All events part of the public program for NO Exit: Duality is Overrated are held at Scope BLN, Lübecker Str. 43, 10559 in Berlin, Germany.
https://www.scopebln.org/
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
19:00 - 21:00
THIS IS HOW YOU MAKE ME FEEL SOMETIMES
Christian Borrelli, Anna Stallone, Barcode People: Qihao Liang and Tong Shu, and Natalia Ivanova
Part environmental protest, part reflection on the consumption of goods and people in late capitalism, This is How You Make Me Feel Sometimes asks us to consider how we discard what, after being used, no longer serves us, without taking responsibility for that relationship. This applies to us as individuals but also, and most importantly, to us as artists, when we feel used by the market, by the system, by the audience, only to be forgotten in a trash bin later.
Friday, January 19th, 2024
19:00 - 21:00
“The Commons: of Friends & Lovers” reading and participatory performance with authors Natalia Ivanova and Marc Herbst
"The Commons: Of Friends & Lovers" was written at a time when possibilities for building open, radical commons out from public space seemed like a memory. That is, it was co-authored over the course of the 2020 to 2021 Covid lockdowns. But the common sensibility shared by the book’s authors, Natalia Ivanova and Marc Herbst, is one of attending to the relations that compose and bind the micro- and macro- politics that determine the fates and ways of individual and common being. Covid seemed to only increase an awareness of the intimate politics of those relations.
Saturday, January 20th, 2024
17:00 - 19:00
Censoring Palestine: Screening and Q&A with Dan Glass, Jad Salfiand Tobias den Haan
Join us for a screening of Censoring Palestine: The Weaponization of Anti-Semitism by Dan Glass, followed by Germany's Palestine Problem, directed byJad Salfiti. A post-screening Q&A with Dan Glass (author, artist, activist) and Tobias den Haan (researcher at the European Legal Support Center) will explore the challenges artists and activists face in standing in solidarity with anti-war movements.
Dan Glass is an author, artist, LGBTQ activist, and ACT UP member influenced by his Holocaust-survivor grandparents. He works with movements like Beautiful Trouble and Training for Transformation, advocating for transformative action and solidarity.
Jad Salfiti
Based in Berlin, Jad Salfiti is a British-Palestinian journalist specializing in the intersection of culture and politics. He frequently contributes video reports to BBC’s Talking Movies and is a host on ARTE Europe Weekly. He has written extensively for a wide range of media, including The Guardian, Financial Times, and Al Jazeera English.
Tobias den Haan
Tobias is based in Berlin and is a Monitoring Project researcher at the European Legal Support Center. The ELSC intervenes to end arbitrary restrictions and criminalisation of advocacy. The Monitoring Project is there to map, track, and raise awareness about the repressive measures used by European governments to impede and criminalise the Palestine solidarity movement.
Sunday, January 21st, 2024
12:00 - 14:00
Connecting the world takes every one of us, 2021
Video with sound, 6 min
As an artist and researcher, Benjamin Gerdes explores the technological infrastructures that shape contemporary communication, mobility, and social life. He highlights the hidden, material foundations behind seemingly immaterial digital processes—like streaming a movie, online shopping, or cashless payments. These activities depend on vast networks of data transmission cables, warehouses, and data centers that often go unnoticed by the public. Gerdes' work exposes the environmental impact of these systems, revealing how they rely on heavy industry with significant spatial and electrical demands. Despite the perception of "cloud" storage as weightless and intangible, the physical infrastructure required to power and store data contributes to 2% of global emissions, a carbon footprint comparable to that of the aviation industry. Through his montages, Gerdes makes visible the environmental burden of our digital lives.
Det är ju alltid ett jättejobb att hålla ihop ett kollektiv ("It is always a hard job keeping a collective together"), 2021
Video with sound, 43 min
From 2016 until 2019, a highly public conflict raged between the Swedish Dockworkers Union and the employer APM Terminals in the Gothenburg container port. From the workers’ perspective, the dispute, which led to a national strike and lockouts in ports across Sweden, was about working conditions and opportunities for influence in the workplace.
In Gerdes’s film, the dockworkers reflect on the conflict two years later, and also on how working in the harbor impacts their relationships with family and friends. In contrast to most of the media reports about the negotiations, Gerdes’s film features the workers’ personal stories. An underlying theme is how the specific conflict illuminates the tension between a local struggle for democracy and justice and the global system and infrastructures that encompass jobs in the harbor through multi-national corporations and flows of goods. --2021 Gothenburg International Biennial of Art
