Cuerpos de Tierra — Earth Bodies
Workshop with Martha Hincapié Charry
September 11, 2026, 1-3 pm | German/English
STUDIO, Radialsystem, Berlin
The Cosmic Body
Workshop with Dr. Rajyashree Ramesh
September 11, 2026, 3:30-5:30 pm | German/English
STUDIO, Radialsystem, Berlin
Amazonia 2040
Lecture-Performance with Martha Hincapié Charry
September 12, 2026, 4-6 pm | English
SAAL, Radialsystem, Berlin
The Cosmic Body
Lecture-Performance with Dr. Rajyashree Ramesh
September 12, 2026, 4-6 pm | English
SAAL, Radialsystem, Berlin
On Unarriving
Performance by Sage Ni‘Ja Whitson
September 12, 2026, 6:30–7:15 pm | English
STUDIO, Radialsystem, Berlin
What do we mean when we talk about bodies? Contemporary artistic approaches challenge the notion of a “neutral” body in Western dance, revealing it as historically and culturally constructed. In Indigenous and non-Western knowledge systems, the body emerges not as a malleable object, but as a carrier of memory, relation, and meaning. The artistic practices of Dr. Rajyashree Ramesh, Martha Hincapié Charry, and Sage Ni’Ja Whitson present the body as a site where history, emotion, knowledge, and environment intersect: In The Cosmic Body, Ramesh conceives of the body as part of cosmic orders; in Amazonia 2040, Hincapié Charry views it as an ecofeminist territory in which (de)colonial and ecological issues are inscribed; and in their performance On Unarriving Whitson, who lives in Berlin as a fellow of DAAD Artists-in-Berlin, approaches dark matter and dark energy as sacred and cosmic technology. Movement becomes a practice of reconnection — with territory, cosmology, and community — and at the same time an act of resilience and resistance.
LA PALABRE Space — Tea, Reading & Resting Room
September 12, 2–9 p.m.
KUBUS, Radialsystem, Berlin
Tea, Reading & Resting Room with artistic interventions. The programme at LA PALABRE Space is curated by Arantxa Ciafrino. On 12 September, LA PALABRE Space featured the dancing project Coole Kinder. More information on the LA PALABRE Space can be found here.
The series UNEXPECTED LESSONS — Knowledges of Body and Sound is funded by the LOTTO Foundation Berlin. In cooperation with the Betty Center for Movement Research in Dance Studies at LMU Munich.