Friday (Freitag), 4 Juli, 15h-19h
Saturday (Samstag), 5 Juli, 15h-19h
Sunday (Sonntag), 6 Juli, 15h-19h
Companions, performance series at nGbK, by Aykan Safoğlu

Although the German word, ‘Gesellschaft’ can be translated into English as 'society,' its root word, 'Geselle' can also be translated as 'companion,' linking the word etymologically to the notion of companionship. It is interesting that an art institution like nGbK names itself the 'New Society (Companionship) for Fine Arts'. Departing from this vantage point, the performance series, Companions, will search for queer forms of solidarity and potential companions in the nGbK archives on two different weekends (June, 27-29 and July, 4-6). These performances will be based on communal experiments to appropriate the artistic heritage of nGbK and to find alternate readings of recent queer his/herstories from Berlin. The artistic outcome from each performance session will result in a different installation with the nGbK catalogues on the exhibition floor.
Friday, 4 Juli, 15h-19h Aykan invites you for a fortune telling session. Everyone will receive a personal reading.
Saturday 5 Juli, 15h-19h Workshop to create an alternative visual manual for a queer Kama Sutra.
Sunday 6 Juli, 15h-19h You are welcome to join Aykan today for a Halay workshop.

Thursday (Donnerstag), 3.Juli, 20h

Genital Call, by Alex Giegold & Tomka Weiß

Performative engagement responding to trans*- and inter*phobic legislation. Genitals will be drawn by courtroom illustrator according to participant's live self description.

An Gerichtszeichnungen oder Phantombilder erinnern die Zeichnungen der Installation „Genital Call“. Das Künstlerduo Giegold/ Weiß reagiert auf Gerichtsurteile in England und Schottland, bei denen von Trans* und Inter*sexuellen erwartet wird, ihre Geschlechtsidentität bzw. das Aussehen ihrer Genitalien bei einem Rendezvous offenzulegen. Professionelle Gerichtszeichner*innen portraitieren Genitalien den Beschreibungen von Partizipierenden gemäß.

Friday (Freitag), 27 Juni, 12h-17h
Saturday (Samstag), 28 Juni, 12h-17h
Sunday (Sonntag), 29 Juni, 12h-17h
Companions, performance series at nGbK, by Aykan Safoğlu

Although the German word, ‘Gesellschaft’ can be translated into English as 'society,' its root word, 'Geselle' can also be translated as 'companion,' linking the word etymologically to the notion of companionship. It is interesting that an art institution like nGbK names itself the 'New Society (Companionship) for Fine Arts'. Departing from this vantage point, the performance series, Companions, will search for queer forms of solidarity and potential companions in the nGbK archives on two different weekends (June, 27-29 and July, 4-6). These performances will be based on communal experiments to appropriate the artistic heritage of nGbK and to find alternate readings of recent queer his/herstories from Berlin. The artistic outcome from each performance session will result in a different installation with the nGbK catalogues on the exhibition floor.

Friday 27 Juni, 12h-17h Aykan invites you to a picnic & reading to revisit Audre Lorde's time in Berlin.
Saturday 28 Juni, 12h-17h Imaginative discourse analysis on the specific example of Judith Butler's refusal of the civil courage prize at Berlin Pride in 2010.
Sunday 29 Juni, 12h-17h Singing lessons to dive into the transgressive Arabesque lyrics of a Turkish song (Biz Ayrılamayız), migration of desire and the politics of obscene tunes.

“What is Queer Today is Not Queer Tomorrow” Filmnight

Thursday (Donnerstag), 19 Juni, 2 screenings, 20h in the nGbK conference room & 
not to be missed 22h Open Air screening in the hof

“What is Queer Today is Not Queer Tomorrow”

A night of topical short films, by heidy and friends. All films with English subtitles

"Off-White Tulips" by Aykan Safoğlu

(2013, 24 min, Turkey&Germany) 
2014 Lolly Award for Best German Short Film

2013 Grand Prize of the city of Oberhausen

As the artist sifts through a collection of photos and archive materials from the years James Baldwin spent in Istanbul, he narrates a speculative biography of both Baldwin and himself. Drawing from Turkish photographer Sedat Pakay’s images of Baldwin, pop culture artifacts of the period and the artist’s own family photos, Safoğlu’s essay weaves together a personal and complex analysis of race, sexuality and the position of an outsider in a foreign land. -Taken from Images Festival 2014 catalogue    &
"Uli&Ralle" by Laura Paetau of the heidy collective with Alexandra Konknat, Anna Casanova Nicolas

