Making Kin in the

Thanks to next generation sequencing (NGS), we can now access ancient biological relationships, including ancestry and parentage, with a startling level of clarity. This has led to recentering of kinship within archaeological discourse. In this paper, we argue that blood and biology are key elements of kin-making only in so far as they are contextualized and made sense of through social relations. We argue that the conceptions of kinship that underpin archaeogenetic studies are the product of a particular historical and political context. Archaeology, with its focus on the material remains of the past, provides opportunities to examine how other forms of material and technological intervention (including ritual, exchange, and the sharing of food) facilitated the creation of kinship links not solely rooted in the human body. Here, we consider the extent to which the social salience of biological relationships identified through ancient DNA analysis can be addressed without imposing contemporary forms of familial structure and gender ideology onto the past.

Festival exhibition AI ANCESTORS -Making Kin in the Future Fri 6/17 | 1-10pm | free admission | Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg (ground floor) The exhibition is dedicated to potential futures -ones in which notions of community and kinship can be redefined across species. The exhibition's artworks explore animistic myths in Tibet and coauthorship with artificial intelligence, respond to visitors' heartbeats and whisper poems from the future. With works from K Allado-McDowell | Rike Scheffler | Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser | Louise Walleneit lyrix national competition for young poets Fri 6/17 | 2pm | free admission | Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg (Clubraum) The poetry competition for young people between 10 and 20 years of age awards the prizewinners in the age group 15 to 20. Participants of the Haus für Poesie's workshop groups for poets-in-training, "open poems," give a "bulls-eye window" reading in honour of the program's 15th anniversary.

WELTKLANG -Night of Poetry
POETRY IN CONVERSATION: Raymond Antrobus -Can we disagree graciously Sun 6/19 | 5.30pm | 6/4 € | Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg (Clubraum) Raymond Antrobus comes from the London slam and Open Mic poetry scene and, among other things, writes about the experience of deafness.

