Ortstermin – Art festival in Moabit and the Hansaviertel

Festival

01.–03. SEPT 2023

In keeping with Ortstermin’s current theme – GAST/ SPIELE (guest performance/playing host or guest) – we would like to welcome you to Moabit and the Hansaviertel. This year, the Ortstermin is dedicated to the complex interrelations of being a guest and being a host. Hospitality is multifaceted – it encompasses all aspects of interpersonal life and is the basis of our social interactions.

It requires openness towards guests, their attitudes and their behaviour. The flip side of hospitality is deportations and exclusions – here, being a guest is a tight corset, a catalogue of behaviour that prescribes what one may and may not do, how one must behave and what privileges one has or does not have.

With their projects, the participants of the festival explore the diverse and sometimes contradictory aspects of hosting. Moabit becomes a field of experimentation for testing, breaking and re-establishing rules of gathering, for discovering new places and ideas and creating new friendships between hosts and guests. This weekend the whole district will become a place of encounters, of receiving and sharing.

Moabit is a district of many facets, and equally varied is the programme that can be explored in many different ways. Once again this year, artists and creatives will open the doors of their studios and give you an insight into their working methods.

Project spaces, cultural institutions, galleries, cafés and bars will present curated exhibitions and organise events and workshops. In addition, a variety of activities in public spaces throughout the district invite passers-by to linger and participate. In the spirit of hospitality, participants will give us access to their flats under the title mon habite

As part of the project Ecke, places of hospitality will become central nodes of the festival from which you can start your festival visit or guided tour. Artists will visit pubs, bars and hotels and enter into a lively exchange with their audiences. People on the spot will inform you about the programme in the surrounding neighbourhood and at the end of your tour you can stay a while and wind down the evening in the company of others. The Ecken (corners) thus function as starting and end points from which you can plan your visit to Ortstermin 23. Each Ecke becomes a place where art and everyday life meet.

We are pleased to transform Moabit and the Hansavier- tel into an exciting field of experimentation and inter- action on the topic of hospitality together with the participating artists and cultural workers and would like to thank all the tirelessly working participants.

Your festival direction
Nikolas Geier, Anna Latzko und Monique Machicao y Priemer Ferrufino

DE / EN

Festival

01.–03. SEPT 2023

in keeping with Ortstermin’s current theme – GAST/ SPIELE (guest performance/playing host or guest) – we would like to welcome you to Moabit and the Hansaviertel. This year, the Ortstermin is dedicated to the complex interrelations of being a guest and being a host. Hospitality is multifaceted – it encompasses all aspects of interpersonal life and is the basis of our social interactions.

Hospitality is multifaceted – it encompasses all aspects of interpersonal life and is the basis of our social interactions. It requires openness towards guests, their attitudes and their behaviour. The flip side of hospitality is deportations and exclusions – here, being a guest is a tight corset, a catalogue of behaviour that prescribes what one may and may not do, how one must behave and what privileges one has or does not have.

Project spaces, cultural institutions, galleries, cafés and bars will present curated exhibitions and or- ganise events and workshops. In addition, a variety of activities in public spaces throughout the district invite passers-by to linger and participate. In the spirit of hospitality, participants will give us access to their flats under the title mon habite Zugang zu ihren Sammlungen, Hobbies und Wohnungen.

We are pleased to transform Moabit and the Hansaviertel into an exciting field of experimentation and inter- action on the topic of hospitality together with the participating artists and cultural workers and would like to thank all the tirelessly working participants.

Your festival direction
Nikolas Geier, Anna Latzko und Monique Machicao y Priemer Ferrufino