Intervening Arts - Recent Articles

Poetics of Intervention – How Does Music Become Political?

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:55:00 +0200

In conversation with sociologist Dr. Simon Teune, Claudia van Hasselt (FrauVonDa), Konstanze Schmitt, and Danae Nagel (Kollektiv Lauratibor) offer insights into their work.

Sabar: Embodied Knowledge Between Ritual and Community

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:10:00 +0200

As part of the »Politics of Rhythm« series at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), which explores collective movements as social and political practices, Marie Hélène Pereira and Mariama Diagne curated the dance and drumming workshop series »Sabar, Polyrhythm, and the Politics of Body Movement,« which launched in 2024.

Sonic Interventions Season 5

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:00:00 +0100

Season 5 of our podcast Sonic Interventions, curated and hosted by Jan Dammel, revolves around conversations with Black, African and Afro-diasporic artists and curators who intervene into society in Germany through exhibitions and installations that critically engage, amongst other topics, with colonialism and its ongoing legacies.

Art Challenging Digital Repression

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:15:00 +0200

The panel »Art Challenging Digital Repression«, held at the annual conference »Digital Interventions. Bodies, Infrastructures, Politics« of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) Intervening Arts at HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin on May 10, 2025, explored the growing significance of understanding and resisting repression in digital spaces. As forms of digital repression, including mass surveillance, censorship, misinformation and invasive spyware, equip governments with powerful tools to suppress dissent, artistic interventions play a crucial role in challenging these mechanisms and fostering critical awareness.

Intervening Walks

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:40:00 +0200

Honoring Memory and Future Sounds

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:10:00 +0200

Butoh as inter/section and in/fusion

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:50:00 +0200

Scene: An auditorium in the Academy of Arts in Berlin; a stage whose back wall is open and gives a shadowy, mirror-like impression of another auditorium in the darkness. Suddenly, indistinct figures with megaphones, blinding spotlights and loud shouts and roars storm across the empty rows of seats towards the stage. Shreds of slogans become audible, mingled with cries that hint at acts of violence. – Gradually, figures emerge from the darkness, stumbling and climbing over the empty rows of chairs; one of these figures is covered by a mane of hair that reaches down to the floor; confused, unidentifiable as a body, with wild and angular movements; a creature somewhere between animal, human, undergrowth ... Once on stage, a performance begins – in a collage of e-sound and voice, light storms and bizarre, furious movements – that goes beyond the categories of dance and theater: a riot – a rebellion; RRRRRiot.

This action by the Butoh artist Yuko Kaseki took place during the 1st annual conference of the CRC 1512 Intervening Arts.

Not a Body for Burial

Sat, 10 May 2025 16:45:00 +0200

»Who gets to write history? Whose memories deserve to be saved? It’s all a question of narrative.« – Şirin Fulya Erensoy

Azadeh Ganjeh gave the lecture performance »Not a Body for Burial« at the Annual Conference »Digital Interventions. Bodies, Infrastructures, Politics« of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) Intervening Arts, that took place at HAU Hebbel am Ufer on May, 10 2025. She is regaining power by making a person, their story and background visible. By reminding us that behind numbers of people suffering and dying when fighting for their rights is more than just a number.

Postdigital Bodies

Sat, 10 May 2025 11:35:00 +0200

Die Multimedia-Performance »NFTs: Non Fuckable Token« derdes peruanischen Performance- und XR-Künstlersin Claudix Vanesix war Teil der Jahrestagung »Digital Interventions. Bodies, Infrastructures, Politics« des Sonderforschungsbereichs (SFB) Intervenierende Künste. Die Tagung fand am 9. und 10. Mai 2025 am HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin statt. In »NFTs« verbindet Vanesix indigenes Wissen mit Zukunftsvisionen für das Zusammenspiel von Mensch und Maschine. Auf diese dynamische Extended-Reality-Erfahrung reagierten Studierende des Forschungsmoduls »Postdigitale Interventionen«, das im Sommersemester 2025 von Prof. Dr. Brigitte Weingart und Prof. Dr. Anja Dreschke an der Universität der Künste Berlin angeboten wurde, mit zwei sehr unterschiedlichen Beiträgen.

KILL YOUR PHONE!

Sat, 10 May 2025 11:05:00 +0200

KILL YOUR PHONE! ist ein offenes Workshopformat des Berliner Künstlers Aram Bartholl. Der Workshop wurde am 10. Mai 2025 im Rahmen der Jahrestagung »Digital Interventions. Bodies, Infrastructures, Politics« des Sonderforschungsbereichs (SFB) Intervenierende Künste im HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin mit den Konferenzteilnehmer*innen durchgeführt und dokumentarisch von Aron Kühner und Bjarne Meisel begleitet.