IMPACT23 – Assembly V

Ecologies of Attention – living together beyond consumer societies

Rückblick: Yalda in bits and pieces

In der WerkStadt luden wir am 21.12. alle Interessierten ein, gemeinsam Yalda zu feiern und Rituale und Speisen kennenzulernen, die damit verbunden sind. Das Gericht Ash Reshteh, Granatäpfel, Wassermelonen, Nüsse und getrocknete Beeren gehören traditionell dazu. Gemeinsam wurden Gedichte gelesen, gekocht und gegessen. Alle, die das Fest zum ersten Mal feierten, lernten »How to Yalda!«

Retrospective: DYNAMO – Young Dance Platform NRW

Once again this year, the nrw landesbuero tanz invited children and young people from all over North Rhine-Westphalia to experience the diversity of dance together. Collectively they took over PACT, they attended dance workshops for three days, presented their own pieces on the main stage, watched a dance performance by professional choreographers, and created an interactive exhibition.

#ResidencyInsights Kukily Colectivo

»Our residency at PACT was an exciting and intense period of work on our new project XTRÆNCESTRAL, set to premiere at the Lagos Biennial in February 2024. It was also a time to come together and work on our body-based performance practice, after several years of long-distance artistic processes.«

#ResidencyInsights bacilli

»bacilli (Shotaro Yoshino, Yoshitaka Nanjo & James Jack; based in the archipelago of Japan) listen closely to the energy of microorganisms inside the soil in Zollverein—what do these bacteria inside of land say to us? In this residency we layered geological research on coal memories, oral histories with residents in Ruhr on what gives them energy today and connecting power circuits with imaginative thinking.«

Retrospektive: Residency Café Plants & Memories

Changing memories of weather phenomena or plants as sources of food and reservoirs of knowledge: the open Residency Café ›Plants & Memories‹ offered insights into the work of resident artists Razcel Jan Salvarita and aniara rodado.

Retrospective: Peer to Peer – A Month of Media Art in NRW

Marco Donnarumma on ›I Am Your Body‹

»Since being diagnosed, ten years ago, with a degenerative condition that is making me increasingly deaf, I've been reflecting intensively on the inescapable multiplicity of one's perception, embodiment, identity. I pondered, of course, also about how my artistic work could respond to such a earthly, factual matter as a drastic bodily change and the inevitability of everything that comes with it.«

#ResidencyInsights Márcio Kerber Canabarro

»When I grasp an environment is acknowledging me, I feel a strong sense of continuation, (and extension) of belonging. It might be a mutual process, where my focus gets curious to notice where I am, the place, the situation, the density of a particular room, the feelings that rise and the sensations that leave...«