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How can the Fly eat the Elephant?

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Pic: sideviews

9qm of Knowledge from Society

Having been invited to participate in the program for the exhibition “What is enlightenment? Questions for the eighteenth century” organized by the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum), Berlin, the Schattenmuseum  (Shadow Museum) has adopted a distinctive approach to the subject. It views the cultural moment of the Aufklärung as an ongoing project rather than a closed historical chapter. For the Shadow Museum, this „Aufklärung in progress“ entails maintaining a critical perspective on culture and society while rejecting all forms of dogmatism.

As part of its contribution, the Schattenmuseum (Shadow Museum) created a space within the exhibition titled 9qm of Knowledge from Society. This space featured a “knowledge repository” inviting visitors to answer a series of questions, with their responses displayed for others to read and reflect upon. The questions and the space addressed topics such as governance, social justice, and the role of the museum as a platform for open debate.

Central to the display were the images of a fly and an elephant, symbolizing a constant dynamic of power. Visitors were challenged to consider a possibility: Wie kann die Fliege den Elefanten fressen? (How can the fly eat the elephant?).

The Shadow Museum also offers interactive performances to activate the space and invite visitors to enter into dialogue with each other, moderated by the Shadow Museum.

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CAELIUS JUVENILIS – Episode III: The Aliens Time Travel to the GDR and its “Brother Countries”

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The Shadow Museum, a collective of young people seeking alternative approaches to the museum institution for several years, is now exploring the history of former “contract workers” from the so-called “brother countries” of the GDR together with sideviews. From the perspective of aliens, the young people examine how the then “brother countries policy” affects current societal issues such as racism and discrimination, based on their life experiences and the exhibition Echos der Bruderländer at the House of World Cultures (HKW). The artistic research of the Shadow Museum is presented at the HKW as an interactive, playful, and extraterrestrial symposium.

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By/with Laith Azimi, Anna Bartels, Lou Braun, Romy Drieschner, Mariama Juric, Sharon Morane Momo, Elis Nägele, Phanuel Nlend Nlend, Elijah Sagor, Elona Sagor, Anja Scheffer, Moritz Scheffer, Cem Yildiz and the contemporary witnesses Mavinga P. Petrasch, Wilma Florath, Monika Kegel, Anja Paetsch

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Foto Jamila Grote

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Caelius Juvenilis – The Return of the Aliens

Episode I: O Quilombismo

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The aliens are back at the HKW: For the exhibition O Quilombismo, the Shadow Museum is staging a performative game in the HKW. From the perspective of aliens of the species Caelius Juvenilis, it juggles with different perspectives, takes biographies of artists, members of the Shadow Museum and their family archives, as well as from further interviews. The result is an interactive game in which visitors are invited to adopt different, new perspectives, to engage with “foreign” and fictitious biographies, and to move through the game in the process. Artistic framing is provided by a spoken chorus and interactive dialogues of the aliens, documenting the research results of the Shadow Museum as a collage of fragments from interviews, archival research, literary texts, contents of the Quilombismo exhibition, etc. 

PERFORMANCE Aliens (in German language)

Making Of – How to become a good Alien (in German Language):

Artistic Research:

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Further information:

https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/schattenmuseum/caelius-juvenilis-episode-i-o-quilombismo

This project was funded by:

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GOAL 17 – Children make the world!

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What will the world look like in 30 years? Who decides on the measures to combat climate change? What role do money or human or children’s rights play? What would I change if I had something to say?

GOAL 17 is a project by and with two mixed 4th, 5th and 6th grade classes of the Nürtingen primary school in Kreuzberg, Berlin. As part of a creative research project, 45 children examined the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals and associated global and social problems.

In the first project phase, different thematic and methodological approaches were developed in the context of an interview workshop: The students approached the 17 goals and developed questions, researched their environment, conducted interviews with experts and exchanged ideas with adults, i.e. the generations that are currently setting the agenda for their future.

