With works of kids & teens participating in the workshops and works by the artists Adel Abidin, Saadia Batool, Tentative Collective, Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, Irene Fernández Arcas with Werkstatt für interkulturelle Medienarbeit WIM e.V., Laura Fong Prosper, Mariana Garcia Mejia and Company, JUMU in collaboration with Arthur Sohoian, Sara Khan, Mizi Lee, Gulnur Mukazhanova, Vivian Ngozi Aghamelu, Duy Nguyen, Sina Seifee, and an archive selection from ProNATs e.V. and The Concerned For Working Children
OPENING on 29.11.2024 at 17:00 with a DJ-Set by Radiovampiro at 18:00
ON VIEW from 30.11.2024 to 24.01.2025 Thursday–Sunday 14:00–19:00
AT SAVVY Contemporary Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 Berlin
COLLABORATION INITIATIVES Orta Okul, Werkstatt für interkulturelle Medienarbeit WIM e.V., Eltern von besonderen Kindern (EvbK), RomaMoMA Nomadic Library, &&
WORKSHOPS WITH Venuca Evanán, Valentina Karga, Dudù Kouate, Leila Boukarim & Asaf Luzon, Mizi Lee with Y-Thanh Võ, Julius Nägele, &&
SAVVY Contemporary’s yearlong TRANSITIONS programme takes colonial heritage and decolonisation as facts and points us towards practices of transition. The fourth exhibition and the last segment is HISTORICAL CHILDREN: LULLABIES FROM WOUNDS TO WONDER which takes a cue from the agency of children and the youth in imagining decolonization.
The project is a collaboration with children and youth initiatives. We think and work together with children and cultural practitioners, questioning the complex notion of childhood and recognizing it as a position shifting between dependency, interdependence, and being unassisted. By witnessing and experiencing childhood in varying degrees of adulthood and mothering, we acknowledge how each is dictated by racial, social, and political hierarchies resulting in generational traumas and the inculcation of fear and self-censorship. This collaboration is an attempt at activating capacities of the imagination and agencies of a young mind in the absence of inhibitions, where it can continue to freely respond and react to stimulus and be equipped with multiple forms of expression.
With this project, we ask ourselves: How is the ethical and political agency of children and young adults situated in the current moment? Engaging in interactive and participatory actions through visual arts and crafts, the written word, oral testimonies, sonic and instrumental traditions, new media formats of film and photography, theater and other embodied practices of individual and collective storytelling, we stage HISTORICAL CHILDREN: LULLABIES FROM WOUNDS TO WONDER. It is an exhibition and a series of children and young adult commissions where creativity and conviviality become a methodology of transmitting narratives allowing children to highlight their politics. Before the opening of the exhibition, we began to work with young people whose creations are included in the exhibition. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, this creative endeavour continues and the works produced by different groups of children and young adults will be included continuously in the exhibition display.
FREE ENTRY—Donations welcome
Accessible by wheelchair
PRESS TOUR on 29.11.2024 at 13:00
For further information or to register for the press tour, please write anna.jaeger@savvy-contemporary.com
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