August 21, Aktuelles. Lesen am See 2 COVEN BERLIN reads the YEAR OF THE BOG with: Zinzi Buchanan, Inky Lee, Daniela Medina Poch, and Meghna Singh.
Sunday 4. COVEN BERLIN is a queer art collective focused on feminism, love, gender, and sexuality. Founded in , it blossomed when some queers answered a Craigslist ad. Current members are Harley Aussoleil, Frances Breden, Lorena Juan, Judy Landkammer, Kiona Hagen Niehaus, and Louise Trueheart. As a group, COVEN BERLIN wants to create an open sphere to defy systemic violence and inequality, and is devoted to emotional processing, collective healing, political reassessment, paying fairly, and supportive time management strategies.
The collective nurtures cultural work, in Berlin and online, in the form of embodied affective research and digital hybrid curatorial approaches, always with a breath of humor. From March they hosted the YEAR OF THE BOG on their online magazine. This evening, COVEN and some of the authors who contributed to this issue will read their work on the Bog. While fluidity emphasizes total dissolution and infinite possibilities, viscosity draws attention to sites of resistance and opposition.
The Bog is a sort of membrane between the forest and the wetland. A transition area, an open-ended gathering of living and dead matter. Bogs are queer ecosystems.
Their cool and wet environment preserves many futures under a single slimy surface, without presumption of a seamlessly harmonious collaboration. This cycle happens in the very particular place of Strandbad Tegelsee: on the one hand remote, in the woods on the Tegel lake, and at once in the middle of the city of Berlin.
