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Go beyond your limits; Release Dreams you have nearly forgotten. Go beyond the boundaries of either/or. Go Where you have never been before. Going, going, gone, but keep dancing in straight lines, & zig-zag, and astonish the Impossible. Escape the prison of perfection and bring lost MEMORIES alive. Never too late to & drop Be good for nothing. Make the Meditate in the & the Take a walk

tune in, turn on to your own beat out of the endless WHY. effort. Think not of How it Will be received. room of timelessness & emptiness beauty of the unknown. on the stairway of mistakes.

The World is happening. Time percolates. Make a response by Way of art. To comment is to be, To participate. Like & more Than like are creative steps forward. Be free of ideas. Ideology. Be solutionary. Don*t fake your way thru Chaos, Be Chaos. Make life simple. Enter & entertain. Look up, look Down, look always & Leap into Art. Dare to be different/indifferent. Let something happen. Surprise us, Surprise yourself. Let go. We Expect the Best from the now of You as you Go beyond Curiosity! *

AND FOR THE VISUAL ARTISTS This April's Berlin Soup exhibition (to be hung & supervised by Octavian Neagu & SĂ¸ren Tougaard) at West-Germany is a unitfied display highlighting the intimate pooling of differences promoting unity & pulling together artists & space into a challenging contemporary collage/wall installation embracing all techniques, shapes, sizes, material, including sculptural painted forms whose closeness sets the mood for Art as Community. This is in line with the concept/style of inclusiveness & comfort as outlined in the Invitation.

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Dan Turell with William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs with among others John Giorno

Words of Advice William S. Burroughs on the Road

Lars Movin & Steen Møller Rasmussen

Denmark, 2007, 74 min.

The idea of making a film about the American writer William S. Burroughs (1914-97) came to us during the making of another documentary, Onkel Danny – portræt af en Karma Cowboy (2002), a portrait of the Danish writer and cult figure Dan Turèll (1946-93). We knew that Burroughs was one of Turèll’s literary heroes, and during our research we discovered that the only encounter between the two men (in Copenhagen on October 29th 1983) had been documented on video. The tapes, however, had been missing for more than twenty years. We set out searching for them, and what we found was much more than we could ever have imagined – ten video tapes with more than three hours of recordings, altogether a historic document which also in an international context was quite sensational. Rather than just incorporating small fragments of the material in our portrait of Turèll we decided to keep it secret for the time being and then at a later time unfold the material more thoroughly in a separate film. In 2003 we travelled to the United States, to New York and Lawrence, Kansas, where we shot new material to create a framework for the historic footage. On this trip we interviewed a number of people, among them John Giorno, poet and director of the record company Giorno Poetry Systems, and James Grauerholz, secretary for Burroughs for the last twenty years of his life and today in charge of his literary estate. Both were close friends of Burroughs, and both were members of his entourage during the Copenhagen visit in 1983. Our aim with the film has first and foremost been to preserve the excellent historic recordings of Burroughs and to make them available for a wide audience. And then we hope to give some insights into Burroughs’ unique talent as a performer, and to offer some tools to enter this vastly interesting, but also complex and at times quite demanding oeuvre.

When you put your feet on the Berlin ground the european history of the 20th century starts to fill full your body and mind. BERLIN SOUP sees Art & Contemporary Culture as global healers in a world of ethical chaos & invisible madness. The Festival is multi-locational. The ďŹ rst was held last May-June at DadaPost (www.dadapost.com) Berlin, and the second at PB43 Copenhagen. The fourth is set for Iceland 2016. BERLIN SOUP is tasty quality difference. Curators Jesper Dalmose & Lennox Raphael are members of the Berlin Soup Family, some with origins distinct as Denmark, the USA, Korea, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, South Africa, Russia, Belgium & London.

Curators Dalmose & Raphael live in Copenhagen, Denmark.   They have curated several shows together & hundreds of events each. Raphael has written & directed for theatres in New York & other places. Dalmose works with transformative video arts. BERLIN SOUP is here to stay in our hearts. Ingredients Installations, photo & fashion art, sound poetry, cabaret, performances, mobile stations, concerts, vanities, sound stations, dance, circus market tent, artists’ talks, bellydancing, art streams, workshops, new musical approaches, classic piano, dramatic performances, video presentations, mixes, art exhibitions, lively surprises.

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Lars Høeg, painter, born 1958, lives and works in Copenhagen. Studies at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1981-88. Has had many solo shows and has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Denmark and abroad. Lived and worked in Berlin for six months in 1997; and in 2000 he held a special grant in a studio apartment in Prenzlauer Berg. An accomplished artist he has paid numerous visits to Berlin since 1997.

“Berlin 1997” - notes Berlin has a grip on me – sinister and gloomy – I follow my girlfriend, a Norwegian artist, spontaneously – we live in a rented one room apartment with a chimney in Wedding – deadlines to keep: solo shows to be held in Copenhagen – she works in the living room; I work in the kitchen – paintings in progress – china thrown against the walls and each other – Potsdamer Platz being an excavation and a building site – the air has a scent of coal – nervous and anxious – Richtung Ruhleben – I find myself in a vast studio in Neukölln – the only available in Künstlerhaus Mengerzeile – sleeping on a table, reading Mann’s “Faust” by candlelight.

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Lars Høeg’s works for this year’s Soup depict the subconscious and ‘subterraneans’ of Berlin.

“Yellow Bar”, 2014, watercolour, 29,5 x 42 cm. www.larshoeg.com

Inspired by French movies and film noir, Le-Thanh Ho transfers their style to her chansons. The German-Vietnamese actress and songwriter moves between these melancholic chansons and dreamy germanpop. Her lyrics, once dark and heavy, are oftentimes playful and full of hope are full of energy. www.le-thanh.de www.facebook.de/lethanhmusik

Charlotte Petersen FLYING TRAINING EXERCISE video FLYING TRAINING EXERCISE is a state of mind obtained from soul-gymnastics exercise. FLYING TRAINING EXERCISE is a part of the project: RITUS FIT (SOUL MACHINES) RITUS FIT Is an interactive art exhibition containing rebuilds, and paraphrases fitness machines. In times where individual freedom is considered one of the most important values, these "Ego Machines" train and represent the social and spiritual attitude of modern man. RITUS FIT Tells about our physical efforts to avoid decay. RITUS FIT is a holistic fitness center; which through interaction, tells us spirit and body are inextricably linked. And of the need to take an active part in the air and space that combines us. www.charlottepetersen.dk kunstmaskinen@hotmail.com

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Kristina Elisabeth Steinbock (1974) has a Ba Hons from Glasgow School of Art and an MA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

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This Irish born sculptor lives in Denmark and works primarily in wood and stone. His sculptures are a journey through light and dark, shape and space, a sublime mix between the obvious and the hidden. A silent story to be told. McKenna’s work represents a play between the masculine and the feminine. Under his hands the sculptures become sensual and invite the viewer to sense and seek with hand and eye. Inspiration and theme vary depending on his meeting with the material, place and people. A simple word can spark the process. It’s all about listening, listening to inner and outer sound. The artist’s subconscious conscious movement is expressed through abstraction and symbolism. A sculpture is born. In essence McKenna is a storyteller. His sculptures change character depending on whichever way they are viewed. Expect the unexpected.

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Anastasija's works are mainly sculptural three-dimensional characters spirits of nature elements forests, water, air, earth or energy from parallel worlds, where nothing is ruled by humans, but exists in its natural way self-organized by spirituality, harmony and sensuality. ’I can’t define, where those images are coming from, they just appear by themselves from the depth of my heart’. Her charcoal drawing tells us the story people feeling a sensitive and mystical atmosphere between personage and plant elements, much like a short story writer.

