Within Blicke/Glances an arteducation  project – in collaboration with children, young people and grown-up Newcomers temporarily located at the ASB-Shelter Alt-Moabit and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art – I was focusing on the contribution to create possibilities for action that initiated, allowed and supported encounters between people from different backgrounds, generations and spaces.

At the same time, it was about critically reflecting on ourselves and further developing the variety of collaborations and formats, processes and approaches, accompanying the process, understanding myself as constantly learning in the matter of “Critical Whiteness”, see Sandrine Micossé-Aikins: 7 Things You Can Do To Make Your Art Less Racist (2014). Aicha Diallo (ed.), in: The Living Archive: Cultural Productions and Spaces Dossier, January 2013.

Children, teenagers and young adults from Alt-Moabit and external artists as well as students set out together to find the connection between  different locations of the art institution “KW institute for contemporary art” and the emergency shelter and what a contact could look like: exploring the connection from the shelter via the Brandenburg Gate to the works of art and the exhibitions running.

Views, perceptions and impressions were collected, arranged and redesigned in artistic processes. Various finds along the way and from the visits to the exhibitions resulted in a collection of material that each of the participants processed into their own album. Experiences, images, impressions, sensations and perceptions are transformed, stored and their own collection principles developed.

The album becomes an archive of traces of actions, events and encounters. It stood for an emigrating memory and was at the same time a portable museum.

At the end, a permanent wall installation was installed and presented in the emergency shelter. 300 pictures of the joint workshops can now be seen on it in the central meeting and dining room of the accommodation (see a part of it on top of this site). A printed group album was published with a circulation of 400 copies. Both elements were developed and produced together with 90 participants**.

Concept:
Mona Jas (initiator and artistic director Lab for Art Education KW Institute for Contemporary Art)

Partners, Collaborators, Participants:
Kinder, Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene aus Moabit (ASB Notunterkunft Alt-Moabit)
Kirstin Frohnapfel (Sozialarbeiterin ASB Notunterkunft Alt-Moabit)
Josephine Wollmann (Betreuerin Kinder- und Jugendbereich ASB-Notunterkunft Alt-Moabit)

Artists and students (to be completed):
Ariane Bothe, Judith Bögner, Theresa Hechtbauer, Gregor Kasper, Sebastian Pöge, Julia Schramm, Nele Urbanowicz

Assistant:
Sirak Fissuk

**Aisha Abashylova / Lin und Mohamad Abu Taqali / Hazem, Mohammed, Abdulrauf und Hala Albeyumi / Iyad und Jamal Al Haj Yahia / Feras und Mohammad Al Hndawi / Belkisa, Raif und Arnela Alic / Amar Alimi / Ibrahim Alqedra / Fadi Al Rayes / Safa Asbaie und Nejan Alhussin / Nader Alzabadi / Alina Bajramalieva und Murtuz Bajramaliev/ Khaled und Muhannad Bakr / Magdalena Beger / Ariane Bothe / Issa, Amina, Mina und Dawrisch Dawrisch / Eldina, Demir und Semir Dzaferovic / Mahmoud Eljendawi / Jalal und Jubran Faraj / Sirak Fissuh / Kirstin Frohnapfel / Ali Gamal / Nadia und Souhaien Ghanam / Roshan und Maya Haji / Nesrein Hassan, Nadin, Rabee und Mohamed Hammoud / Arjan, Albin, Flamur und Rinesa Hyseni / Mona Jas / Inelda und Enkeleid Jupe / Artem Kaloev, Zina Gasanova, Ruslan Kaloev und Nelli Kaloeva / Gregor Kasper / Tulip Medley / Zdenka Medvedj, Dragutin, Jovana, Ivana und Dajana Stankovic / Selma, Mirnel und Armin Milkunic / Larisa Mochieva / Amin Mohammad, Tayyab, Mohammad Ali und Urua Amin / Laurant Peqani / Saifallah und Mohammad Rashed / Anna Romanowska / Yazan Sallum / Josephin Schramm / Julia Schramm / Aleksandra Ujfalos und Ana Maria Njirjak / Nele Urbanowicz / Huma Wassem, Moosa Abbas und Wali Abbas Abidi / Hamed, Baraa, Hozaifa und Mohamad Yasin /

At this time of the project Blicke/Glances at the ASB shelter Alt-Moabit have been living about 150 people from Egypt, Bosnia-Herzegowina, Iran, Irak, Syria, Serbia and Tschetschenia, 60 of this group have been underaged.

See also at the archive of the project Berlin Mondiale

Till 2017 Berlin Mondiale was a project of the Council of the Arts of Berlin by Kulturnetzwerkes Neukölln e. V. with support of Flüchtlingsrats Berlin e. V.