“A wild patience has taken me this far.”
 Adrienne Rich, 1950-1970
 
“Jade is praised as precious but its strength is being stone.”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, as translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

Welcome to „continuing containing“ where we explore the transformative power of collaboration. We ask: What is collaboration? What forms can it take? And what is made possible in and through collaboration? We explore the means and spaces in which an exchange occurs and how this exchange is a creative act that can reshape our understanding of the world.
We want to challenge our relation to hierarchies: Ideas of beginning and end, initiation and reaction, and creation and execution are broken up and transformed. In this way, space is created for a view of living together – a network, a forest, a society, a collaboration. In this, everyone and everything contributes to a force, to something that is to become.
In this way, we perceive collaboration as a political and creative act. It becomes a basis for the perception and shaping of being together and the person’s relationship with nature.

Blank Check is an annual festival series organised by nein9 kollektiv and DOCKART. It presents the diverse approaches of performances by the community of nein9. In this edition, they curate a selection of new and reworked works.
These include works that extend narrative duration, embark on apocalyptic journeys, engage with extremist populist politics in Europe, build bridges, transform gestures of an anonymous body into meaning and offer accessible forms of experience to visually impaired audiences. As part of Blank Check 3, nein9 is delighted to have invited AHA KOLLEKTÍVA from Hungary. They will be showing their award-winning work ‘DENSE PIECE’ and the world premiere of their new piece ‘Sweat Set’.
nein9: Erika Kooki Filia (they/them), Lena Klink (she/her), Omer Keinan (he/him), Raz Mantell (she/her), Ruby Frances Jones (she/they), Susanna Ylikoski (she/her)
Guests: AHA KOLLEKTÍVA Budapest

nein9 is a Berlin-based performance and movement community. After studying at SEAD in Salzburg, they founded a platform for performance, research and practice in Berlin in 2021, where different and contrasting approaches to art making are elaborated, negotiated and celebrated. Since its inception, the collective has realised various projects with the support of DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland. They have participated in several residencies and have collaborated with artists from various disciplines in Berlin and beyond.
Nein9’s programming takes two distinct forms: Blank Check produces performances and workshops hosted and curated by the community. Grassroots supports intra-community exchange of information, knowledge, and inspiration. Guests and new collaborators are regularly invited to participate in these events and processes and share their artistic interests.
nein9kollektiv.de/blankcheck

[Source: dock11-berlin.de]

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