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Research Project: “Women Qadagis”
Qadagi Research Project In the Qadagi project we were researching about an ancient Georgian profession called “Qadagoba”, that is indigenous to the Pshav-Khevsur people. The research pertained visiting 20 pre-Christian Georgian shrines in the Pshav-Khevsuretian mountains and inquiring particularly about the role of women Qadagis. The project compounded of a six week long field work in the…
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Workshop: Mental Health Care, Playfully. Meet the voices in your head as externalized characters.
Trailer Do you hear the nagging, mean voices in your head, that make you down and make you feel small? The workshop aimed for externalizing those voices so that participants could meet them as external characters, distance themselves from them, and understand their agenda better. Thus understand themselves better. The voices were enacted and performed…
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Georgian Lamentation
Workshop with children Let’s lament over “Lament in Voice” “Lament in Voice” is an ancient north-east Georgian lamenting practice, that is in extinction due to global imperialism. The three-day workshop was held in Alvani with local children, as the cultural descendants of the ancient Tushetian lamenting practice. The workshop was held in service of commemorating…
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Feminist Killjoy-Workshop
You are not alone Feminist Killjoy Being a feminist can be a lonely experience. Based on Sarah Ahmed’s feminist killjoy manifesto, the workshop imagines a Feminist-KIlljoy-App that connects and locates all the feminist Killjoys out there on behalf of connection, solidarity and sisterhood. The workshop serves as a safe space for people who have been…
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Die Macht der Sprache
A 3 Days SeminarEXPLORING THE MIS-USE OF LANGUAGE Language has power. Language is power. Language can build. Language can destroy. The seminar “The power of language” explores the instrumentalization of rhetoric by media and politics and the creation of racism, sexism, ableism, classism, and xenophobia through language. In collaboration with Björge Köhler and Johanna Brummack…