What does it mean to be young today?
What stresses young people?
And what helps them in difficult moments?
Our current exhibition was created as part of a holiday workshop with young people between the ages of 15 and 18. Together with artists, the young people tested podcasts, staged photos, produced video essays, shared insights into the realities of their lives and developed a visual language for the exhibition. A basic idea was to approach the topic with softness and playfulness and to consider the possibility of participation for visitors.
The exhibition invites visitors of all ages to think, think further and participate.
Curated by Adama, Anee, Hussein, Johann, Kilian and Whitney together with Maike Storf 小云 and Van-Lam Trinh with support from podcaster Frank Joung and artist Joanna Szproch.
Since April 2022, young people have been meeting once a week at Polyrama and working on building a collection of young life stories. They conduct interviews, exchange ideas with each other and participate in the future development of the museum.
During this time, a series of interviews were conducted by the young people themselves. They provide insights into the complex experiences of young people when dealing with challenges and difficult times.
The following people contributed to the work of Polyrama Young:
Léa, Anee, Kilian, Danial, Sami, Eliano.
Che is now in his early 20s. Stuttgarter Platz was an important and central place in his youth. Here he experienced a lot with his friends. In the walk, James talks through his experiences on the Stutti.
The walk lasts 20 minutes and starts and ends here in the museum.
The walk was implemented by Che Albayrak and the students Marcello Taiyang Burchard and Laith Alkorom as part of a cooperation with the Media Informatics course at the Berlin University of Technology.
For Léa, her room is her central place of retreat and comfort.
Discover her room with Léa. Find out what she experiences here and what it means to her.
The VR project was implemented by students Amelie Croin, Michelle Kraul, Yasmina Alishia Pouassom, Oliver Aoli Wang and Anee, Léa and Kilian from Polyrama Young as part of a cooperation with the Media Informatics course at the Berlin University of Technology
From September 23rd to 26th, 2021, 11 life stories were performed live in public places in Berlin. The performances were developed in tandems between artists and storytellers.
Immersive performance by Fred Gehrig and Adel
September 23rd. 2021
Duration: indefinite
Breitscheidplatz
10789 Berlin-Charlottenburg
The immersive performance by Fred Gehrig and Adel combines dance, narrative and exhibition. It entangles passers-by and invites them to experience the history of Adel individually in a walk-in exhibition building.
Dance performance with live music by Florian Hoffmeier,
Lotta Sandborgh and Vladimir Miller
25th of September. 2021
Duration: 40-60 minutes
Location: In front of the Alte Nationalgalerie
Bodestrasse 1-3
10178 Berlin-Mitte
Because we speak/Let's promise each other/Because we speak/Are you silent/Because we speak/I am/Because we speak/I don't speak/Because we speak/Can you be/Because we speak/We are/Because we speak
'Because We Speak' is an abstraction of the story of Anush teaching people to speak. Words become danced images, completely without language, and form the labyrinth of their and perhaps all of our lives as pictorial development and decay, as construction, deconstruction and reconstruction.
Performance by Willy the Clown & Silvia Borello
September 24, 2021
Duration: 45 minutes
Stick wood garden, under the railway bridge
13597 Berlin-Spandau
It is a pantomimic performance without language, with musical elements. Homeless people or tramps are the people par excellence connected to the world of clowns. Alone, abandoned, with relationship problems, with survival problems. Trapped with no way out. This is Björn's story - disappointment, suffering, loneliness, submission, the desire for freedom, unfulfilled love. The Clown's Themes. But now Björn has disappeared overnight. Everything he had with him is suddenly gone. The lack and aloofness surrounding his story resonate more than the story itself.
Performance & Video by Khan Of Finland
MAS/SER by Adomas Laurinaitis & Servulo Mendez
Fraternal #20 “Britzer Garten” Video by Pablo Denegri
September 23, 2021
Duration: 1 hour
Sport Klübü
Freienwalder Str. 31
13359 Berlin Wedding
Installation by Sadaf Farahani and Leonie Kock
Open format, accessible at any time
September 25, 2021
Location: Werderscher churchyard, meadow behind Café Strauss
Bergmannstrasse 42
10961 Berlin-Kreuzberg
The walk-in installation by Sadaf Farahani and Leonie Kock follows in Chrisoula's footsteps. Who was Chrisoula – the person, the woman, the Greek, the guest worker, the mother, the wife, the sister, the neighbor and the friend? How does a human life tell itself about the people who were close to you? And what does it reveal about the time and place in which it is embedded? What remains of us in the world when we are no longer physically present?
