Program of Avtonomi Akadimia:
Where: at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
-Live Art Room (LAR)
-Rainbow Snake Temple (RST)
-Südplatz/Garden
August 13
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00 Thomas Oberender & Joulia Strauss ^^ Indigenous Epistemologies and Western Wisdom in LAR
17:30-19:00 keynote lecture: Steven Corcoran ^^ A World in Abeyance: Fanon and Landscapes of Struggle in LAR
August 14
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00-17:30 Thomas Oberender & Joulia Strauss ^^ Indigenous Epistemologies and Western Wisdom
Lecture Performance in LAR
17:30-18:00 Gespräch mit Dr. Motte
18:00-19:00 Grischa Dallmer ^^ Doors to the Unconscious – Open! The El Juego Community. Combining scientific knowledge and ancestral wisdom in LAR
August 15
17:00-18:30 Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss: ^^ Practices of Grounding. Transindigenous Assembly in RST
August 16
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:30-19:00 Angelika Selina Braun ^^ Über meine Zeit mit Don José Arzalias Taguarí in LAR
August 17
12:30-14:00 Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss: ^^ Practices of Grounding. Transindigenous Assembly in RST
August 19
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
16:30-17:30 Peter Berz ^^ Down to the Earth: über der Erde, auf der Erde, in der Erde in LAR
17:30-18:30 Michelle-Marie Letelier ^^ Ancient or Human-made? in LAR
August 20
15-17:30 Isabell Schrickel ^^ Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities’ Creative Involvement with the United Nations in RST
19:00-20:30 Maja Chiara Faber ^^ Modern Astrology in LAR
20:00-21:00 Bartosz Zurowski ^^ Plant medicines and music in spiritual practices of Amazonian tribes in Südplatz Garden
August 21
16-17:30 Bernd Brabec de Mori ^^ How to Get Down to Earth? Indigenous Knowledge, Power and the Uncanny in LAR
17:30-19 Maja Chiara Faber ^^ Modern Astrology in RST
August 22
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:30-19:00 Sebastian Lütgert (Pirate Cinema) ^^ What Happened to Sharing, what Happened to Caring in RST
August 23
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00-19:30 Nadja Verena Marcin ^^ Deep Artist Talk: Like a Hurricane – Nadja Verena Marcin’s OPHELIA and other Disasters in RST
August 24
11:00-11:30 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
12:00-12:30 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
13:30-14:00 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
14:30-15.00 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
August 26
10:30-11:00 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
11:30-12:00 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in LAR
13:00-14:30 Tania Hron ^^ Shamanic Knowledge Lektüreseminar in RST
19:00-19:50 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in Südplatz/Garden
20:00-20:50 Khien Phuc ^^ An Introduction to Qi Gong – Energetic Practice in Südplatz/Garden
August 27
15-17:30 Isabell Schrickel ^^ Along the Third Attractor: the Local and Indigenous Communities Creative Involvement with the United Nations in RST
18:00-18:30 Thomas Oberender & Joulia Strauss ^^ Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation – Indigenour Forms of Knowledge in LAR
18:30-19:30 Robert Lippok & Joulia Strauss ^^ Songs of the Transindigenous Assembly in LAR
August 28
15:00-15:30 Thomas Oberender & Joulia Strauss ^^ Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation – Indigenour Forms of Knowledge in LAR
15:30- 16:30 Robert Lippok & Joulia Strauss ^^ Songs of the Transindigenous Assembly in LAR
17:30-19:00 Luca Di Blasi ^^ Schuldpolitik im Anthropozän in LAR
August 29
16:00-17:30 Brandon La Belle ^^ The torn sound. Reading Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuña in LAR
17:00-18:30 Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss: ^^ Practices of Grounding. Zur Transindigenous Assembly in RST
August 30
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
August 31
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 2
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00-19:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 3
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:30-18:00 Thomas Oberender & Joulia Strauss ^^ Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation – Indigenour Forms of Knowledge in LAR
18:00-19:30 Brandon LaBelle, Marina Naprushkina, Mathilde ter Heijne ^^ Education as an art form. Education as down-to-earth of Art in LAR
September 4
12:30-14:00 Tania Hron ^^ Shamanic Knowledge Lektüreseminar in RST
16:30-18:00 Lukasz Kuni ^^ Kambô. Die Froschmedizin aus dem Amazonas als Werkzeug für inneres Wachstum und für die Heilung unserer Beziehung zur Natur in LAR
18:00-19:30 Peter Weibel ^^ My Earth Odyssee in LAR
September 5
12:30-14:00 Tania Hron ^^ Shamanic Knowledge Lektüreseminar in RST
September 6
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 7
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00-19:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 9
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
17:00-19:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 10
12:30-14:00 Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss: ^^ Practices of Grounding. Zur Transindigenous Assembly in RST
16:30-18:00 Andreas Weber ^^ Animism as ecopolitical practice in LAR
19:00-21:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 11
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
September 12
12:30-14:00 Tania Hron & Joulia Strauss: ^^ Practices of Grounding. Zur Transindigenous Assembly in RST
September 13
12:30-14:00 Joulia Strauss ^^ Academy for Transformation in RST
Joulia Strauss
in collaboration with
Wardrobe director Kristina Weiß-Busch
Upcycling-artist Gabi Bartels
Dress maker Nina Janßen-Braje
Drawings Anastasia Efstathiadi, Antigone Theodorou, Raha Amiri, Marc Müller
Sculptural restoration Juliane Köthe, Mareike Zahn
Shipibo embroideries Isabel Franquines Bardales, Dorcas Maynas Romayna, Emilda Sanchez Barbaran, Keila Rojas Martinez
Rainbow Snake, 2020
reused rain barrels, waste clothes, Shipibo embroideries
Avtonomi Akadimia – Academy of Transformation
This Rainbow Snake Temple, replete with its seven altars dedicated to indigenous cultures, is the setting for the program of an Athens-based activist academy founded by Joulia Strauss. This is the first time academy is being held in Berlin. Its events will take place alternately in this room and in the large presentation room on the west side of the building. Incense burns in memory of assassinated indigenous activists and in parallel there are preparations for a Transindigenous Assembly.
Assistant and Co-Host: Tania Hron
Social media: Anastasia Efstathiadi