Liese Kingma

For the Month of March I am invited by Bogomir Doringer for the project "Dance of Urgency" to together develop and finalize a project approach for the exhibition at frei_raum Q21 exhibition space. Since 2016 I have been working together with Bogomir on the topics of Rave Diplomacy and Dance with Urgency in within the curation frameworks of the NIGHTS-Stadt nacht Acht conference, public day (Frei(T)raume (2016-2019).

My focus as a project leader for the Clubcommission Berlin is creating new urban tools for the creation of free experimental space together with Universities of Berlin, Amsterdam and Vienna. This focus is rooted in the electronic underground music scene and a fascination for cultural experiment which occurs when a vacuum is created within abandoned spaces. The free spaces that are created influence citymaking and the urban renewal within cities.  The research that I am currently conducting together with the TU Berlin (Model Space Project) is focussed on creating new urban tools, which we can scan the city for the preservation of free experimental Urban Spaces throughout Europe.

During the curation of Club-culture related topics on the SN8 conference, me and Bogomir recognized that the urgency for the realisation of  free space and dancing with urgency have a mayor impact on many Clubculture related narratives and art-projects worldwide. For the Month of March we choose to deeper emerge ourselves into research and the development of new combined formats which we present during 5 International conferences, exhibitions and the curation of the public day of Stadt nach Acht (Frei(T)räume 2019.