Wor(l)ding Dreamers

invited by hn. lyonga

9 May–21 Jul 24

Opening Festival: 8. + 9. Mai 24

with avrina prabala-joslin & dandelion eghosa, Cagla Aribal, Sailesh & Cavid Dhen & Legion Seven, Fatim Selina Diaby, Giorgio Ferretti, Hanita Firoozmand, Hannah Abdullahi, hn. lyonga, Moiasse, Nhã Thuyên, Raphael Koranda, Savannah Sipho, and more

I’m learning to fly, to levitate myself. No one is teaching me.
I’m just learning on my own, little by little, dream lesson by
dream lesson. – Octavia Butler
in Parable of the Sower, 1993

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives.
It lays the foundation for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of
what has never been before. – Audre Lorde
in Sister Outsider, 1984

Poetry, like rest, can be scary to engage with because
of the mystery it allows for, but this is exactly why we
must face our fear and dream and let rest guide our
healing and curiosity. – Tricia Hersey
in Rest is Resistance, 2022

There is power in the collective dreams we share.
These dreams, big and small, thread through time and space,
connect struggles globally, weave a net of solidarity from here
to there, from then to now, to what is yet to come. – Moiasse and hn. lyonga, 2024
in Trees and Other Entities: A Dream Manifesto, 2024 

Wor(l)ding Dreamers is an invitation to rest, to (day)dream, to time and space travel in order to examine future memories or speculate on past histories and create visions for the immediate present.

Wor(l)ding Dreamers is the fourth part of the exhibition series
– conceptions of (extra)terrestrial worlds between reality and fiction.

Video: Tiago Pöx

with fem_arc, PHANTALISA, Black Dads Germany

Wor(l)ding Young Dreamers is a joint endeavor by the Friedrichshain-based initiative PHANTALISA – Space for Girls* and Young Women*, the community project Black Dads Germany, and the intersectional feminist architecture collective fem_arc dedicated to delving into the dreams/nightmares of Young Thinkers in the neighborhood.

Through words, illustrations, and architecture, Young Thinkers will guide the exhibition’s growth and transformation, while making their wishes/fears about future, past and present tangible and accessible.