Venus in Three Movements is a single-day public event presented by ACUD Galerie for Project Space Festival 2026, developed in collaboration with TABLOID Press and then later broadcast on Cashmere Radio. Taking its title from Saidiya Hartman's "Venus in Two Acts," the programme works with the echo as a feminist and decolonial sonic practice — asking what it means to carry what the archive cannot hold, and to let silence, as M. NourbeSe Philip writes, softly break.

Movement I: Jordan Deal presents a new edition of Capeforce — a shapeshifting opera rooted in Julius Eastman's sonic provocations — in the ACUD Hof and on Veteranenstrasse. Using their methodology of chaos force, live sonic and physical interventions they open a space of friction, rupture, and collective relation.

Movement II: TABLOID Press presents reading, performance, and sound in the ACUD Studio, gathering writers working with language as resistance and reclamation.

Movement III: Both are recorded to be broadcast via Refuge Worldwide— the transmission itself becoming an embodied archive.

ACUD Galerie

ACUD Galerie is the exhibition space of ACUD MACHT NEU e.V., founded in 1991 in Berlin-Mitte. Situated within Kunsthaus ACUD — that also houses a theatre, cinema, club, recording studio, and courtyard — the gallery develops its programme in dialogue with the infrastructure of the house.

The gallery invites artists and curators to conceive exhibition series and solo presentations in connection with performative, sonic, and discursive formats. Its programme engages questions of decolonisation, feminist and queer practice, embodied knowledge, post-capitalism, and multiperspectivity. Exhibitions are consistently accompanied by participatory frameworks — readings, performances, workshops, and public conversations — designed to foster sustained engagement with specific communities and publics. Projects are developed through long-term collaborative relationships with artists, researchers, cultural practitioners, and community organisers. It shares resources across the ACUD MACHT NEU network and operates as part of the independent cultural infrastructure of Berlin-Mitte.

Founded: 1991