TAKE aSEAT. MAKE aSHIFT

Name: TAKE aSEAT. MAKE aSHIFT
Start: 2025-09-20T17:00:00+02:00
Location: KULTURFABRIK Moabit

Schedule

Sat, 20 Sep, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

KULTURFABRIK Moabit | Berlin, BE

Circulations
during TAKE aSEAT.Make aSHIFT exhibition
by de_colonialanguage collective and Irina Denkmann
https://www.instagram.com/de_colonialanguage/
The imagination on institutions collapsed.
In these ruins remained questions, disappointments, strategy changes, and completely wonderful tactics of collectivity. While institutions of various sizes measure themselves against their level of (un)entanglement in wars and war crimes, grassroots collectives engage in anti-war imagination, practices of resistance, and alternative ways of life beyond media-fabricated “truth”. Between the dystopian reality of institutions and the absent utopia, there is a space for mutual care and collective practices. If “reality” is occupied by colonial and capitalist fantasies, then the space of collectivity we are talking about is not reality, it is life itself.
The exhibition aims to bring together a series of projects targeting the discrepancy between words and deeds, the dysfunction of institutional representation, and the knowledge shortcomings. Throughout these series of Circulation-events, the logic of taking a SEAT has shifted. The analysis moved from the idea of searching for a place to exist at the beginning, to reflecting on the act of occupying a place, where seating together, claiming the right to write one’s own story, and radical collectivity are placed on the same page.
Artists
Ani Menua, Bouillon Group, de_colonialanguage collective, Eldar Tagi, Lena Pozdnyakova, Leo Efet, Leroy Berger, maqaal collective, Nazira Saduaqas, Nilufer Musaeva, Salome Potskhverashvili, Viktoriia Şăltăr

This is a public program made up of conversations, sounds, sensations, and, first and foremost, togetherness. Save the dates and come together to get through difficult times and things that are hard to talk about.
september 20
17:00 – Opening Ceremony
20:00 – Sound performance by Eldar Tagi
september 21
15:00 – Trinketing, ceremony with Nilufer Musaeva
17:00 – Transindigenous Assembly film by Joulia Strauss, screening
september 24
17:30 – Curatorial tour
19:00 – Silis documentary film by Diana Khudaeva, screening
20:00 – Open conversation with film authors on the phenomenon of Sakha (Yakut) cinema
september 27
17:00 – GRASP aSEAT, book presentation + open conversation on collective practices
september 28
15:00 – Beyond the Surface and Into the Depth, workshop with lena pozdnyakova
october 4
16:00 – Thinking together on decolonisation and border abolitionism, anarchism and migration, workshop with Marina Israilova + Nearby Reading Room
october 5
15:00 – Tongues of Belongings workshop by de_colonialanguage
october 8
18:00 – the current state of Indigenous peoples in russia and their struggle against russian colonialism and war, book presentation: сollection of papers by independent Indigenous decolonial activists and researchers
20:00 – Slaystans dances at Slaughterhaus/ Kulturfabrik Moabit
october 10
18:00 – alla popp, Voices Otherwise residency presentation
october 11
17:00 – (horizontal/self-organized) Resistance to colonial practices, discussion
october 12
17:00 – Radical Collectivity: possibilities and limits, discussion
october 17
17:00 – Mixed identities and a sense of (non-)belonging, discussion
october 18
17:00 – closing ceremony
18:00 – poetry readings
19:30 – performance by Kreolex zentre
Save the dates and bring your friends with you <<
Kulturfabrik Moabit
Lehrter Str. 35, 10557 Berlin
TEAM
сuration and artistic direction: de_colonialanguage & Irina Denkmann
сo-design: Anna Sukhova + de_colonialanguage
supported by: Zukunftsstiftung Mensch und Gesellschaft (GLS Treuhand) / Dialogbüro Vienna
workshop "Beyond the Surface and Into the Depth": BVRE e.V.
residency Voices Otherwise funded by the State of Berlin (Bezirkskulturfonds Mitte)