Common Ground 2023

Interdisciplinary encounters, daadgalerie, May 17 to June 11, 2023

Discussions, concerts, readings, performances, screenings, workshops
with current and former fellows of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program

From May 17 to June 11, 2023, the interdisciplinary series Common Ground will be condensed into a platform presenting multiple events each week. As part of this, Namibian sound researcher Memory Biwa and South African musician Robert Machiri—both part of the collective Listening At Pungwe (fellows 2021)—will transform the daadgalerie into a space for improvisation, collaboration, and exchange. Current and former fellows of the Artists-in-Berlin Program will use the space to present their work and initiate discussion. Common Ground operates between various fields of playful engagement and inquiry and alludes to potential points of overlap: the ongoing legacies of colonial power structures and extractivist processes, an examination of borders and territories, of collective action as protest, of forms of life transcending the human, and experimentation and poetry. During Common Ground, the free-form gallery space will be constantly transformed and also offer opportunities to access the Artists-in-Berlin Program archive. Visitors will be invited to draw on walls, swap books, view historical video and film works, or play music.

Mapping the Archive presents digitized audio visual works by former fellows and ephemera from the archive of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program by:

Corinne & Arthur Cantrill, Alvin Curran with Cora (Emens) & Willem de Ridder, Stephen Dwoskin, Daniel Eisenberg, Joan Jonas, Richard Kostelanetz with Martin Koerber, Ken Kobland, Clemens Klopfenstein, David Lamelas, Michael Morris, Shelly Silver, Vincent Trasov, Lawrence Weiner, Stephen Willats, Jane & Louise Wilson