This mural, created by Tübingen artist Marvin Daumüller together with kollektiv orangotango and activists from Epplehaus, symbolizes not only Scank’s artistic legacy and Leonice’s struggle, but also that of all BPOC mothers around the world who fight for the lives and memory of their children and against racist hatred and policies that cement social inequalities.
The Tempelhof Field and Airport between Memory and Appropriation
A large part of Berlin’s population connects the Tempelhof Field and Airport with the Berlin Airbridge, wherby the place is characterized in the collective consciousness in the post-war period, especially as the “gateway to freedom“. But that the airport and the Tempelhof field were an important part of the Nazi propaganda machinery and that numerous […]
Tour on Upgrading, Displacment and Resistance in Kreuzberg
In this city walk we will take a look at the historical developments of this turbulent Berlin district in the post-war period and its transformation from a traditional working-class neighborhood and subcultural free space to the hip scene district and investor’s dream of today. In the process, we learn which urban policy guidelines were formative […]
A Right to a Garden City?
The urban gardens of Berlin exist under the recurring threat of closure. As part of the Gemeingut Grün Fact-Finding Committee at the Center for Art and Urbanism (ZK/U), Kerstin Meyer and Marco Clausen formulated a draft for a tenure treaty for Berlin gardens.
Body Mapping at Birmingham UCU Teachouts
As part of the Birmingham UCU Teachouts, we conducted the workshop “Bodies, Maps, Words: A Creative Writing Workshop” with James Lewis and Cristina Fernández Recasens. Starting from the question of how we unlearned to perceive geographical space through physical feelings and intentions by maps, we asked how we actually perceive and create university space with our bodies.
Vos tenés la bala, nosotras tenemos la palabra
Mural in memory of Berta Cáceres & Marielle Franco
WIR BLEIBEN ALLE – Mural at Kreuzberger Waldemarstraße 81
In summer 2019, the collectives pappsatt and orangotango redesigned the old mural on the front of the building at Waldemarstraße 81 in Berlin-Kreuzberg together with the residents of the house. The original mural at Waldemarstraße 81 was one of the first murals in Berlin ever. In 1975 it was painted by the former residents of […]
Make Love, Peace and Anarchy…
In an one week seminar in Tübingen, Germany, we reflected with young volunteers on social and political transformations we’d like to promote.
Terminal Festival, Udine 2019
Das Terminal Festival in Udine, Italien vereint zeitgenössischen Zirkus, visuelle und performative Künste. Seit 2016 läd es einmal jährlich Künstler*innen und Bewohner*innen ein, sich gemeinsam auf unerwartete Reisen in und durch den städtischen Raum zu begeben. Für drei Tage werden Udines Verkehrsinseln zu Bühnen, öffentliche Verkehrsmittel zu Vehikeln durch Geschichte(n) und die Piazza Venerio zum […]
Collective cartography in the Dreamlab – Hyperwerk, Basel
In the ‘Dreamlab’, students of the Bachelor Process Design at the Institute Hyperwerk of the HGK Basel discussed issues at the intersection of society and design with kollektiv orangotango in a one-week mapping workshop.
Habitat Happy – exhibition
The exhibition Habitat Happy at neurotitan in Berlin threw artistic and activist perspectives on housing in the context of social segregation, gentrification, displacement and evictions. Our companheiros Fabio Vieira and Bruno Rodrigues from Coletivo Ardepixo from São Paulo were also part of the exhibition.
This Is Not an Atlas – a Convention around Counter-Cartographies
‘This Is Not an Atlas – a Convention around Counter-Cartographies’ hosted an exhibition of the collection of counter-cartographies from all over the world as well as lectures, workshops and a panel discussion.
