Ich bin hier, bin ich auch Berliner*in? (2025)
Image by Marina MerkulovaCreative lab for Ukrainian youth culminating in an audiowalk through the district of Brunnenkiez, Wedding. A project with sociocultural organisation PLAY! Berlin. The audiowalk and documentation is available on their website.
Over the course of two weeks during the autumn break, teenagers with refugee experience from Ukraine participated in workshops in sound, photography and movement. As a team of artists and facilitators, we gained insight into their experiences of Berlin by asking them what they see, how they feel and what it sounds like to live in this city and share it with others. Together we explored ways of perceiving our enviroments and using creative tools to express interior worlds.
Image by Marina Merkulova
From materials collected, edited and curated over the two weeks, together we presented an audio
walk to the participants’ family and friends and the broader community. The walk is rooted in the neighborhood where we spent two weeks together, yet filled with stories from across Berlin. It comprises reflections from banal to profound, prompts to play with expectations of how we move and sound in public space, and an underlying encouragement to place our stories into relation with each other. We printed postcards from the cyannotype collage workshop, which participants and public could take with them as a keepsake for the project.
Image by Marina Merkulova
Production: Olga Kukharkova
Sound workshop, composition, artistic direction: Coila-Leah Enderstein
Co-facilitation and co-production: Anna Pronina
Photography workshop: Marina Merkulova
Movement workshop: Asya Ashman
Webpage:
Webpage: Anna Pronina, Nastya Skosyrskaya, Artem Arsenyan
Funded by the Berlin Project Fund for Cultural Education.