The colloquium series Research Ecologies is aimed at doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers in the arts and sciences.

In June with:
Futurities: Dealing with uncertainty as activist and solidary resonance

Marc Herbst: Movement in wreckage: Act 3 (rehearsal)

Ivan Chaparro: Radical Futurities, Sonic Activism and Subversive Mediations

Marc Herbst is a researcher and performance professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and living in Leipzig. He is a member of an anti-fascist performance and dream collective, currently choreographing a 4-part movement addressing culture in the time of climate and political collapse. His backstory involves uneven engagement based on migration, over-extended political interest, passion, and DIY collaborations. He can be playful. His work is grounded in eco-social and eco-feminist relationality, and also social movement research based upon his work at the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest that he co-founded in Los Angeles in 2001.

Movement in wreckage: Act 3 (rehearsal)
With the proposition of dance, we continue exploring movement and emotional relation to uncertain times through encounters with time, and assumed familiarity, uncertainty, and possibilities of solidarity. Marc is interested in somatic and subconscious relations to a events loaded by expectation and meaning, in relation to the slow violence of political and ecological transformation, as well as the immediacy of the  workshop or rehearsal scenario, which allows for a practice at and possible prefiguration of solidarity. 

Ivan Chaparro is an artist, musician, designer, and researcher based in Berlin. He holds degrees in sound art, music, and design, and is the founder and director of Resonar Lab, a transdisciplinary collective dedicated to eco-social transformation through art, music, and activism (see: resonar.net). His work focuses on participatory music practices, art mediation related to environmental and epistemic justice, as well as activist storytelling. Ivan has taught at universities in Latin America and Europe and has presented his research and performances internationally. He is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Berlin University of the Arts as part of the interuniversity research group “Normativity, Critique, and Change.”
https://linktr.ee/txap

Radical Futurities, Sonic Activism and Subversive Mediations explores how sound, storytelling, and artistic practices can become tools to collectively navigate uncertainty, ecological collapse, and political struggle. Drawing from experiences connected to ecosocial activism, participatory art, and translocal solidarity networks, the workshop reflects on sonic practices as forms of mediation capable of activating imagination, resonance, and alternative ways of relating and organizing.

When/ Where:
9. Juni 2026
5-7pm

Universität der Künste Berlin
Einsteinufer 43
Raum 202
10587 Berlin

It’s going to be a hands-on experience for everyone !!

The event is open to the public and admission is free.
The facility is wheelchair accessible.