HISTORICAL CHILDREN: WIEGENLIEDER ÜBER WUNDEN UND WUNDER

In the organizer's words:

RESEARCH, EXHIBITION AND INTERGENERATIONAL PROJECT

EXHIBITION WITH works by children and young people taking part in the workshops and works by the artists Adel Abidin - Saadia Batool - Tentative Collective - Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo - Irene Fernández Arcas with Werkstatt für interkulturelle Medienarbeit WIM e.V. - Laura Fong Prosper - Mariana Garcia Mejia and Company - JUMU in collaboration with Arthur Sohoian - Sara Khan - Mizi Lee - Gulnur Mukazhanova - Vivian Ngozi Aghamelu - Duy Nguyen - Sina Seifee - and an archive selection by ProNATs e.V. and The Concerned For Working Children

Free admission Donations welcome
VISIT SAVVY is accessible by wheelchair
LOCATION SAVVY Contemporary Reinickendorfer Straße 17 13347 Berlin

The exhibition HISTORICAL CHILDREN: LULLABIES FROM WOUNDS TO WONDER explores the role of children and young people in thinking about and imagining decolonization.

The project is a collaboration with children and youth initiatives. We think and work together by questioning the complex notion of childhood and recognizing it as a position that moves between dependencies, interdependencies and lack of support. By experiencing and witnessing the complexity of this notion in various degrees of adulthood and motherhood, we recognize how each of these notions are dictated by racialized and social hierarchies as well as familial trauma, and how fear and self-censorship are instilled. This collaboration is an attempt to activate the imagination and agency of a young mind without inhibitions so that it can continue to respond freely to stimuli and be equipped with multiple forms of expression.

With this project, we ask ourselves the following questions: What about the ethical and political agency of children and young adults today? With interactive and participatory actions through visual arts and crafts, the written word, oral testimonies, acoustic and instrumental traditions, film and photography, theater and other embodied practices of individual and collective storytelling, we are staging HISTORICAL CHILDREN: LULLABIES FROM WOUNDS TO WONDER. It is an exhibition and a series of commissioned works for children and young adults, where creativity and conviviality become a method of transmitting narratives that allow children to represent their politics. Even before the exhibition opened, we began working with the young people whose work will be included in the exhibition. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, projects by children & young people will continue to be produced and included in the exhibition on an ongoing basis.

The exhibition is part of the 15-month TRANSITIONS program, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.