The interviews became the basis of a large three week artistic play workshop, in which the children increasingly became experts themselves, imagining a possible future together. Accompanied by five artists from the fields of music, theatrical improvisation, visual arts, stage and costume design, they became curators of their own research material, designing their own visions of the future and means of involvement in it. They employed the diversity of the group and the potential this provided to understand the global situation, its power relations, its definition of knowledge and their participation with it.

Video Interview Workshop GOAL 17:

The final presentation of GOAL 17 – Children make the world! was a creative vision of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, exhibiting living and negotiation spaces, global communication structures and fictitious forms of coexistence for all citizens of the world . The children celebrated their collective proposal, presented to the public performatively and interactively as a large manifesto created by children for children and adults. 

Videodocumentation artistic play workshop

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We would like to thank all interviewees for giving us their time and knowledge!

We would also like to thank our funding partners:

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Caelius Juvenilis

An Alien Encounter

As participants in the House of World Cultures (HKW-Berlin) program “All Life. An Archive Project”, in which topics such as collective memory and accessibility of knowledge were discussed, the Shadow Museum proposed an intervention that addressed the memory of the institution itself. The Youth Committee used science fiction as a framework in which new institutional questions could be discussed, with the intention of making HKW the focus. The members of the Shadow Museum regarded the HKW as a spaceship and reinvented themselves as aliens on planet Earth. In the position of the ultimate stranger, they examined life on Earth, for example on issues such as decolonization, equality and diversity, offering a critical perspective on the institution’s approach to these issues.

This interactive performance was performed five times at the House of World Cultures (HKW-Berlin), taking the film “Caelius Juvenilis – An Extraterrestrial Encounter” as its point of origin.

For more information:

https://www.hkw.de/de/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_218227.php?fbclid=IwAR1VhW-q4t1oWADKBajerlx9NluJdEmnIvjiVoOMk3IXr11gyHmA3-lbktI

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SIRIBOX on Tour


Hey Siri! What is a curator?

The project Hey Siri! What is a Curator? was initiated in 2019 as an artistic laboratory: 50 children and young people explored, questioned, and identified their personal expectations, experiences, and interests using artistic methods in collaboration with the Berlinische Galerie, a museum in Berlin. They opened up practical fields of action, understood as an experimental space between museum and school. A variety of interactive experiments, instructions, and suggestions invite engagement with a work, the museum, and its visitors.

The SIRIBOX

The SIRIBOX emerged from this project. It is the result of the collaborative research process and contains all the experiments and interactive instructions created by the children. Each SIRIBOX is a unique piece. The experiments can be taken out of the box individually and tried out. The SIRIBOX was handcrafted in a limited edition of 40 copies. We view the essays, memories, reports, and experiments contained within the SIRIBOX as both a critical examination and a constructive commentary on the collaborative practice.

In this sense, the narratives open up pathways to reconsider why certain people visit museums while others do not. They can serve as starting points for discussions to reflect on and further develop current educational practices, as well as inspire the use of the space between museum and school as an experimental field for exploring new ways of engagement.

ACTIVATION of the SIRIBOX

The Schattenmuseum conducts performative tours with the SIRIBOX in museums/exhibition spaces, in German and/or English. These tours are suitable for both children and adults. The tours have already been successfully held at several institutions, including: HKW/House of World Cultures, KW-Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), BerlinBiennale, Berlinische Galerie, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art (Aalborg, Denmark), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Haus Bastian / Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin.

If you are interested in activating the SIRIBOX at your institution, feel free to contact us!

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The SIRIBOX mini

In 2021, the SIRIBOX was further developed in collaboration with KW-Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin) and the sideviews project Schattenmuseum (Shadow Museum) into a digital app. The SIRIBOX mini can be used not only in exhibition spaces but also in urban areas. You can download the SIRIBOX mini for free here:

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THE ORIGINAL – limited edition

The original SIRIBOX is available upon request for those interested. Applications are reviewed by the Schattenmuseum (Shadow Museum). Contact information and some SIRIBOX owners can be found here:

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    SIRIBOX Mini

    SIRBOX Mini is the digital derivative of SIRIBOX*.

