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To Mend is a topological field research in public space by dance-artist Mor Demer.

Over several months, To Mend will delve into the rifts of twelve sites in the cityscape of Berlin by offering participatory and transformative scores and actions.

06/11/2022

Tomorrow I will give a talk about my topological and choreographic research project To Mend at Zero Point, Wartenburgstr. 17, 18:00. More details nicely written are in the post below 🙂
From the dense inner organs to its light flying feathers wings, down the tail up the crown. Would love if you come and we make it cosy!

25/10/2022

𝗧𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗱, 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗿｡ 𝟭𝟮, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲 🌕🪩🌎🌑

This twelfth and final event completed the initial series of To Mend 😅😅😅 My face can tell how relieved, delighted and grateful I was / am …

The event took place on August 12th at the Olympiastadion and park Berlin.

Photos by Michiel Keuper 🙏

25/10/2022

🌎 𝗧𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗱 ♾️🫀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗿｡ 𝟭𝟮 ⛅️ 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲 ✨💦

Took place on August 12th at the Olympiastadion and park Berlin🏟

With this final event we completed the initial series of To Mend, forming a circle without a closure but rather an opening. It required a practice to be a witness and give evidence, to make sense of the invisible; “I try to identify those weights and whispers whose presence cannot be seen with the eyes. To pin down the ambiguous forces that influence this place”*. Over a year and half ‘To Mend’ has been tracing invisible threads and hidden realities throughout the cityscape of Berlin. A surreptitious sidelong glance at the city, its unemphatic passages, gaps and syncretic simultaneous times through which it evolves — live decay repair thrived. Certainly an endeavor to access cross-currents of cultural thinking and map out history and legacy, landscape, society, art or politics onto the urban planning and the streets themselves.

So much bliss, gratitude and love - Divine Source for the trust that that allows me to be a vessel for this work, process and enthralled experience.

Much gratitude to my collaborator, my father and teacher Gadi Demer that rides with me on this wild chariot! I learn with you what unconditional love is.

🙌 to the assistants Franziska Dieterich, Sarah Möller, Teaque Owen and Annika Stadler.

🙌 Michiel Keuper and Danny Dietz Uber following the process behind the cameras.

Much 🙏 to the participants, their presence which makes it possible !!

Research production by Mor Demer. 

Photos by Michiel Keuper

* quote by Kirsty Bell, The Undercurrent, P. 22.

25/10/2022

🌎 𝗧𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗱 ♾️🫀𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗿｡ 𝟭𝟮 ⛅️ 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲✨💦

Took place on August 12th at the Olympiastadion and park Berlin🏟

To situate the event read selected parts from the invitation in previous posts!

The twelfth event of ‘To Mend’ sheds light upon national representations of cultural heritage, the affinity of systems between history, inter-generational memories, and processes of change that frames the identity of a place. When these monumental vestiges of the past preserve themselves within entangled rings, our mending action ignites a torch, unraveling memories from forest to sports facilities to grounds of performative nationalism and political stratification; today home to football clubs and cultural events. The twelfth event of ‘To Mend’ will negotiate the multiverse of this land of relics, examining balance and trust in the present toward the future. To celebrate diversity and shun the stored prejudices against race, religion and culture; finding and releasing a deep inner peace within this dynamic urban atmosphere. A crack in the concrete reveals a single oak tree bearing witness to the histories passing by. The depth of our life is measured by our ability and faith to expand the human horizon over many generations and times.

So much bliss, gratitude and love - Divine Source for the trust that that allows me to be a vessel for this work, process and enthralled experience.

Much gratitude to my collaborator, my father and teacher Gadi Demer that rides with me on this wild chariot! I learn with you what unconditional love is.

🙌 to the assistants Franziska Dieterich, Sarah Möller, Teaque Owen and Annika Stadler.

🙌 Michiel Keuper and Danny Dietz Uber following the process behind the cameras.

Much 🙏 to the participants, their presence which makes it possible !!

Research production by Mor Demer. 

Gorgeous photos by Michiel Keuper

08/08/2022

On June 12th‫,‬ 𝑻𝒐 𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒅 - 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑵𝒓. 11 🌄 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎 took place ! Here are some glimpse...

To situate the work please read the invitation -

The eleventh event of ‘To Mend’ took place at Bezirk Steglitz-Zehlendorf and will address a rift in the area of Lichterfelde, where a memory of silent horror remains alive. Our mending action entered a stagnant cloud at the bank of the Teltow canal, near the Eugen-Kleine bridge, where a stone pillar commemorates the prisoners at KZ-Außenlager Lichterfelde; a forced labor subcamp of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. The camp detained non-conformist civilians from countries invaded and persecuted by the National Socialists. Commemoration is correlated to the notion of eternity, reaching forever for a transformative form of justice. Alongside the importance of cultural commemoration, we also need to develop greater capacity to choose to be courageously alive. When we synchronize with the ‘Time-Wound’ frequency it allows an opening; sediments float upon the surface, triggering possibilities for mature growth and release. The work of ‘To Mend’ conveyed the rift beyond an awareness holding the fear of time. A work of mediation between the present moment as a sage teacher and the imprints of past narrative memories; crafting a guideline for generations to come. Repairing the scarred and broken earth to lay new foundations for worldly eternal structures.

