For some time now, artist Elske Rosenfeld has been exploring dissident politics and artistic practices in the former GDR and the period around 1989/90. Her work features simultaneously in two exhibition projects at the nGbK, both on view during Berlin Art Week. We spoke with Rosenfeld about US civil rights activist Angela Davis and the power of embrace, about historiography and depots, about dissidence, dissonance, gaps in funding policy and the problem with the word ›collective‹.