Walden: Howl
Saturday, July 19, 2025
At and around Künstlerhof Frohnau – KHF Berlin
Program: Performances and Installations
➤Saba Alizadeh & Liew Niyomkarn
➤Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim
➤moriaariava with Michiyasu Furutani & Sinclair Brazier
➤Hang Su, Silvan Hagenbrock & Su Dance110
➤Eric Pawlitzky & Norman Behrendt
Accessibility
Walden: Howl is partly wheelchair accessible (stage at Künstlerhof Frohnau).
Walden: Howl
At a time when diversity is increasingly pushed to the margins and spaces of in-between are under strain, we need places to gather – not in separation, but in connection.
Walden: Howl is such a place. A day in the forest where voices do not stand apart, but rise together. Howl is a wake-up call, a beginning, a call to battle – for what binds us. For alliances that create resilience. For rituals that remind us of who we are – and who we might become, together.
Between forest and wilderness, on Berlin’s outskirts, runs a stretch of open sand – a remnant of the former “death strip,” inscribed with traces of history. In performances, conversations, concerts, and installations, artists shape a space for that which needs no explanation to unfold its power. A choreography of connection, a collective sound of vulnerability and strength.
The Walden Festival is a project by Künstlerhof Frohnau. This year marks its fifth edition. Curated by Kaya Behkalam, Otto Oscar Hernandez Ruiz, Katja Hock & SHIN Hyo Jin.
Support
With the support of the Ingrid Bischoff Stiftung and the Berlin Senate for Culture in the framework of the Basisförderung für freie Projekträume.
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Grupo Oito
In CARNE (Flesh), the body becomes a site of encounter – and a starting point for resistance, healing, and change. Rooted in the Brazilian art movement of Anthropophagy, the performance centers Black perspectives and embodied knowledge that transcend Western rationalities. Contemporary dance merges with afrodiasporic experience, poetic physicality, and transformative rhythm. At its core is Ricardo de Paula’s Get Physical Process: a grounded, full-bodied practice that opens movement into space, history, and selfhood. The body becomes projection surface, battlefield, ritual ground – a place of desire, need, rupture, and renewal. Grupo Oito has been working in Berlin for 18 years, exploring intersectional structures through physical performance and collective reflection.
Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim
Under the full moon, Korean women once danced Ganggangsullae – a harvest ritual that evolved into a subversive act of collective resistance and care. In the participatory performance In Company – Neighbors, Ji Sun Hagen, Jung Sun Kim, Olivia Hyunsin Kim, and SHIN Hyo Jin invite the audience to co-create their own version of this dance – a communal celebration of gathering, movement, voice, and food. Olivia Hyunsin Kim is an internationally working choreographer, director, and curator. Under the label ddanddarakim, she develops queer-feminist, postcolonial performances in shifting artistic constellations. Ji Sun Hagen is a dancer, performer, and dance therapist. Jung Sun Kim is a choreographer and mentor working between South Korea and Germany. Her work explores collective and embodied intelligence through healing, movement, and performance. SHIN Hyo Jin is a musician, performer, and founder of Tangram Projects. She is a member of the trans-traditional Ensemble ~su and the Daily Rhythms Collective in Graz.
Saba Alizadeh & Liew Niyomkarn
Rooted in deep listening and the poetry of sound, Saba Alizadeh (kamancheh) and Liew Niyomkarn (lap steel) craft shifting sonic forms that hover between memory and invention, trance and tension. Through improvisation, they create a sound terrain where repetition becomes ritual, digital currents echo ancestral strings, and electro-acoustic textures stretch time into sculpture. Saba Alizadeh is a composer, kamancheh player, and visual artist whose work bridges Persian classical music and experimental electronics. Liew Niyomkarn, based in Brussels, explores tone, texture, and temporality through lap steel, zither, and algorithmic sound structures.
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moriaariava, M. Furutani & S. Brazier
In Fluent Formation:This performance traces the subtle hand of inspiration – ephemeral, collective, and deeply embodied. Initiated by Moriaariava in collaboration with Michiyasu Furutani and Sinclair Brazier, it creates a space for resonance, surrender, and transformation.
Moriaariava is the artistic project of Maria Cukor, a Slovak-born interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her work seeks to restore lost connections between nature and the human heart through piano compositions, lyrical minimalism, sonic rituals, and poetic gestures of timelessness. Michiyasu Furutani, born in Osaka, draws from Butoh, improvisation, and contemporary dance to form a language of movement rooted in exploration. His performances investigate gravity, silence, and bodily presence as forces of empathy, otherness, and connection.
