FEATURED PROJECTS
SPEED DATING FOR ALTER EGO’S
Project Leaders:
While intensive character-building results in an interactive speed dating performance, the process also somehow involves speed-dating with yourself: matchmaking with another (hidden, extravagant, uninhibited, weird, liberating) part of yourself. Explore and develop your alter ego with a host of personality transgressors through costume, mask-making, spoken word and stagecraft!
SEEKING THE FOLLOWING COLLABORATORS
1. Interest in narrative mediums such as theatre / film / character-/world-building
2. Sewing / Costume / Make-up / Mask-Making
3. Set design / Crafting / Making / Building
4. Writing / Spoken Word
5. Acting / Performing / Drag
BODY AS RESISTANCE
Project Leaders:
"Body as Resistance" is a 20-minute video that explores the relationship between the body and territories through film. This project aims to use movement as a narrative tool to express various metaphors related to territories (including our own bodies).
SEEKING THE FOLLOW COLLABORATORS
1. Experiences related to body as it intersects with territory (borders, occupation, power, nostalgia, migration)
2. Experiences related to body as it intersects with identity (gender, race, sexual orientation, citizenship, neurology, class)
3. Experiences in body as it intersects with movement (bodily limitations, self-perception, body expression)
4. Experiences or interest in audiovisual fields (cinematography, sound, music, art, production)
NOT ANOTHER END
Project Leaders
What would the end of the world look like in a palace? Salvation lies in hyper-feminine creatures executing crisis management. The catastrophe's causes are unclear, survival options limited, causing delirium and instinctive reactions. "Not Another End" is a participatory performance, co-created in workshops by participants.
SEEKING THE FOLLOW COLLABORATORS
1. Up to 20 performers, who are familiar with performative, dance, acting, or visual arts practices
2. A sound designer, who will create the auditory landscape of the performance
3. A costume designer, who will assist with the mask / costumes creation
SPA CORE
Project Leaders:
SPACORE utilizes the aesthetics of camp and horror to discuss the actual horror of having a body under capitalism. Neoliberalism tries to pacify the working class with the promotion of superficial “wellness,” which is designed to locate suffering within the individual in order to repress political revolt.
SEEKING THE FOLLOW COLLABORATORS
1. Experience of challenges related to health as it intersects with work (labor, time, leisure, work conditions, safety, accessibility, etc)
2. Experiences of challenges related to health as it intersects with medical industry (disability, chronic illness, insurance, bureaucracy, services, access to care, diagnosis, etc)
3. Experiences of challenges related to health as it intersects with identity (race, gender, class, ability, sexual orientation, citizenship, neurotypicality/divergence, etc)
4. Interest in collaborative performance, installation, video, and sculpture.
EDIBLE LANDSCAPES
Project leaders:
A project exploring the flavours, textures, scents & sounds of wild food in the Palace landscapes. With guided foraging tours on and around the Palace land, and workshops on plant & fungal identification, fermentation and food preparation. We’ll collectively create a multi-sensory dining experience towards the end of the residency, weaving in multidisciplinary approaches to relationship to food & the land.
SEEKING THE FOLLOW COLLABORATORS
1. Foragers, fermenters, foodies, kitchen witches in spirit or practice - to discover, forage, envision & prepare wild food from the Palace lands & airs
2. Performers, musicians, sculptors, weavers, poets, creators, ritualists, creatures - to co-create a soft immersive dining experience in collaboration with mushrooms, plants & bacteria
3. Anyone wanting to deepen and explore connection with the Palace land and its non-human community
SWAMP SONG
Project Leaders:
An eco-cultural project drawing from sensory ethnographic research and merging art, storytelling, and ritual to explore embodied learning and community-building. Nurturing complex entanglements and feral otherness, the swamp becomes a mythopoetic device to connect human and nonhuman communities, inviting us to listen, learn, and sing together.
1. Artists and Performers: Dancers, performers, movement artists, bodyworkers, costume makers, set designers, writers, video/audio artists.
2. Ecology and Studies: Ecology experts, queer studies, history, mythology, decolonial practice, local residents.
3. Food and Rituals: Foragers, chefs, mixologists, witches, ritual makers.
4. Queer and Marginalized Groups: Queer and trans kin, outsiders, misfits, kinksters, sexological bodyworkers.
5. Collaborators: Berlin-based or external collaborators.
