2024/2025: Re Capitulating. queer

  • ART RESIDENCIES & INTERMISSIONS
  • at Arbeitszimmer thealit
  • St. Jürgen St. 157/159, Bremen
  • October 2024-March 2025

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  • SATURDAY, November 9th, 2024

  • OPEN STUDIO
  • 11:00-19:00 Uhr

Tsai, I-Chieh shows a minimalist presentation of her work during the residency in the Thealit workroom 🎧

Come by for a tea and a chat 🍵👄

We look forward to your visit!

Tsai, I-Chieh opens doors for you to present latest developments within her 小埃💞Iris and Shes📞 project. It is about audio documents of conversations with female workers in the loneliness economy, where clients usually pay female voice workers to create social proximity or its simulation, formatted and organized via an online platform. During her residency at thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor., Tsai, I-Chieh has been working on developing translations and audio installations from the recordings in Mandarin Chinese.

Visit the Open Studio with a minimalistic presentation of Tsai's work-in-progres son Saturday, November 9, from 11 am to 7 pm in Arbeitszimmer thealit, St.-Jürgen-Str. 157/159, Bremen.

  • EDDIE DE GOËR
  • Of safety nets
  • Residency November 12-28, 2024
  • WORKSHOP: 23. + 24.11.
  • OPEN STUDIO: 26. + 27. November

  • Im Arbeitszimmer thealit
  • St. Jürgen St. 157/159-Bremen

Register at: info(at)eddiedegoer.net

In the two workshops Eddie de Goër will offer to experiment with working on networks in order to explore together the relationship of the workshop participants to collectively created safety: “Where, how and to what extent do our relationships, networks and social structures (not) act as safety nets? Where do we experience networks as separating, where as connecting? What wishes and needs do we have for such networks, and (how) can they be mended and transformed?”

If gaps are what make a net… Is this net then determined by the role of its gaps? What differentiates a net-as-barrier from a net-as-carrier, and can one be turned into the other? Can the very making of a net generate structural insecurity? What does a safe net even look like? Does this differ from one person to the next? Which compromise to seek between stability and flexibility, between structure and fluidity? If, say, “The paradoxical, with a safety net — It’s not something that is external to you and holds you — You’re also part of the net”, what is your contribution to this net? And: can exploring material net-work(s) — through observation, intuition, conversations, and perhaps making or mending them — teach us something about the human net-work(s) we need to keep us safe?It is anticipated that the workshop 23rd November will focus more on personal experiences – working alone or in small groups – and on the 24th, it will be more about creating a network together as a group, exploring security through cooperation, consensus and compromise. Take part in both workshop days or just one! 

Netmaking, regardless of the method, typically requires a careful handling of tension. Imbalances can affect the behavior of the mesh, the gaps, and the stability of the whole structure, and shifts in one point can easily be felt throughout the whole network. If creating the net from unstable anchor points — people, for instance —, all the trickier the play of tension, turning this collective netmaking into a playful opportunity to explore attunement, cooperation, communication, but also flexibility and compromise to collectively attain a “safe net”.

Both workshops will be held primarily in English, but some translation to German is possible.

Do not miss: Eddie de Goër will be showing his* project of safety nets at the end of the residency at Arbeitszimmer thealit, St.-Jürgen-Str. 157/159, Bremen, Tuesday, November 26 and Wednesday, November 27, 15:00-21:30. It will not only be about questioning the ubiquitous metaphor 'net', but also about experimenting with the generation, construction, knotting and creation of nets as an interactive practice. In this Open Studio, participants are invited to join in and take part in practical net work.

  • Please register by November 29 at: bwitch(at)gmx.de
  • Limited places!


  • SATURDAY NOVEMBER 30th
  • 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
  • Witches' talk, A participatory evening around a witches’ cauldron Intermission



Things will get magically hot at the intermission by b/w*itch on Saturday, November 30 from 16:30-18:30 - in a consultation hour at thealit Arbeitszimmer, St.-Jürgen-Str. 157/159, Bremen. Katze Greeven, Esther Adam, Anngret Schultze and Kattalin Newiger Mixtelena are part of the queerfeminist performance collective that operates at the intersection of sound, dance, performance, visual art and activism.

The witches write: “Gathered around a kettle of hot soup, snuggled up on a flokati and nourished, we ask ourselves: What do we, as FLINTAQ*s, need in these times? How can we care for each other, become mycelium for each other? We want to come together and cook together to unite. The witches' consultation is a mixture of caring get-together, playful, performative situation & political strategy discussion. Including a new edition of our zine *practical magic* (sharing collective caring practices in the spirit of the Creative Commons), which invites you to browse and exchange.”

And “We cook soup in vegan & gluten-free, speak German (English if needed). Please register with us by November 29: bwitch(at)gmx.de”


What it is all about? "To recapitulate means to repeat something in a structured way […]. A recapitulation ]…] concerns […] historical and political events, including predicted and planned futures - again, as if what is recapitulated in this way has always been and been in this order.

To capitulate means to admit defeat in various forms of war, in general, to submit one's will to that of the opponent in a conflict. Submission also to the interpretation of the conflict on the part of the victorious opponent goes hand in hand with capitulation, and that also means: with the opponent's recapitulation of the conflict.

At present […] before or during the outbreak of large-scale military conflicts on a global scale, irreconcilable recapitulations of history have been positioned, also in various narratives in and on capitalism. In and on queer movements and processes.

Which statements, procedures and tactics can be identified or invented historically and currently on the part of a 'queer' against the capitalist world order? Which assertions, explanations and practices of capitalist ideology need to be analyzed in relation to queer movements between identity and non-identity?

Again, and asked differently: How do 'queer' and capitalism intersect or connect? 

What could that mean: "queering capitalism"? […] How do queer and capitalism recapitulate (each other)? Has there been, is there or will there be capitulation(s)? What is to be traced or outlined here in a new recapitulation?"

See you at Arbeitszimmer!

Claudia Reiche, Andrea Sick


OCTOBER 11th, 18th and 25th, 2024

en passant queer - (silent) movies (excerpts) 

This october, In preparation for the current positions on Re Capitulating. queer, the thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. is showing various cinematic views of 'queer' avant la lettre in the showcase window of the Arbeitszimmer St.-Jürgen-Str. 157/159 Bremen: In the era of silent films at the beginning of the 20th century, gender orders and audience desires, as well as medical, psychological and cultural discourse, politics and censorship regulations were different than they are today. What 'queer' would mean a century later did not yet exist. Or did it? Perhaps as an implied, que(e)r representation of action and narration?

What will be shown on several evenings after dark, through the windowpane of the study, from the sidewalk, excerpts from international silent films and short films, invites you to recapitulate queer en passant. Because, as we formulated for the upcoming theme: “To recapitulate means to repeat something in a structured way... A recapitulation concerns [...] historical and political events, including predicted and planned futures”.

Fri, 11.10., from 7:30 pm 

Hamlet, De 1921, director: Svend Gade, Heinz Schall, with Asta Nielsen

Compression/Reversion Hamlet. (2024) mit Material aus dem Film Hamlet von Claudia Reiche

Fr, 18.10., from 7:30 pm

Gesetze der Liebe, Aus der Mappe eines Sexualforschers, De 1927, director: Magnus Hirschfeld, Richard Oswald

Fr, 25.10., from 7:30

Short films

The Boy Detective: or The Abductors Foiled, US 1908, director: Wallace Mc Cutcheon

Taming a Husband, US 1910, director: D. W. Griffith

Amour et Science, France 1912, director: M. J. Roche

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