Walking Residencies
Artist Residency
2024, November, Berlin, Germany
Re-Routing welcomes the collective Amazonen in Berlin, formed by Chiara Faggionato and Lina Mazenett, to Co-Making Matters at Haus der Statistik as the next walking resident. During their residency, the collective will continue their research on the public art walk ‘Amazonen in Berlin’. By visiting the statues of the ancient warrior women ‘Amazone zu Pferde’ in Berlin Mitte, the project invites the public on a journey to reflect on the appropriation of women’s bodies and the land from an ecofeminist and decolonial perspective. By the end of the residency, we will invite you to join us for a final walk. Date and time TBC!
The terms Residency and Walking contain juxtaposing senses of motion; to reside insinuates staying put whilst walking is about being in motion. ReRouting’s Walking Residencies are about resting whilst seeking out new routes. ReRouting organises a variety of residency formats that take on different sites to stroll, sometimes solo and other times with others. The frameworks explore the use of walking as a studio, with streets and pathways becoming places for exchange, production, and research.
Walking Residencies is an invitation to walk city terrain, specifically the centre ‘Mitte’ of Berlin. In collaboration with Co-Making Matters, a multidisciplinary project based at Haus der Statistik, a container space is offered to artists on a 1 week to 2 week basis, acting as a place for rest and reflection as they walk the local streets for inspiration.
The ReRouting Project is an in-motion research initiative organized by curator Clementine Butler-Gallie who works in collaboration with cultural initiatives, groups and individuals dependent on the project. ReRouting believes an architecture of sustainable curatorial spaces can be built through walking and moving together with others. As a curatorial platform and in-motion space for research, exchange, and encounter, ReRouting hosts various actions including workshops, artistic projects, group and individual residencies, and a conversation archive titled Walking with... This project aims to encourage a new generation of audience, curator, and artist to rethink what curatorial space can be, to reconsider excessive production, to remember to step away from the digital space and engage with others in-person, to reroute from a broken system and find new paths.
