{"id":1216,"date":"2021-12-30T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/?page_id=1216"},"modified":"2022-03-17T19:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T18:38:45","slug":"into-the-drift-and-sway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/baerenzwinger.berlin\/en\/program\/into-the-drift-and-sway\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the drift and sway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Christa Joo Hyun D\u2019Angelo,
Constantin Hartenstein,
Lindsay Lawson,
Lotte Meret,
Lucas Odahara,
Emma Wolf-Haugh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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02\/12\/2021\u201320\/02\/2022

Opening:<\/strong>
02\/12\/2021, 5\u20139 pm

Exhibition and events curated by:
Malte Pieper, Lusin Reinsch

Events co-curated by:
Lara Huesmann, Annika Maus

\u201cInto the drift and sway\u201d is the 4th part of the annual programme \u201cBricolage\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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15\/12\/2021, 7 pm
Exhibition tour with the curators (in German language)<\/a>
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20\/02\/2022, 3 pm
Reading with Lucas Odahara and hn. lyonga<\/a>

Performance postponed due to stormy weather \u2013 new date:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24\/02\/2022, 7 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Side \/ B Side
Aliz\u00e9e Lenox and Els Vandeweyer play Lindsay Lawson’s Organum<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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The group show “Into the drift and sway” considers the B\u00e4renzwinger as a place in constant flux. Located at the southern entrance to K\u00f6llnischer Park, the B\u00e4renzwinger was built on an area that formerly contained a street-cleaning depot with a public restroom run by Berlin\u2019s city sanitation department from 1901 to 1938. The building of the former depot was converted into a bear pit using the bricks of the pre-existing architecture. What stories from the past reside in its walls, which new qualities appear from its cracks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proximity of a park, the nearby banks of the Spree river, a former public bathing house and records of 1920s homosexual venues in the bear pit\u2019s neighbourhood on Wallstra\u00dfe and Inselstra\u00dfe suggest the site’s previous use as a cruising area. Public restrooms or urinals, such as those in K\u00f6llnischer Park, were already documented in Berlin around 1900 as anonymous meeting places for homosexuals in the book “Berlins Drittes Geschlecht” (Berlin’s Third Sex, published in 1904) by the doctor and sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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The possible queer history of the surrounding area has left traces which the exhibition\u2019s site-specific artistic interventions pick up on. From 1920 onwards, the publisher Adolf Brand regularly gathered with the “Gemeinschaft der Eigenen” (Society of the Own-Willed), a homosexual men’s club, in the neighbouring Marinehaus, formerly a home base for the imperial navy. Brand was a difficult man: while advocating for the abolishment of paragraph 175 which deemed homosexual acts between men illegal, he was an anti-Semite, sympathized with the Nazis and was in favor of traditional gender roles, idealizing a virile masculinity. Ludwig Hoffman, architect of the street-cleaning depot and public utility building, also built the infamous M\u00e4rchenbrunnen in Volkspark Friedrichshain \u2013 which later became one of the most popular gay cruising sites in former East Berlin. In GDR times, the Klappe (“cottage”\/”tea-room” in German gay slang) at M\u00e4rkisches Ufer is reported to have been a meeting place for gay men, in close proximity to the bear pit. One of the founding members of the Homosexuelle Interessengemeinschaft Berlin (HIB, a gay rights association in the GDR) worked as a bear keeper at the bear pit in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Drawing from these historical constellations the exhibition traces queer stories, gathering six contemporary artists who address masculinities and questions of cruising and gender, reflecting on and claiming space for desire in the private and public sphere. On display are installation works, drawings, sculptures and textile works that interact with the specific history of the K\u00f6llnischer Park and the current architecture of the B\u00e4renzwinger.
The exhibition borrows its title from a short story by gay rights activist and artist David Wojnarowicz, recalling memories of cruising and anonymous intimate encounters in urban landscapes. These recollections are marked by ambivalences. Often a transformation is at play \u2013 public spaces, industrial buildings or abandoned locations are turned into spaces of pleasure or violence. Queer spaces are also contested spaces, disappearing due to surveillance measures, policing, gentrification, and changing ways of living a \u201cqueer\u201d life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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