Fragments of Impermanence: a Collective Experience

How do we connect to each other as fragments, within dynamic power structures that we need to break, so that we unleash new shared possibilities? 

Fragments of Impermanence is an interactive and sensorial installation that showcases the results of five months of intense collaboration between artists and educators from diverse refugee and migrant backgrounds across the world. Run by the organisation People Beyond Borders in Berlin, the project Training of Trainers (ToT) had, as a starting point, an idea to bring a group of Women + Queer to explore and experiment with ways of sharing knowledge through artistic expression, and encourage critical thinking and empowering by co-creation of new imaginaries from distance.

Embracing a collaborative and horizontal approach in which participants are at the same time learners and teachers, ToT challenged the colonising and oppressive system of hierarchical knowledge and provided a platform where the richness of diverse expertise, skills, life paths, languages and roots were concentrically connected, like in a spider web – amplifying each individual possibility to creatively catch knowledge and pass it forward, constantly weaving new insights.

The installation is composed of many different mediums such as paintings, audio performances, collages and interactive pieces developed by the participants during their online and in-person collaborative interventions. The works, involving several techniques and media, touch on the recurrent themes emerging from the group dynamic and their vibrant journey.

OPENING HOURS: Wednesday 21st 11am-4pm, Thursday 22nd 2-7pm, Friday 23rd 2-7pm, Saturday 24th 11am-6pm.

In collaboration with People Beyond Borders, Refugio and Give Something Back to Berlin.

Contributors:

Zeynep Arıkan Kateryna Budylo Soraya Hoepfner
Ali Shekarchi Oksana Potapova Tamara Duedari
Aysel Erol Prerna Rathi Thaís Paiva Machado
Elsa Cuissard Qila Gill Toulin Balabaki
Isadora Canela Sondos Elgendy Yoav Goldwein

The exhibition includes two workshops with the team

Relearning to learn / break to create: reflections and practices of sharing a horizontal ecosystem

Wednesday 21 June 11:00 - 14:00
Thursday 22 June 16:30 - 19:30