Email: anastasija.dubovska@gmail.com Website: art-forest.blogspot.com Facebook: Anastasija DubovskaArt

Anastasija attained her bachelor’s degree at the Latvian Academy of Art in Riga having actively studied Lithography, Woodcut, Etching, Mezzotint, Screen-printing, Monotype and soft polish: and her Master’s at the Sculpture department at the sculpture department. Currently a freelance artist, she works with charcoal drawings and illustrations.

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Octavian Neagu has lived & worked in Copenhagen since 1990. – 42914457 – octavian_re@yahoo.dk

His debut exhibition, and the first on the streets of Bucharest, was with the Danish artist E.A. Frandsen. The exhibition was taken by an art gallery in Lyons and he was invited to exhibit in Gallery Specta in Denmark, going on to study at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen.

Reacting to the political climate, during the year of his graduation, he found himself on the streets with others fighting the dictatorship.

Octavian’s first conceptual art action was as a 5 year old when he modelled a baby cow from the cheese his mother gave him for breakfast. And when he drew a portrait on the mirror with her lipstick she, convinced he belonged there, sent him straight off to art school.

Born 1965 in Ploiesti, Romania, he belongs to that country’s sacrificed generation. And visual art, a vehicle of spiritual survival and weapon against oppression was his means of expression during the cold war and the dictatorial epoch of Eastern Europe.

Octavian Neagu exhibited at BERLIN SOUP 2013 & 14.

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Sound Curator/ Soundscape Design / Music Producer / DJ and Composer / Moist / Fictioname www.facebook.com/alphabite giannipopovici@yahoo.it Releases – www.soundcloud.com/alphabite www.alphabite.bandcamp.com Podcast – www.mixcloud.com/alphabite

THE LOVE FOR MUSIC IS INFINITE SO INFINITE AS THE SPACE AROUND US AND AROUND THE SPACE FEELINGs AND SOUNDs The present mood came from the MOIST and cool/coldness of the scandinavian weather. It’s making a creative, intuitive and a polite move on you that intersects with the flat and matte vision of the urban landscape and... it gives a sharp response in return. Since 2012 Copenhagen is for me, at least, the “nest” for minimalistic underground electronic dance scene. From Torino, Italy, I gained and confirmed my music addiction by the time I was 17. In 1999 I moved in Timisoara, Romania, known for the clubbing scene. Here, I started a very big passion for analog synthesizers pared with midi tools. The experience transposed into an electronic dark tribal beat with elegant hints of a sizzling jazzy techno, well seasoned with dub, matched by deep harmonic chords, all laid out on to a floor-friendly intriguing rhythm. Two of my big inspirations are jazz and ambiental ethnic music. They came from my collaborations and marked my ear for folk, tribal grooves, heartbeat induced grooves, spiritual shamanic music and a lot of deep inner soul disection.

OrEn The Israeli dancer and musician Oren Lazovski has lived mainly in Berlin for the past 8 years. He has danced with different companies and projects around Europe and abroad. A.o. Staatstheater Nürnberg, Bat Dor dance company Tel-Aviv, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Internationnal Dance Theater Amsterdam, Zeynep Tanbay Projcy Istanbul, to name a few. Oren has presented his creations at La biennala di venzia, “the marathon of unexpected 2012” , MARMEO Berlin open stage, Barnes crossing festival Köln, MAXIM GORKI schauspiel studio and TISHCLEREI Deutsche Oper Berlin. “My experience has shown me that these two forms of art are not different at all - au contraire - they complete and enhance each other. My vision is to integrate the body in a musical instrument and vice versa.“ orenlazovski@googlemail.com

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HOWLING LIKE VIRGINIA WOLF SEARCHING FOR A NEW LANGUAGE VIDEO ARTARCHY PERFORMANCE work-in-progress by JESPER DALMOSE & LENNOX RAPHAEL

SOMETHING DAZZLES; THE RIGHTFULTHIEF STARES IN DISBELIEF. THAT LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IS A FUNNEL THRU WHICH LIFE POURS ITS EFFERVESCENCE. I DIDN*T JUST WANT TO WRITE, I SOT TO INVENT A LANGUAGE THAT WOULD BYPASS EXPECTATIONS. I SPENT ALL DAY, FOR EXAMPLE, AS A SAMPLE OF SINCERITY, KILLING SPIDERS & EATING SNOW. I ATE MY WAY TO CHINA & WAS STILL HUNGRY FOR PROSE, AS EVERYONE KNOWS. I ATE A HANDFULL OF MOSQUITOES. THE TASTE OF LANGUAGE WAS BITTER. THE BITTERNESS OF GOD WAS A DEVILISH EXPERIENCE. I STOPPED BEING THE IMPOSSIBLE. EVERY REGRET WAS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL. I STOPPED BEING WHAT WAS & WHAT WAS NOT. I GAVE IN TO IMPULSES & BEGUN TO WONDER WHERE WRITING WAS GOING AT THAT UNGODLY HOUR OF MY FLIGHT FROM A PRISON OF PERFECTION. I KNELT IN THE HOUSE OF THE SOUL & ATE A MOUSE. INNOCENCE WAS MORAL PREJUDICE. I STEPPED ON MY IMAGINATION & HAD AN ICE COLD DRINK OF TEARDROPS. I SERVED CHAMPAGNE & CURRIED ICECREAM TO MY DAUGHTER’S BIRDS. I BLAMED GENEROSITY FOR THE STATE OF WRITING. SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING WORTH READING, I HAD FOUND YOU. SUICIDE WOULD HELP ME DECIDE. I STOOD ON A SEMI-COLON & PASSED A DECLARATIVE SENTENCE AROUND MY NECK. I WAS ON THE VERGE OF GENIUS. CONCEPTS OF DIVINITY OUT OF THE QUESTION, I HAD ONLY TO HOWL LIKE VIRGINIA WOOLF. I AWOKE THEN FROM THE SLEEP OF LITERATURE

From the poetryvideo Howling like Virginia Woolf text Lennox Raphael – Sound Alex Choub – Camera + edit Jesper Dalmose

TO FIND MYSELF RUNNING THRU HELL, & KNEW BETTER NOT TO STOP, OR TURN BACK. WOULD I WRITE THEREFORE OF HOW I FELT RATHER THAN WHAT I REMEMBERED OF THE FIRE OF IMAGINATION STRIPPING MY FLESH TO THE BONES? I SPENT THE WHOLE WEEK TRYING TO SWAT A FLY & WONDERED WHY WRITING CELEBRATES DISTANCES BETWEEN MEANING & OBSOLESENCE, BETWEEN REALITY & REPLICATION, BETWEEN SADNESS & PASSION, BETWEEN TENTACLE & MIRACLE, BETWEEN VISION & SURRENDER, BETWEEN THE DEVIL & THE DEEP BLUE ME. I WENT BACK TO KILLING TIME. LIKE SPIDERS, I SOT INFINITIES OF THE PAST & INFINITIES OF THE FUTURE IN THE WEB OF REFLECTIONS. WRITING & DESPAIR WERE IRREVERSIBLE. IN THE WILDERNESS, I FOUND A LANGUAGE AGAINST MEANING & A WORLD SO SACRED IT COULD NOT BE IMPROVED BY APPLAUSE OR REMORSE – THEN, FOR NO REASON, I COULD NOT STOP COUGHING. THE POSSIBILITY OF TEMPTATION REFLECTED A MIXTURE OF ENCHANTMENT & INDIFFERENCE. WRITING HAD BECOME THE SECRET OF AMBIGUITY. I BEGUN TO FORGET LANGUAGE & ITS COMPLICITIES. I READ A POEM TO MY RABBIT, I READ A POEM TO A SPIDER; & LANGUAGE APPEARS & DISAPPEARS, & MEANS NOTHING, &, AS NOTHING, EVERYTHING; & WRITING GUSHES FROM THE SPRING OF LIFE; A COMMA KICKS THE SEMI-COLON, I FALL ON MY SWORD, & THE EFFERVERSENCE OF WHICH WE SPEAK EMBRACES & BEWITCHES. I LOOKED IN THE EYES OF GOD & SAW THE DEATH OF LITERATURE,

