I perceive, I am perceived. Aesthetics can be derived from the Greek word ‘aisthesis’, which means perception. Within art, something can become visible that (I) was not yet aware of.

I turn to life. I use life to playfully recognize potential for action, which I can in turn apply in life.

I have a biography that is filled with memories and embedded in a culture. How do I feel about it? What have I experienced? I communicate. I share my experiences, desires, wishes, hopes and attitudes with others. From this, storytelling can emerge - a narrative.

Hegemony is powerful. Before power comes domination. He! Go! Patriarchy describes a social system that ascribes a privileged position of power and authority to masculinity and manhood.  And who is critical and what is criticism anyway? One characteristic of criticism can be to work out the system of evaluations. Occupy patriarchy!

We are those who cannot believe that our imperial behavior has appropriated and exploited people and territories while romantically clinging to it. Yet, we are increasingly uncovering how this is ingrained in our thinking, speaking, and acting, and how we must become aware of it. Decolonial means an active engagement with one’s own history and power structures.

What can be said?
What should be said!
What must not be said?
Who is allowed to say it? Discourse is the field in which power relations are negotiated and language spaces are opened or closed.

I am multifaceted, I do not allow myself to be categorised, I raise awareness to discrimination in the areas of gender, desire, body, disability, skin color and social situation, I think outside of prevailing norms, I realize utopias of the everyday. I live diverse versions of myself.

Ephemeral means fleeting and ethereal, like a cloud that passes by. Or like a performance that is taking place and will be over the next moment. The performance itself is only made for me and the moment, but it can hint at things to come.

spaces reflect social conditions by representing them but also negating, contesting, reversing or turning them around. If I put a few beds in an empty room, it becomes a dormitory; if I add medical equipment, it becomes an infirmary; if I take everything out again and put a few tables, chairs and a blackboard in, it becomes a school hall. If it remains empty, I call it a vacancy. What can it hold?

We immerse ourselves. We no longer separate ourselves into spectators and actors. We interact and place the entire stage in public space.

What is culture? Culture refers to our ways of thinking and acting, our discourses and our traditions. Interculturality describes encounters between different cultures in which differences are made visible in a respectful and appreciative way. Transculturality transcends this concept of interculturality; it does not categorise ‘othering’ - the ‘other’. It does not create differences, but rather something new can and should emerge together through the encounter.

I interrupt, I place my statement in an existing space and thereby change something. An intervention briefly changes the way a topic is dealt with. I create a point of friction with the current representation.

queer is often used as a collective term for LGBTIA (lesbian, gay, bi-, trans-, inter-, asexual). However, queer is more than that. Queer refers to desire and gender, but also stands for a critique of domination. queer resists categories and binary concepts such as man/woman, homosexual/heterosexual, right/wrong and standardizations that define what is considered ‘normal’. Queer theory and queer activism are directed against all kinds of oppression and use strategies of subversion and ambiguity.

Who or what is dominant? The white man who is heterosexual and monolingual and sensible, who is rich and lives in the city. What is minoritarian? Whatever the numerical ratio may be, minoritarian means inferior, i.e. less in value, not in number. So something is devalued, I am devalued because I don't conform to the norm. 

By omissions, we mean empty spaces in discourses and representations. Something is left out, not shown, not discussed, not depicted, not present.

I take part, I am a participant in life, in conversation, in politics, in art, in society. I help shape, I have room to shape, do I have room to shape? I am a part of it.

I present, I perform. I show myself, I am part of the performance. I represent, I create a cultural self-image and I question it. I walk, I move, I correspond and I do not correspond.

What we understand as culture and nature is socially defined. We live in the age of the Anthropocene, where humans place themselves at the center as the crown of creation and subjugate animals, plants and ecosystems. The bill is now coming, but we still close our eyes and continue to live capitalistically. Posthuman Feminism sets new accents against capitalist exploitation.

We are post-migrant, we are here and yet we all came here at some point. Who now tells whom when they can stay or have to leave because they are here now or wanted to be here before and have always been here? What does belonging mean? We are all migrants. Migration is not just a movement in space, but also a movement in thought and feeling.

queer is often used as a collective term for LGBTIA (lesbian, gay, bi-, trans-, inter-, asexual). However, queer is more than that. queer refers to desire and gender, but also stands for a critique of domination. Queer resists categories and binary concepts such as man/woman, homosexual/heterosexual, right/wrong and standardizations that define what is considered ‘normal’. Queer theory and queer activism are directed against all kinds of oppression and use strategies of subversion and ambiguity.

Is there a connection between heterosexuality and the devaluation of women or of characteristics defined as feminine? Queer feminism draws attention to these constitutive relationships. 

We remember, we remember our history, the history of others, we make connections, we add what is important to us, what seems relevant to us. We scrutinise omissions and make new connections, we work to ensure that memory can always be formed anew. We rewrite the past.

Representation produces meaning through performances and representations. It is important for us to understand that representation produces reality and does not merely depict it.

We have roles, even though we are not in the theatre. These are internalised social and personal expectations of us. What is expected of us? Which roles overwhelm us? In which ones do we not feel comfortable? Who tells us how to fulfil these roles? Who do we imitate? We have role models. Which ones do we have? Which ones do we need? Do we really need them?

I am the space, we are the space. We are in the space, I am in the space. We create spaces, there is space between the spaces. There is space between us. There is unused space between us. There are unused spaces within me. These spaces can contain space for encounters and for development.

What is culture? Culture refers to our ways of thinking and acting, our discourses and our traditions. Interculturality describes encounters between different cultures in which differences are made visible in a respectful and appreciative way. Transculturality transcends this concept of interculturality; it does not categorise ‘othering’ - the ‘other’. It does not create differences, but rather something new can and should emerge together through the encounter.

Doing something for the future by discovering a past that has not yet been uncovered and doing it in the present. A way of recycling and rethinking meaning.

What is invisible? Unspeakable? What needs to be said, made visible? Why? Diversity should be depicted and represented. We can achieve this by contributing ourselves and our perspectives. This gives us access to cultural meaning and opportunities for action. We make this visible.