Nonbinary Superpower – die Welt als Wahlfamilie

Nonbinary Superpower
The World as a chose family
An exhibition and festival that explore non-binary thinking as a Superpower
Nonbinary thinking as a superpower – the festival Nonbinary Superpower transforms Vierte Welt into a laboratory for new alliances and queer futures. Seven artistic positions present works on speculative biology, queer ecologies, and collective memory – in a fluid exhibition that moves like a living organism. Performances, film nights, workshops, and sound formats invite visitors to engage and take part.
Curated by Dan Dansen, Justin Time and Minh Duc Pham
 
Exhibition with Kim Bode, Dan Dansen, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Kallia Kefala, Luïza Luz, Lee Stevens and Justin Time
Festival program with Avvik, Caio Amado Soares, Qwigo Baldwin, Mart Busche, Dan Dansen, Adrian Gutzelnig, Louzie, Lea Mărie, Luïza Luz, Abdoui Mohamed and Justin Time
Curated by Dan Dansen, Justin Time and Minh Duc Pham
Funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftliche Zusammenarbeit
German and English language
 
Program
Do.18.9. | 18:00 – 22:00 | free entrance
Vernissage Nonbinary Superpower
Performance by Luïza Luz and DJ-set by Lea Mǎrie
In the opening performance, Luïza Luz activates the installation “Flourish & Collapse” through a ceremony weaving voice and gesture into an embodied ritual of mourning. Within this living ecosystem, the work reflects on cycles of transformation—personal, political, and planetary—where loss becomes a gesture of continuity and an opening to fluid states of becoming beyond fixed categories.
Lea Mǎrie was born in Buenos Aires and has been living in Berlin since 2012. As a DJ, she enjoys playing ambient, grime and deep dubstep and combining them into rare polyrhythmic textures. She was part was part of the crew of Supernature and played in Tuntenhaus (Hoffest) and in Drastic Social x Reclaim Pride, in Bergen, Norway, and Feministaldia (Basque Country), among others.
Fr.19.9. | 19:00 – 21:00 | free entrance
Qwigo Baldwin
Embodied world in the polyphonic blender – Vocal improvisation beyond the human sphere
This 2-hour workshop will focus on the power of voices and bodies, including sounds beyond the human. With rhythm games and vocal exercises from Action Theater, Circle Singing and Musica do Circulo we explore human and non-human similarities, roles and interactions. People with and without experience in singing and improvisation are invited to play in the fields of polyphonic sound research and non-binary music.
Event is in English or German, depending on the audience’s needs. We kindly ask you to register in advance at NBSPinfo@web.de.
 
Sa.20.9. | 14:00 – 17:00 Uhr | free entrance
Abdoui Mohamed
Queer plants. Networks and connections in nature
external workshop in Lucy’s garden: Lucy Lameck Straße, 12049 Berlin (near Hermannplatz)

Sexuality is often explained in terms of bees and flowers. But is it really that simple with sex in the realm of plants? If we take a closer look, we realize that the world of plants is more complex than just male and female. Plants are more queer than we as humans can ever dream of. This workshop shows that heterosexuality in the nature of plants is just one concept of many and answers the question of what this actually has to do with gardening.
Workshop will be in German sound language. Whisper tranlslation available to English. Please register in advance via NBSPinfo@web.de.
 
Di.23.9. | 19:00 – 21:00 | free entrance
Mart Busche, Dan Dansen
Crumbling Binaries – What if there were never two sides?
Either–or, inside–outside, male–female: binaries originate from a colonial order that forces the world into manageable pigeonholes. Dan Dansen & Mart Busche open up a playful space between body, sound, and crumbs: Together we listen to wandering palm trees, get down to eye level with grass, and knead futures out of rice cakes. Stage and audience mix, questions grow instead of answers. Singing, crumbs, performance—a participatory collage. Bring openness and a desire to participate—the rest will emerge in the moment.
Performance will be in German sound language. Whisper tranlslation available to English. Please register in advance via NBSPinfo@web.de.
 
Do.25.9. | 19:00 – 22:00 | free entrance
Louzie
Being capable to act together in times of crisis

In this workshop we want to shift the focus from invididuals to communities and take a look at the chances that lie in sharing one’s worries about the future with others, and in developing ways to act together. We want to explore what “community” and “capability to act” can mean in this context, and which strategies there are to get from individualised powerlessness to collective agency. And ideally, this 
workshop itself will become a step in that direction.

Louzie is a white trans woman and anarchist. She’s been around leftist and DIY communities and subcultures for more than two decades. During the last ten years she has started to develop a more conscious and political approach to her personal generalized anxiety about the future.
Workshop will be in German sound language. Whisper tranlslation available to English. Please register in advance via NBSPinfo@web.de.
 
Fr.26.9. | 19:00 -22:00 | free entrance
Adrian Gutzelnig, Qwigo Baldwin, Justin Time
WE 
We replace all (all!) pronouns with “we”. What happens when we think of ourselves as community? Is it conformity or solidarity? What does it mean economically? Or socially— if there is no exclusion, just belonging? And what if we try to understand ourselves as beyond-human? The audience is invited to participate in the discussion in a great common we.
This workshop can be held in German or English. Please register in advance at NBSPinfo@web.de.
 
Sa.27.9. | 18:00-22:00 | free entrance
Finissage
19:00 Filmscreening Club Splendida (Caio Amado Soares, 45 min)
Planet Earth has a nervous breakdown and a crew of five friends builds their own spaceship. On a search for Club Splendida, a rumoured utopia in outer space, the team hopes to find the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Soon they find out the biggest challenges are not what they expect.
 
20:30 Konzert Avvik
The two musicians Orange Robinija and Ask Müller conclude Nonbinary Superpower with a concert featuring modulated loops, algorithms, percussion, and drones on a predominantly analog synthesizer and guitar. A deliberate balancing act between serial music and loss of control in favor of an audio-visual, organic unity.
Graphik: Caio Amado Soares