Festival exhibition AI ANCESTORS -Making Kin in the Future
Mon 6/20 | 1-10pm | free admission | Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg (ground floor) The exhibition is dedicated to potential futures -ones in which notions of community and kinship can be redefined across species. The exhibition's artworks explore animistic myths in Tibet and coauthorship with artificial intelligence, respond to visitors' heartbeats and whisper poems from the future. 23rd poesiefestival berlin: All that poetry The 23rd edition of the poesiefestival berlin will take place from June 17 to June 23, 2022 at the Academy of Arts on the Hanseatenweg. With this year's theme of "All that poetry," the festival will present a wide spectrum of international contemporary poetry, opening with a contemporary lyric voice from Ukraine.
Far from being "niche," poetry represents one of today's most interesting and experimental art formsone that touches thousands of people around the world through its versatility, diversity, and precision. After two years of pandemic restrictions, the 23rd poesiefestival berlin will take a panoramic view of the art of language. Organized by the Haus für Poesie, the poesiefestival will expand the social relevance of poetry in readings, performances, discussions, exhibitions, workshops, and artistic interventions -revealing connections and affinities between poetry and music, sound art, visual art, film, dance, theater, and digital media.
As per tradition, the festival will open with Weltklang, a multilingual sound experience of international poetry. Here, poets read their work in their original languages, while the audience follows along with translations printed in a reader. This year's Weltklang reading will feature an author from Ukraine (to be announced), Raymond Antrobus (JAM/GBR), Agustín Fernández Mallo (SP), Dorothea Grünzweig (GER) and Julia Wong Kcomt (PER), among others.
The 2022 Berlin Poetry Lecture will be held by Michèle Métail (FRA). In this lecture, Métail will trace the history of her own work in a kind of wandering inspired by the flâneurs of Berlin. In so doing, Métail will sketch a poetics of the in-between in which the poem transforms into a "riddle with multiple solutions." Aras Ören's long poems "Was will Niyazi in der Naunynstraße," "Der kurze Traum aus Kagithane," and "Die Fremde ist auch ein Haus" ("What does Niyazi want in Naunyn Street," "The brief dream from Kağıthane," and "The Stranger is also a House")known as the "Berlin Trilogy" -will be adapted for the stage by Björn Kuhligk. These poems tell of the first generation of Turkish "guest workers" and of their lives in 1970s Kreuzberg, marked by poverty, degeneration, and political upheaval.
This year's reVERSible will spotlight poetry from four successor states of the former Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia. This translation workshop centers dialogue and exchange, as poets from these states and Germanlanguage poets translate one another. The festival will then present the translations, insights from the workshop, and an in-depth poetry discussion in a single evening.
Poetry in Education will offer an extensive participatory program, including an advanced training for mediators of poetry, workshops for school classes, a collaborative, collective chain poem, young poets' poetry readings, an inclusive exhibition project, and much more.
Committed fans of poetry can warm up for the festival proper with Poets' Corner -Poetry in the Districts, which will take place between June 12 and June 16 and includes eleven readings with dozens of Berlin-based poets.
The festival exhibition AI ANCESTORS will launch as early as June 14. Exploring speculative and sustainable ways of existence through body, poetry, and sound, this exhibition will invite visitors to "sensually feel more tender futures," says curator Rike Scheffler.
The poesiefestival berlin has taken place every year since its beginning in 2000 and is the largest of its kind in Europe, bringing around 150 renowned poets and artists from all over the world to Berlin each year. In addition to the medium of the book, poetry has long sought out other forms of presentation, experimenting with theater, performance, music, dance, film, and digital media.
The poesiefestival berlin is a project of the Haus für Poesie in cooperation with the Academy of Arts and is supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Over 150 artists from 33 countries The program of the 23rd poesiefestival berlin is now online The advance sale for the 23rd poesiefestival berlin (June 17-23) has begun. After an online and a hybrid version, the poetry festival will finally take place in person once again with the theme "All that poetry" at the Akademie der Künste at the Hanseatenweg. Over 150 artists from 33 countries will participate.
Please find attached a program overview.
At Weltklang -Night of Poetry (FR 6.17 | 19.30), the great concert voice in verse and languages, one contemporary voice from Ukraine is eagerly awaited: Halyna Kruk does not want to "write about stars in the sky when there is something more important, something more timely and topical." She will read poems written especially for Weltklang, all of which deal with the war in Ukraine. Also on stage this year: Raymond Antrobus (JAM/GBR) writes, among other things, about casual racism and discrimination against deaf people, Agustín Fernández Mallo (ESP), is revered worldwide as his generation's most original poet, but an insider tip in Germany, and Dorothea Grünzweig (DEU), who has lived in Finland since 1989 and whose poems combine Sami mythology and Swabian childhood. And more: Mihret Kebede (ETH) writes in Amharic and is not only a poet, but also a performer and artist. Kim Yideum (KOR) is known for her utterly feminist poetry, which subverts social norms with eroticism and sarcasm. Wulf Kirsten (DEU) uncovers past and present in the layers of a landscape. Aleš Šteger (SVN) is one of Slovenia's most famous writers, a cosmopolitan and traveler. Julia Wong Kcomt (PER), Peruvian writer with Chinese roots, speaks from the diasporic soul with great lucidity.
Poetry in conversation with Antrobus, Kebede, Kruk, Yideum, Mallo, and Wong Kcomt will illuminate each artist's work in greater detail.
The festival exhibition AI ANCESTORS -Making Kin in the Future (WE 6.15 and TH 6.16: 13.00-19.00, daily during the festival: 13.00-22.00) will explore speculative and sustainable ways of being through body, poetry, and sound, inviting visitors to "sensually feel more tender futures," says curator Rike Scheffler. The exhibition's featured voices draw on decolonial, intersectional, trans-and ecofeminist approaches, non-Western and Indigenous ways of life and knowledge systems. They explore animist myths in Tibet and co-writing with artificial intelligence, respond to the heartbeats of visitors, whispering them poems from the future. The exhibition will be accompanied by a program of several talks and performances, as well as a workshop. With work by K  The 2022 Berlin Poetry Lecture (SU 6.19 | 19.30) will be held by Michèle Métail (FRA). In 17 chapters, she will trace the history of her work and outline a poetics of the inbetween, in which the poem becomes a "riddle with multiple solutions." Michèle Métail will deliver the speech in German. "Die Zwischensprache" (the "in-between" language) will be published for the event in German and English by Wallstein Verlag.
This year's reVERSible translation workshop (TU 6.21 | 20.00) will feature poetry from four successor states of the former Yugoslavia: Eight poets from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia, will enter into an exchange with eight poets from the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. For the first time since the breakup of Yugoslavia, four cultural institutions from these four countries will gather to facilitate such an encounter: PEN Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hrvatsko društvo pisaca (Croatia), Kulturno -informativni centar "Budo Tomović" The Dream Factory -A Poetic Cartography of Africa's new Urbanity (SA 6.18 | 19.00) will offer plenty of opportunities to say goodbye to preconceived notions about the African continent: with music, poetry, discussions about urbanity, the diaspora, and Afrofuturism. The new urbanity resembles a dream factory in which religion, languages, identity, and gender are constantly reinventing themselves; it is a melting pot of art and popular culture. Aras Ören's (TUR/DEU) long poems "Was will Niyazi in der Naunynstraße" ("What does Niyazi want in the Naunynstraße") (1973), "Der kurze Traum aus Kagithane" ("The brief dream from Kagithane") (1974), and "Die Fremde ist auch ein Haus" ("The Stranger is also a House") (1980) -known together as the "Berlin Trilogy" (TH 6.23 | 19.30)were adapted for the stage by Björn Kuhligk. These texts have lost none of their relevance: They tell of the first generation of Turkish "guest workers" and of their lives in a 1970s Kreuzberg marked by poverty, degeneration, and political upheaval. Leopold von Verschuer (DEU) will stage these poems with Sylvana Seddig (DEU) and Matthias Rheinheimer (DEU).