ATELIER No. 72 – Plattform für neue Kunst und Choreographie

PROGRAMME

The evening begins at 7 p.m. with film screenings by Kamala Dubrovnik and Rediet Haddis Yalew, which will run on a loop until 11 p.m. The performances will take place at staggered intervals starting at 7:30 p.m. and can be viewed one after another.

7:30 - 7:50 p.m. | Conservatory
Paula Montecinos Oliva – ›Sonic Feminist Fabulations (SFF)‹
Radio-Performance

In ›Sonic Feminist Fabulations‹, a live radio broadcast performance, Paula Montecinos Oliva explores the entanglements between sound, bodies, minerals, and processes of decay. This iteration for this year’s edition of ›Atelier‹ engages with themes of extraction, displacement, and diasporic memory, drawing connections between mining sacrifice zones in Andean territories and the invisible infrastructures that shape contemporary technological life. Guided by a dancing figure, the audience is invited to a sound walk experience via cell phones and headphones in which narratives and presences coexist across distance and time.

Please bring your own headphones and mobile phones.

8 - 8:20 p.m. | Terrace
Ja Jess with Andras Meneses Sousa & Rebecca de Toro – ›Proportions of the Missing‹
Performance

In ›Proportions of the Missing‹, Ja Jess explores how social rituals are being inscribed in bodies and landscapes. On the grounds of PACT, Ja Jess is laying out a path using former gravestones, which get typically shredded and reused in city architecture once their memorial purpose has ended. The performance, presented in collaboration with Andras Meneses Sousa and Rebecca de Toro, traces the routes of so-called “Laufhorizonte” across the pre-industrial area, reimagining buried paths and fugitive existences.

9 - 9:20 p.m. | Stairwell
Asad Ali Zulfiqar & Mandeep Raikhy – ›Unpartitioning Bodies‹
Performance / Dance

Asad Ali Zulfiqar and Mandeep Raikhy, artists from Pakistan and India, present ›Unpartitioning Bodies‹, a dance piece that not only acknowledges but actively deconstructs their intervowen histories. Through movement and shared embodied experience, they seek to 'unpartition' bodies that have been historically and politically fragmented. Chimère, a multimodal AI, and the visual artist Jonathan O’Hear have been invited into the conversation, adding a layer of fictional reality to this exchange. The piece was created during their residency at PACT.

9:30 - 9:50 p.m. | Small Stage
.DENCUENTRO – ›SINP'A conternura radical (Excerpt)‹
Performance / Dance

.DENCUENTRO presents an adapted excerpt of ›SINP’A‹ – a performance of encounter and disencounter inspired by the traditional forms of expression of the tinku in Bolivia. The work reflects how the experience of approaching this dance and ritual has transformed the bodies and identities of the collective’s contemporary dancers, who were raised in South America. With ›SINP’A‹, they honor the strength and care involved in the mutual act of braiding each other's hair, the presence of the Apus and more-than-human bodies as part of their identity, as well as the encounters and tensions within the culture of tinku.

10 - 10:30 p.m. | Main Stage
allapopp – ›Why is there no Tatar Science Fiction?‹
Sound-Performance

The question ›Why is there no Tatar science fiction?‹ is at the heart of allapopp’s artistic research. For ›ATELIER No. 72‹ allapopp presents a sound performance that creates a space that keeps Tatar culture alive while simultaneously imagining futures beyond preservation. The performance is based on a sound AI instrument trained on a self-compiled collection of recordings from family archives of rural Tatar choral singing, which brings these voices into the present.

7 - 11 p.m. / 15 min. & 5 min. on repeat | Trafohaus
Kamala Dubrovnik – ›There will always be a crack in the wall‹
Filmscreening / Installation

In the experimental short film ›There will always be a crack in the wall‹, Kamala Dubrovnik weaves together heterogeneous footage into a poetic narrative about origin, memory, and communication across generations and cultures. Its starting point is a journey made by father and daughter from Germany to Jalandhar in the Punjab, India – a return that is simultaneously an approach and a confrontation. The film draws on three sources: documentary recordings of Indian weddings from the late 1980s, the father's personal camcorder videos from the early 1990s, and the daughter's own images from Jalandhar today.

Kamala Dubrovnik – ›Untitled‹
Filmscreening

The experimental short film ›Untitled‹ is based on a WDR radio broadcast from 1986. It features an interview with members of the Association for Women Married to Foreigners in Münster, including the artist’s mother, who recounts her experiences with German authorities and in her marriage. In the video, the mother’s narrative is visually rendered through lip-syncing.

7-11 p.m. / 16 min. on repeat | Studio 1
Rediet H. Yalew – ›sKINs: Addis Abeba‹
Filmscreening / Installation

Rediet Haddis Yalew, currently a resident at PACT, offers insights into her cinematic exploration of migration and cultural transformation with ›sKINs: Addis Abeba‹. Her sKINs series uses film as a living archive and examines how the movement of people, aesthetics, and ideas continually reshapes identity. ›sKINs: Dire Dawa‹ traced the cultural interconnections of Ethiopia’s railway city, ›sKINs: Addis Abeba‹ follows youth movements and shifting urban imaginaries across 130 years of Ethiopian history.