    Users can interact through play with concealed aspects and content in works of art, exhibitions, urban spaces and other settings.

    SIRIBOX Mini was developed as part of Open Secret** by the Schattenmuseum Youth Committee in an examination of the programme and history of the KW gallery in Berlin and produced as an app. Users can add their own experiments to the app and store them in situ.

    Download SIRIBOX Mini:

    SIRIBOX Mini Appstore

    SIRIBOX Mini Android

    *The SIRIBOX was a 2019 collaborative creation between the Schattenmuseum Youth Committee and 456  class pupils of the Nürtingen elementary school and their teacher Wiebke Janzen in cooperation with sideviews e. V. and the Berlinische Galerie.

    **Open Secret: https://opensecret.kw-berlin.de/de/artwork/siribox-mini/

    KW Institute for Contemporary Art has been sponsoring the app since 2021.

    The SIRIBOX Mini could be realized with the financial support of:

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    The CITY PHARMACY in HKW

    The pharmacy is a place of medicine and knowledge. The city bears disease, wounds, scars and ailments. What defines a city pharmacy?

    In this intergenerational artistic research project, students from the Nürtingen primary school together with their teacher, sideviews artists, the Schattenmuseum youth committee and two retired pharmacists investigate plants and other remedies in the urban space. In an exploration of the city’s pressure points, the city pharmacy collects, archives and publishes knowledge. In addition to this custodianship of interest in (medicinal) plants and habitats, it preserves old knowledge both for future generations to activate self-healing powers and also to ensure that healing is not left exclusively in the hands of other. Plant ambassadors exhibit the resulting plant archives in a variety of ways: a combination of experimental, choral, choreographic and research tools creates a walk-in interactive space – a living archive. The presentation is supported by a guest appearance by the one-off play garments from Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf. 

    The city pharmacy was presented as an interactive exhibition and performance as part of the Schools of Tomorrow festival on November 18-19, 2021 in the House of World Cultures in Berlin.

    Here you find our VIDEO DOCUMENTATION (in German language).

    More information at 

    https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2021/schools_of_tomorrow_2021/start.php

    https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2021/schools_of_tomorrow_2021/schulprojekte_schools_of_tomorrow_3/nuertingen_schule.php
    https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_187763.php

    STADTAPOTHEKE  is a project by and with 

    Alaa Asmin Ava Bedirhan Béla Cem Eddie Elijah Elisa Elona Emir Han Ena Hiranur Inés Jacek Josef Karla Lino Mariama Mohammed  Saleh Niya Oghuzan Pauline Puma Raziye Robert Romy Selma Suvi Tuana Tunç Vito Zamiel Zahraa Abdul-Hamid Silke Ballath Hannelore Eckert Dr. Wilma Florath Wiebke Janzen Monika Kegel Seraphina Lenz Dr. Hans-Heino Luxa Tomma Luxa Kirsten Müller Bodo Orejuela Anja Paetsch Carla Petermann Ilka Saegebarth Anja Scheffer Moritz Scheffer

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    38-40 rooms: In the KW Institute for Contemporary Art

    As part of the anniversary weekend of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Schattenmuseum Youth Committee occupy three rooms of the project 37 Rooms REVISITED with Room 38-40, Back to ME and a new edition of our Game of Life.

    For Kunst-Werke Berlin, the year 1992 was distinguished by the realization of the 37 Rooms exhibition. Taking place parallel to the opening of documenta IX in Kassel, it drew in at short notice a large number of Berlin-based artists, curators and critics who staged 37 Rooms along Auguststrasse. 

