Mutuogenesis

‘How to start again? A living mud pit of new processes, a post-anthropocentric explosion of everyday life, a post-utopia utopia night club and a new collective property agreement? After a year long process of workshops, events, talks, reflection, sweat and just being together, Mutuogenesis presents a new form of living, learning, and community with social and ecological justice at its core. Made from found, scrap and ecological materials, it invites you to a place where a weird punk underground spirit haunts modernity by the spectre of a mutualism.

Mutuogenesis is based on Jerszy Seymour’s collaboration with young people who, after fleeing their homes and being displaced, find a supportive environment for their stabilisation and education at Berlin’s cultural centre Schlesische27, where they prepare for vocational training through artistic workshops.

Over the course of a year, Jerszy Seymour, together with the young international community of Schlesische27 and invited artists, designers and activists, have tested forms of learning and producing in a community with social and ecological justice at its core with productions, lectures, happenings and performances at the Lucky Garage in Berlin-Neukölln and at the Kunstgewerbemuseum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Guest Artists:

Saâdane Afif (FR), Balzer Balzer (DE), Louis Bindernagel and Laura Laipple (DE), Emanuele Braga (IT), James Bridle (UK), Pierre Bujeau (FR), Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel (FR), Morena Di Molfetta (IT), Theo Dietz (DE), Dirty Art Department (NL), David Dorrell (UK), ERDE Recycling and Obsthof Mertens (DE), Felix Egle and Druckausgleich Fixpunkt (DE), Eva-Luise Gent (DE), Christiane Hamacher (CH), L’ile Kemmogne (CM), Chris Korda (US), Selma Laura Köran (TR/DE), LIOS Labs (PO/INT.), Ama Luma (FR/CG), Luïza Luz (BR), Macao Collective (IT), Ingrid Meszaros (HU/RO/IT), Abdel Amine Mohammed (DE), Timothy Morton (UK), Octave Rimbert-Rivière (FR), Nica Roses (AR), Eurico Sá Fernandes and Wooryun Song (PT/KR), Sven Seeger (DE), Steffen Sennert (DE), Shared Visions (EU), Tomasz Skibicki (DE), Something Fantastic (DE), Hiroo Tanaka (JP), Lydia Thompson (US), Lisa van Heyden (DE) and the displaced and migrant youth of S27-Art and Education taking part in the projects Arrivo Berlin Übungswerkstätten, Arrivo BerlinTec & Crafts, Bildungsmanufaktur, landscape.studio, Weltschulhaus and DanceLab27 including Aryan, Ayman, Brian, Christian Choutedjem, Hamed, Jabaykhil, Jones, Kemmogne, Tindjou, Mohammad, Nouhou, Thierno, Amadou, Samer, Siradio, Adnane, Badr, Hasan, Imran, Julio, Mamadou, Ozan, Ramin, Sidi Ali, Sina, Souleymane, Abdul Sami, Aboubacar, Aboubakr, Adnan, Ali, Christian, Dimble, Emmanuel, Hans-Jeremie, Harouna, Ibrahim Halil, Kevin, Khalil, Mahmoud, Makalov, Mostafa, Müslüm, Mustafa, Nihat, Radoan, Sadik, Suphi, Anatoli, Bidias, Frank, Maxim, Musadiq, Rasoli, Salih, Samuel, Thierno, Vincent, Yaroslav, Yusuf Ahmed, Elias, Fofana, Hamza, Nurlan, Obada, Sammsou Deen, Yigit, Jazmin, Lamin, Mohamed, Rabdan, Rahimullah, Saedkhaled and Wahidullah.

Project Lead S27 Anna Piccoli

Production Support: Jones Ahmadi, Yanik Balzer, Ingrid Meszaros, Mohammad Muslem,Tomasz Skibicki, Lydia Thompson, Chadi Dalaty, Thorsten Kasper, Wesam Karema, Morena Di Molfetta.

Mutuogenesis is a project by Jerszy Seymour in collaboration with Schlesische27 and the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation Kulturstiftung des Bundes and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.