لسة / not yet / still

An artistic image featuring the Arabic word “لسّه” (Still) against an orange sunset background with skyscrapers, a sun, and a planet on the horizon, and the Goethe-Institut logo at the top. © Goethe-Institut / Sarah Mossallam

2nd Edition

"لسه/ not yet / still" is a regional project in the field of visual arts that offers three-month residencies at ZK/U in Berlin. Participating artists are invited to engage with the concept of liminality. The open call for the second edition closed on July 19. Information on the project’s progress and the selected artists will be published here in September.

Concerning Liminality

Being in between entails not being there yet and still being somewhere else. The word لسة ("lissa") in Egyptian Arabic contains both meanings. It encompasses the idea of liminality, a threshold state that feeds from the instability of change and at the same time opens many directions to go to. Liminal spaces are places that exist between different states and realities. They become physically visible in the ever-changing urban fabric of today’s cities, and they are crucial to artistic production as well as artistic research.

This liminality of transition, this threshold state, is from where this projects develops: The Goethe-Institutes in North Africa and the Middle East, in cooperation with Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin (ZK/U, Center for Art and Urbanistics) invite participants for a residency program that asks them to dissect what it means to be in between – not yet or still.

Latest Editions

1. Edition

Cooperation Partner

Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik - ZK/U (Center for Art and Urbanistics) is an artist-led independent art residency and project space in Berlin, Germany. It hosts a
multidisciplinary residency program, offering a living and working space for practitioners of all kinds (artists, researchers, activists, professionals of various fields) whose work or approach explores the dynamics and experiences of the city. The ZK/U residency program allows mutual learning, spontaneous collaborations, discussions and exchanges to emerge, enriched by the diversity of disciplines and profiles of the residents. The ZK/U building, a former train station building located in a dynamic public park, is a space for urban experimentation and cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Contact

In case you have any questions, please contact us via mail: Meret.Arnold@goethe.de.