References, our sponsor's list (2)

for our queer& feminist archive study visit in Berlin, our sponsor sent us the following information. saved it here for our achieving:

Creamcake – Creamcake is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary platform negotiating the point of convergence in music, visual art, and performance, as well as digital culture and the contemporary discourse surrounding it. Presenting artists whose work is characterized by intersectional, feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches,..."we aim to produce and navigate experiences outside of normative social structures by providing a critical engagement with these perspectives. We provide a stage where dominant power structures and their effects on technology, sexuality, identity, and the creative arts can be explored".

Oyoun - Oyoun conceives, develops, and implements artistic-cultural projects through decolonial, queer feminist and migrant perspectives. Oyoun creates space for critical discussion, reflective experimentation, and radical solidarity. Thanks to its diverse cultural offerings, Oyoun is a hub for the production of culture and knowledge. The non-profit cultural centre sees itself as an inter- and anti-disciplinary platform for newly emerging approaches between and from the fields of fine arts, performance art, theatre, literature, dance, music, new media, socio-culture, education, and much more.

– comment: Oyoun’s funding has been cut after a controversy around their positioning and invitation policies in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on 7 October. Oyoun as an institution and a space will consequently most likely not exist anymore next year. Yet, it might be interesting for Nhung and Linh to get in touch with the team of Oyoun.

Art Laboratory Berlin - The multiple award winning art and research platform Art Laboratory Berlin (ALB) presents interdisciplinary art projects in an international context. Our main goal is the presentation, research, publication and mediation of contemporary art at the interface of art, science and technology. “… the current series Permeable Bodies with artistic and feminist explorations of embodiment and identity in flux, as well as an investigation of our interconnection and interaction with the environment around them.”

– comment: not a queer space per se, but potentially interesting for its bringing together of natural sciences and art/philosophical discourses.

District Berlin - District: School without Center is a queer feminist art space and cultural center in Berlin. Since 2009 it has been working as a place for development and reflection for artistic research and practice, critical educational work, trans*disciplinary cultural work, and emancipatory knowledge and theory production. Rooted in intersectional, antidiscriminatory and decolonial approaches, their work is based on collaborative formats and a trans*local network of practitioners and initiatives, communities, and ecologies.

Berlinische Galerie – investigated queerness in its collections in the project “Out and About”: Many objects in the collection of the Berlinische Galerie have direct or indirect connections to queer subject matter: because the artists are or were members of the community, or because their art navigates issues of gender identity and sexual orientation. For example, works by Nan Goldin (* 1953), Hannah Höch (1889–1978) and Herbert Tobias (1924–1982) represent perspectives of the LGBTQI* (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and inter*) communities that are too often overlooked. The online project "Out and About", initiated by trainees of the Berlinische Galerie, investigates the queer legibilities of photographs, paintings, works on paper and one piece of video art. Giving voice to a diversity of perspectives, outside authors were invited to respond to selected objects.

FFBIZ//Das feministische Archiv – feminist archive Berlin; unfortunately no English website Archiv der Jugendkulturen – not a queer archive but possibly with links to queer archiving around questions of youth cultures.

EisenHerz – queer bookshop with history in Berlin gay scene

She said – a new queer/feminist bookshop in Berlin; beyond having a coffee there, the artists might get some news and flyers about what is happening in the scene.

Schwules Museum (The Gay Museum) frontpage - Schwules Museum Berlin (that’s very interesting re: archive!)

Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW | Haus der Kulturen der Welt:

SAVVY Contemporary: The Laboratory of Form-Ideas S A V V Y Contemporary (savvycontemporary.com)

Memorial to the Persecuted Homosexuals under National Socialism - Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (stiftung-denkmal.de)4