Rene MG – Every(w)here is Here – Participatory Interactive Performance

American multidisciplinary artist Rene MG invites visitors into a participatory performance and installation that links the artspace’s interior to the immediate life of the street. Titled “Every(w)here is Here,” the event directs attention to a stretch of Kottbusser Damm, treated as a historical seam between Neukölln and Kreuzberg, shaped by successive waves of settlement, labor, and migration.
Working with conversation, guided prompts, streaming, and live projection, the evening stages a shared encounter in which participants can step in, facilitate, or simply observe as the situation shifts. The heart of the setting is a window-facing livestream projection that acts as an optical membrane between inside and outside. Passers-by are invited to connect in real time, so that viewpoints from the neighborhood enter the space directly, accumulating into a changing composite of street-level experience and gallery presence.
Rene MG’s aims for her event to be an opportunity “to connect, converse, intersect, resonate about a specific place,” and its history, and an attempt to bridge people’s understanding of what art is and can be.
About Rene MG:
Rene MG (b. 1965, USA) is a Saint Paul, Minnesota-based artist working across participatory performance, installation, and film. She holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from UNC Chapel Hill, an MA in Art History (20th-century art and film) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completed doctoral coursework at Heidelberg University (ABD), and received an MFA from Transart Institute for Creative Research (2023, sponsored by Liverpool John Moores University). Her participatory projects have been presented internationally and in public-facing contexts in the US, and her film work has been recognized at the Heidelberg Film Festival.
Details:
Tuesday, February 3, 6–9 p.m.
Performance start: 7 p.m.
SomoS Arts, Kottbusser Damm 95, Berlin
U-8 Schönleinstrasse
Free entry
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