Hinterland utopias
Talk im BAW Garten in Kooperation mit Texte zur Kunst
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WC accessible to wheelchairs
Parking for people with disabilities
We consider accessibility crucial to the success of Berlin Art Week—all of our guests should feel comfortable and welcome. We hope we can ease your visit to BAW Garten this year with the following information. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us: [email protected]
- This year, BAW Garten will not be entirely barrier-free, since the grounds around Gropius Bau are cobblestoned.
- The following areas are equipped with anti-slide mats for wheelchairs, baby carriages, etc.: the food area, the talk stage, the workshop area, and the open air cinema.
- There are barrier-free lavatories available both inside Gropius Bau and in the outdoors area.
- If you require assistance to access the non-barrier-free parts of BAW Garten, please ask the security or the location managers at the Info Point.
- The closest barrier-free public transport stops are S+U-Bahnhof Potsdamer Platz, which is reached using the lines U2, S1, S2 und S25 and the bus stops M29 (Anhalter Bahnhof) or M41 (Abgeordnetenhaus). If you have any questions or difficulties, please contact the mobility service of Deutsche Bahn, 030 65212888.
- If you arrive by car, at the Gropius Bau are a limited number of barrier-free parking spaces available.
The title of the September issue of Texte zur Kunst, ›Country‹, is ambiguous: On the one hand, it explores specific ideas of rural life and the cultural-historical implications associated with them, which are closely linked to the ongoing exodus of Berlin’s cultural workers from the city. On the other hand, its articles address the political situation in our own country: The conversation will touch on both of these subjects. Pop culture theorist Diedrich Diederichsen and musician Gudrun Gut have themselves moved to the countryside outside Berlin. Gut’s second home is not only the setting of her documentary series ›Gut‹; in this issue of TZK, editor Anna Sinofzik also explores the Uckermark as one of the locations of the UM Festival, cofounded by Gut, which brings contemporary art, music, and literature to the region every two years. The Fusion Festival, where queer communist activist and political educator Mine Pleasure Bouvar DJed this year, also relies on rural space to live out social utopia on a temporary basis. But to what extent is the ›illusion of techno-holiday-communism‹, as Pleasure Bouvar calls it, still valid? At BAW Garten, Diederichsen, Gut, and Pleasure Bouvar speak with Sinofzik about the pleasure of the country outing lived out among Berlin’s creatives and musicians in the context of (sub)cultural narratives. What is the state of utopias in the hinterland today?
Moderation: Anna Sinofzik (editor Texte zur Kunst)
in German