Gorgeous 📷 by Michiel Keuper

Infinite gratitude and love to my collaborator Gadi Demer, that ride with me this chariot!

🙌 to the research assistants Franziska Dieterich , Sarah Möller and Teaque Owen.

🙌 to Initiative KZ-Außenlager Lichterfelde e.V. for the dialogue and support.

🙌 to Michiel Keuper and Marc Seestaedt following the process behind the cameras, and Annika Stadler for translation.

💖 Much gratitude to the participants, their presence and curiousity which makes it all possible !!

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

15/07/2022

I am excited to share glimpses from
TO ᗰEᑎᗪ | Event Nr. 10🪞ᑎIKᑌY ᗰE'OᖇOT
which took place on May 9th …

Gorgeous📷by Michiel Keuper

To situate the work please read the invitation -

An elliptic green area on the map of the city bewitched my finger, uncovering a glacial body of water that in ancient times people called, "Blanke Helle” or "Hel-Pfuhl”. Since the twentieth century, a city-square named Alboinplatz has been developed around this lentic shadowland. Its mythical directionality reoriented over time, reflecting a ‘mirror of the sky’; a vanishing point within an urban garden. At the great and central height of the landscape, a bull overlooks the pond, carrying a remarkable story in its stone belly…

The tenth event of To Mend will address a rift at Bezirk Tempelhof-Schöneberg; an area where myth and religion, art and politics, geological landscapes and human society entangle with historical narratives and allegorical memory. A voice from unknown and benevolent wildness will allow the mending, to bear naked the spells from surreptitious urban planners of the area. Our mending will abstract the depression and darkness of this “dead-ice-hole” and the surrounding vicinity; generating a transfiguration of the mystical within cultural encounters from the past and our present. Following the savage pool, we will reveal the light toward metamorphoses and transformation. Enlivening this enchanted place and honoring the untamed strength, yielding longevity to this territory of eclipsed legend.

Gratitude & infinite love to my cllaborator Gadi Demer who is walking with me this enthralling path !

💗🙏 to the research assistants near and far Franziska Dieterich, Sarah Möller and Teaque Owen.

🙏to Michiel Keuper and Marc Seestaedt following the process behind the lenses of the cameras.

🙌 to the participant that makes it possible !!

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

𝐔𝐏𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 « nR. 🥇🥈» 𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝟏𝟐𝐓𝐇 🏟🗺!!
more details coming soon...

15/06/2022

On April 19th 𝕋𝕠 𝕄𝕖𝕟𝕕 - 𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕥 ℕ𝕣. 𝟡 - ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥 / 𝕆𝕣𝕥 𝕚𝕞 ℍ𝕖𝕣𝕫𝕖𝕟 took place ! and I am very happy to share some glimpse...

To situate us here are sections from the invitation ‫🌱🌱🌱

The ninth event of 'To Mend' will take place at the rift in Schmargendorf (Ortsteil), under the administration of the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Bezirk. Our mending journey continues to squeeze into the gaps of urban-planning and between the crevices of Nature and Human, City and Landscape; into areas that encompass both the urban and the rural, the social and capital remnants of industry, between legacy and vision. Like a body part of the city which is holding its breath, counteracting the pressure of growth.

Alongside a chaotic tension of the municipal, socio-economic, real estate and cultural factors; there is a call to redefine fundamental value systems of sensibility towards a biodiverse environment & sustainable preservation, transforming the very continuity of the horizon. At the site, a guardian chimney from the past stands on a blank page, still as a cyclops on the battlefield. The smoke of the tube's progression used to be blinding. Now, it embodies a fluted monument between the sky and earth, witnessing and cycling between directions. Humanity as an organic part of the cyclical movement of nature, co-creates a symbiotic dance with its rhythm. The mending act will restore a holistic fragrance of harmony and health; a Place in the Heart, honoring the legacy, abundance and speculative visions of how one lives in, or rather, with the ecosystem of a city.

Photos © Michiel Keuper

Much gratitude to my collaborator Gadi Demer, together we walk this enthralling path!

Thanks to the assistants near and far Franziska Dieterich, Sarah Möller and Teaque Owen

Thanks to Michiel Keuper and Marc Seestaedt following the process behind the lenses of the camera.

Grand merci to the participants that make it possible !!

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

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