Common Ground: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas & Zoncy Heavenly
- daadgalerie
- Performance
- Workshop
27.05.2023 / 10:00 – 21:00
With Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Zoncy Heavenly
10:00 am – 6:00 pm, with a one-hour break
Workshop with Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Simple Stories
The focus of this workshop is on individual memory, which constitutes collective memory. Together we will paint, paste, embroider, and make patchwork pieces using clothing items or fragments brought by participants to the workshop that belong to them or a person of their choosing. Through this approach, we will reflect on personal memories and seek to firmly situate selected events in our consciousness. Our own experiences and memories of family life will play an important role, allowing us to better define our identity.
Spots are limited, please register here: roloff.berlin@daad.de
Please bring clothing items that can be used for the workshop.
Children under the age of ten must be accompanied by a parent.
4:00 pm
Listening Session
with Robert Machiri (Listening At Pungwe, Fellow 2021)
7:00 pm
Performance Zoncy Heavenly
participatory performance / collective action
45 to 75 minutes, depending on group dynamics
The evening is conceived as an experiential learning process guided by phenomenological principles. Zoncy Heavenly, a co-author and participant in the performance, will seek to engage other participants as additional co-authors in the collective action, not as individuals simply attending an art event but as unique phenomenal beings living in their present moment. The first essential step to this is an effort to rid the mind of group preconceptions about what the situation should be like, who facilitates it, and how participants are to behave. When such presumptions are let go of together, participants will be able to engage in a collective learning process centering on a negative past experience from their respective lives. When collective empathy is established through an understanding of respective ideas, behaviors, and feelings, the group is then ready to enter a revelatory space where each participant receives the other’s words that have gone unspoken. At the end of the workshop, three collective works of compassionate art are to remain in the mind-body of each participant.
Free admission
daadgalerie
Past
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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Three Sisters (Trzy Siostry), 2017, courtesy the artist
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Zoncy Heavenly, Performance