Cartographies of Affect – in the queer and now’ is a 10-day festival involving more than 40 artists and tracing narratives of queer history and present resistance while exercised through diasporic bodies today, aiming to create transcultural and transnational solidarity.
The festival aims to gathers experiences and practices from diverse cultures living in Berlin and the “global south” while incorporating the idea of intersectionality and showing how multiple modes of identification cross-pollinate.
“Cartographies of Affect -in the queer and now” is a liturgy of artistry and medium, an intense and antidiscilinary journey through queer migration including a Bukhurr and Chikhat performance by trans, queer and non-binary folks practicing indigenous rituals while sharing their stories.