D’EST #Cycle 2: Postsocialism as Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires
Shut Up White Boy, film by Vu T. Thu Ha, 2002
Perseids Pearlshower Ceremonial Event, ceremony and film by Katya Katipa-apai Nikonorova and krёlex zentre, 2017
Síu Phạm: Sing an Idle song (2019)
post DIY, film by Lucine Talalyan, 2014
Ciné Moon Mobile, habitat and film mobile by Aziza Kadyri and Kim Bode / NAILS*hacks facts fictions for D'EST, draft 2023
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. How to tell a story of us becoming ourselves? Our roots are convoluted like mangroves. What chain of events led to such a result? How did we become conscious, independent, postsocialist, creolized and queer?
krёlex zentre, Postsocialist Time Slips / D’EST 2023
D’EST #Cycle 2: Postsocialism as Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires
www.d-est.com
curated by krёlex zentre, Nhà Sàn Collective and Fehras Publishing Practices with Ulrike Gerhardt and Suza Husse
The Hometown Sky is as Blue as a Song / Postsocialist Time Slips
Video art festival under the trees in Schloss Biesdorf
June 9th and 10th, 2023
District*School Without Center at Schloss Biesdorf
Address: Schloss Biesdorf, Alt-Biesdorf 55, 12683 Berlin
Transport connections: S-Bhf Biesdorf (S5) or U-Bhf Elsterwerdaer Platz (U5)
D’EST is a nomadic platform and online archive for video art, experimental and documentary film that maps artistic forms of historiography at the intersection of postsocialist, queer-feminist and decolonial narratives and imaginaries. From 2023, a new constellation of curated video art chapters, a nomadic cinema format and a publication channel will be created. The second D’EST cycle Postsocialism as a Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires explores the legacies of global and postmigrant socialisms and the potential of their unfolding into the future.
The first three chapters of this new cycle are created by the artist collectives krёlex zentre, Nhà Sàn Collective and Fehras Publishing Practices. They trace rarely told stories from the Cold War from Central Asia, Vietnam, North Africa and West Asia and their creolizations in postmigrant Germany and Europe. The curated intermedial constellations interconnect socialist imaginaries and life worlds from different and sometimes contradictory situated geographies that continued or emerged despite coloniality, totalitarianism and capitalism.
On June 9th and 10th, 2023, D’EST launches the new cycle with an open-air video art festival in the park of Schloss Biesdorf [Biesdorf Palace], the municipal gallery of the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district. Together with the old trees of the park, which was landscaped from 1867, and the stories they store, the Ciné Moon Mobile offers a performative and sculptural shelter for moving images and encounters. The Ciné Moon Mobile is developed by Aziza Kadyri and Kim Bode/NAILS*hacks facts fictions especially for the nomadic manifestations of D’EST. Embedded in performance, music and discourse formats and moments of cooking together and drinking tea, the first two chapters of the new D’EST cycle present video and film screenings under the open sky:
PROGRAMME
Accessibility information
Free entrance
Languages spoken at the event: English, German, Russian, Vietnamese
The film and video programs are shown in original languages ( Vietnamese, Russian) with English and German subtitles, German subtitles for d/Deaf and hard of hearing audiences.
Some films are 18+ (sex)
The events and an accessible toilet (entrance door 1 m in width) are at ground level and accessible without steps.
Friday 9 June 2023, 6 – 11 pm
from 6 pm
Ciné Moon Mobile
Roaming habitat with video station and bar
by Aziza Kadyri and Kim Bode/NAILS*hacks facts fictions
7 – 8.30 pm
Postsocialism as Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires
Tea talks, images, texts and music in English and German language
with Aziza Kadyri, Fehras Publishing Practices (Kenan Darwich, Sami Rustom), Kim Bode, krёlex zentre (Maria Vilk & Ruth Jenrbekova), Nhà Sàn Collective (Nguyễn Quốc Thành), Suza Husse and Ulrike Gerhardt
8.45 – 9.45 pm
Trời quê hương trong xanh như lời hát [The Hometown Sky is as Blue as a Song]
Film and video programme curated by Nhà Sàn Collective
Works by Nguyễn Văn Song, Nguyễn Duy Anh, Síu Phạm, Nguyễn Tan Hoang, Vu T. Thu Ha, Quynh Dong
9.45 – 10.45 pm
Postsocialist Time Slips
Film and video programme curated by krёlex zentre
Works by Nazira Karimi, Bakhyt Bubikanova, Gulzat Matisakova, lucine talalyan, Anna Shahnazaryan / Tigran Khachatryan / Lara Aharonian / Lala Aslikyan / Are՛Martirossian / Olya Azatyan / Sevan Petrossian a.o., Katya Katipa-apai Nikonorova & krёlex zentre
Saturday 10 June 2023, 4 – 11 pm
from 4 pm
Ciné Moon Mobile
Roaming habitat with video station and bar
by Aziza Kadyri and Kim Bode/NAILS*hacks facts fictions
4 – 7 pm
How to return to gold
Performance, instant noodles, cassette tape
by/with Phan Dong Thai, Nguyễn Quốc Thành, Quynh Dong
6 – 7 pm
9 Moons
activation of the Ciné Moon Mobile with Aziza Kadyri und Kim Bode/NAILS*hacks facts fictions
7.30 – 8.30 pm
Tea Talk with krëlex zentre and Dilda Ramazan
in Russian, English and German languages
8.45 – 9.45 pm
Postsocialist Time Slips
Film and video programme curated by krёlex zentre
Works by Nazira Karimi, Bakhyt Bubikanova, Gulzat Matisakova, lucine talalyan, Anna Shahnazaryan / Tigran Khachatryan / Lara Aharonian / Lala Aslikyan / Are՛Martirossian / Olya Azatyan / Sevan Petrossian a.o., Katya Katipa-apai Nikonorova & krёlex zentre
9.45 – 10.45 pm
Trời quê hương trong xanh như lời hát [The Hometown Sky is as Blue as a Song]
Film and video programme curated by Nhà Sàn Collective
Works by Nguyễn Văn Song, Nguyễn Duy Anh, Síu Phạm, Nguyễn Tan Hoang, Vu T. Thu Ha, Quynh Dong.
D’EST Cycle 2: Postsocialism as a Method. Anti-Geographies of Collective Desires is a project by the nomadic art space District*School Without Center in cooperation with Schloss Biesdorf and Archive Books.
Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Community and ifa.