June 10th, 13:00-16:00 - REGISTRATION NECESSARY

The workshop "Queering the (hegemonic)(normative)(binary) Art Field" tests with the students an active (in)questioning of their own position within the (hegemonic), (normative), (binary) art field. neo seefried wants to encourage students to ask themselves uncomfortable questions that create friction. What is my attitude towards the art field? Can I speak for others? Do I know my privileges? What is my background and how does it relate to my artistic practice? What resources are available to me and what are not? How can we break through hegemonic patterns? Questions about reasons and motives, about actors, creators, clients, about those (consciously) (unconsciously) affected (influenced) (favored), about what is visible and what may remain hidden. The workshop is meant to activate the students to actively question their artistic working process and thus to shape their practice critically and maturely. The workshop itself does not provide definitive answers, but illuminates the transformative power of having a voice and translating that voice into an position.

Workshop Language: Hybrid (German + English)

neo seefried is a founding member of the queer-feminist platform ( ) S-P-A-C-E and works as a cultural mediator, activist, author, curator and podcaster in Berlin and Zurich.

More information here.

EXTENDED - until 13.06.

The Student Parliament (StuPa) is filling the positions for the representatives for Social and Cultural Affairs, for Diversity and Social Justice, and for University Politics and External Affairs in the General Student Committee (AStA). If you are studying at the Berlin University of the Arts, will be enrolled at the university for at least one more year and are flexible with time schedules, you are welcome to apply.

Please send your anonymous application (letter of motivation and CV without name and address as PDF, max. 2 Din A4 pages) to stupa@asta-udk-berlin.de beforehand until the 13th of June.  

If you are interested or have any questions, you can also contact the chair of the student parliament at the same address.

Term of office: from 1st of July 2022 for 1 year

Each department has specific tasks and requirements which can be seen in the PDF downloads on this website.

For your volunteer position in the AStA you will receive a compensation of 450€ for approx. 40 hours per month.

You apply in person at the StuPa meeting on 20th of June from 18 o'clock. There might be a preliminary talk with members of the StuPa a few days before. You will be informed of the exact time and place in good time. Please send your anonymous application (letter of motivation and CV without name and address as PDF, max. 2 Din A4 pages) to stupa@asta-udk-berlin.de beforehand until 13th of June. Please make sure to check your spam folder after submitting your application, as our emails sometimes end up there. If you are interested or have any questions, you can also contact the chair of the student parliament at the same address. The election takes place directly at the student parliament meeting.

Applications from people with intersectional (multiple) discrimination experiences are explicitly welcome! The student body is committed to the necessity of dismantling structural, physical, linguistic, racist and gender- specific barriers in order to create an equal-opportunity learning and working environment for all. If you have a severe disability, you can indicate it in your application if applicable. Recognised severely disabled persons will be given preferential consideration if they are equally qualified.

Apply for the AStA of the UdK Berlin! We are looking forward to meeting you!

We are glad to start our Intersectional Workshop series with “Care Feminism and Transindigenous Knowledge” workshop held by Joulia Strauss and Elke Krasny.
What does it mean to live in an Infected Planet? ​​How one can learn to think care at all scales, from the microbial to the planetary, from the personal to the political? How can we embrace self care, singing Ancient Greek hymns and dance as a political activism? During this two-day workshop, we will focus on ecofeminism, caring, maintenance as resistance.

9-10 May 2022, 18:00-21:00

The workshop is limited to 15 people and it will be in English.

In order to register, you can write to antidispolitik@asta-udk-berlin.de until May 8.
 

Day 1

18:00 - 18:40 Talk by Elke Krasny on Maintenance as Resistance: Caring for Environments through Use.

19:00 - 19:30 Presentation by Joulia Strauss and Screening of the essay "Transindigenous Assembly"

20:00 - 21:00 Ecofeminist Assembly with online participation of Ukrainian feminists in the war zone as well as indigenous leaders from Colombia, Peru, Greece, Spain, indigenous Russia, and Northern Europe (Fascilitated and moderated by Elke Krasny, Joulia Strauss and Luïza Luz)
 

Day 2

13:00 - 15:00 Việt Võ Đạo: Qi Gong and Kung Fu workshop in the garden of Hardenbergstrasse 33a

Sculpturing with Qi energy: Totem Portrait of a Goddes from the cosmology of Mari culture: Mother of the Sun, Keche Ava (Mari), made of reused materials brought by participants.

Rapeh ceremony. Communication with the spirit of the Mother of the Sun, Keche Ava

Public inauguration of the totem sculpture with singing and dance performance. Reading the document of the Ecofeminist Assembly.

Intersectional workshop series is shaped as an intersection of critical sustainability, diversity, and queer studies. The first workshop was developed around the discussions by İpek Çınar (the representative of Diversity and Social Justice Unit) and transdisciplinary artist Luïza Luz.