THE BEGINNING OF WRITING AS A DEAD ART, THE END OF MEANING. MY MIND IS CUT UP & SCATTERED ON THE RIVER OF MEMORY, THE ANONYMOUS ANONYMOUSE PRESENCE OF REGRET; OUT OF CONFUSION A RICHNESS OF SOLITUDE; OUT OF SOLITUDE THE REBIRTH OF EXHAUSTION, & I WRITE & WRITE, &, PURSUED BY HAPPINESS, PASS THRU ONE UNDERWORLD TO THE NEXT, UNTIL I CAN WRITE NO MORE, AS MAN OR WOLF, & THAT SAME LIGHT, AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, IS DARKNESS, UNSURPASSABLE BEAUTY OF SILENCE, ABSENCE AS REVOLUTION; & I WAS ALONE, & BESET BY EXPECTATIONS. DESTINED TO KNOW THE CLASSICAL MUSIC OF THE MOSQUITO, I CHOSE TO WRITE NO MORE & TO BEGIN ALL OVER AGAIN; & AGAIN; LIKE PAIN; TO INTERRUPT THE GAZE OF POETRY, & HISTORY; &, MEANWHILE, HOWLING LIKE VIRGINIA’S WOLF, FIND HARMONY IN THE CRUELTY OF STYLE, THE SHALLOWNESS OF INSPIRATION, THE IMPOSSIBLENESS OF LOVE, THE FUTURE OF THE PAST, THE JOY OF DOUBT, &, BY BEING LIGHT, DELIGHT AS, CAUGHT IN THE TRAP I SET, CRITICISM WAVES GOODBYE TO A ROSE WHOSE PETALS ARE MAGIC CARPETS TAKING WORDS & STRANDS OF FEAR TO A BONFIRE OF COMPLIMENTS. I HEAR MYSELF HOWLING IN THE END WHERE WE BEGIN TO SEE EVERYTHING, WRITE EVERYTHING, PUBLISH EVERYTHING BE EVERYONE, DREAM EVERYONE & HEAR AGAIN THE WOOF*WOOF*WOOF OF GOD.

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A Korean-Danish poet, curator, video artist and activist operating at the boundaries of poetry, film, music, noise, performance and installation art. Her main themes investigate hidden or subconscious emotions and traumas and unfold the aesthetics of the expressions and stories that are embedded in-between.

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Press Quote Julian Layn is a Swiss composer and pianist who performs across Europe to crowds of new and dedicated fans. His unique style of music can best be described as contemporary classical for piano solo with a romantic-era harmonic structure underpinned by a heavy basso-continuoconcept. Press Blurb Julian Layn has released two full-length albums of his own compositions that were sound engineered by Martin Pearson, engineer for Keith Jarrett’s recent releases. Julian's albums are available on all major platforms like iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc. Julian who regularly performs concerts to crowds of new, dedicated fans across Europe, performed, this year's Piano City Milano (a festival under the patronage of Ludovico Einaudi) and at a 3-day concert series at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, at S t Giles' Cathedral. Press: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JulianLaynProject Instagram: http://instagram.com/julianlaynproject Twitter: https://twitter.com/JulianLayn Website: – www.julianlayn.com

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Piano City Milano 2013, article by Lucia Maffei: "...ah, he’s formidable, whispers the audience..." http://heavysonic.com/?id=67

Glamour Magazine Italy, article by Italian writer Francesca Scotti: "…and when Julian's fingers leave the piano, everybody seems to be holding their breath, waiting for him to start again …" http://hounlibrointesta.glamour.it/2013/06/13/julian-layn-la-miamusica-e-durrenmatt/

St Pauls Lifestyle Magazine, article by Rose Paul: "…the talent this man has is mind-blowing…" http://www.stpaulslifestyle.com/articles/2013/11/09/julian-layn/

: the charismatic classical composer/pianist presents his unique and energetic contemporary piano solo.

Central to the performance, is the significance of place, a complex visual game emerging from cartographically programmed bodies and geographically influenced sound-bytes, via individual neuron-synaptic stimuli, encompassing word-dots, to form lines in a 2_3D visual space, which with minimalistic tension, ties an aesthetic archetypal moving language, primordial territory, and virtual sound.

..your eye in my pocket.. ..my ear in your hand.. ..your hand in your ear.. ..your pocket my sound.. ..your sound in my eye.. ..your eye is my ear.. ..my eye is your hand.. ..your ear IS your eye.. ..your G.R.I.D.*eye

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kh – Olga ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Olga Magieres Hi Tomomi, Very good, the "human installation" and "falling from a cloud of whisper", I will use those names for the catalogue. If you have some picture of yourself you would like to present then mail it to me. I talked to Doris and she imagines making some instant drawings that correspond to the sounds she will hear or receive someway. She will be moving around or maybe just drawing on an ipad, then the picture can be probably projected from the ceiling onto the floor. Have a good Sunday! – Olga On 24 January 2015 at 22:50, ADACHI Tomomi wrote: Hi Olga, My title is always funny or ironical, you can decide it anyway. is always something funny, but you cannot change it :) Also the am not sure if we need to use photos for the performance. Maybe ing to concentrate on the "human installation" idea? We can put directly on our bodies.

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All the best, – Tomomi On 23 Jan 2015, at 19:01, Olga Magieres wrote: I like the idea of yours, "Falling from the cloud of whisper" is good too. I`ve sent the picture Doris made in Ireland at a performance two years ago. The picture could be used as well in a catalogue or maybe as a background for us, but many other pictures could do as well. Whispering performance, sounds good to me, whisper and silence. Olga On 22 January 2015 at 18:33, ADACHI Tomomi wrote: Hi Olga, The idea for the individual sounds should be interesting: we three are placed separately in the space and the audience can approach us freely, then we each make some continuous drone-like sounds, (but not necessary so). Something like a living-installation? For example, I whisper some texts and play electronic sounds from my pocket repetitively.. Also we can make smell/perfume too? "My tiny wallet for sounds" or "Falling from a cloud of whisper"? All the best, – Tomomi On 20 Jan 2015, at 13:50, Olga Magieres wrote:

Hi Tomomi, Doris is coming in person and I told her about you and she is very interested in your work. Today at a short meeting with me she mentioned her idea about producing (or discovering) an individual sound (like individual smell) for every single person, so one could recognize one by his very discreet sound.I thought this idea might be amusing and inspiring for you. Well, so maybe the title for our performance could be: "my notebook of sounds"? Or "dancing in a cloud of whisper"? Regards (today a little snow in Copenhagen) Olga On 19 January 2015 at 23:03, ADACHI Tomomi wrote: Hi olga, The PA is quite good (if you compare to other venues in berlin); and the atmosphere is a kind of "german dance club". Also i saw some things of Doris, her painting with foot is very interesting. all the best, tomomi On 15 Jan 2015, at 12:55, Olga Magieres wrote: Hi Tomomi, Great there is a possibility of working together. Thinking about the performance I hear words, Cage piano like recorded sounds, and maybe other sounds I do not know where they come from. I`l get in touch with Doris to discus the visual side. What do you think? Olga On Jan 14, 2015, at 6:24 PM, ADACHI Tomomi wrote: Dear Olga, Could you tell me more details and contexts? All the best, Tomomi On 14 Jan 2015, at 16:22, Olga Magieres wrote: Dear Tomomi, I plan to be in Berlin from 8th to 12. of April participating in "The Berlin Soup" performance program. What is your situation in that period of time and do you feel like creating some sound performance with me at the occasion? I am cooperating with a south african artist Doris Bloom that would like to be part of the performance with a visual input. But the whole idea is very free and open. Regards, Olga

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Performer, composer, sound poet, installation artist, and occasional theater director, he studied philosophy and aesthetics at Waseda University, Tokyo, and has played improvised music with voice, live electronics, self-made instruments, and performed with numerous musicians, dancers and fllm makers. His works were performed at ZKM, Maerzmusik, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Akademie der K端nste/Berlin, Tonic/New York, STEIM. In 2012 he was artist in residence at the Berliner K端nstlerprogramm/DAAD.