Aerial artistry by Anna Ehrenreich
Sept. 25, 2021
Duration: 20-30 minutes
Location: Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Narrative performance by Schirin Zareh and Esther
September 23, 2021
Duration: 40 minutes
Walter Benjamin Square
10629 Berlin-Charlottenburg
Schirin sells hummus for the first time in her life at a market stall and meets Esther, who, as an Israeli, is an expert on this dish. They get into a conversation about this, which includes stages in both of their lives.
Participatory installation by Katie Lee Dunbar
Open format, accessible at any time, including Saturday, September 25th. from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Neukölln Arcaden
September 24, 2021
1st floor next to Mediamarkt
Karl-Marx-Strasse 66
12043 Berlin-Neukölln
A participatory audio walk by Lotti Seebeck and Silja Korn
(Limited number of participants, please register at: info@polyrama.de)
September 26, 2021
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Herrmannplatz, meeting point at the “Dancing Couple” statue
10967 Berlin-Neukölln
CL visual performance by Pinky Aiello
September 25, 2021
Duration: 20-30 minutes
Monbijou Bridge
10117 Berlin-Mitte
The CL visual performance is a completely new art form in Germany. It has long been widespread in the USA. CL-Visual Performance is a performance with classifiers (English: classifiers, abbreviation "CL"). Classifiers are gestures in which the shape of the hand represents an object, a person or a part of the body and the other parameters of the gesture (hand position, place of execution and movement) show the true movement of the person being depicted. The performance is therefore very visual.
Vocal performance by Mizgina Rengin
September 24, 2021
Duration: 30 minutes
Central station, in front of the main entrance
Europaplatz 1
10557 Berlin-Mitte
Initiators & project managers
Anna Chrusciel & Sadaf Farahani
Production 2021 theme learning
Interviewers
Anna Chrusciel, Sadaf Farahani, Schokofeh Kamiz, Nina Krause, Ramin Parvin, Claudia Vogt
Advice on audio recordings
Adel Gamehdar
Audio editing
Ramin Parvin, Maxim Strzebkowski
Transcription
Julia Michael, happyscribe.com
Visual design
Ariane Spanier
Programming
Markus Kehrer
Communication social media
Anna Giannessi
Production management intro Polyrama
Lotti Seebeck
Speakers Intro Polyrama
Amanda Hohenberg, Filipe Pirl
Advice on inclusion & accessibility
Platz da!
Production and translation of the “About Us Page DGS”: Benedikt J. Sequeira Gerardo
IllustrationTuba's story
Shabnam Sarmadi
Performances: 10 +1 life stories in urban space
Organization
Anna Chrusciel, Sadaf Farahani, Stefanie Höpfner
Artistic direction performances
Pinky Aiello, Anna Ehrenreich, Sadaf Farahani, Khan of Finland, Fred Gehrig, Florian Hoffmeier, Leonie Kock, Katie Lee Dunbar, Mizgina Rengin, Lotti Seebeck, Schirin Zahre
Technical management
Mohamad Shbib
Lighting technology “Where is Björn?”
Gianluca Posehn
Documentation video
Julia Grüßing, Ainize Sarasola
Documentation photo
Jenifer Astra Brinkmann, Jasper Makropoulos
Video and event technology
Berlin University of Technology
Technology pool of the Evangelical Youth and Elm35
Transport
Hamed Eskandari
Assistants
Sami Almohamad Alchahin, Khanom Ayoub, Fasiha Fiaz, Feroza Fiaz, Natia Giorgidze, Frida Kessler,
Assistants DGS
Lena Brodkorb, Hannah Stolp
Audio description
Frida Kessler, advice: Silja Korn
Intern
Frida Kessler
