BURLUNGIS

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Open every day as an exhibition, 3 workshops 08.02, 15.02., 22.02., closing 07.03., and informal gatherings in between	22 January 2020	08 March 2020	Berlin ▼	Coven Berlin ▼	NO

Exhibition & Event Series

http://galerie-im-turm.net/burlungis/

www.covenberlin.com for musings, photos, and more!

EVENTS

22.01. 7pm Opening

08.02. 11h - 13h EXCAVATING THE EROTIC Workshop mit Dr. edna bonhomme

08.02. 11am - 1pm EXCAVATING THE EROTIC Workshop with Dr. edna bonhomme

15.02. 16h - 18h Recipes from the Archives of Queer Aphrodisia Workshop mit Luiza Prado

15.02. 4pm - 6pm Recipes from the Archives of Queer Aphrodisia Workshop with Luiza Prado

22.02. 17h - 18h BY FIRE, BY WATER, BY COMBAT: Deviant Women & Medieval Punishment Workshop mit Ileana Pascalau

22.02. 5pm - 6pm BY FIRE, BY WATER, BY COMBAT: Deviant Women & Medieval Punishment Workshop with Ileana Pascalau

07.02. 14.02. 21.02. 28.02. 14h - 18h Alchemical Creatures and Archaic Garms Performative Kostümproduktion mit Hang Linton+Laura Lulika

07.02. 14.02. 21.02. 28.02. 2pm - 6pm Alchemical Creatures and Archaic Garms Performative Costume-Making with Hang Linton+Laura Lulika

07.03. 19h The Final Joust mit COVEN BERLIN

07.03. 19h The Final Joust mit COVEN BERLIN

ACCESS INFO

Mobility: The space is accessible with a ramp, which the gallery has. Toilets available if you ask. Nearest public transportation: Across the gallery, U5 Frankfurter Tor, has a elevator. This space is child-friendly. There is a stage and a sofa to sit on, other seating available on request. If deaf, there are aspects of the show that are visual that can be experienced, and if blind, there are some audio components of the show that can be experienced. We invite you to sit on and gently touch many of the works (the supervision can point you to these works).

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Welcome to BURLUNGIS: Hang your cloak and stay a while, weary traveller. The times may be dark and the swamps and bogs hide lurking creatures of the night, but accept our humble comforts in whimsical tales and ecstatic dances around the fire.

BURLUNGIS is a fantastical medieval landscape conjured by COVEN BERLIN to re-imagine a time as dark as ours. But hark! Whoever condemns darkness has forgotten its power. Much of liberal European thought today continues the tradition of the Enlightenment, scoffing at the perceived lack of refinement and unhygienic stink of the Middle Ages. Meanwhile, conservative right-wing movements have co-opted “the medieval”, summoning kings and vikings to create an imaginary time when Europe was white, heterosexual, and Christian.

Aye, let the patriarchs have their snobby printing press and “perspective”; let the fascists burn in their fire and brimstone. Leave the Mittlealter to the altered middle—to the queers, the Commons, the Live Action Role Players, modern herbalists and all those who’d gladly tread through the muck and mire of this swampy amalgam of history. We hereby decree the myth of “Medieval Europe” as utterly false, and rewrite it with BURLUNGIS, which bubbles out of the swamp from whence the city we call Berlin, in the 13th century, clumb.

BURLUNGIS begins as a stage open for co-creation between we the artists and you, dear wanderer. Therefore we – COVEN BERLIN together with Yoav Admoni, Irene Fernandez Arcas, Samantha Bohatsch, Hang Linton+Laura Lulika – heartily invite you to join us at the Galerie im Turm regularly, for we will be a-working, oft and ere. This exhibition, or work in progress, will be on display from 23rd of February to 8th of March 2020.

Curated by Linnéa Meiners and Jorinde Splettstößer

Door Policy:

Politics of Location: Berlin!

Related Projects and People:

References and background:

△ Information △

Address: Galerie im Turm ▼

Crowd: Public event open to all ages and abilities ▼

description: exhibition ▼ , participatory exhibition ▼

mood:

associations:

language: English ▼ , German ▼

type of space: fixed but VERY OPEN to be invited to tour! ▼

△ Organisation info △

approx. number of people involved: Many

names of people involved: COVEN BERLIN ▼ , Frances Breden ▼ , Irene Fernandez Arcas ▼ , Galerie im Turm ▼

institutional: Yes ▼

means of sustainability: public funding ▼

△ Connections △

involvement needed: Yes ▼

seeking connections: Yes ▼

contactable: Yes ▼

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Welcome to BURLUNGIS: Hang your cloak and stay a while, weary traveller. The times may be dark and the swamps and bogs hide lurking creatures of the night, but accept our humble comforts in whimsical tales and ecstatic dances around the fire.

BURLUNGIS is a fantastical medieval landscape conjured by COVEN BERLIN to re-imagine a time as dark as ours. But hark! Whoever condemns darkness has forgotten its power. Much of liberal European thought today continues the tradition of the Enlightenment, scoffing at the perceived lack of refinement and unhygienic stink of the Middle Ages. Meanwhile, conservative right-wing movements have co-opted “the medieval”, summoning kings and vikings to create an imaginary time when Europe was white, heterosexual, and Christian.

Aye, let the patriarchs have their snobby printing press and “perspective”; let the fascists burn in their fire and brimstone. Leave the Mittlealter to the altered middle—to the queers, the Commons, the Live Action Role Players, modern herbalists and all those who’d gladly tread through the muck and mire of this swampy amalgam of history. We hereby decree the myth of “Medieval Europe” as utterly false, and rewrite it with BURLUNGIS, which bubbles out of the swamp from whence the city we call Berlin, in the 13th century, clumb.

BURLUNGIS begins as a stage open for co-creation between we the artists and you, dear wanderer. Therefore we – COVEN BERLIN together with Yoav Admoni, Irene Fernandez Arcas, Samantha Bohatsch, Hang Linton+Laura Lulika – heartily invite you to join us at the Galerie im Turm regularly, for we will be a-working, oft and ere. This exhibition, or work in progress, will be on display from 23rd of February to 8th of March 2020.

Curated by Linnéa Meiners and Jorinde Splettstößer