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Joint events, projects and initiatives with non-university partners make up a significant part of the Cluster's work. Literary readings and research talks, experimental translation documentations, podcasts, exhibition projects: The diverse activities taking place under the umbrella of CONSTELLATIONS range from artistic collaborations to events that facilitate complementary forms of knowledge production. These events combine academic discourse with presentation modes and discussion formats prevalent in the cultural sphere.
CONSTELLATIONS gets impulses from its coordinating team, from the professional-track postdocs' initiatives, from the EXC 2020 Artists in Residence as well as from the Cluster members' research projects. The platform documents all past and current activities emerging from the ongoing exchange between the Cluster members and the teams of the cooperating institutions, as well as from the many encounters between authors, artists, researchers and professionals from the cultural landscape facilitated by the Cluster.
Featured activities, projects, events
Film Series | Transnational Filmmaking in Germany (2025)
Organised in cooperation with Sinema Transtopia, the film series aims to rethink the history of German cinema by examining the role of transnational filmmaking practices in Germany since the 1960s.
Workshop | Invoking Processional Publishing: A Modern Wayzgoose (2025)
Reviving the historical tradition of the Waygooze – a communal gathering of printers held on St. Bartholomew’s Day to exchange knowledge and foster solidarity – the workshop reimagines editorial work as a collaborative process of transformation.
Performance | Ich bin Prinzess Anju / I am Princess Anju (2023)
A transdisciplinary dance performance by former artists in residence Hiromi Ito, Yuko Kaseki and musician Kanako Nishi
Festival | Surreal Continuum: Revisiting, Remapping, Reimagining Surrealism (2025)
Organised by HKW Berlin in collaboration with EXC 2020, this two-day festival programme marks the centenary of the surrealist movement by critically revisiting its legacy.
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Film Still
Image Credit: Friedrich Zimmermann, BRD 1975
Lepas anatifera / Goose Barnacle, preserved collection specimen. Photographer: David Staples, Source: Museums Victoria.
Image Credit: Museums Victoria, CC BY-SA 4.0
kachel-anju
Image Credit: Peter Zach
Surreal Continuum, Visual Programme
Image Credit: Moses März, 2025
Narration and Embodiment – A Video Lecture Series (2021)
The video series brings together 12 short presentations by internationally active artists, scholars, and curators. It is part of the project "Circulating Narratives – Entangling Communities: Case Studies in Global Performance Art."
Exhibition | Mirtha Dermisache: To Be Read (2024)
An exhibition on Argentinian artist Mirtha Dermisache and her 'asemic writing' in cooperation with A—Z, oxfordberlin and the Legado Mirtha Dermisache.
Screenings & Gespräche | Erika Runge und das systemsprengende Potenzial des Glücksanspruchs (2023)
Die Veranstaltung thematisierte die kaum erforschte filmische Praxis der Autorin Erika Runge (1939-2023) und die ihr Lebenswerk durchziehende Reflexion auf das Konzept 'Glück'.
ilb 2023 | Echo. Echo: Magical Echoes
The collaboration between the Cluster and the international literature festival berlin engages this year in the reverberations of Magical Realisms and discusses the complex implication of the literary category of the 'magical'.
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Video Series Narration and Embodiment
Image Credit: Natasha Tontey
Libro n° 1
Image Credit: Mirtha Dermisache, "Libro n° 1", 1967, 25,7 x 20,8 cm, ink and colored marked paper, sole copy, 108 pp. © Legado Mirtha Dermisache.
Filmstill, "A cold case or happiness" von titre provisoire, 2023, 34 min.
Image Credit: Filmstill, "A cold case or happiness" von titre provisoire, 2023, 34 min.
Sound Insulation by XoMEoX_square
Image Credit: XoMEoX
Workshop | Touching the Archive (2023)
On November 10 and 11, a workshop in collaboration with the Schwules Museum Berlin and the art space Neun Kleche will be held. This workshop is dedicated to the exploration of tactility and materiality within movement archives and artistic approaches to archiving.
Workshop | Transnational Film Archives and the Politics of Exclusion (2023)
In November 2023 the working group After Accumulation collaborated with Sinema Transtopia to engage in the politics of film archiving. With Can Sungu and Lisabona Rahman as featured speakers, the event discussed the material dimensions of archival practices and the specific institutional frameworks that transnational archives are faced with.
Workshop | Archive von unten – über private Räume, lebendige Archive und Archivierung von QTIBIPoC Geschichte (2023)
Für den Workshop am 25. November 2023 brachte After Accumulation Archiv-Initiativen und künstlerische und theoretische Positionen zusammen, die das Archiv als geschlossene materielle Sammlung herausfordern und Strategien entfalten, die Verwobenheit von Archiven mit lebensweltlichen Infrastrukturen sichtbar und erfahrbar zu machen.