Nordbahnstrasse 10, 13409 Berlin www.dadapost.com info@dadapost.com

Howard McCalebb is maestro completo at DadaPost, the sprawling art cultural studio complex in Berlin that hosted BERLIN SOUP 2013.

Butterfly (Yellow) Standing – 2009 – Painted – Welded Steel – 209.5cm x 229cm x 122cm

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My art practice exploits a structure found in nature known as the Golden Ratio. The shapes and proportions of my sculptures are configured within a matrix created by the Golden Ratio.

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The proportion known as the Golden Ratio represents the natural order of life. It is a gift from nature that has always existed in mathematics and in natural structures. Its amazing proportional balance has implications for numerous natural formations ranging from the shape of a leaf, to the design of seashells, and to the structure of crystals. These divine proportions rouse a feeling of awe, and opens to a spiritual consciousness. The height to width of the Golden Rectangle is equal to the Golden Ratio. The elegance of this system and its association with aesthetics articulate a program that can be applied to art artworks. Over several decades, my interest in the aesthetic potential of the natural forces of life has grown. Serendipitously, through years of experimentation and a gradual turning towards the physical world of nature, my practice has extended to the wisdom represented in the natural history. The diversity of natural phenomena in the universe reveals an immense variety of forms. The multiplicity of these forms represents the natural (creative) process of mutation and selection. To exploit this blessing: I use near primary colors, and conﬁgure my forms within a matrix created by the Golden Ratio. This practice, in a sense, preserves the principle that art making is concerned with discovery.

Are You Shy ? – 2014 – Silk-Screen – 56cm x 54cm

2020 VISIONS. DK, FROM DENMARK, SPECIALIZING IN THE LARGE ART OF 20X20 PAINTINGS, IS ONE OF EUROPE'S TOP ART COLLECTIVES. EXHIBITING IN DENMARK, BERLIN, AMSTERDAM & SWEDEN, 2020 VISIONS HAS SOLD MORE THAN 3,000 PAINTINGS IN 15 YEARS. ACCORDING TO PROJECT MANAGER OLE SERRITZLEV, 2020 VISIONS. DK IS A UNIQUE ENTERPRISE. RUN BY MEMBERS VOLUNTARILY, WITHOUT ANY WAGES OR PAYMENTS, AND SELFSUPPORTIVE, THIS SUCCESSFUL COLLECTIVE OPERATES OUTSIDE OF CENSORSHIP, THE ONE RULE BEING THE PAINTINGS SHALL BE MADE ON MATERIAL PREPARED BY THE GROUP, & PRICED TO SUIT ANYONE'S POCKET. ALSO, WHEN EXHIBITED, THE PAINTINGS ARE SO PLACED AS TO MAKE TOUCHING AND (PERHAPS) EVEN RE-ARRANGING THEM EASY & WITHIN REACH.

Lars Kræmmer is C.E.O of ArtMoney, www.artmoney.org, & founder of The Copenhagen Art Club. He is also one of Europe'a finest artists.

Artmoney kunstnere Berlin Soup 2015 Vike Pedersen Lis Severin Kisser Skovfoged Miranda Grayling Lars Rohde Mette Helmig Hanne Falk Bente Ekander Kirsten K. Kester Marie Graneberg Marie Falkenberg Mortensen Elisabeth Wegger Anne Marie Qwist Suzanne Lastrina Tina Morsø Dorte-Maria Kræmmer Møller Jeff Ibbo Frank Tomozy Karin Røjkjær Ann-Kerstina Nielsen Jane Wieben Bodil Lisbeth Thomsen Ingelise Busacker Elsbeth Burgwald Thostrup Else Juhl Lundhus Tobias O. Lehrskov-Schmidt Lise Læssøe Eiler Kjersti Andersen Peter Møller Andreas C. Rosmon Mette Hansgaard Anne-Mette Lehrskov-Schmidt Karen Sennefelder

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Speak of metaphors relayed in images & signs of a contemporary mysticism & you zero in on Allan Bestle who's carving out a name for himself in the grand tradition of art with a voice that speaks to (& of) our times.

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Annett Kuhne is a founding member of the BERLIN SOUP family & greets us in the space of innersense where language stirs the pot of Soup goodies & makes the opening of this festival be a celebration of taste beyond expectations.

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TOWER OF CONSUMPTION installation *That was 2008 when Julia Balukevica & Julia Juzefovica first met. *Ms.Balukevica was, and still is, an obsessive coffee lover & Ms.Juzefovica loves tea with equal passion; but, despite these differences, they quickly became friends. Both in high school back in 2008, they were thinking what to do next in their lives. Like many young Latvians, they decided to seek their fortunes abroad. Julia, the tea lover, could not even wait until graduation, and went to London (where else to if you love tea?) in 2009 to study graphic design & media. Julia, who prefers coffee, was more patient, and went a year later to Copenhagen to study Multimedia Design & Technology and E-concept Development. By that time, Julia in London zeroed in on English literature & started working as a journalist. Nowadays, Julia in Denmark pursues a career in the art world at ARTKEMI GALLERI while Julia the Londoner plans soon to switch from journalism to advertising.

"we buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like" In 2014 our adventurous Julias took part in the New Blood creative competition and worked on the ad campaign for the World Wild Life Foundation(WWF). Drinking coffee and tea, Julias & discovering the serious & challenging problem of overconsumption. So, for this year’s ‘Berlin Soup’, their short-movie criticizes the OVERCONSUMPTION fueled by websites like Amazon and eBay. And to show we can all tackle the problem of overconsumption, Julias wrote one biography for both of them, instead of creating two. Yes, "we buy things we don't need with money we don*t have to impress people we don*t like" (from “The Fight Club”, Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 take on the rise of consumerism. Aimlessly spending ‘invisible’ credit card cash in a Digital Age on things we don*t need. Click once/twice, the plastic newstyle massive over-consumption of goods. Especially in Western countries. Accelerated manufacturing & production BIG*boosting greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. KILLING OURSELVES NOISILY. Buy, but use only once. Or, for that matter, never at all. Think therefore SOLUTION: how “Share” buttons on Amazon & eBay would allow users to share instead of buy. Imagine, hundreds of storages where, for a small daily fee, one could borrow – from drills to extra chairs for the Saturday night party. To afterwards return to storage until the next customer decides to borrow. ONE WAY to combat compulsive overconsumption & mindless non-stop purchases we seldom/never use, and are often too busy buying to even open the deliveries. Our brand new short movie gives u the TOWER OF CONSUMPTION installation, and 2Julias4one!

