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4:00 PM-5:30 PM

GroovRoots

Happening & Procession|with ZIP Group and Serhiy Demchuk

  • Price free entrance

A man in the forest holding a root in front of his face. © courtesy Zip Group

A man in the forest holding a root in front of his face. © courtesy Zip Group

Join artist Serhiy Demchuk and ZIP Group for a sonic procession through Berlin. Beginning at IFA Gallery and culminating in the courtyard of ACUD KUNST HAUS, this participatory happening transforms found dry roots into living instruments.

Using a unique technique developed by Demchuk, the roots—gathered across Berlin—will be used to extract natural sounds, capturing the pulse hidden within wood. The event is a part of the project “Once We Were Trees - Now We Are Birds” and invites participants to tune into the rhythms resonating from the inner vibrations of the trees, balancing roots in their hands to create a collective echo—a breathing organism, an orchestra woven into the urban soundscape.

Artists

ZIP Group

ZIP group was created in 2009 in Krasnodar. The group ZIP is the founder of the Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art (KICA), the independent festival of street art CAN, the art residence Pyatikhatki and co-founder of the Krasnodar Center for Contemporary Art “Typography”. The name of the group is the abbreviation of the Krasnodar Factory of Measuring Devices (ZIP), where until 2015 the artist’s studio was located. In their works, the ZIP Group refers to the themes of labour, community and self-organization, turning its total installations into utopian spaces for work, recreation and interaction.
ZIP Group consists of Evgeny Rimkevich (b. 1987 Armavir, Russia), Vasily Subbotin (b. 1991 Krasnodar, Russia), Stepan Subbotin (b. 1987 Krasnodar, Russia). 
Now ZIP Group lives and works in Berlin and Yerevan.

Serhiy Demchuk

Serhiy Demchuk has graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a degree in Journalism. Since 2024 he has been based in Berlin, actively involved in the city’s art scene as a performer and artist.
 

Agenda

  • GroovRoots

    Happening & Procession | with ZIP Group and Serhiy Demchuk

  • Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds

    Exhibition | Exhibition Pop-up Projection

    • ACUD Galerie, Berlin

  • The Cradle (Installation's Activation)

    Installation | by ZIP Group

    • Kunsthaus ACUD Courtyard, Berlin

  • Opening of the festival

    Opening event |

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Run Fast, Bite Hard

    Performance | by Elisabete Finger | only with registration

    • ACUD Theater, Berlin

  • Letters Home. Mutus

    Performance | by Ivan Nikolaev and Alena Starostina (aliveduo)

    • Kunsthaus ACUD Courtyard, Berlin

  • Zeyo Mann

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Radio Jaguar

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Amado León

    DJ-Set | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • All my Best Deaths

    Performance | by Dante Buu

    • Kunsthaus ACUD Courtyard, Berlin

  • Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds

    Exhibition | Exhibition Pop-up Projection

    • ACUD Galerie, Berlin

  • From Places to Traces

    Talking event | with Carmen Herold, Reihaneh Mehrad, Maik Müller, Nicole Vögele, moderated by Anna Karpenko

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Birds in the Skies, Mycelium Under the Ground

    Talking event | with Ma Thida, Ali Abdollahi and Aya Sammani, moderated by Kholoud Bidak

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Letters Home. Acedia

    Performance | by Ivan Nikolaev and Alena Starostina (aliveduo) with music by Dmitry Vlasik

    • ACUD Studio, Berlin

  • Sarvenaz Mostofey

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • {un}Settled: A body between feathers

    Music Performance | by Pure

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Ludmila Pogodina

    DJ-Set | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Pure

    DJ-Set | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Flying Backward

    Film Screening | by Igor Vidor, Vahid Zarezadeh, Emrah Gökdemir and Zeynep Güzel

    • ACUD Kino, Berlin

  • Memory Jars

    Workshop & Performance | by Sujatro Ghosh

    • ACUD Galerie, Berlin

  • Film Screening & Extended Q&A

    Film Screening & Q&A | with Igor Vidor, Vahid Zarezadeh, Emrah Gökdemir and Zeynep Güzel, moderated by Anna Karpenko

    • ACUD Kino, Berlin

  • Parham Alizadeh's trio JazzAvaa

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Soheil Soheili

    Concert | live

    • ACUD Club, Berlin

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