/ Program coordinator of AFFECT
May-October 2016
Program initiated by Agora Collective in Berlin
AFFECT at Agora
Mittelweg 50, 12053 Berlin
www.agoracollective.org/affect
affect@agoracollective.org
AFFECT 2016 was the III edition of Agora’s program for collaborative artistic practices in Berlin.
AFFECT 2016 was conceived as a 6-month-long program consisting of six consecutive modules, each led by an international artist or curator who invited participants to collectively explore a topic, develop a set of practices and research methodologies over the period of one month, culminating in a public event presented in the city of Berlin.
Resembling an immersive academy, AFFECT 2016 programme offered a diverse curriculum of workshops growing out of the research and practice of the Berlin-based facilitating artists and curators.
Judith Lavagna
# 1 WHILE WE WORK: A Temporary State of Affairs
May 2 – 28
Diego Agulló
#2 THE ARTISTIC MISSION: Dismantling professionalism in a for-profit economy?
June 1 – 29
Lorenzo Sandoval
#3 The Institute for Endotic Research: Reading Bodies
July 4 – 31
Thelma Bonavita
#4 COM(m)O(n) Club Radio
August 1 – 27
Sarah M.Lewis
#5 If you don’t pay attention to me, I WON’T PAY ATTENTION TO YOU: on the role of the collective in an attention economy
September 5 – 30
Kinderhook & Caracas (Sol Calero, Christopher Kline)
#6 CONGLOMERATE: One-Shot Sacrifice (TV Special)
October 4 – 29
Methodology / How it works
A hybrid between an educational program and a thematic artist’ residency, AFFECT proposes its participants to arrive at a final collective project based on experimentation, processuality, interdisciplinarity and critical engagement. Each module takes the form of a participatory workshop revolving around a central research question supported by a series of activities proposed by the facilitators.
Participants will have the opportunity to collectively delve into the proposed research question, bringing in their own sensibilities, practice and experience. Collective exercises, urban explorations and site visits, readings and discussions will pave the way towards the co-generation of a final event which will allow the group to share and exercise some of the module’s findings in a public format.
AFFECT 2016 premiers the new production possibilities inside Agora’s 2200m2 experimental project space in the Kindl Complex in post-industrial neighborhood of Neukölln. The current context of transformation and redevelopment of the former factory area with the creation of a Center for Contemporary Arts and Agora itself will be part of the experimental arena for the upcoming participants. Emphasis of AFFECT 2016 will be placed then in the production and presentation of the final event.
AFFECT is framed within CAPP: COLLAB ARTS PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM, a four years cross-european collaborative arena supported by Creative Europe. Under the flag of “Art in social and community contexts”, the first year of CAPP/AFFECT focused on “Artist teaching artists”.
Program credits
Project artistic direction
Caique Tizzi
Program coordination
Paz Ponce
Project documentation
Photo credits: Joana Dias and Bea Rodrigues
Archives content coordination: Paz Ponce
Project interns
Dorottya Magyar – Erasmus + . Coordinates: Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem/Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest
Darius Bogda
https://ciudadyruina.wordpress.com
Femke Fredrix
http://femkefredrix.tumblr.com/
Documentation of AFFECT 2016
- AFFECT Module I:
WHILE WE WORK: A Temporary State of Affairs
An exhibition project opened on Friday 27th May from 18:00 to 00:00
Agora Rollberg, Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin
Featuring participating artists of Module I: While We Work, facilitated by french curator Judith Lavagna| Nicole Economides (GR/US)
| Bea Rodrigues (BR)
| Clark Beaumont (Nicole Beaumont & Sarah Clark)(AU)
| Mo Ossobleh (CA)
| Yuliya Chernysh (UA)
| Johanna Gilje (US)
| Heekyung Ryu (KR)
| Kim Upstill (US)
- AFFECT Module II:
The Waiting Room AFFECT Edition – 48 Stunden Neukölln
A participatory performance presented on June 25. 2016 from 14:00 to 19:00
Agora Rollberg, Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin
Choreographed and assembled by Diego Agulló with artists from “THE ARTISTIC MISSION”:| Jessie Alice (AU)
| Saem Lee (KR)
| Remina Greenfield (US)
| Monika Karczmarczyk (PL)
| Magdalena Rua Golba (PL)
| Charles Czarnecki (US)
| Madeleine White (AU)
| Amina Muniz (BR)
| Dorottya Magyar (HU) | Kiana Rezvani (IR)*With contributions by guest artists: Pepe Dayaw, Maracuja Records and Julia B. Laperrière.
