INSERT is a screening series consisting of a selection of music videos, chosen by people from various fields of interest. Alongside this, all participants are invited to write a few words about their choice, in any length and format.
The first edition will be hosted at Cittipunkt in Berlin with contributions by African-American Sound Recordings, Dhanveer Singh Brar, Étienne José João Eduardo, Marlene Engel, Katharina Hausladen, Chris Korda, Mica Levi, NEW YORK, Lukas Panek, Joshua Tarelle Reid, school, Sergei Tcherepnin, Valentina Triet and Lucia Udvardyova.
Warm food will be served at the event in exchange for a donation of your choice. All proceeds go to Cittipunkt.
Flyer by HEADSHOP (Mathis Altmann & Jan Vorisek)
African-American Sound Recordings is an artist operating in the United States.
Dhanveer Singh Brar is a Lecturer in Black British History in the School of History at the University of Leeds. He has previously held posts at Goldsmiths, University of London (Department of Visual Cultures), University College London (Institute of Advanced Studies) and University of Pennsylvania (Penn Humanities Forum). Dhanveer is currently working on a book, titled Small Talk: On the Corner with Gil Scott-Heron.
Étienne José João Eduardo (*1997), Graphic & Type Designer, Berlin
Marlene Engel works as a program dramaturge and music curator at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. She has worked as a curator at the Donaufestival in Krems and the Elevate Festival in Graz. From 2016 to 2018, she was a curator at the Wiener Festwochen, where she was primarily responsible for the development of Hyperreality – Festival for Club Culture, as well as other interdisciplinary projects. In 2017, the British magazine The Guardian named Hyperreality one of the five best experimental electronic music festivals in the world.
From 2018 to 2019, she continued to run the festival independently and is supporting the music and performance series Dishes in Vienna. In 2021, she worked as a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Katharina Hausladen is a writer and an art and cultural studies scholar based in Berlin.
Chris Korda is an internationally renowned multimedia artist, whose work spans thirty years and includes electronic music, digital and video art, performance and conceptual art, and culture jamming. Chris pioneered the use of complex polymeter in electronic dance music, and invented a unique MIDI sequencer in order to explore polymeter composition techniques. Chris composes and performs music in a variety of genres, and has released many albums on labels such as Yoyaku, Perlon, Mental Groove, and Gigolo Records. Chris also worked as a computer programmer for thirty-five years.
Mica Levi, a composer based in London whose recent works include Central, Slasher, Making Love/Kochajmy Sie and Rat on The Net. Mica operates as a solo musician and as a member of the groups Good Sad Happy Bad and Spresso and is a co founder of CURL along with Coby Sey and Brother May. They are also known for their scores for films such as The Zone of Interest, Monos, Jackie and Under The Skin.
NEW YORK is a girl-pop music and performance project by artists Gretchen Lawrence and Coumba Samba. The sampling of royalty free loops and sounds of clicks and cuts are met with chopped vocals and impulsive lyrics. NEW YORK chews up the sounds and visuals of hip hop, pop, and electro and spits them out on to the city streets. They self-released their debut album No Sleep Till N.Y. in 2022.
Lukas Panek lives and works in Berlin. His work has been shown at Hotwheels Projects, Athens (2017), Ginny Projects, London (2018), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2021), Uferhallen, Berlin (2021), Shore Gallery, Vienna (2022), Casino Forum d‘art contemporain, Luxembourg (2023), Judd Foundation, New York (2023), OxfordBerlin, Berlin (2024) and New Theater Hollywood, Los Angeles (2025).
Joshua Tarelle Reid is a visual and sound artist living between Paris and Berlin. His work focuses on collective memory and the intersections of class politics, cultural motifs and identity. He is best known as one half of the experimental music duo Space Afrika, whose work is characterized by a fusion of production, sound collage, and field recordings, capturing the nocturnal essence of inner city life.