Hang Su, Silvan Hagenbrock, Su Dance110
The Audio Walk and Performance "Procession of Slings", by Hang Su, Silvan Hagenbrock, and Dan Su, traces the life paths of two figures whose stories resonate with global themes: colonialism, migration, sexualized violence, racism, queerness, and HIV. Hang Su’s personal journey – shaped by the colonial past of the Chinese port city Yāntái – unfolds alongside Silvan Hagenbrock’s historical investigation into Karl Fischer, co-founder of the German Wandervogel youth movement and former colonial officer in China, whose legacy is marked by power, ambiguity, and alleged abuse. Nature becomes a stage where archives, voices, and bodies converge. Intimate memories and silenced histories surface, overlap, resist forgetting. Procession of Slings is a poetic procession through landscapes of trauma and resilience – a moving reflection on vulnerability, resistance, and the act of remembering.
Yuko Kaseki & Tot Onyx
Anarcho Noise Butoh: Since their first collaboration during the Musikfonds scholarship in 2021, Yuko Kaseki and Tot Onyx have been merging Butoh, noise, and performance into a charged expression of marginalized voices. From works like Das Beuys (Theater Thikwa) to TodAncestor (exploring energy and frequency as spiritual force), their latest project, Anarcho Noise Butoh, confronts social and political issues from the perspective of women of colour – through sound, body, and resistance. Yuko Kaseki is a choreographer, Butoh dancer, and performer known for poetic, embodied imagery that gives space to outsiders. Tot Onyx (formerly of group A) breaks musical conventions using body, noise, and hand-crafted instruments to create a visceral, immersive vocabulary.
Margaux Gazur
Margaux Gazur is a French-Vietnamese sound artist and multi-instrumentalist composer whose work blends instruments, everyday objects, and field recordings into textured, intimate soundscapes. Trained in classical piano, she gradually turned toward unconventional sound sources, using sonic memory, ambient recordings, and the resonance of her surroundings to create deeply personal yet universally resonant compositions. Starting with recordings from her daily life in Hanoi and her father’s martial arts practice, she built a unique archive of celebratory sounds, weapons, and rituals – transforming them into musical narratives. Her recent work focuses on acoustic instruments as raw material for exploration, shifting away from formal theory to focus on emotional textures and organic sound.
DJ Dustin
DJ Dustin is a storyteller at the decks. Introspective and emotive, his sets illuminate vast and fearless soundscapes within electronic music. Connection lies at the heart of his philosophy. His performances are more than music—they are shared experiences, shaped by the intimacy of the dancefloor. With a rare sensitivity for atmosphere, Dustin creates subtle yet transformative moments. A distinctive selector whose sets move between inward reflection and collective release.
Ribo Choir
RIBO CHOR is a loose gathering of voice-loving people who meet on Thursdays in Berlin-Wedding – led by Doreen Kutzke (aka Kutzkelina), a singer and yodeller who moves between mountains and bars. The choir performs in unusual places – bars, bookshops, backrooms – where sound meets everyday life. Their repertoire is as diverse as its members: from yodels to pop laments, from the quiet to the offbeat. For Howl, RIBO CHOR brings a resonant echo of lament – drawn from different genres: raw, vulnerable, and deeply connected.
Roberta Busechian
Biosonological Listening Session: This sound performance generates a structured stream of frequencies designed to stimulate the nervous system and cognitive processes. Rather than musical expression, it centers on a biosonological matrix: vibrations in the theta range (4–8 Hz), associated with deep focus, neuroplasticity, and unconscious processing.
Roberta Busechian performs live with the Vortex Based Synth – a software platform developed for biosonological applications. The sound acts on both somatic and cortical systems, opening a space for self-regulation, creative resources, and inner reorganization.
Eric Pawlitzky & Norman Behrendt
An emergency exit in Berlin. An underground connection to Kyiv.
What may sound like a surreal fiction is, in truth, a work of artistic imagination: an imagined metro line, dug from thought, built from hope – solidaric, poetic, utopian. In a time when real infrastructures are crumbling and escape routes are blocked, Norman Behrendt and Eric Pawlitzky propose an alternative path – somewhere between shelter and imagination. The sculpture in public space points to an imagined network beneath national borders – a symbol of solidarity, vulnerability, and the possibility of thinking otherwise. It is not an entrance to utopia. Perhaps it is its emergency exit. Perhaps a place of refuge. Or simply a question suspended in space: passage or dead end?
Silke Eva Kästner
Strips of worn clothing are woven into the rusted grid
of a former high-security fence – once part of the site’s past as a psychiatric institution, including a forensic ward. A structure of confinement becomes the ground for something new: KHF artist Silke Eva Kästner provides the fabric and opens a space for participation. Visitors are invited to add their own traces, gestures, or colors – shaping a collective image that resists finality. A subtle act of weaving presence into absence, reclaiming history through shared motion.