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Touch, movement, images, and sharing. From the afternoon collective painting and sharing at Barvolam Jamming to evening performances that open up body memory, intimacy, and new ways of perceiving the city. The program is accessible to diverse ways of perception; details are provided for each event.

13:00-17:00

Barvolam: Textile Jamming a workshop – information and tickets separately in prolink

18:00 – 20:00

Matthew Rogers: Urban Senses

Performative Game

Where are you? How do you feel here? What do you perceive? Any particular memories or associations arising? How would you describe this place, here, right now?

Urban Senses is a group game, an expedition to seek out secrets within our environment like any other. At a selected location, we roll the dice, follow instructions and come closer to what is actually happening around us. By slowing down and focusing our perception, the encounter with seemingly ordinary surroundings is experienced anew. Urban Senses is an attempt to discover the miracles under the skin of the profane, including the ugly and the surprisingly beautiful.

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Made with Jan Dubsky
Commissioned by ArtOff Festival Hamburg

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20 min / English

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18:00 – 20:00

 Neda Taslimian: My Veins

This performance explores the sense of touch and the body’s memory through personal and cultural experiences. Growing up with a forced hijab created a split between my inner self and how my body was seen and controlled. Later, cancer changed my relationship with touch—from giving care to receiving it, shaping feelings of vulnerability, love, and guilt. Using textures, chalk, and fabric, I invite the audience to engage with making and wearing the hijab as a poetic gesture. The piece reflects on identity, intimacy, and the complex meanings of touch in both personal and political contexts.

20 min / English+ Persian

18:00 – 20:00

Alexandra Ivanciu, Jolanta Nowaczyk: About Flowers and Choice

⁺₊✧ HOT NIGHT: FIRE + SURPRISE