Rikke Aamann Christensen, born in HĂ¸rsholm, Denmark, has been living and working in Berlin as a painter and visual artist since 2006. She works within the wide media span of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and photography. Using techniques like canalization and automatic drawing and processes, her visual language reveals both spirit and the spiritual. Rikke finds her inspiration in nature - human nature as well as mother nature.

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raac.kunst@gmail.com

Rikke Aamann

With a stunning honesty towards nature and human relations, her art explores the borders between animal and man; the bestial and the human; love, pain and acknowledgement; freedom and loneliness.

Flemming Borby from Denmark, the great talent of indie pop folk, has been active since the 90's when he released 3 praised albums with the danish band GREENE and played more times at the danish ROSKILDE FESTIVAL Graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in late 90's and started the band LABRADOR right after (2002) Has released 4 full length albums and 1 EP with LABRADOR, and been touring and playing shows in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France, UK, USA and Japan Now concentrationg on own songs and the project:

Crafted, melodic, singer-songwriter-pop-songs. Personal lyrics and high quality song writing. Has been living in Berlin, Germany since 2004 and worked with different Berlin artists such as Toby Dammit (Iggy Pop, Rufus Wainwright) Tom Krimi, (PRAG, Raz O’Hara, Stereo Deluxe), Martin Wenk (Calexico), Nikko Weidemann, Elke Brauweiler, Berend Intelmann (PAULA) Roderick Miller (Richard Ruin, Kitty Solaris) und Katy Matthies (!mas Shake!, Lemonbabies). Also involved in the international Songwiting Organisation "The House Of Songs" in Austin, Texas, and the EP "The Ghostbrother Project Back into your heart” (collaboration with Nicholas Ginbey from "The House OF Songs") was released april 2014.

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`Der himmel über Berlin´, For Nynn e - New experime ntal site specifi c work This performance invites passing pe op le to participate the sky into a fr in an artistic sn agmented mosaic ap shot, projecti at the plaza of The Performance ng Kottbusser Tor, will take next in th e st heart of Berlin. ep from the perf which was perfor ormance `Paintin med at the Berlin g the Bloody Sk Soup festival in transformation of y´, Copenhagen in 20 inner emotional la 14 , working with th ndscapes and esth (Duration: 1 ho e etics, to physical ur at high noon, space and action. hopefully with su nshine) `Interface´ - Ne w experimental si te specific work This performance will address soci al interaction in artist will inve the space of West stigate the spac e and social inte Germany. The a long rubber st ra ct io n by unwrapping ring, connecting himself from space and people evening) . (Duration: 15 minutes in the Artist talk - Inve stigating space th rough interaction, collaboration and performance The talk takes the audience into a to ur de force of proj by the artist ects and personal from artistic ha experience´s ppenings with th in the European e Mi nisters of Econom Union, to being y and Trade sh it sc center of Istanbul ared by riots of . At the same time political youth in the ru nning a business, workers of big co making better spac mpanies such as LE e for GO , and learning en in the Danish ed ucation sector. vironments for ch (Duration: 1 hour ildren ) Bios Rune Fjord, a trai ned artist and de signer, explores, boundaries of th moves and plays wi e artistic space th the ac ross the arts in both in urban spac his projects and es, public spaces works and private compan performative, an ies focusing on so d physical space. ci al, Rune Fjord has, exhibited at Char amongst other pl lottenborg, HEAR ac es T, , Göteborg Konsthal Museum. l and Copenhagen City

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Diego Castro, born 1972 in Hannover, is a SpanishGerman Artist, living in Berlin. He studied Studio arts in Germany and France and art theory/critical & curatorial studies in Switzerland. His work is based on the idea of political art. Coming from a conceptual art background, he went from performance art to the use of rather conventional media and investigated its potential after the grinding halt of the avant-gardes and neo-academism in conceptual art. In the last decade, he founded a radical art movement, called the "Immaterialist International", whose work consisted in an analogue adaption of the idea of radical sharing found in alternative digital copyrights such as "creative commons" and "copyleft". The movement took a radical stand against the art-market, refusing the production of original art-work and hence only exhibiting copies, free to be copied. Also, pamphletism would be an integral part of the group's work, who wrote many manifestos. Today Diego Castro uses mainly drawings and painting, which he arranges in installations to explore and experiment with its potential to formulate critique, often relating to actual image politics and historical revisionism.

www.diegocastro.de

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WestGermany is one of Berlin's leading and most beloved non-profit art spaces. It opened its doors in 2005 in a former dermatologist office in a housing estate in the centre of the dynamic, intense and multiethnic borough of Kreuzberg. The events in WestGermany span from art shows, concerts and theater to lectures, workshops and sociopolitical functions, and often in a manner that mixes disciplines and media. One of WestGermany's bookers and curators the integrity of its This has ensured the up-coming and widely lecturers, for which loved.

strengths is that its team of combine being visionary with art and sociopolitical aims. high standard of both unknown, known artists, performers and the art space is known and

Fusing art, intellectuality, pop culture and the experimental, WestGermany is a space where people of different environments and ages share a common love of art and thinking that challenge and push boundaries.

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Marie Dahl Marie Dahl, Berlin/Copenhagen, is a singer, composer, writer and visual artist. Her works span from album releases and concert tours, sculptures, drawings and videos to poetry and essays. Defining for all her works is her play with genre and media, literature and academic writing and our cultural expectations of these. Sofus Forsbergs, Berlin/Copenhagen, was one of the founders and driving forces of the Nordic electronic movement. Whether composing, programming or improvising, his work is characterized by his musicality and his ear for the intricate. For this occasion Marie and Sofus team up to create stories of sounds, beats, words and song.

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Marie Dahl Links Vimeo under Marie Dahl kra: kra: (CROWFULNESS) soundcloud.com/marie-dahl-music Sofus Forsberg Links sofusforsberg.bandcamp.com

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Guitarist Daniel Meyer works and lives in Berlin, composing and performing his own work, as well as collaborating with other musicians, artists amend various theatre projects. His compositions brings together folk, soundscape and contemporary jazz. At Berlin Soup he will be performing with Marie Dahl and Sofus Forsberg.

Anne Mette Degn-Petersen

Born in Copenhagen where she lives and works as a photographer and award winning graphic designer. Anne Mette works with collage, motion-stop pictures and analogue manipulation.

moneypennyalias@gmail.com

140x160 cm, oil on canvas, 2013

Roberta Argenzio (Italy)

Roberta Argenzio, born in Naples, Italy, graduated from the Ostkreuzschule for Photography in 2004 in Berlin, where she still lives and works. Working in the field of photo essays, portraits and documentary photography, Roberta captures diversities like the trash scandal of Naples and the fragility of the human being with her lens.

roberta.argenzio@gmail.com

JØRGEN TELLER

electric guitarist, vocalist, electronic musician, performer

Opus 2 was created during TELLER’s residencies at EMS Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm December 2014 & March 2015 working on vocal, guitar, Serge and Buchla synths.

Call it minimal rock goes static synth’n’poetry http://www.jorgenteller.dk/STATICTELLER.html

Kim Kim Morrissey is a Canadian poet and playwright, now living in London. She has two books of poetry, ˂Batoche˃ and ˂Poems for Men Who Dream of Lolita˃, and two plays, ˂Dora˃ and ˂Clever as Paint˃. She was a commissioned writer on the BBC radio satirical sketch show WeekEnding and a member of the Poetry Workshop, London (Divers Anthology, with Jane Draycott, Richard Price, and Sudeep Sen and others) and has mentored The Purple Poets since 2005. Kim is a livewire Londoner active in the poetry & art-emotional nurturing scene & just the perfect energy spirit for community-izing the shared poetic experience.

