let*s gather... let*s listen.. let*s talk. During the summer of 2025, Sophie Colindres and Jan Struckmeier host a series of four discussions. The concept is to bring together diverse perspectives and progressive aims that are already enriching the arts with their intersectional attitude and an aware practice – or plan to do so in the near future. We want to learn from each other and dive deep into the topics time, communities, institutions and space. To each event, two experts will be invited to give an insight into their artistic and / or political work and share their perspectives on one of these topics. Based on these short presentations there will be space to speak about former experiences and new approaches or just to listen. Feel free to join the discussions as it feels right for you. We are looking forward to a summer full of new experiences and inspiring dialogues in an empowering atmosphere. Starting end of June:
let*s talk – about time
Michael Turinsky is a political artist and theorist from Vienna. In Munich, he has previously shown his works Heteronomous male (2018) and Precarious Moves (2022) as part of Grenzgänger Festival. Turinsky has critically reflected on his self-imposed term „Inclusive Dance“ and hence introduced the term „Crip Choreography“ for his work. In doing so, he contributed to a movement of artists who voice their own needs and demand substantial awareness for "all-abled arts". Instead of integrating work into rigid institutional structures, Turinsky negotiates a common consciousness between each other such as defined by the term “Crip Time”.
Sandra Chatterjee is a political artist who has been active for many years in Munich’s Independent performing arts scene. Her choreographic and scholarly work operates at the intersection of theory and practice, engaging with performance, dance and the body through the lenses of gender, postcolonial and migration studies. She is dedicated to incorporating often ignored senses into dance – such as smell. She demonstrated the political aspect of this topic in works like Smells of Racism (2021 & 2025) and SWEAT – Smells of Labour (2023). Together with Sarah Bergh, Chatterjee founded CHAKKARs – Moving Interventions, an initiative committed to anti-discriminatory approaches to dance from BIPOC and post-migrant perspectives – or in other words: from critical, intersectional, anti-racist, queer, anti-classist and post-/decolonial viewpoints.
Together we will talk about how notions of time are negotiated through anti-ableist and decolonizing theories and practices.
Michael Turinsky: www.michaelturinsky.org
Sandra Chatterjee: www.sandrachatterjee.net
date: June 25'th., 2025
open doors: 18.30 h
start: 19.30 h
entry: free
location: außenlabor auf dem bohrkernlager
Schwere-Reiter-Straße 2e, 80636 Munich | google maps
in the middle of the triangle of Import Export, Empfangshalle and Pathos theater
accessibility: +49 151 59843110 | you can also write an email before to: letstalk@real-muenchen.de
code of conduct and more informations: will be send close to the time of the event
See you soon
Sophie & Jan
*** this project is funded by City of Munich Department of Arts and Culture ***
full program 2025:
25.06.2025 | let*s talk – about time | with Sandra Chatterjee and Michael Turinsky
09.07.2025 | let*s talk – about communities | with Anna Ideenkind Möhrle and Achim Waseem Seger
24.07.2025 | let*s talk – about institutions | with Sinem Gökser and Annabell Duft
24.09.2025 | let*s talk – about space | with Kharis Petronelle Ikoko and Samuel Flach
*** formerly known as MADK (Münchner Arbeitskreis für Diversität in der Kultur) the format is now in cooperation with Kompetenzteam Vielheit under the umbrella of Real München e.V., curated by the duo Colindres and Struckmeier ***
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let*s talk – a network for diverse perspectives and progressive aims
by Real München e.V.
in cooperation with Kompetenzteam Vielheit
curated by
Sophie Haydee Colindres Zühlke [she | her]
Jan Struckmeier [he | him]
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IG: coming soon
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