(2012, 8min, akademie der autodidakten, Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Germany)

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Special Preview Screening, Latest Films by Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau of the heidy collective & 
Llaima Suwani Sanfiorenzo

Friday (Freitag), 13 Juni, 19h-23h

Exhibition opening of “What is Queer Today is Not Queer Tomorrow” 
with performance by Eshan Rafi

22h-2h

Opening party with DJs Ford Kelly & Svetlana Pall Mall. VJ Black Cracker.

Tuesday (Dienstag), 17 Juni, 16h-18h 
Touching / Diana, performance by Eshan Rafi

TOUCHING / DIANA is an ongoing project using the life and death of Princess Diana as a pathway to exploring queer lives and colonial encounters. While mining the internet archive of the late Diana, I come across an insecure subject with a strong sense of justice who was accorded enormous attention due to her white cisgender body and her aristocratic background. This sense of justice translated into visiting countries in the global south for "humanitarian" causes where Diana touched others, both figuratively and literally, and was also touched by them. At the same time, the constant attention the media placed on her revealed narratives about sickness, loneliness, and finally, death. In this work I ask if the spectre of Diana can be used to talk about marginal queer lives in transformative ways, if her desire to touch others can be used to examine how the act of touching is weighted by relationships of power, and ultimately, if the mapping of her body on to the bodies of queer subjects (beginning with my own body) can produce an indeterminate zone in which relationships to a colonial past and a violent present can be re-articulated / re-imagined.

What is Queer Today is Not Queer Tomorrow

Exhibition, Events
14 June – 10 August 2014

Florian Aschka, Stephanie Ballantine, Amber Bemak, Black Cracker, Denial Cremer, Eduardo Conceição & Romy Kießling & Michaela Muchina, Morty Diamond, Alex Giegold & Tomka Weiß, Martin Hansen, Emma Haugh, Evan Ifekoya, Ins A Kromminga, Ligia Manuela Lewis, Özgür Erkök Moroder, Marit Östberg, Eshan Rafi, Raju Rage, Tucké Royale & Marianne Dieterle, Aykan Safoğlu, Daniel Santiago, FranzKa Schuster & Jannik Franzen, Michael V Smith, Claudio Manoel, Solange, tô aberta!, Vassiliea Stylianidou, Juan Soto & Chiara Marañon, Rein Vollenga, ZANA

The exhibition What is Queer Today is Not Queer Tomorrow explores the theme of queer temporality. The project responds to debates within queer milieus (lesbian, gay, trans*, intersex-, etc.) and to the increasing integration of queer ways of life into the political mainstream. The nGbK becomes an explicit venue of experience, confrontation, reflection, lingering, exchange and departure.

What is ‘queer?’ What was perhaps once queer – and what has been omitted from this framework? What could queer be? The exhibition raises questions about community, identity, visibility and sex; it opens up postcolonial perspectives and tales of lesbian-gay-trans*-bi-inter-queer stories, hair, bodies, porn and capitalism. During the eight-week exhibition, artists will intervene in the white cube of the nGbK. Selected works will enter the space over time or be developed in an ongoing process that visitors can accompany.

Performances will take place at weekly intervals, the documentations of which will also become part of the exhibition space. 

What is Queer Today is Not Queer Tomorrow has been conceived and organised by the (heidy) collective, an nGbK project group, which consists of persons working with performance, theory video, text and images – some are people of color, some are identified as cis- or trans-, some are gay or lesbian, some are not.

More information and updates on the events at:www.heidyngbk.blogspot.de

Friday 13th June 2014, 19h, 
Opening + Party

nGbK project goup "heidy":
Derrick Hercules Amanatidis, Kaciano Barbosa Gadelha, Anna Bromley,Luce deLire, zoya, Debra Kate, Adriell Kopp, Laura Paetau, Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau, Luc Reboullet

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