FOUND POETRY / FINDING THE VOICE A PURPLE POETS PURPLE SOUP WORKSHOP A Poetry Workshop with The Purple Poets’ mentor Kim Morrissey, exploring techniques involved in creating a Found Poem (the creating of poetry from a passage of prose). Bring a pen and some paper, and, if you like, a passage of prose (preferably someone else’s prose). Everyone welcome. Photo – Sudeep Sen

Morrissey http://www.purplepoets.com/Riel.htm

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Curator af Berlin Soup with Lennox Raphael

Photo – Chris Calmer

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Born in Bangladesh & living in Denmark since 1986, Kajol is cannonized in the Swedish Guinness Book of Records as maker of the world's biggest street painting. Kajol takes street art to the level of social participation making his mark in society rather than on it. Since early 90's as computers emerged in our daily lives Kajol, aware of time and world, saw how we are all bound to the creation of a personal word or pincode. Seeing a new time on its way, he started creating words such as – ›Cold Fire 1996‹, ›Democrazy 1999‹, ›Killigeon 2000‹, ›Evilization 2008‹, ›Devilupper 2009‹, ›Conpiratua 2013‹ – for his series of artworks.

Chris Calmer works with many medias such as painting, graphics & film, which he incorporates in his work with photography. Calmer artdirects all his work himself. His way of working with contrasts is visible in his way of uniting often unrelated subjects. Calmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s process is done by uniting subject a subject b and subject c into something 3 dimensional & magical. Calmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aesthetic can be described as cinematic * melancholic * minimalistic * surrealistic *

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Robin Wildt Hansen, half-English, halfDanish, has written two novels of magical elements. He wrote his first novel, I hver vores skyttegrav, in Danish, because it is a critique of Danish culture. He wrote his newest novel, The World, in English, and launched it in December 2014 in San Francisco. Robin is now coming to Berlin to launch this metaphysical novel, which illustrates the spiritual initiation of a young man by a journey through the Tarot cards. Robin has spent the last three years travelling from city to city while writing. He currently resides in Bucharest, and is working on the biography of a Brazilian shaman. He plans to finish this next autumn. For him, shamanism and initiation are highly relevant topics today. Our society has banished them from serious discourse, but that has not removed the need for them to be addressed. Every day people are born who will develop a shamanic initiatory crisis. Robin says that it was a monumental discovery for him that in the modern cities of Brazil, as well as in many other countries, there is an abundance of elaborate initiations going on.

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JENS O. MAGNUSSEN Iʼve been a writer and drawer for most of my adult life. Primarily poetry, cartoons and abstract explorations. I also play the transverse flute. My latest publications in prose are RAPHAELʼS COUNTRY / A TRINIDAD & TOBAGO DIARY done around the Carnival there; and FÆNGSEL, with illustrations by the Norwegian master painter, Laurie Grundt, about a two monthsʼ stay years ago in Marrakesh Civil Prison. I am currently working on A WOMANʼS TOUCH, a collection of poems written in English, and for more than 3 years have been collaborating with Robert Roth, writer and editor of the Manhattan magazine AND THEN, on a long multiliterary text (almost 500 p. by now) called TRANSATLANTICISM. This is my 3rd Berlin Soup appearance. DOORʼS AJAR is the name of my performance of poetry & flute at WestGermany. Photo – Chris Calmer

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Italian-born Danilo Colonna is a versatile contemporary performer/dancer, theater maker. Multidisciplinary, he collaborates with choreographers and artists from various fields.

From 2013 he busied himself as a performer, making music and settings for the label "nowhereoutofreach" and as LVM for music productions. Between 2012 and 2014 he made solo artist music productions for Basel Theatre (CH), fashion shows "FashionClash" Maastricht (NL) (including choreography and light design) and as special soundscape live sets in Berlin for the art exhibition/performance by Rein Vollenga at HV8W gallery. Together with artist Gertjan Franciscus, bigger projects are showcased at special events in the Netherland along with collaborations in theatres, clubs and site specific space named "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

https://soundcloud.com/lvmvl http://instagram.com/lvmvl/

Danilo plans to explore new ways of performing analogically.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/L-V%CC%80-%CD%A2M/349948175166786 https://www.facebook.com/nowhereoutofreach

At the age of six he began his dance studies, at eighteen graduated from Teatro dellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Opera, in Rome, and has danced internationally in works by William Forsythe, JirĂŹ Kylian, Matz Ek, Karole Armitage, Paul Lightfoot & Sol Leon, Nacho Duato, Hans Van Mannen, David Parsons & Nils Cristie.

Michiel Tange van Leeuwen Michiel Tange van Leeuwen is specialised in aerial acrobatics and explores the constant border area between circus, contemporary dance and performance art. He mastered his skills to a degree that allows him to create powerful and poetic solo work, characterized by an original and very personal expression. His choreographed and highly visual numbers are thus creating a dynamic and entertaining performing arts hybrid. Michiel van Leeuwen Tange is a well known name in the emerging nordic circus environment. He started his career in a youth circus in the Netherlands - and did further workshops in France. After a year at a variety of festivals at AFUK's Artist Line, Michiel toured in Scandinavia and parts of Europe. Since then he has appeared in countless theaters across the country - but also making a name for himself in the underground environment.

martin lau martin lau MARTIN LAU (*1984) is a Berlinbased vocalist & sound artist who digs deep into the acoustics of the mouth exploring the variety of boundaries of human articulation, and touching & merging genres like sound poetry, noise, and free improvisation. And his explorations are constant. www.soundcloud.com/martin lau www. laumartin.wordpress.com

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susanne soldan is a dancer, performer and choreographer based in Berlin. After studying contemporary dance she became more focused on improvisation exploring the movement potential of her body. More recently she concentrates on deconstructing and downsizing her very own movement patterns into minimalist movements. This research is also influenced by butoh.

susanne.soldan@web.de www.facebook.com/susanne.soldan

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music is the art of everything beautiful & beyond what we imagine as marriages of space, sound and silence celebrating spirit & surprise. Born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, he began playing piano at 6 & bass at 16, and hasn't looked back since attending the Krasnoyarsk School of Music & playing in the city's Philharmonic. By the end of the 80's, celebrated in the Russian heavy rock music scene and, for his playing in AMALGAMA, the heavy punk band, his bass genius had become an essential feature on many albums. In Copenhagen since 1992, first with the band DISORDER, Alex has over the years to this day played live & recorded with artists such as Debbie Cameron, Vladmir Chekasin, Luther Thomas, Soyka ViSix, Peter Mossman, Secret Cinema, and Jorge Molina. His here & now, when not mixing music for the ballet 'Dias Irae', is sound master on several videofilms by Jesper Dalmose & busing making exciting contemporary music with Sanne Sommer, the dynamic singer. For him, there is no end to happy beginnings, and music is life force.

CLASSIC BURLESQUE sexy magic duo

SANNE SOMMER + ALEX CHOUB Real burlesque style, singing, dancing, playing, weaving in & out of the audience cabaret style, performing humoristic scenes reminiscent of Berlin of the 30's, fun/funny/life stories in song, costume and dance, sexy mouth-watering midnight music magic. SANNE grew up in a musical family and, since starting out as a child, has sung in Tivoli, JazzHouse, Bakken, and other top Copenhagen spots. Known for her warmth & flash & skill in bringing something new to every song & performance, SANNE has also been singing gospel in Denmark & England for over 22 years. She & bassist-composer ALEX CHOUB are now into the AMANDA PROJECT, all about love, the blues and romantic mysticism in songs written by these two resourceful performers.

CABARET comes alive in their musical COLLABORATION.

