören das 2017 im Frohmann Verlag erschienene Match Deleted – Tinder Shorts. Es folgten weitere bei Sukultur, im Metamorphosen Magazin, Pop Kultur und Kritik und in der Berliner Zeitung. 2020 veröffentlichte Berger u.a. den Kurzgeschichtenband Sex und Perspektive im Berliner Herzstück Verlag und eine Sammlung an Social-Media-Collagen unter dem Titel Lesen und Schreien im Frohmann Verlag. Sarah Berger, 1985 in Timișoara geboren, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
Performance
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
The Urge to land and keep moving…. a listening performance with sounds and voice. A soundscape for journeys, transformation, growth and pause.
Shanti Suki Osman is an artist and educator working with song, sound and radio, exploring the topics of privilege, power, margins and feminism.
Performance
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
V/A is a work about our both grandmothers: Anita and Vittoria. Being twins we faced comparison from the very first days of our lives. Growing up we each got associated frequently with one of the two grandmothers, Anita with german heritage, colder, more introverted, Vittoria typically mediterranean having born in Abissinia, the orient Africa region that Italy tried to colonise in the late years of the 19th century. The two twin sisters explore their “nonne heritage” and rediscover themselves and the history of a nation.
Carlotta Zaganelli is an artist who is using mostly video and photography as a way to get to know herself and overcome some traumas and personal and social issues.
Flavia Zaganelli is a dance artist and performer based between Italy and Berlin. In 2017 she completed training in dance and performance graduating from Tanzfabrik and SMASH#9 Berlin. Since 2013, she has performed in various works by Italian and international artists. Since 2017 she creates her own works together with other artists and solo.
Performance
7.05.22, 4 p.m.
Birte Opitz shares material snippets from her current research on anger. Through dance, voice work and methods of feminist empowerment / self-defense, she explores the empowering and transformative potential of rage. She searches for physical expressions in which it is embraced, felt, and embodied. To act with anger in a self-empowered way, without letting the power of anger get the better of you.
Birte Opitz lives and works in Berlin as a freelance performer, dance educator and feminist empowerment and self-defense trainer and is currently receiving the #takeheart Rechercheförderung about anger. On and off stage she works mainly with movement and voice improvisation, immersive and participatory formats, intimacy and empowerment. She is an activist against sexualized violence and is producing the podcast Not Your Opfer.
Photo: Sarah Berger
Performance
8.05.22, 7 p.m.
Zine Presentation
7. & 8.05.22, 3 - 10 p.m.
“Earthache” is a poem cycle inspired by a need to begin processing my personal experience and emotions around climate change and ecocide, following the different stages of grief. “Earthache” will be presented as an installation throughout the Extended URGE 2021, and as a live reading on Sunday, May 8. The poem cycle will also be available to take away in zine form as part of a collaboration with artist Florence Freitag.
Brendon is a Canadian writer based in Berlin who writes fiction, poetry and non-fiction. His writing engages with issues of queer love, spirituality, and ecology. He has a Master's of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and is currently working on his first novel, a queer coming-of-age climate story.
Performance/Sound/Visuals
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
An audiovisual landscape will arise through Film, videotape field recordings, live video captures and modulated interruptions in dialogue with the sounds and voice of Shanti Suki Osman.
Dafne Narvaez Berlfein is an artist & researcher working with film and video. Her praxis is based on the development of intersectional collaborative processes appropriating analogue technologies from a DIY / DIWO (do it with Others) approach.
Performance
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
Barely There is based on the questions 'How does dance appear and disappear?' and 'What does dance produce?', to investigate a dance that seems to go nowhere and is constantly on the cusp of something else.
Ongoing collaboration between Denise Lim and Stina Ehn
Performed by Denise Lim
Denise Lim is a Singaporean dancer and choreographer, currently based in Berlin. She situates her practice between movement and language – how ideas can inform the dancing and how the dancing can, in turn, transform these ideas. Denise holds a BFA in Dance and Choreography from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen. She is a member of Altes Finanzamt since Jan 2022.
Workshop
8.05.22, 3 p.m.
EN
In a short workshop, Diana will share their 8-month research on the topic of gender in dance as part of the Dis-Tanz Solo scholarship. They share a little theoretical input and will then invite you into your own movement exploration.
Bring comfortable clothing, no previous experience necessary.
DE
Diana wird in einem Kurz-Workshop ihre 8-monatige Recherche im Rahmen des Dis-Tanz Solo Stipendiums zum Thema Gender in Tanz mit euch teilen. Sie teilt einen kleinen theoretischen Input und wird dann gemeinsam in die eigene Bewegungsexploration kommen.
Bringt bequeme Kleidung mit, keine Vorerfahrung nötig.
45-60 min
Gardening/Reading
8.05.22, 3 - 5 p.m.
Zine Presentation
7. & 8.05.22, 3 - 10 p.m.