- AFFECT Module III:
Reading Bodies. A Gathering of Inner S(h)elves
Presented on Saturday 30 July 2016 from 18:00 to 22:00
Agora Rollberg, Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin
Facilitated by Lorenzo Sandoval with participating artists from “THE INSTITUTE OF ENDOTIC RESEARCH: READING BODIES”, Module III of AFFECT 2016. Coordinated by Paz Ponce.Featuring works by :
| Ally Bisshop (AU)
| Maria Cerón (ES)
| Kate Chen (US/CH)
| Maira Dietrich (BR)
| Femke Fredrix
| So Hee Kim (KR)
| Marié Nobematsu-Le Gassic (US/JP)
| Sophia Schultz (US)
| Anya Yermakova (US/RU)
| Jana Pacheco (ES)
| Paula Querido van Erven (BR)Evening program:
18:00 – 22:00 me,they, tu, nós (*Durational)
Participatory performance by Maíra Dietrich18:00 E(u)phemeral map (*20 minutes)
Performance by Jana Pacheco19:00 ____/—-\___| ` `_))___L||+(|^_^|) (*30 minutes)
Sound piece by Anya Yermakova (score) & James (piano)20:00 Body machine (*30 minutes)
Collective game inspired by Augusto Boal21:00 Will you recognize me? (*25 minutes)
Performance by María Cerón & Jana Pacheco - AFFECT Module IV
(((O)))
A sound journey through Agora Rollberg. Saturday 27th of August 2016
Agora Rollberg, Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 BerlinFeaturing participating artists of AFFECT MODULE IV: COM(m)O(n) Club Radio: Time Travel. Facilitated by the Brazilian performance artist Thelma Bonavita, coordinated by Paz Ponce
| Eugenie Rose Abbott
| Marie Beckrich
| Nati Cerutti
| Nina Corti
| So Hee Kim
| Hee Jae Kim
| Görkem Kutluer
| Chris Owen
| Paula Querido van Erven
| Amanda Staples
| Ana ValencianoVisit the Project radio channel at soundcloud:www.soundcloud.com/user-987470089
- AFFECT Module V
“BEDTIME STORIES”
Presented on Friday 30 September 2016 from 19:55 to 23:55
Agora, Mittelweg 50, 12053 BerlinFeaturing participating artists of AFFECT Module V: An Ecology Of Attention
Facilitated by Sarah Margarita Lewis. Coordinated by Paz Ponce| Carlos Franco
| Yerin Kim
| Alex Knight
| Josephine Michel
| Kyungrim Jang
| Charlotte Draycott
| Anastasiya Korotkowa
| Deb Casey - AFFECT Module VI
One-Shot (TV Special)
A film premiered at Agora Rollberg. Saturday 29th of October 2016
Agora Rollberg, Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin
AFFECT#6: CONGLOMERATE was facilitated by CONGLOMERATE.TV (Sol Calero, Dafna Maimon, Christopher Kline, Ethan Hayes-Chute and Derek Howard). One-Shot (TV Special) was produced by participating artists:| MARTA SLAVINSKA
| KATARINA HENRIKSSON
| BETH DILLON
| ANNA L. ROEDER
| JOSEPH CRAIG
| MARIA ADER
| KOTOE KARASAWA
| HANNAN JONES
| ISABELLA BENSHIMOL
| AMANDA STAPLES
| SEAMUS KILLICK
| KATE DAVIS
| FEMKE FREDRIX
| DARIUS BOGDAWatch One-Shot (TV Special)
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