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The performance is based on the myth of the Tower of Babel. The artist, henrik leander, examines the relationship between human activity and the creation of the world, in sound and matter, and it's back effect on us. The creation of Babel is a constant reproduction and mirroring. A materialization of our ideas and our understanding. Babel is materialized zeitgeist. An extension of the mind and body. Created in our image. The process, which includes sound and rhythm, examines how sound affect us and the environment. The performance is based on the ancient pottery tradition and its material, clay. one of the oldest crafts that people have used throughout history to create the world and surroundings. The performance explores and questions the creation of Babel when the artist, interacting with the audience builds a tower of clay and sound. Performance includes real sound, clay, body, miscellaneous tools etc. Henrik Leander works as a visual artist and industrial designer. Duration 1 hour.

Hanne Lippard (1984, Milton Keynes, England) graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2010 and since then she has mainly devoted her time to writing. Her texts comprise personal observations that underscore how she looks at the world around her in what is often a mildly ironic yet hilarious manner. These texts are at the base of her timebased works, which include short films, sound piece and performance. Hanne Lippard lives and works in Berlin.

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is a Cuban-Belgian artist. Dedicated to the research, performance and production of cross- media projects, events and films. A filmmaker, drummer, dancer/performer, extended voice performer, visual artist. Always aiming to explore and enhance our/ your experimental awareness beyond the usual stereotypes, expansion at different levels, at different layers. Exploring crossmediality, interactivity and media input/output. Striving for innovation, discovery, fusion, collaborations in touch with integrity and in service. Evolution has brought us â&#x20AC;&#x153;newâ&#x20AC;? means to work with, such as computers and digital semantics, video and 3D which gives new approaches and broaden the paradigms in which we can express ourselves. But also traditional means as dance, music, theater concepts are used in contrapuntal togetherness. Using them in relational combinations creates exponential possibilities. A total inmersive performance within and without.

Bare Faced naked project Lazara Rosell Albear lazara@mahaworks.org http://mahaworks.org facebook: MahaWorks.DANSCAMDANSE twitter @LazaraRA

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Sammy Baloji was born 1978 in Lubumbashi, the resources rich province of Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a borrowed camera & a rich imagination, he began photographing scenes as sources for his cartoons & soon enrolled in photography courses in DRC, continuing with photography and video studies at Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Strasbourg, France. Today he lives and works in Lumumbashi and Brussels. Having created several works about the culture of the Katanga region and the

colonial heritage in DRC, Baloji views architecture and the human body as traces of social history, sites of memory, and witnesses to operations of power. And his work is displayed worldwide in Africa, Europe, Japan and the USA, showing a diverse and expressive picture of Congolese realities, encouraging social awareness and stimulating artistic creation in Katanga. Baloji is, amongst others, an initiator of the Biennale “PICHA” which, since 2008, has been taking place in Lumumbashi.

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We welcome him to the BERLIN SOUP family.

Laurie has always been deeply involved in developing and communicating New social orders

His mural masterpieces of Scandinavian history position him from the extraordinary to the divine. You can see some of bis murals in Christiania.

For Laurie Grundt, history is a golden leaf sailing beyond perspective into a magical reality bringing us back to the past & future of now filled with compassion & loving kindness by eyes without pity.

Art is the Tree of Life & from it springs roots in the Norwegian sky planted deep in the heart of Laurie Grundt, master painter & visionary of shared chaotic innocence.

Photo â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Chris Calmer

Friday, april 10th. 4-5 pm Anastasija Dubovska Artist talk Nature & Humanity NATURE AS INSPIRATION Talking about my personages & explaining basis and stylistics of my characters Thursday april 9th 3-4 pm

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RUNE FJORD JENSEN Artist talk - Investigating space, through interaction, collaboration and

The talk takes the audience on a tour de force of projects and personal experiences by the artist - from artistic happenings with the Ministers of Economy and Trade in the European Union, to being shitscared by riots of political youth in the center of Istanbul. At the same time running a business, making better space for workers of big companies such as LEGO, and learning environments for children in the Danish education sector. (Duration: 1 hour) Bio Rune Fjord is a trained artist and designer. He explores, moves and plays with the boundaries of the artistic space across the arts in his projects and works both in urban & spaces and private companies focusing on social, performative, and physical space. Rune Fjord has, amongst other places, exhibited at Charlottenborg, HEART, GĂśteborg Konsthall and Copenhagen City Museum.

My illustrative visual stories come from the bottom of my heart. Basically, I rely on intuition and I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why my drawings are very sensual. Therefore, the main function of my artworks is to motivate and inspire others. Works create metamorphosis in the hearts of others, when you can feel a sense, which is transformed into something large and significant - into inspiration. One can perceive the calmness, spirituality, harmony and sensuality. I come from a place surrounded by nature. art-forest.blogspot.com Facebook: Anastasija Dubovska Robin Wildt Hansen Artist talk Wonders of the World Robin Wildt Hansen will make an Artist Talk on his relationship to the Wonders in this world. Robin Wildt Hansen will state his case that magic is all around us all the time, and that the need for spiritual initiation is as great as it always has been. He will read from his new novel, The World, which explores initiation through a Western spiritual tradition: the Tarot.

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PURPLE POETS WORKSHOP POETRY WORKSHOP – KIM MORRISSEY

2020 VISIONS HAS SOLD MORE THAN 3,000 PAINTINGS IN 15 YEARS.

FOUND POETRY/FINDING THE VOICE

ACCORDING TO PROJECT MANAGER OLE SERRITZLEV, 2020 VISIONS. DK IS A UNIQUE ENTERPRISE.

A Poetry Workshop with The Purple Poets’ mentor, Kim Morrissey, exploring techniques involved in creating a Found Poem (creating poetry from a passage of prose).

RUN BY MEMBERS VOLUNTARILY, WITHOUT ANY WAGES OR PAYMENTS, AND SELF-SUPPORTIVE,

A PURPLE POETS PURPLE SOUP WORKSHOP

Bring pen and some paper and, if you like, a passage of prose (preferably someone else’s prose). Everyone’s Welcome. BIO KIM MORRISSEY is a Canadian poet & playwright now living in London. She has two books of poetry, Batoche and Poems for Men Who Dream of Lolita, and two plays, Dora and Clever as Paint. KIM was a commissioned writer on the BBC radio satirical sketch show WeekEnding and a member of the Poetry Workshop, London (Divers Anthology, with Jane Draycott, Richard Price, Sudeep Sen and others) & has mentored The Purple Poets nationwide (http://www.purplepoets.com/Riel.htm) since 2005

THIS SUCCESSFUL COLLECTIVE OPERATES OUTSIDE OF CENSORSHIP, THE ONE RULE BEING THE PAINTINGS SHALL BE MADE ON MATERIAL PREPARED BY THE GROUP, & PRICED TO SUIT ANYONE'S POCKET. ALSO, WHEN EXHIBITED, THE PAINTINGS ARE SO PLACED AS TO MAKE TOUCHING AND (PERHAPS) EVEN RE-ARRANGING THEM EASY & WITHIN REACH)

Art Terapi Introduktion

physical movements to music short meditation a personal expression in painting evaluation: talk about the process duration ca. 2 hours fee 20 euro

Music – OREN LAZOVSKII DANCE MUSIC CHOREOGRAPHY

2020 VISIONS DK Workshop

THE INTEGRATED INSTRUMENT – workshop for musicians

2020VISIONS DK

A meeting point between music and dance.

