12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 14.09.2022, curator Kader Attia

(performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation)

Z. Hertzberg, Jewish Anarchist Women Against the Hegemony, 14.09.2022, photo documentation of the performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Photo: Silke Briel

Z. Hertzberg, Jewish Anarchist Women Against the Hegemony, 14.09.2022, photo documentation of the performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Photo: Silke Briel

Z. Hertzberg, Jewish Anarchist Women Against the Hegemony, 14.09.2022, photo documentation of the performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Photo: Silke Briel

Z. Hertzberg, Jewish Anarchist Women Against the Hegemony, 14.09.2022, photo documentation of the performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Photo: Silke Briel

Z. Hertzberg, Jewish Anarchist Women Against the Hegemony, 14.09.2022, photo documentation of the performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Photo: M. Tas

Z. Hertzberg, Jewish Anarchist Women Against the Hegemony, 14.09.2022, photo documentation of the performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Photo: Silke Briel

Z. Hertzberg, Jewish Anarchist Women Against the Hegemony, 14.09.2022, photo documentation of the performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Photo: Silke Briel

Z. Hertzberg, Jewish Anarchist Women Against the Hegemony, 14.09.2022, photo documentation of the performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Photo: Silke Briel

Z. Hertzberg, Jewish Anarchist Women Against the Hegemony, 14.09.2022, photo documentation of the performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Photo: M. Tas

Z. Hertzberg, Jewish Anarchist Women Against the Hegemony, 14.09.2022, photo documentation of the performative walk, spoken word performance, conversation, 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Photo: M. Tas

Anti-hegemonic, anti-imperialist performative walk with Zuzanna Hertzberg led from KW Institute for Contemporary Art to a nearby courtyard in the former Jewish quarter of Berlin, where the artist shared stories about Jewish-Ukrainian women anarchists from the first half of the 20th century.

Fanny Kaplan, Olga Taratuta and Milly Witkop were connected to Berlin through the migration of ideas, nomadism and transboundary resistance against various forms of hegemony (exercised by state, ideology and socio-cultural system of oppression).

This art action was also an introduction and invitation to a conversation between the participants about how each of us understand hegemony and impe- rialism and a joint attempt to re-contextualize these terms from different perspectives, practices, and experiences.

The herstories of the Jewish-Ukrainian women anarchists may show us how we can grasp their message at present.

What they acted and fought against is also relevant to our better understanding of the current events and the perspective of people from the former Eastern Bloc.

Internationalism and Nomadism. Energy overcoming territorial borders and cultural differences. Embodiment of Utopia is a matter of today, not of tomorrow.