The third edition of DICE Forum took place at Prinzessinnengärten in Neukölln on September 17th, featuring guests Dr. Edna Bonhomme and Daddypuss Rex. Our guest mix was made by Detroit-based dj ETTA.
DICE Forum is a nomadic event series which explores artists’ personal biographies and artistic practices as well as their relationships to larger cultural movements and art forms. Each installment represents a different artistic perspective, delving into working environments, socio-political influences, creative processes, and more.
Each in-depth artist talk is followed by a DJ set, in changing venues throughout Berlin. All talks and DJ mixes will be made available online shortly after each event, to allow everyone to participate regardless of location or current restrictions.
About the Artists:
Edna Bonhomme is a Black feminist, art worker, historian, lecturer, and writer whose work interrogates the archaeology of (post)colonial science, healing, and liberation. A central question of her work asks: what makes people sick? As a researcher, she answers this question by exploring the spaces and modalities of care and toxicity that shape the possibility for repair. She has collaborated and exhibited critical multimedia projects in Berlin, Copenhagen, Prague, and Vienna which explore the genealogical mutations of archives and memory. She is a co-host of the podcast Decolonization in Action through her Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. In addition to her creative work, Edna has written for publications such as A frica is a Country, Aljazeera, The Baffler Magazine, Missy Magazine, The Nation Magazine, and other publications. She has taught courses at Humboldt University, Bard College Berlin, Drexel University and will be teaching a course entitled "Fear of a Pandemic" at Freie Universität this fall. You can follow her on Twitter at jacobinoire.
By night, Daddypuss Rex is an intersectional gender terrorist with a big mouth and who isn’t afraid to use it. Based in Berlin, they are a multidisciplinary artist/poet/stand-up comedian and co-producer of the QueerTrans talk show ‘Just The T’. They often use a mix of poetry and humour to navigate topics such as white supremacy, misogynoir, transphobia and general colonial fuckery. With appearances and performances at the Schwules Museum, OWP nights, CurlCon, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Soho House as well as featuring on city-wide podcast and radio shows (Decolonization in Action, Love in the Time of Corona, Tipsy Bear Radio). Most recently, they co-created and facilitated a QueerTrans stand-up comedy workshop as part of the Outreach nGbK Scholarship 2020 (Vermittlungsstipendium nGbK 2020) - their goal is to touch hearts, minds and butts...with active consent! Conversely, by day, Daddypuss is a trauma-informed yoga teacher whose classes center Black and Queer experiences, narratives and bodies of all shapes, sizes and abilities - giving space to practitioners to fully exercise their agency on and off the mat and to hopefully (re)connecting them to their own bodies.
DICE Forum is a nomadic event series which explores artists’ personal biographies and artistic practices as well as their relationships to larger cultural movements and art forms. Each instalment represents a different artistic perspective, delving into working environments, socio-political influences, creative processes, and more.
Each in-depth artist talk is followed by a DJ set, in changing venues throughout Berlin. All talks and DJ mixes will be made available online shortly after each event, to allow everyone to participate regardless of location or current restrictions. More info on upcoming events can be found at dice.berlin
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