[spectre] (fwd) may songs #2: anti-geographies of collective desire

Wed May 24 06:44:41 CEST 2023

Tear a piece of gold leaf into the bowl of instant noodles, pour boiling 
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Hi! This is us, the non-white,

non-straight, inter-mixed and

left-winged diasporic

outcasts, a swarm of half-

mongrels from the former

colonies of today’s empires.

Our roots are convoluted like

mangroves. How did we

become conscious,

independent, postsocialist,

creolized and queer?

*Postsocialist Time Slips* / D'EST by krёlex zentre, 2023
9 + 10 June at Schloss Biesdorf → 
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and online at www.d-est.com from 12 June 2023

  */anti-geographies of collective desires/*
  /may songs #2/

*Shut Up White Boy*, film by Vu T. Thu Ha, 2002
9 + 10 June from 8.45 pm Schloss Biesdorf and online at www.d-est.com 
from 12 June 2023 in the D'EST video art chapter Trời quê hương trong 
xanh như lời hát[The Hometown Sky is as Blue as a Song]curated by Nhá 
Sán Collective → 
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On 9 and 10 June 2023 district's *D'EST Nomadic Festival and Online 
Archive **for Postsocialist Video Art* launches into a new cycle with 
mobile cinema screenings, performances, tea talks, readings and music 
under the old trees at Schloss Biesdorf (Alt-Biesdorf 55, Berlin, free 
entry) → 
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The first tree video art chapters of*D'EST Cycle #2: Postsocialism as 
Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires*//are curated by Fehras 
Publishing Practices, krёlex zentre and Nhà Sàn Collective with Suza 
Husse & Ulrike Gerhardt.

Deutsche Sprache hier → 
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*Tear a piece of gold leaf into the bowl of instant noodles, pour 
boiling water*

*Play, stop, take out the cassette tape, turn to the other side*

*Remember coral eyeshadow she wore*

*How to return to gold*
Performance, instant noodles, karaoke
Phan Dong Thai, Nguyễn Quốc Thành, Quynh Dong
10 June 2023, 4 to 7 pm Schloss Biesdorf → 
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*Sing an Idle Song*, film by Síu Pam, 2019
9 + 10 June from 8.45 pm Schloss Biesdorf and online at www.d-est.com 
from 12 June 2023 in the D'EST video art chapter Trời quê hương trong 
xanh như lời hát[The Hometown Sky is as Blue as a Song] curated by Nhá 
Sán Collective → 
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Postsocialism as Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires

“One of the qualities we ascribe to postsocialisms [...] is 
cross-filiations between groups that are not organized by descent from a 
singular socialist past, but that belong to political and ethical 
histories that are compatible while each still belongs to its own 
'time.' These are histories that are still unfolding toward unknown 
conclusions. The queerness of postsocialism, in our sense, is that they 
are propelled by political desires that do not aim to reproduce 
capitalist reality nor are these groups that are somehow unified in 
their political desires just because they bear socialist legacies. We 
may not even know yet what these political desires move toward. This is 
part of their queerness. To simply capitulate to a left melancholy that 
laments the failure of socialist ethics [...] is to recognize only the 
capitalist lifeworld and only its own reproductive drive and temporality.”

(Re)thinking Postsocialism. Interview with Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi 
Vora, text by Lesia Pagulich, Tasiana Shchurko, 2020 → 
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*post DIY*, film by Lucine Talalyan, 2014 (above) and *Perseids 
Pearlshower Ceremonial Event,* ceremony and film by Katya Katipa-apai 
Nikonorova and krёlex zentre, 2017 (below)
9 + 10 June from 8.45 pm at Schloss Biesdorf and online at www.d-est.com 
from 12 June 2023 in the video art chapter Postsocialist Time Slips 
curated by krёlex zentre → 
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*D'EST Cycle #2 Postsocialism as Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective 
Desires *is a collaboration between district*school without center and 
Schloss Biesdorf, supported by the Berlin Senate for Culture and 
Community and ifa Institute for Foreign Affairs

As district cruises around, the newsletter series /songs/ accompanies 
processes and program that unfold and materialise in different places 
around Berlin and beyond.Each Tuesday for seven weeks, /songs/ opens a 
multi-vocal space for lyrics and songs, poems and recipes, rumours and 
conversations, interviews and ephemera.

*/district's roaming/*

31 May 2023
*Koreanische Frauengruppe in Deutschland & Lynn Margulis Reading Group *
organized by JinRan Ha & NAILS*hacks facts fictions → 
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9 + 10 June 2023
*D'EST Cycle 2: Postsocialism as a Method. Anti-Geographies of 
Collective Desires.*
Video Art Festival under the trees of Schloss Biesdorf
curated by krëlex zentre and Nhà Sàn Collective with Suza Husse & Ulrike 
Gerhardt → 
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30 June + 1 July 2023
*This Space In Between*
Performance by Kallia Kefala, Minh Duc Pham, Katerina Papachristou
at Uferstudios → 
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2022 - 2024
*When The Jackal Leaves The Sun: Decentering Restitution | Pedagogies of 
Repossession*
A decolonial feminist infrastructure for memory politics, art and 
transformative justice connecting Nairobi, Windhoek, Kigali, Dresden, 
Dar Es Salam, Dakar, Cape Town and Berlin→ 
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2022 - 2023
*Archive of Gestures*
Online/offline research platform and archive-in-progress by Elske 
Rosenfeld → 
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