For this year’s the Urge to… Florence is a collaborative gardener, shifting between giving care to the Altes's backyard, reading from their poetry zine created with Brendon Goodmurphy and inviting you to put your hands and feet in the soil. The channelled words in the zine are a collection of memories, conversations and activations with support of the ocean, trees and puddles of all kinds. Maybe we sit with them for a moment and take a moment to land.
Workshop
7. & 8.05.22, 3 p.m.
Das Projekt “Schildbildwiderstand” möchte über einen mobilen Workshop Menschen aus den verschiedensten Kontexten zusammenbringen, um gemeinsam Schilder für Demonstrationen herzustellen. Denn durch das getragene Schild werden die Tragenden zu Handelnden*und somit zu Handlungsträger*innen. Die Schilder werden ebenso nachhaltig und aus recycelten Materialien hergestellt.
Anmeldungen unter altesfinanzamt@googlemail.com
performance/ritual
8.05.22, 5 p.m.
one character from our chiaroscuro catalogue of euronormative archetypical scenes will be individually and temporarily assigned to volunteer visitors. together we would then like to symbolically restage, transform and resolve the scene through a performative artistic ritual, recorded on video. the ritual aims to counteract the perpetuation and idealization of traumatic chapters from the canon of european tales, myths and culture.
hugo x tibiriçá
i am a queer non-binary visual, video and performing artist born and raised in rio de janeiro, brazil. i descend from the colonizers and the colonized, and i allow all the contradictions of such heritage to inform both my sense of identity as well as my artistic practices.
jakob klaffs
i was born and grew up in and around hamburg and live in berlin since 2009. i am an artist, working with video, visual and performing arts. major topics of interest for me are rituals, melancholy, queerness and a critical reference to my personal origins and european cultural history.
Sound/Poetry
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova is a Czech-Sorbian artist and curator. At Urge, they will perform together with John Broback as their poetry-synthesized music duo Lightbush. Lightbush brings together Magda’s poems, and other mouth sounds in which they try to invent portals and cheap party tricks to escape the hellhole of capitalism, and John’s improvised synthesized music combining deep bass whales and jazz-like sequences. Lightbush is the ultimate electro-poetic maintenance for your clogged pipes. It is business in the front, party in the back.
Sound/Listening Station
7.05.22, 3 - 5 p.m.
When discovering and mapping the sonic surroundings of my new home, I came across sounds that collide and meet: Two main figures can be heard from my balcony, a Crane, constructing a new house, and a church with bells and its own schedule. These sonic figures bring up the known discourse between the old and the new. This topic evolves in the audio piece to questions about the philosophy of discourse, as it was experienced in my personal history, starting at the age of 13, while working on a school project about the Eichmann trial and continuing into the reality of today.
Maya Guttmann is a Musician, sound artist and sound engineer. She is a member of the feminist sound collective Sound Systers and of Altes Finanzamt. Maya has composed and arranged sound pieces for different dance and performance projects in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Berlin and Vienna. She always sees her artistic work as a reaction to political and social realities. In her music and sound art, whether the influence is punk, experimental or electro-acoustic, she creates spaces for her personal voice to interact with these realities, questions them and deconstruct them if needed.
Sound & Dance Performance
8.05.22, 7 p.m.
samples and gehampel*
laid back ground dancing
sound waving hands on
bumm tschack bumm bumm tschack
*fidgeting
Florian: Dance
Rosa: Drums
Workshop
7.05.22, 5 p.m.
Together with her artistic collaborator and breath practitioner Lisa Densem they invite participants to an approx. 45/50 min workshop that combines perceptible breath work instructions (by Ilse Middendorf) and poetic speculations where breathing together can be experienced as a physical and imaginative force.
Lisa and Miriam share an interest in Breathing as a healing practice which they want to further develop in group constellations. The irregular movement of breathing that can never be contained enfolds in a cyclical rhythm of being-in-relation beyond linear movement.
Photo: Phil Dera
Musical Storytelling Raid
7. & 8.05.22, 3 - 5 p.m.
EN
"Poplore Flashology" is Qwiki‘s alchemical experiment with hit tunes, old and new stories, folk instruments and spontaneous art raids. We welcome you to savor our ongoing, in-depth study of the combustible mix of Schlager and traditional tales in live public settings.
Qwiki (Qwigo Flux & Kiki Maggie) is an unlikely performance duo making mischief on the eastern edge of Berlin. After rocking various coasts of the Americas as solo artists, together they finally achieved world fame in the neighborhood senior band in suburban Schöneiche. As a tandem act, they insatiably draw everything under their spell, be it ukulele pop, folk tales, the German language or cheesecake, leaving nothing unchanged.
