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(Soft Solidarity) Assembly</b><br>
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</x-tab>We Have To Create New Forms Of Solidarity<br>
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Miriam Busch</div>
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<div><b>SoS (Soft Solidarity) Assembly</b> is a gathering of local
artists and activists groups based on a necessity to exchange ideas,
visions and the values of solidarity. From November 12 to 14, 2020,
within the framework of SoS (Soft Solidarity), a social and discursive
platform is to be created in the context of the two-year exhibition
program of the eponymous Galerie Wedding - Space for Contemporary Art
(2019-20).<br>
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<div>The SoS (Soft Solidarity) Assembly serves as an opportunity to
consider novel aspects to cultural and creative labour,
interconnectedness, ecology and bottom-up approaches to civic and
political involvement in order to frame a shared future.<br>
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<div>November 12, 2020<br>
<b>Embracing Weaknesses/Degrowth</b> focuses on the toxic capitalocene
life and its production forms. As the pandemic led to socio-economic
collapses all over Berlin and internationally, to embrace the
weaknesses in our neighbourhood and own life for degrowth requires a
fundamental change in awareness, values and habits.<br>
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<div>November 13, 2020<br>
<b>New Alliances/New Solidarities</b> highlights the need for
different forms of alliance among trans-disciplinary
and-cultural networks, communities, NGOs. Which structural insights
from the Wedding district's microcosm are applicable to the European
society's macrocosm and the other way around?<br>
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<div>November 14, 2020<br>
<b>Intimacy / Body / Spaces</b> raises new questions about the
integrity and protection of bodies. What consequences can be drawn
from the global pandemic-related "social / physical
distancing"? Which spaces are now unsafe and which ones can be
rendered safer physically, economically, politically or
institutionally?</div>
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<div>With<b> Bini Adamczak</b> (writer & artist),<b> Ana
Alenso</b> (artist),<b> Marwa Arsanios</b> (artist &
filmmaker),<b> Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock</b> (curator, Savvy
Contemporary),<b> BASTA!</b> (Erwerbsloseninitiative Berlin),<b>
bi'bak</b> (project space),<b> Eli Cortiñas</b> (artist),<b> Café
Cralle</b> (women's bar collective),<b> Alejandro Camacho Díaz</b>
(queer video journalist),<b> Extinction Rebellion</b> (environmental
movement),<b> FAU</b> (Free Workers' Union Berlin), F<b>eministische
Gesundheitsrecherchegruppe</b> (artist collective),<b> Lamin
Fofana</b> (artist & musician),<b> Jérémy Geeraert</b> (social
scientist & activist/ Medibüro Berlin),<b> Saraya Gomis</b>
(anti-discrimination expert & board member of EOTO e. V.),<b>
Ays¸e Güleç (</b>writer & activist),<b> Natascha Sadr
Haghighian</b> (artist),<b> Hände weg vom Wedding</b> (activist
urban district initiative),<b> House of Tupamaras</b> (performance
collective),<b> Yassin al Haj Saleh</b> (writer),<b> Julian
Irlinger</b> (artist),<b> Stine Marie Jacobsen</b> (artist),<b> Katja
Kajikhina</b> (health scientist & activist),<b> Gerhild
Komander</b> (art historian),<b> Lisette Lagnado & María
Berríos</b> (curators of 11th Berlin Biennale),<b> Klaus
Lederer</b> (Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin),<b> Ewa
Majewska</b> (philosopher),<b> María do Mar Castro Varela</b>
(political scientist),<b> MINCO</b> (musician & DJ),<b> Ute
Müller-Tischle</b>r (Head of Art & Culture Berlin Mitte),<b>
Marina Naprushkina</b> (artist),<b> Arlette-Louise Ndakoze</b>
(curator),<b> Seebrücke</b> (civic movement),<b> DIE VIELEN</b>
(activist not-for-profit association),<b> VOCES de Guatemala</b>
(migrants' collective Berlin),<b> Christopher Weickenmeier</b>
(curator),<b> YAAR</b> (Refugee Assistance for people from
Afghanistan), a.o.<br>
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Curated by<b> Övül Ö. Durmus¸og˜lu</b>,<b> Solvej Helweg
Ovesen</b>,<b> Kathrin Pohlmann</b><br>
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<div><b>The hosting institution: Galerie Wedding</b> is located in the
Wedding City Hall, has a dynamic curatorial profile and is
artistically directed by Solvej Helweg Ovesen. The space and program
is mainly known for its in-depth, context-specific solo projects with
local artists from all over the world. Challengingly, the spaces of
the municipal gallery have been temporarily converted to a social
welfare office as part of the pandemic plan of the city hall. In 2020
a double use and juggle of the space has been made; mornings social
department, afternoon exhibition space. This is however not
sustainable, but a consequence of the membrane position of the
exhibition space between local politics and the social collapse
happening on the street.</div>
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<div>All contributions are streamed freely accessible via our website,
via Berlin Art Link, and on <a
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<div><b>Press contact</b></div>
<div>Wayra Schübel / <a
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<div>Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Fonds
für Spartenoffene Förderung Berlin</div>
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