    Today, 37 Rooms can be regarded as a prototype for the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. On September 18 and 19, 2021 the concept of 37 rooms was reanimated in the neighbourhood,  as visitors were led through the courtyards of the Scheunenviertel to Auguststrasse 69. Both days featured a program of performance and music, including interventions by Schattenmuseum Youth Committee collective, playfully confronting the (archive) structures and inception processes of a contemporary art institution. 

    Room 38-40


    Room 38: KW Archives x Schattenmuseum Youth Committee: Room 38-40 

    Taking its spur from the KW archive and early projects, the Schattenmuseum Youth Committee infiltrates the KW by means of an interactive intervention, central to which is the photographic slide. Visitors are invited to develop and curate exhibition concepts for their own spaces, accompanied by the Schattenmuseum Youth Committee. Guided tours, experiments and performative workshops form the framework for an archive and slide workshop for all visitors. 

    Room 39: Schattenmuseum Youth Committee: Back to ME 

    Back to ME is an installation curated by the Schattenmuseum Youth Committee on the occasion of KW’s 30th anniversary. The young people open up an interactive space that invites visitors to engage with themselves. Here, the prejudices of others can be separated from the perception of self. The space offers an intimate atmosphere for self-reflection  which, in turn, functions as a space for silent communication. 

    Room 40: Schattenmuseum Youth Committee:  Game of Life

    In the Game of Life, visitors use various event cards to go through a fictitious curriculum vitae dedicated to questions of identity, community, love, gender and migration. For the 30th anniversary, the Schattenmuseum Youth Committee presents an updated version of this game, originally created in 2018 as part of the exhibition A for Jewish as a cooperation between the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Schattenmuseum Youth Committee.


    Further information about the programme is available here: https://www.kw-berlin.de/30-jahre-kw-jubilaeumswochenhttps://www.kw-berlin.de/en/30-years-of-kw-anniversary-weekend/ende/

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    The City Pharmacy: Sharing lost knowledge

    Which plants live in the urban space of Berlin and how do you detect them? Are they poisonous? Or edible? Can they even heal? How do we use them? Where do they live and how do they survive there? The city pharmacy goes in search of old, almost lost knowledge. The urban space becomes an object of research and a laboratory. What can a plant say about itself and its environment? About the city and its wounds? What does the term migrant plant or pioneer plant mean? Which artistic translations are suitable? How can a living archive be created?

    For more than a year, the Stadtapotheke has been conducting intergenerational research: with the Nürtingen elementary school in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the artists Anja Scheffer and Seraphina Lenz, the retired pharmacists Tomma and Heino Luxa and a 456 grade class and their teacher Wiebke Janzen, accompanied by Silke Ballath. The project deals with the research and dissemination of knowledge and seeks to develop new forms of transmission, with research methods alternating between scientific and creative-performative approaches. All of the materials produced is archived and presented in the House of World Cultures as part of “Schools of Tomorrow”.

    Arising from its year-long research process, the Stadtapotheke has also forged contacts with various partners in the context of Global Roots, an Erasmus+ project. Its approaches, strategies and procedures reflect and develop ideas and suggestions and the experiences are shared with other participants. In addition, the Global Roots project participants are jointly developing a tool for the drawing together and reflection on the respective experiences. Similarities and differences of the respective processes are made visible and negotiable. Proposals for project ideas, collaboration between artists and elementary schools, as well as diverse areas of interest between art and science are published. The collaboration of the participating teams from the different countries informs the way in which the Global Roots project is documented.

    The aim of the Global Roots project is to highlight how arts and culture can encourage teachers in primary education to create a sustainable learning environment in which children can reflect and develop their relationship to today’s world. Partnerships between people from art / culture and primary school education challenge the mind-set and working processes of both professional groups and develop new approaches to convey to children notions of active global citizenship and sustainable development.

    VIDEO DOCUMENATATION (in German language)

    The one-year research process of the city pharmacy took place as part of  Schools of Tomorrow in cooperation with the House of World Cultures, as well as with the Programm Kulturagenten für kreative Schulen Berlin and as part of Urbane Botanik III: Räume des Gemeinschaffens.