Tues. 20.06.2023 | 18:00 - 22:00
with: Stephan Geene, Anna Herms, Judith Hopf
organized by: Cittipunkt
Screening and exhibition
Cittipunkt e.V.
Brüsseler Straße 36a, 13353 Berlin - Wedding
2 stories about voluntary work, forced leisure, refusal, agency, contradictory actions, complacency, the relationship between (self-)liberation and (self-)functionalization and more.
Story 1:
Bartleby (1999, 19 min, GER/ENG)
by Judith Hopf and Stephan Geene
With Stephan Geene, Judith Hopf, Ulrich Heinke, Marion von Osten, Kathrin Pesch, Florian Zeyfang
and
Story 2:
The Man Who Loved His Kind (2019, 15 min, GER/ENG)
by Anna Herms
With Hannes Benecke, Gina Maiwald, Maximilian Brauer, Steven Paul, Klara Reitberger and many more / Camera: Agnes Pakozdi
In addition there will be collected cittipunkt material to take home for instance about idle productivity, lifelong learning, strike, game industry, some call it theft others payment, wage labor, negative surplus value, care work, self-sabotage, against it but part of it, exit strategies, turtles, laziness, the 2000s and the invisible boss.
Cittipunkt e.V. (CP) is an independent cultural centre in Berlin, Wedding. It is run by a fluctuating group of artists and was founded in January 2022. The non-profit association (gemeinnütziger Verein) has about 10 members at the moment and these members take care of all the maintenance work that comes along with a self-organised physical space. CP has four rooms: a big space, a membership bar/café and hangout area, a library and a kitchen. So far we have organized a variety of events for different audiences, such as art shows, talks, magazine and book launches, readings, concerts, film screenings and a continuous radio show. CP also welcomes learning together (eg a monthly reading group) or getting annoying paperwork done with company (eg at a monthly tax-club).
CP is unavoidably but willfully a rather brittle entity as its members have differing ideas, agendas, beliefs, tastes, backgrounds and ways to approach things. Therefore CP’s program and public role is and should be in constant negotiation, can be incoherent, contradictory and in flux.
Seating: 20 chairs, 1 couch, 2 bar stools, 6 benches
Age groups: Suitable for all ages
Languages: English, German
If guests do not speak the language of our event, there are still visual objects to be seen that can be experienced without language.
Wheelchair users | Buggies: Ground level barrier-free access, no barrier-free restroom
Hearing impaired people: The sound of the video works is quite loud, possibly this can be heard. In addition, the exhibition texts, accompanying readers and objects in the space can be used to open up the subject matter.
Deaf people: The topic can be partially explored via exhibition texts, accompanying readers and objects in the space.
Neurodiversity: There is a reader that can be taken away and which takes up and continues the themes of the exhibition.
Blind people: We can tell something about the event and the works and partly enable haptic experience.