What to do at the weekend The culture tips of the Berliner Zeitung

2023-07-14 06:24:09
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We have gathered the major cultural highlights of this weekend. Also present: Brazilian vibes in the Kreuzberg festival hall, Ikarus grand piano and Japanese photography.

Rivets instead of wax: The myth of flying

The Schaubude goes into the Berlin Summer Culture Festival with an open-air production. The Engineering Theater Akhe needs a lot of space for its expansive installations made of industrial scrap and not only blows up every Kasper board, but also every city theater stage. Especially since water, smoke and fire are used in addition to a lot of acrobatics. For this, the actors do without text.

“Ikarus”: An open-air spectacle by the Engineering Theater AkhneTaya Ovod

The thematic framework of this theatrical spectacle between modern circus, physical theater and installation is formed by the myth of Icarus, who, as is well known, failed due to his hubris by overlooking an unfortunately crucial constructional detail: the wings of his father Daidalus’ apparatus were attached with wax, which melted when Icarus got too close to the sun. The Akhe people prefer to rely on rusty trusses and steel cables when flying. Ulrich Seidler

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Icarus Fri. 9 p.m. in the Malzfabrik Schöneberg, Bessemerstraße 2-14, free admission, registration required at www.schaubude.berlin

Daido Miriyama im c/0 Berlin: Intimacy coupled with rawness

The Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama is one of the most unreservedly courageous of his profession at this time, nothing is embellished, nothing adapted to the mercantile zeitgeist. We can see it in the Berlin photo instance C/0: in his work, people and city, intimacy and rawness, empathy and an unprotected view, poetry and radicalism are combined. His black-and-white photos are unflatteringly coarse-grained and hard in contrast, tilted, cropped, blurred – and yet very close to the object. Born in Osaka in 1938, he is one of the most important photo artists on the current Japanese scene. A movie has even been dedicated to him.

Masculine physical performance that also makes one think of violence and war: Daido Moriyama’s “Untitled, Hayama, 1967” Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation

Since the late 1960s, his style has been considered a symbol of Japanese modernism under American influence. At least his early work from the late 1960s and early 1970s can be seen as an expression of explosive urban change. Inspired by trips to the USA, for example by Andy Warhol and his ironic and sarcastic game with American society’s consumer frenzy, the Japanese street photographer became New York and has long since traveled to many other metropolises and social and cultural hotspots in the world. Since the 1990s, however, fragmentary, unfinished, raw and also melancholy elements have found their way into his recordings. And the motifs are becoming more and more graphic in their effect: bodies. Buildings. urban spaces, nature. Ingeborg Ruthe

Daido Moriyama. C/O, America House, Hardenbergstr. 10-12 p.m. to September 7, daily 11 a.m.-8 p.m

The forecast forum lures you to the radial system

Over 800 applications from more than 100 countries were received for the 8th episode of the Forecast Festival. The nominated artists of the 8th Forecast year are now showing their projects at the Forecast Forum from Friday to Sunday in the Radialsystem. There are performances, installations, film screenings, fashion shows and music. Drummer Greg Fox (USA) has nominated about three artists who use rhythm to explore space and time, be it in the form of music or art: Alex Grübler (Germany), Carlos Gutiérrez (Bolivia), Whitney Johnson (USA). South African poet and feminist scholar Gabeba Baderoon nominated three poets who weave their family stories, shaped by migration and displacement, into narratives of trauma, reinvention and reinvention: Juliana Sokolová (Slovakia), Marcela Huerta (Canada), Suji Kwock Kim (USA). Suzanne Lenz

The full program can be found on the website from Radialsystem, Holzmarktstraße 33

Like vacation in Brazil: The Psicoprópicos Festival in the Festsaal Kreuzberg

When we recently asked Ellen Allien, one of Berlin’s most important DJs, about the future of techno, she raved about Brazil: “I think what’s happening musically in Brazil and in South America in general is particularly strong. That should be much bigger worldwide. There are other beat structures that are also arriving in techno.”

If you want to get your own picture, a sound picture, of contemporary Brazilian sound, you’ve come to the right place this weekend at the Psicoprópicos in the Festsaal Kreuzberg. Acts like Liniker, Danilo Timm, Sanni Est. And on Saturday? Rapper Tássia Reis, Bruno Capinan, Filipe Catto, Jonathan Ferr and the 2022 Latin Grammy winners: the group Bala Desejo. Sounds like a big party. In and in front of the hall. Stefan Hochgesand

Festsaal Kreuzberg At Flutgraben 2, Friday, July 14, from 8 p.m. + Saturday, July 15, from 2 p.m.