Participatory performance by members of Sickness Affinity Group // WeSync

About

Saturday 16.10.2021 at 18:00

ACUD Club

Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin

Hybrid Event - in person and live-stream

Free entry

 https://acudmachtneu.de/events/1798/its-not-your-fault-closing-event-participatory-performance-by-members-of-sickness-affinity-group/

WeSync:
Nirmala, Maria and Agnieszka got to know each other through organizing the first Reading Group meeting at Sickness Affinity Group (SAG) together at the end of 2020. The three got along really well and working together felt safe and filled with mutual care. They decided to become a mutual support group to hold space for each other, through pain and empathy and care and dissociation and trust and anxiety and other things, and to show the support by making art for one another. They call this way of being together “syncing together”. Since then they have been caring for one another through “WeSync”.

Sickness Affinity Group:
Sickness Affinity Group consists of chronically ill, disabled and care-giving artists / cultural workers, as well as people working on topics of accessibility and care. Sickness Affinity Group functions as a support group that challenges the competitive and ableist modes of working in the arts.

Self-Positioning of the artists:
Njeszka (Agnieszka Habraschka) she/they is a white queer and invisibly disabled artist and Polish immigrant, who came to Germany at the age of six, having experienced poverty and intergenerational trauma and working now around the themes of collective care, empathy, access and trauma.

Maria Morata (she/her) is a white south european cultural agent, working as a free curator and researcher. Recently she has started a long-life process of learning to live with chronic pain, which allows her to work again with reduced capacity.

Nirmala Salom (she/they) is a queer white latina of mixed ethnicity who lives with an invisible disability and who came back to making art after a long period of processing severe trauma, conflicts of identity, and grief.

The exhibition and off program is curated by Paula Durinova. The project is kindly supported by Bezirkskulturfonds Mitte and the Deutsch-Tschechischen Zukunftsfonds.

Event Infos:

You can take part in the participatory performance in person or via zoom. For in-person, the capacity of the space is limited to 30 people. No pre-registration is needed. For the participation on zoom, please see the link and information below.

Zoom:

The performance can be viewed online through this link:

https://zoom.us/j/96312392696?pwd=VzZyOWxicC9TYTl6WUdGbVdKelJLZz09

Meeting ID: 963 1239 2696

Passcode: 973022

We want to note that the performance was not conceptualized as an online performance. The online presentation is a means to watch the performance as a live stream. Unfortunately, it will not be possible to participate directly via zoom.

Corona regulations:

Please bring a mask, a test (same day) and/or proof of vaccination or recovery (3G). Wearing a face mask in all indoor areas is required. The indoor space of ACUD Club can host 30 people at the same time, following a safe physical distance.

Please check the link for all accessibility information.