(2020 VISIONS. DK, FROM DENMARK, SPECIALIZING IN THE LARGE ART OF 20X20 PAINTINGS, IS ONE OF EUROPE'S TOP ART COLLECTIVES. EXHIBITING IN DENMARK, BERLIN, AMSTERDAM & SWEDEN,

Movement workshop designed for musicians preparing for the constantly changing world. "The integrated instrument" is a workshop offering a place & space for musicians to get to

know their tools from a new point of viewthrough their own body. The main idea is that a musical instrument has a lot more to offer us beside the known functional use of it as an art object, inviting us to discover hidden images and different ways of relating to it physically and emotionally. Participants will have the chance to expend and explore new horizons, and to understand and strengthen his/her intimate connection to one’s instrument of choice. The workshop will be based on movement research tasks, with and without instrument, aiming at developing different skills concerning the art of performance in general, and especially for musicians. As a result one would be better prepared for a rapid changing world where one is called upon to demonstrate different skills & creativity beyond the traditional musician’s “job”. Method of work The Workshop is composed of 3 parts: 1. Introduction to” The integrated instrument”: experimenting with composition and choreography will be introduced in order to emphasize the connection between music and dance. The first part will be dedicated to physical warm-up, emphasising posture, body awareness, mobility, and dynamics of movement.

2. The journey begins: a process of estimating & observing will take place. Themes of trust and communication with one’s own instrument and others in physical and non-physical ways would be explored. 3. Into the horizon: Based on the learned tasks and exercises from the previous chapters, Rewriting one's own story and expressing it through movement and sound while being encouraged to keep exploring and developing, allowing space and time for each participant to use his/her imagination, skills and tools to create personal ways of expression & being. 20 Euro

SILENCE

(mindlessness)

WORKSHOP

INNERGY & MEDITATION New Age Intuition & Inter-Galactic Instinct. Fixed time: one hour each day

LENNOX RAPHAEL (& Friends)

(donation)

RAHUL KAJOL Streetart Workshop Rahul Kajol has 20 years of experience in doing streetpaintings the world over. The workshop takes place every day. We will make a streetart painting in front of WestGermany – number of participants: 10

From Nørreport station the sign lights up the twilight sky, the red neon sign on the hotel front says : ›Hotel‹, letting tourists and Copenhageners know that a little further down right after the food market, Ibsens Hotel is found.

MARIE LOUISE THYSSEN HEAD OF MARKETING WWW.ARTHURHOTELS.DK

ARTHUR HOTELS NØRRE SØGADE 11 DK-1370 COPENHAGEN K

T: +45 33 45 77 00 D: +45 33 45 77 15 M: +45 28 70 23 69

ARTHUR HOTELS HOTEL KONG ARTHUR IBSENS HOTEL

WWW.ARTHURHOTELS.DK

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm5wkIIu2tk

The social streetpaper strassenfeger is edited by the registered society mob – odachlose machen mobil e.V (mob – homeless mobilize). The main principle of strassenfeger is: We offer help for selfhelp! The strassenfeger, published 26 times annually, is produced by a team of voluntary authors from all social classes. Selling the strassenfeger offers homeless and poor people a possibility to work on their own rules. They get a vendor’s legitimation, which they have to show on demand. The vendors decide, where and when they offer the strassenfeger. The price for one newspaper is 1,50 Euro, 0,90 Euro are benefit for the vendors, 60 Cents earns the society for the production. By selling the strassenfeger the society mob e.V. funds social projects as emergency sleepover “A roof over the head” and the social meeting place “Kaffee Bankrott”. The society doesn’t get any governmental support.

poster by Chris Calmer

Birth of

BERLIN SOUP

1996 Kulturfabrikken, in Amager, Copenhagen Lennox and Jesper first met at Kulturfabrikken, now Fabrikken for Kunst & Design, in 1996 where Jesper curated a one week workshop on food art together with Rune Fjord Jensen. Lennox participated with, among other things, a piano piece starring a beautiful wellformed naked beauty eating grapes & bananas on top of the piano during the closingdinner. Lennox & Jesper both knew some day in the future they would start working together. August 2011 The seed of Letters from Berlin : Walkies & Talkies : and BERLIN SOUP started its journey in the light of a rainy augustevening under a bombshelter in the yard of the Artspace DADAPOST founded 2009 by Howard McCalebb. Here Lennox and Jesper did an Optipist openingperformance under the blue / white doubleumbrella. When Lennox saw Jespers videoinstallation of Walking men under umbrellas, he fell in love with the magic & said he would like to take a walk & talk under an umbrella in front of Brandenburger Tor SOME DAY October 2012 SOME DAY – BERLIN – JULY IN OCTOBER became 5 beautiful and heartworking walkie talkie days of July in October – Which turned to be long inspiring walkings through the history of blood, suffering, pain, hope, beauty moments of the 20th century European history & inspirational pitstops in the company of Chris Calmer, Silke Calmer, and Anna Fink… That last evening in town Lennox and Jesper biked around Wedding and, as they passed one empty shop after another, decided to have a releaseparty & their DVD : Letters from Berlin : ›Walkies & Talkies‹ in one of these some time in the future. Then Howard heard of their plan and invited them to come to DADAPOST. December 2012

BERLIN SOUP was named under the legendary Star of the upside down hanging Christmas tree in Library Bar at Hotel Plaza a slushy dark Sunday afternoon in the beginning of December 2012 in Copenhagen. We, Alex Choub from Siberia, Lennox Raphael from everywhere and Jesper Dalmose from Copenhagen were sitting talking about the coming ARTevent in DadaPost, Berlin, in May / June 2013 as Ideas and imaginations sparkled in the beauty of the brightlighting Star bidding welcome to the Future. Alex exclaimed ! ! what a Soup ! ! and Lennox & Jesper both said at once : ! ! ! What a Berlin Soup ! ! ! C'est Cá and BERLIN

SOUP was born.

May/June 2013 – The first

BERLIN SOUP was held at DADAPOST.

The rest is artHistory in the Making.

Directors of the Berlin Soup Association are : Chairman Vice Chairman Accountant

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Jesper Dalmose Lennox Raphael Yong Sun Gullach

Badensgade 46 – 2300 København S. email : jesper7dalmose@gmail.com CVR-nummer : 35547746

westgermany

Poetry / music / video: Martin Lau Rasmus Halling Nielsen Toke Højby Lorentsen Hanne Lippard Gabrielle Reger Jens Magnussen Kim Morrissey Jesper Dalmose Charlotte Petersen Annett Kühne Robin Wildt Hansen Billeder Octavian Neagu Søren Tougaard Anne Mette Degn-Petersen Chris Calmer Allan Bestle Lars Høeg Charlotte petersen Anastasija Dubovska Leif Dione Joensen Rahul Kajol Rikke Aaman Christensen Roberta Argenzio Diego Castro Christian Noah Laurie Grundt Kristina Steinbock Sculpture Sean McKenna Groups 2020 VISIONS DK ARTMONEY Installations Lucian Cosinschi Julia Balukevica Julia Juzefovica Søren Meisterbrau

Performance Michiel Tange van Leeuwen Rune Fjord Jensen Alexandra Kostrubala Doris Bloom Susanne Soldan Tove Vestmø Yong Sun Gullach Henrik Leander Music Jørgen Teller Lazara Rosell Albear Oren Lazovski Sammy Baloji Julian Layn Alex Choub Sanne Sommer Daniel Meyer Olga Magieres Adachi Tomomi Le Thanh Ho Flemming Borby Marie Dahl Sofus Fosberg Gianni F. Popovici Danilo Colonna Lecture Demonstration Lars Movin Artist Talk Rune Fjord Jensen Anastasija Dubovska Workshops 2020 Visions Oren Lazovski Rahul Kajol Kim Morrissey Whispering Poets Lennox Raphael

9 – 12 april / WestGermany

Skalitzer Str. 133 – 10999 Berlin ART / PERFORMANCE / POETRY / WWW.BERLINSOUP.ORG

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