Festival | BARRIO (BAIRRO) Berlin. Lateinamerikanische Literatur (2024)
Vom 10. bis zum 17.10.2024 fand in Kooperation mit dem IAI Berlin und der lettrétage das Festival Barrio (Bairro) Berlin statt, das aus transtemporaler, dekolonialer und interdisziplinärer Perspektive zeigenössische Literatur aus Lateinamerika und der lateinamerikanischen Diaspora vorstellte.
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Workshop | Touching the Archive
Image Credit: Maxine Vajt
Transnational Film Archives and the Politics of Exclusion
Image Credit: Maxine Vajt
Workshop | Archive von unten – über private Räume, lebendige Archive und Archivierung von QTIBIPoC Geschichte
Image Credit: Maxine Vajt
barrio bairro kachel
Image Credit: Tali Neimann 2024 for Barrio (Bairro) Berlin
Laute Plakate: Übersetzungswerkstatt und akustische Ausstellung (2023)
Das Projekt, das sich der Sichtbarmachung gesprochener Literatur widmet, hat drei Grafikdesigner*innen zu dem Experiment eingeladen, gesprochene und gebärdensprachliche Texte in Plakatgestaltungen zu übersetzen.
Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Dialog (2022)
Eine gemeinsame Reihe der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz), der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der Universität Kopenhagen und des EXC 2020.
Digitale Aufbereitung: Einreisekartei des Schriftstellerverbandes der DDR (2023)
Ein kooperatives Projekt zur digitalen Erschließung der Einreisekartei des Schriftstellerverbandes der DDR, das in Form einer App den literarischen Austausch zwischen Ost-Berlin und internationalen literarischen Akteur*innen nach dem Bau der Mauer nachvollziehbar macht.
Workshop | Digital Mapping of Contemporaneity, Activism & Ecology (2023)
The transdisciplinary workshop convened artists, researchers, and activists to deliberate on methods and practices for mapping within the realm of climate resilience.
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Veranstaltungsplakat "Laute Plakate"
Image Credit: Grafik: Zweifel
Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Dialog
Image Credit: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Karte zum kubanischen Autor Nicolás Guillén. Archiv des Schriftstellerverbands der DDR, Literaturarchiv der Akademie der Künste Berlin, Signatur SV 2
Image Credit: Archiv der Akademie der Künste
Salty Glitches Detail
Image Credit: Till Rückwart
The Games of Translation (2021)
Der digitale Video-Essay "The Game(s) of Translation" erkundet in drei Formaten – MATERIALS, CONCEPTS und EXPLORATIONS – das Feld der experimentellen Lyrikübersetzung. Mit Beiträgen von Lyrikübersetzer·innen, Literaturwissenschaftler·innen und Künstler·innen.
ilb 2022 | Echo. Echo. Postsoviet Cosmopolis
The second edition of Echo. Echo focused on the theme of "Post-Soviet Cosmopolis" within Eastern European, Baltic, and Eurasian literary voices. It aimed to investigate the distinct temporalities embedded within the communities sometimes framed as Post-Soviet.
TANGO TRANSLATION TYPOGRAPHY (2023)
A Project on Avant-Garde Poetics, Popular Culture and Futurist Resonance in cooperation with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
Annual Conference 2024 | Literary Value: Artistic, Academic and Critical Practices
The Cluster's annual conference on practices, contexts and agents of literary evaluation in cooperation with Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
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The Game(s) of Translation
Image Credit: Franziska Paul
ilb Echo. Echo: Postsoviet Cosmopolis
Image Credit: internationales literaturfestival berlin
Kamenskij, Vasilij: Tango s korovami. Faksimile. Movska, 1991.
Image Credit: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Annual Conference 2024 | Literary Value: Artistic, Academic and Critical Practices
Image Credit: Twenty Thousand Pounds, MTSOfan via flickr
After Accumulation | How to Handle the Archive Without Getting Burned
Over three years, the project group After Accumulation engaged in numerous explorations of the archive, examining its theories and practical demands. Through collaborative workshops, reading sessions, and training sessions, the group investigated how archiving might be reimagined and practiced beyond the paradigm of accumulation.
Festival | Assemblage Berlin. 60 Jahre Literatur intermedial
The festival Assemblage Berlin, a collaborative project between the Excellence Cluster Temporal Communities and the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB), focused on intermediality. It explored the diverse manifestations of literature and its interconnections with other arts in the context of digitalization and global circulation.
Translation Games
Emerging from the Cluster project MOTDYNAMO, the artistic workshop Translation Games explored the field of experimental translation. Nine artists/translators used the multilingual collective poem RENGA as the starting point for their individual experiments.
Visual Echoes (2022)
The transdisciplinary project, in collaboration with the Georgian photographers' collective 90'x, delved into the concept of echo as an intermedial representation of alteration and repetition. Through workshops and an online exhibition, the initiative explored the intricate layering of media and historical threads inherent in the transtemporal dynamics.
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After Accumulation
Image Credit: Maxine Vajt
KeyVisuals Quadrat_6
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Translation Games
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Visual Echoes
Image Credit: EXC 2020
