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8:40 PM-9:20 PM

{un}Settled: A body between feathers

Music Performance |by Pure

  • ACUD Club, Berlin

  • Price free entrance

Perfomance Pure square © Nick Gorgon

Perfomance Pure 2300x1000 © Nick Gorgon

The narrative of migration, particularly in artistic and intellectual circles, often centers’ on integration as a measure of success — a quiet expectation that one must fold oneself into the fabric of the West, learn its rhythms, soften one’s edges, become legible. To integrate is to be absorbed, to be made palatable, to survive by becoming something else. But what of those for whom integration is not an arrival, but an erosion?

For Black bodies in the Western world, integration is not neutral; it is a negotiation of survival. It is an ongoing performance in systems designed without us in mind, a slow bending of the self to fit the architecture of colonial histories that still dictate who belongs and who remains other. It is navigating bureaucracy in a language that is not your mother tongue, moving through streets where your presence is always a question, where your very being is met with suspicion, curiosity, or violence. Integration, we are told, is the pathway to belonging — but belonging cannot be built on a foundation that demands you shrink yourself to enter.
 

Artist

Pure

As a mother and transdisciplinary artist, my practice navigates the interstices of ecological sonic systems, landscape memory, and embodied knowledge. Rooted in field recording, my work engages listening as an act of attunement, a method of deep ecological connection that resists the anthropocentric noise of modernity. Through attentive sonic inquiry, I approach listening not merely as a sensory activity but as a decolonial practice of presence, reciprocity, and remembrance, allowing for a more intimate relationship with the more-than-human world.

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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