Participating artists:(on maintenance) with works by Emilia Trog, Irina Jasnoswski Pascual, Hannah Francke, Samuel Ellinghoven and tibslc, and a performance by Sarafina McLeod, a workshop by Chiara Mila Jason and a reading circle initiated by Florian&Emden.
Period (opening hours):Saturdays 14-18h, and by appointment
Venue:Bistro 21
Hermann-Liebmann-Straße 88
04315 Leipzig
www.bistro21.org/Partner:Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
Programme:Thu, 20.11. 19h: Opening
Sat, 22.11. 14h: Birth Stones, a participatory artist talk / performance by Sarafina McLeodIn In Sarafina McLeod’s work, the artist’s body is perceived as a site of various actions, which exists in relation to other such sites and bodies. From this understanding, McLeod carries out a form of embodied research, which is shared through a combination of stories, movements, and guided practices. In
birth of stones, different aspects are brought together in a loose and fabulated context: an interest in the remnant of a tail within humans (the “tail bone”), life with a dog, the presence of stones in the body, circular movement and (bone) growth. .
Sat, 22.11. 15:30h: Entre-Cuerpo - Sensory Fabulation, a workshop by Chiara Mila Jason
*Registration via mail@bistro21.org
In this three-hour participatory workshop, artist Chiara Jason invites participants to enter theworld of Entre-Cuerpo, an ongoing artistic research situated at the intersection of body,imagination, and relation. The project unfolds as an artistic invitation to open intimate and collective spaces for rethinking how we inhabit the present, how we relate to others, and how art can be an act of shared presence.
Inspired by the participatory propositions of Lygia Clark, Entre-Cuerpo expands her legacy beyond the skin and touch, exploring how we might relate to all our senses when the dominance of vision is gently displaced. Through guided somatic exercises and collective writing, participants will be invited to imagine and design their own fabulative sensory object, an object that emerges through imagination, sensation, and storytelling. These objects may hold sensory memories, emotional textures, or gestures that invite new waysof perceiving and connecting. The session unfolds through a gradual activation of the senses, guided writing prompts and oral narration, leading each participant to create an imaginative andpoetic artifact that embodies an intention, a feeling, or a sensory fiction. This workshop is open to anyone curious about exploring the body as a site of imagination, people interested in creative writing, sensory awareness, and expanding their relationship withthe senses through touch, language, and embodied exploration. No previous experience isneeded, only openness and curiosity.
Tue, 25.11. 18h: lesen22, a Frankenstein reading circle initiated by Florian&Emden (+ Tue 02.12. + Tue 12.12.)*FULLY BOOKED
This time, we are reading Frankenstein by Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley!!! We will meet on 6 occasions during the winter to read and discuss the novel and accompanying literature. In the first block and during the Christmas break, our focus will be on the novel. In the secondblock, we would like to collect, read, and discuss literature that deals with the cultural perceptionand themes of the novel. (Keywords: monstrosity, othering, Gothic literature, authorship, fabulation, etc.). Just like the last time, the reading circle will be shaped by it's readers - we built the monster and you will breathe life into it. "Every thing must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindus give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself." (Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley, London, 15 October 1831)