In his visual pursuits, Reid in collaboration with french publishing house KERMESSE produced a series of artefacts and objects focused around Foucault’s theory on the Panopticon. As of 2025 he has exhibited work with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, CCA – Centre for Contemporary Arts in Berlin, in collaboration with artist Ross Alexander. He recently performed new musical works as duo Space Afrika and had a sound installation at Fondation Cartier in Pairs with French director Valentine Noujaïm for their nouveau project ‘Opera Omnia.’
Reid has used his multidisciplinary approach for performances and presentations at institutions such as Lafayette Anticipations – FR, Volksbühne – DE, Kunsthalle Mannheim – DE, Bergen Kunsthall – NW, ICA – UK, Royal Arts Academy – UK, Gladstone Gallery – US, Strelka Institute – RUS, Southbank – UK, Schauspielhaus – CH, Conde Duque – ES, Dom Polski Centre – AUS, PAF – CZ, Juliusz Słowacki Theatre – PL, Teatro Comunale Pavarotti-Freni – IT, et al.
Is school a place, an institution, a set of facilities, a situation, a circumstance, an attitude, or a constellation of relationships of the transfer of the acquired, invented, and accumulated knowledge, experience, and insight from one generation to the other? Perhaps a school or the idea of a school as a condition of learning, of being open to discourse and discovery, can also be seen as something that we carry with us wherever we go, whatever we do. An artist’s education is never finished. school is never out. (Raqs Media Collective).
school is a space and collective founded by Yasmina Haddad and Andrea Lumplecker in 2011. school’s main series PERFORMATIVE SCREENINGS focuses on the screening as a frame, and defines a specific realm within selected artistic positions that employ performative strategies and relate to (political) realities.
Sergei Tcherepnin is an artist and musician living in Vienna. Recent and upcoming performances at Palais de Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, and Twinkler.
Valentina Triet lives in Vienna and Zurich. Her practice takes shape in various forms of filmmaking and photography, with a focus on deconstructing documentary traditions. Her most recent exhibition, Of Manners, of trips, was at Kunsthalle Winterthur. Currently, she is working on the collaborative screening program Mothers and Parents with Lucie Pia, which will take place at Twinkler, Vienna.
Lucia Udvardyová is a music journalist, curator, and organizer. In 2010, she co-founded Easterndaze, a project that aims to document and interconnect the emerging underground scenes in Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked with Czech Radio, Resonance FM, Cashmere Radio, The Listening Biennial, The Quietus, and The Wire, Central European University (CEU), and the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), among others.
Between 2016 and 2021, she curated and co-organized the Easterndaze x Berlin series that aims to bring together collectives from Berlin and the CEE region. She also gives lectures and talks and leads sound-related workshops. Udvardyová currently works for the SHAPE platform, a pan-European festival initiative that promotes innovative music and audiovisual art, CTM Festival’s discourse program and magazine, and she’s the film curator at WOMEX.
Cittipunkt e.V. is an independent cultural centre in Berlin, Wedding. It is run by a fluctuating group of artists and was founded in January 2022. The members of the non-profit association take care of all the maintenance work that acculumates in a self-organised space. Further, there are several groups that also shape and use the space continuously for semi-public and public gatherings (such as for reading groups, activists, neighbourhood initiatives, cinema groups, or cultural associations). Cittipunkt has four rooms: a big space, a membership bar/café, a library and a kitchen, in wich a variety of events, such as art shows, talks, book launches, readings, concerts, film screenings and a radio show take place.
Cittipunkt is inevitably but willfully a rather brittle entity as its users have differing ideas, agendas, beliefs, tastes, backgrounds, and ways to approach things. Therefore Cittipunkt’s programme and public role is and should be in constant negotiation, can be incoherent, contradictory, and in flux.
HEADSHOP is a project based between Zurich and Berlin, launched in 2024 by the visual artists Mathis Altmann and Jan Vorisek. It’s dedicated to exploring all facets of sonic expression.
