Exhibition opening October 2024
in BABYLON | Mittelpunktbibliothek Wilhelm Liebknecht / Namik Kemal | gamelab.berlin | Humboldt University
KOTTI SESSIONS
by möglichkeitsraum: KOTTI
Pinar Ögrenci, Esra Akcan, Petja Ivanova, Tracey Snelling, Orhan Esen, Nastio Mosquito, Moritz Moser, Rick Gerardus, Christian Stein, Lucas Mateluna, Elisabeth Fischer, Valentin Hanau, Baal & Mortimer
initiated and curated by Rick Gerardus
Möglichkeitsraum: Kotti will create new digital infrastructures and tools for artists in Berlin, strengthen the local community and contribute to the exploration of urban space and digital technologies.
The project is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social
Cohesion.

Photo from the lecture of Esra Akcan | Lecture: 9/21/20 - Illinois School of Architecture
Residency
A residency program invites artists and curators from all over Europe who work with similar dispossessed communities and informal spaces to create a collaborative platform for exploring, documenting, and amplifying the voices and experiences of marginalized populations, fostering cross-cultural exchange, and advocating for social change through artistic expression.
Sessions
The community program leverages situated testimony and participatory mapping sessions, merging memory and vision with spatial demarcation. This approach allows community members to reflect on their past experiences and envision future possibilities within their physical environment.
The program empowers individuals to assert agency with digital tools, enabling them to actively participate in the creation and representation of their community.
Through prototyping public forums, the program fosters dialogue and collaboration among diverse community members, acknowledging the subjective agency and complex makeup of the community.
By appropriating technology typically used for surveillance and control, the program facilitates self-representation and the reimagination of vibrant communities intertwined with space and place. It transforms tools of observation into instruments of empowerment and collective expression.
