WALK & TALK

Art Laboratory Berlin welcomes you to a double event – a walk with the interdisciplinary research group FERAL FIELDWORK (1 – 2 pm) and an artist talk with Käthe Wenzel (3 – 4 pm). Both projects have emerged from the MATTER OF FLUX network and festival in 2023.

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Berries, berries, berries and rosehips.
FERAL FIELDWORK back at Nasse Dreieck (AUTUMN EDITION)
Walk with Alice Cannavà, Chiara Garbellotto, and Sina Ribak

6 October 2024, 1 – 2 pm
Meeting point: Northern entrance of the Nasse Dreieck, Brehemstrasse (between house number 20 and 22), 13187 Berlin
Please register HERE.


Alice Cannavà, Chiara Garbellotto, and Sina Ribak invite you to a guided walk across the Nasse Dreieck, an untended green open area in Berlin Pankow. Under the moniker Feral Fieldwork, they will accompany you across the dense botanical, socio-political, and toxic histories of the Stadtbrache, its life forms and their materialised traces. On the basis of a previous workshop involving storytelling, multispecies embodiment, and mapping, they will also share methodological reflections on how to work with multiple sensibilities and knowledges.

Feral Fieldwork’s research and practice address urgent social and environmental issues of urban nature in Berlin from an ecofeminist perspective. Its approach builds upon historiographical, ecological, and ethnographic modes of following and weaving together actors, information, and representations, asking how to care for green niches like the Nasse Dreieck, how to stay close to their emerging liveliness against gentrification, top-down planning, over-fertilizing, drought, and other social and biological threats.

Nasse Dreieck, Berlin, 2024, photo: Sina Ribak

Feral Fieldworks’ workshop at the Nasse Dreieck, TNOC Festival, Berlin, 2024, photo: María Mejía

Nasse Dreieck, Berlin, 2024, photo: Sina Ribak

Notes about the Nasse Dreieck, from Alice Cannavà’s talk at the festival MATTER OF FLUX, Berlin, 2023

Nasse Dreiecks, Berlin, 2024, photo: Chiara Garbellotto

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COLOUR TOPOGRAPHIES
ARTIST TALK with Käthe Wenzel

6 October 2024, 3 – 4 pm
ALB, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin
No need for registration

How do we uncover the hidden colours in urban landscape? How do they change our perception of the city or open up new windows onto the city? At the last day of her exhibition Colour Topographies, artist Käthe Wenzel will reflect the processes of urban foraging and ink extraction and the possibilities of natural inks, how they affect us, and how we think about paints. Käthe, whose colour experiments are also connected partially to Nasses Dreieck, will also give a short foray into urban biocolorants, techniques of inkmaking, and material cultures of colour(s). More information about the Käthe’s exhibition here.

Käthe Wenzel: Colour Topographies, exhibition view, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2024, photo: ALB

Käthe Wenzel: Colour Topographies, exhibition view, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2024, photo: ALB

Käthe Wenzel: Colour Topographies, exhibition view, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2024, photo: ALB

Käthe Wenzel: Colour Topographies, exhibition view, Art Laboratory Berlin, 2024, photo: ALB

Alice Cannavà, Sina Ribak, Chiara Garbellotto, and Käthe Wenzel have greatly contributed to the MATTER OF FLUX network, a Berlin based FLINTA research group about art, science and technology. They took actively part in the festival MATTER OF FLUX in June 2023 at Art Laboratory Berlin and contributed to the book which was published in March 2024: „MATTER OF FLUX. Art, Biopolitics, and Networks with Care”.


Alice Cannavà is an independent editor/curator and freelance designer/coder. She studied visual arts in Milan and Vienna and currently attends courses in the history of science and technology at the TU Berlin. She edits and publishes Occulto – an independent magazine that brings together sciences, humanities, and the arts – with an evolving group of contributors and editors. She curates music, art, and discourse events in several Berlin ‘Freie Szene’ venues.

Chiara Garbellotto is an anthropologist and designer of (un)learning and (re)mediation formats through creative and playful practices. Her central interests are the hybridization of scientific epistemologies and ontologies and the participatory and multivocal counter-representation and appropriation of urban space. She is part of Fictopus, a collective working with non-linear storytelling and more-than-human worlding.

Sina Ribak is a researcher exploring the bioeconomy, land use, soil, biodiversity, and solidarity from a more-than-human and naturecultures perspective. She co-creates formats for encounters, such as the Between Us and Nature – A Reading Club. To her, social and ecological justice means being involved in a solidarity-based agriculture community and in translocal ecosystems aimed at collaboratively shifting paradigms.

Käthe Wenzel is an artist and researcher working with hybrid bodies, queer ecologies, and the structures of urban consumption. She provides machines and survival kits for the navigation of hegemonic culture and explores the knowledge of plants. Wenzel is a professor of aesthetic practice at the European University Flensburg, and she was a Fulbright Exchange Scholar in New York and a Senior Fellow at IFK/Vienna.