DE
"Poplore Flashology" ist Qwikis alchemistisches Experiment mit Oldie-Hitmusik, alten und neuen Geschichten, Volksinstrumenten und spontanen Kunstaktionen. Wir laden alle zum Beschuppern ein, auf unsere fortlaufende, eingehende Studie der brennenden Mischung aus Schlager und traditionellen Geschichten in öffentlichen Live-Settings.
Qwiki (Qwigo Flux & Kiki Maggie) ist ein unwahrscheinliches Performance-Duo, das am Stadtrand des Berliner Ostens seinen Unfug treibt. Nachdem sie als Solo-Künstler_innen diverse Küsten der Amerikas beschallt hatten, erreichten sie zusammen endlich Weltberühmtheit beim Seniorenband in Schöneiche bei Berlin. Als Tandem-Akt ziehen sie unersättlich alles in ihren Bann, sei es Ukulele-Pop, Volksmärchen, die deutsche Sprache oder Cheesecake und hinterlassen nichts unverwandelt.
Performance/Lesung
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
Körperöffnungen ist eine poetische Performance mit zum Teil interaktivem Charakter, an der die Künstler_in seit 2019 kontinuierlich arbeitet. Körper, Gender, Sexualität, Intimität, Sehnsucht und Einsamkeit sind auch hier die zentralen Bezugspunkte, anhand derer Berger Text & Bildelemente immer wieder neu und anders arrangiert.
Sarah Berger ist Autor_in, Fotograf_in und Performencekünstler_in und bespielt verschiedene sozialmediale Formate mit autofiktionalen Texten und Fotografien. Zu Bergers Publikationen gehören das 2017 im Frohmann Verlag erschienene Match Deleted – Tinder Shorts. Es folgten weitere bei Sukultur, im Metamorphosen Magazin, Pop Kultur und Kritik und in der Berliner Zeitung. 2020 veröffentlichte Berger u.a. den Kurzgeschichtenband Sex und Perspektive im Berliner Herzstück Verlag und eine Sammlung an Social-Media-Collagen unter dem Titel Lesen und Schreien im Frohmann Verlag. Sarah Berger, 1985 in Timișoara geboren, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
Photo: Asal Dardan
Ausstellung
7. & 8.05.22, 3 - 10 p.m.
Körper, Gender, Sexualität, Intimität, Sehnsucht und Einsamkeit – dies sind die zentralen Bezugspunkte in Sarah Bergers fotografischer Aktstudie HOLES, an der die Künstler_in seit 2018 kontinuierlich arbeitet. Die Reihe ist getrieben von feinsinniger Neugier für Rückzugsräume, ihre Vorzüge und die hemmungslose Freizügigkeit von Privatheit. Die Motive sind nicht in Inszenierungsnarrative eingebettet, stattdessen entstehen sie aus den Gesprächen mit den Modellen, im Abgleich mit deren Bedürfnissen und aus den Momenten, in denen Privaträume sich zögerlich zu öffnen beginnen. Sarah Bergers fotografischer Blick trifft die portraitierten Individuen im Innen. Er tastet die Bereitschaft, sich zu entblößen, explorierend wie offen voyeuristisch ab.
Sarah Berger ist Autor_in, Fotograf_in und Performencekünstler_in und bespielt verschiedene sozialmediale Formate mit autofiktionalen Texten und Fotografien. Zu Bergers Publikationen gehören das 2017 im Frohmann Verlag erschienene Match Deleted – Tinder Shorts. Es folgten weitere bei Sukultur, im Metamorphosen Magazin, Pop Kultur und Kritik und in der Berliner Zeitung. 2020 veröffentlichte Berger u.a. den Kurzgeschichtenband Sex und Perspektive im Berliner Herzstück Verlag und eine Sammlung an Social-Media-Collagen unter dem Titel Lesen und Schreien im Frohmann Verlag. Sarah Berger, 1985 in Timișoara geboren, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
Performance
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
The Urge to land and keep moving…. a listening performance with sounds and voice. A soundscape for journeys, transformation, growth and pause.
Shanti Suki Osman is an artist and educator working with song, sound and radio, exploring the topics of privilege, power, margins and feminism.
Performance
7.05.22, 7 p.m.
V/A is a work about our both grandmothers: Anita and Vittoria. Being twins we faced comparison from the very first days of our lives. Growing up we each got associated frequently with one of the two grandmothers, Anita with german heritage, colder, more introverted, Vittoria typically mediterranean having born in Abissinia, the orient Africa region that Italy tried to colonise in the late years of the 19th century. The two twin sisters explore their “nonne heritage” and rediscover themselves and the history of a nation.
Carlotta Zaganelli is an artist who is using mostly video and photography as a way to get to know herself and overcome some traumas and personal and social issues.
Flavia Zaganelli is a dance artist and performer based between Italy and Berlin. In 2017 she completed training in dance and performance graduating from Tanzfabrik and SMASH#9 Berlin. Since 2013, she has performed in various works by Italian and international artists. Since 2017 she creates her own works together with other artists and solo.