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Li is going to talk about Realartstate, a group of artists, patrons, public institutions and companies acknowledging the problematic of gentrification and knowledge transmission, 40 km from Berlin.
Alin is a communications manager and a producer. She is also a multidisciplinary artist known as Li Alin. She has worked among others with: Société of Art and Technologies (Montréal), Recombinant Media Labs, (San Francisco), Parc d'Aventures Scientifiques (Mons), European Media Arts Festival (Osnabrück), Canon Art Lab (Tokyo), Musée Ludwig (Cologne), Inter Society for Electronic Arts (Paris), Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal), ZKM, Center for Arts and New Medias (Karlsruhe), and the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris).

Alter's (1980) work emanates from a critical observation of western society and its contemporary modus operandi. With human history being conceived as nothing but the "register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind" as Voltaire had put it, Alter attempts to act in as remote manner as possible from what he identifies as the prevailing
elements of that modus operandi which seems to elicit the same old follies only with ever
developing technology.
He is going to talk about his project 'FRANZ MÜLLER'S WIRE SPRING', a short story of Kurt Schwitters that he translated and adapted to a theater play.

The Body Mapping Lab project focuses on the design of workshops and residency programs based on the methodologies and notions of site specificity, performance as research and community practice.
NATHALIE FARI (born 1975 in São Paulo) is a performer, researcher, art educator and yoga teacher. She has been exploring various methods and forms of performance- and bodywork for over 20 years. Under her label atelier obra viva, she develops and produces collaborative, educational and research based projects with the focus on the relation between body and space, body and city. She completed a Master of Arts degree in Space Strategies - Exploratory Art in Public Contexts at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin. From 2011-15 she was co-organiser of the independent Platform Month of Performance Art Berlin and since 2016 she is part of the Study Circle Practicing Communities from the Nordic Summer University. She lives and works in Germany and Brazil.