Fluid selves, fluid Berlin #5 Sabine Zahn: Doing the city

Sabine Zahn lives and works in Berlin. She investigates how choreographic strategies can help understand how urban space can be lived, expressed and transformed. She creates public research projects and processes which are often based on scripts that set something – often bodies – in motion. In 2021, Sabine was appointed a fellow in the DAS Graduate programme in Amsterdam.

We had this conversation at Floating University, a place for learning and experiment in a neglected water basin at the fringe of Kreuzberg. Zahn thrives in places like this, where new ways of living and being – human and more than human – can be tried out and ‘rehearsed’.  A talk at dusk, when the light faded and the cold started to creep in. A conversation about the body as a tool to understand words, and words as the start of a choreography. 

References:

Floating University Berlin:
https://floating-berlin.org/
Fremdgehen:
http://www.lovelabours.net/
Stadterweitern:
https://stadterweitern.de/publication
DAS Graduate Programme:
https://www.atd.ahk.nl/das-research/third/third-cohorts/sabine-zahn/