---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Krystian Woznicki via Commoning <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:58 PM Subject: [commoning] "Commoning Borders!" | TACIT FUTURES in Berlin, Oct 27-29 To: [email protected] Hello Commoners, the millions of refugees from the Middle East and Africa – as well as the countless deaths from this movement – show: the nation state's borders delineate the edges of its territory and decide, who is entitled to basic rights or human rights, or even quite fundamentally whether a person may survive or not. Yet, borders on which it is determined, who gets access to a place, that is both liveable and worth living, can be found practically anywhere. They can be located where not only bodies, but also data, goods and money are conveyed, namely: in the infrastructure of globalization. That means, that the borders that help structure political and economic participation e.g. in Europe can be manifested in the database of a social network, in the Mediterranean Sea – and at a German Job Center. Against the backdrop of increasing inequality worldwide, the international TACIT FUTURES conference invites you from October 27 to 29 to investigate the (frequently invisible) sites of movement control and to explore both their democratic potential and hidden futures: shouldn't borders be administered transparently as "interfaces" of mobility and circulation? Shouldn't the most recent refugee movement, which is flying in the face of the regulative function of borders to claim their right to a better life – shouldn't this movement be taken as the occasion to hold a debate on principles, long overdue in our society, about political and economic participation to place it on new, revolutionary ground? Taking the motto THE WORLD IS IN MOTION – CAN WE CONTROL ALL OF THE TRAFFIC DEMOCRATICALLY? as a starting point the Berliner Gazette (BG) and Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg Platz invite you to discuss these issues with net activism pioneer Konrad Becker, internationally celebrated process philosopher Brian Massumi, leading refugee activists from the International Women Space, anti-deportation activist Marcus Staiger and the key thinker of the post-colonial movement Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Join them at three Public Talks! *Program* 27-10 | 8 p.m.: WHO CONTROLS MOVEMENT? Keynote: Brian Massumi, University of Montreal, CA Performance: Konrad Becker, AT Slideshow: Krystian Woznicki, Berliner Gazette, DE Moderation: Anna Sauerbrey, Tagesspiegel, DE 28-10 | 8 p.m.: WHO CLAIMS BORDERLESSNESS? Keynote: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University, IND/USA Performance: Tamar Grosz, DE Moderation: Guillaume Paoli, Im Zentrum des Übels, FR/DE 29-10 | 4 p.m.: WHO SHAPES FUTURES? Keynote: Jennifer Kamau, International Women Space, KE/DE Discussion w/ Meike Nack, Foundation Free Woman in Rojava, TR/SY/DE Performance: SAZAE Bot, JP Moderation: Marcus Staiger, Bündnis für bedingungsloses Bleiberecht, DE *Workshops* Artists, researchers, activists and programmers from more than twenty countries gather at the TACIT FUTURES conference in order to collectively and collaboratively develop visions for the democratic control of movement in the context of workshops. The five workshop tracks are entitled: “Industries of prediction and margins of freedom”, “The politics of borders and money moves”, “Traces of movement and the question of rights”, “Care culture, drone war and mass mobility” and “Co-working, platform activism and refugees”. *Cooking* The closing event on October 29 will be a thematic dinner: This cooking experiment invites you to join the artist, choreographer and cook Pepe Dayaw. You are invited to bring your own food to his nowherekitchen.com – leftovers, cooked or uncooked. We will transform it into something extraordinary! Bring your leftovers and join cooking at 6 p.m. Dining will start at 7 p.m. *Tickets* Tickets for the public talks and the cooking experiment (8,-/reduced 6,-) can be reserved and purchased via Volksbühne: 030-24065-777 | ticket(at)volksbuehne-berlin.de | online here: http://volksbuehne-berlin.de/english/karten/ *Organiser* TACIT FUTURES is the 16th BG annual conference. It is a cooperation between Berliner Gazette e.V. and Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. It is funded by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb, the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. It is supported by Diaphanes, DiEM25, Exberliner, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, Merve, Meson Press, openDemocracy, piqd, Passagen Verlag, Supermarkt, tab ticketbroker, Takemura Juku, transcript, transmediale. And it is organized in collaboration with the “Aesthetic Education Expanded” initiative and curated by berlinergazette.de, Kontrapunkt, Kuda.org, Kulturtreger, Mi2. *Info* http://berlinergazette.de/tacit-futures *Share* https://www.facebook.com/events/972083732890295/ https://twitter.com/berlinergazette/status/787937319999406080 Kind regards, Krystian -- ------------------------------------------------- TACIT FUTURES | BERLINER GAZETTE ANNUAL PROJECT 2016 TOWARDS THE DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF MOVEMENT BY HUMANS AND BITS ALIKE TACIT FUTURES: BG Annual Conference | Workshops, Performances, Talks Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 27.-29.10.2016 http://berlinergazette.de/tacit-futures TACIT FUTURES: Essays and Interviews (in German) http://berlinergazette.de/feuilleton/jahresthemen/2016-tacit-futures/ TACIT FUTURES: Documents of BG's annual project Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinergazette/albums/ 72157662038932563 Videos: https://vimeo.com/album/3785772 Audios: https://soundcloud.com/berliner-gazette/sets/tacit-futures ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. 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