Honeysuckle Joyride
Honeysuckle Joyride (2021) 12:37
A video essay considering the themes of decay, queer kinship and the Irish landscape through a post-humanist lens. Buried in the bogs of Connemara and Belfast’s Divis and Black
Mountain, Mehigan considers the terrain of hyper-real CG, the slow death of Instagram, and Irish gardening histories through the intimate materialities of queer life and death. Part of COVEN’s bogside down pt. i.
Artist: Jennifer Mehigan
Access Features: English subtitles
A Paradise Out Of A Common Field
A Paradise Out Of A Common Field (2021) 5:32
A short animated film that explores the iconography of the zombie, with dream world visions of feral horses and writhing flower avatars, while the audio transports you
through the history of the Irish boggy graveyard and its relationship to trauma. Part of COVEN’s bogside down pt. i.
Artists: Jennifer Mehiganin collaboration with Bassam Al-Sabah
Access Features: English subtitles
A Conversation on Care
(July 4 2021) 52:18
Having worked and shared online space together many times over the last year, SchwarzRund and Anisha Müller had a long overdue catch up about community work during a pandemic. How did this time affect accessibility,
community and what has that got to do with empowerment? They unpick the idea of ‘Health’ in their own work and experience (what does health really mean? Who is it for?), thinking about the foundations of white ableist institutions,
but also dreaming up alternatives for the future. Documentation of a live event at Feldfünf project space by COVEN BERLIN titled AN INVITATION TO SINK INTO THE BOG.
Artists: Schwarzrund and Anisha Müller AKA Femme Fitness
Access Features: Deutsche Gebärdensprache
Moist Secrets Podcast Recording
(May 23 2021) 52:18
Local Celebrity and Meme Lorde of Berlin, Emotional Labor Queen, AKA Cleo Kempe Towers, graced us with a live episode of their
podcast, Moist Secrets, with Louise Trueheart of COVEN. They talk about memes, mental health, queer love, and astrology. In their podcast, Towers works through power dynamics, ritualistic obsession, emotional labor, femme survival,
and astrological healing, and this episode asks what role memes play as emotional support, artistic outlet, and communication method in our matters of the heart. Documentation of a live-streamed event at Feldfünf project space
by COVEN BERLIN titled
DANK MEMES FOR DANK TIMES.
Artists: Emotional Labor Queen AKA Cleo Kempe Towers and COVEN member Louise Trueheart
Access Features: English subtitles
Meme-making Workshop
(May 22 2021) 1:45:43
A workshop about memes and meme-making.
Recorded on 22 May 2021 during DM4DT at feldfünf in Berlin, Germany.
COVEN members: Harley Aussoleil and Frances Breden
Access Features: None
2022 Astrology Forecast for the Bog
2022 Astrology Forecast for the Bog (2022) 21:00
Maggic’s film looks at how actual astrological transits affect the ecology and fortune of our bog, which was born on the Spring Equinox of 2021.
Artists: Mary Maggic
Access Features: English subtitles
TUNIC
TUNIC (2022) 5:08
TUNIC departs from Rosi Braidotti's contention that myths are always political fictions – staged and restaged, told and retold in fragments and slippery allusions. In TUNIC, an actor in a boat
becomes a god who assumes the sheen of a mythical era, the boat becomes a swan suddenly tasked with enormous consequence. TUNIC works with mythic camp: the ridiculousness of epic beauty, the pleasure of perpetually becoming otherwise,
the refusal of The Moral, the anti-aspirational, the hilarious, the sublime.
Artist: Melanie Jame Wolf
Access Features: English Subtitles
A leak, a draft, a mold, a flame
A leak, a draft, a mold, a flame (2022) 7:00
Body like building holds and conceals its inner workings inside the facade of their skinbrick. We usually wouldn't know that something needs a special and urgent attention
until an element permeates this functional illusion. A leak, a draft, a mold, a flame. Side by side and back to back, four thin walls for the working class. Water, pipes, electrics, internet wires, intertwined interdependently.
If I'm clogged, you're clogged... Where is the community care for how close our bodies come into contact through these slim membranes? The challenges we face day to day collectively and independently? If I’m clogged, you’re clogged.
Artist: Laura Lulika, Sound by Hang Linton
Access Features: English Subtitles
Meme Gallery
Memes produced at the meme-making workshop with COVEN as part of DANK MEMES 4 DANK TIMES May 2021.
Articles in our online magazine
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UNTER DEN LINDEN
"I turned the laundry hamper upside down, shaking the quivering body into the planter. A rat, fugitive found in the bathroom of my shared flat, tumbled into the mess of cigarette butts and weeds growing near the trunk of the tree that separated the sidewalk from the parked cars..."
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UNMEASURABLE FALLING
"The first time I stepped into marsh water was when I was about 7. One of the first sunny days in early May. My friend’s family took me along with them to the reservoir. We were all neighbors living in the same street on the outskirts, and in the summer all the kids were biking there quite often. But at that time we probably were still too young to go there by ourselves..."
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FOREST THAT CARES – ON BELARUS, PARTISANS, AND THICKET WE CAN LEARN A LOT FROM
"Human culture, people’s beliefs and behaviors are shaped by the natural environment we live in. Climate defines our diets and clothing habits, but certainly the most intricate interactions occur at deeper levels – deserts or jungles, the closeness to big waters or high mountains determine the way we perceive ourselves and others and feel about this strange thing called “life”..."
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THE ART OF (NOT) FORGETTING – PHOTOGRAPHING MEMORIES AS A WAY TO RESIST CENSORSHIP
"There are things common for all cultures, things that make us who we are: fragile and strong; empathetic and desperate; at times giving a hand to those in need, at other times ready to accept help; and our ability to tell stories. Our stories are based on individual memories, emotions, and experiences, and by telling them we shape collective memory, and thus historical and national discourse..."
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THE END IS NOT AN OPTION: CARRIER BAGS AND THE RHYTHM OF THE BOG
"I’ve spent a lot of the last years in bogland – literal and metaphysical. For six years I obsessively returned to a river in Lancashire, (U.K.). I spent most of my time on top of the peat fells (big swathes of high altitude, boggy moorland with flat tops), looking for the source of small rivers that swell out of the wetland and spill down the cracks they make in the hillsides..."
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