The corona pandemic has greatly changed our interactions with other people. We avoid each other and refrain from forms of expression that usually require coming together. With Tender Absence, we have created a space for artistic experiments that test forms of intimacy in the digital realm.
Tender Absence is a platform for the performing arts in digital spaces. During the "second wave" of the Corona pandemic and the limited possibilities to make performing arts visible, we have been concerned with how we can enable artistic and social experiences despite physical distance. For this purpose, we have launched and curated the platform to draw attention to the social potential of cultural events on the internet.
Tender Absence brings together artists from all over the world to create intimate encounters online. Starting at the end of November 2020 with "lone|some", a format for short performative and social experiments for a small audience, we have invited people on a journey to discover the unknown of digital intimacy through performing arts.
Performances of the first edition lone|some 2020:
"Behind your Eyeballs" by Salma Said and Miriam Coretta Schulte
"Kathe" by Vishal Kumaraswamy
"Time-travel into the time of slowness" by Catalina Insignares and Carolina Mendonça
"Institute for Mediated Intimacy" by Lena Chen and Michael Charles Neumann
Easter holiday workshop Our “Sister*hood” project is entering its second year. During the Easter vacations, we are offering rap workshops for girls* and young women*. Together with rappers Haszcara and Alice Dee, participants will learn how to write lyrics and rap.
Kick-off workshop at the EL ELE Festival (from 14 years)
April 5, 4:30 p.m.
Easter vacation workshop (from 10 years)
April 22-26, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
All workshops take place in the Houseclub of HAU Hebbel am Ufer
The 5th episode of “Grauzone Pott” has been released. The podcast sheds light on the previously unnoticed history of migrant resistance and neo-Nazi violence in the Ruhr region in the 1980s and 1990s. A second season is being planned.
Listen to the episodes wherever there are podcasts, or at grauzone-pott.de
The documentary “Sisterqueens” has been released in cinemas. On March 9, we were guests at a special screening at Babylon Kreuzberg for a Q&A and subsequent discussion about the cultural cuts in Berlin. You can find the latest cinema dates on the film's Instagram channel @sisterqueens_film
Chris Herzog will be on stage in the performance “Trouble” (director: Katrin Hylla). Five performers aged between 10 and 43 are looking for ways to deal with the gloomy scenarios we encounter every day on all channels. Can cotton candy, magic tricks or poems by Kae Tempest help? How can we react to all the trouble together? And how can we be strong without hardening ourselves?
After the revival in Bremen, “Trouble” goes on tour!
Dates:
31.01. 7 pm & 01.02.2025 4 pm, Schwankhalle Bremen
07.02. 7 pm & 08.02.2025 4 pm, TNT Marburg
28.03. & 29.03.2025, Ballhaus Ost Berlin
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