Saturday, 02.08.2025 & Sunday, 03.08.2025
1 - 6 PM
Workshop Weekend
The Parasite School
DAY 1: SATURDAY, AUGUST 2
Nadja Buttendorf
Sewing Workshop
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
Limited capacity! RSVP via bonjour@tropeztropez.de
Anna Ehrenstein
A performative decolonial group hypnosis
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
No registration required
Juan Pablo Cámara
A practical how-to guide
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
No registration required
DAY 2: SUNDAY, AUGUST 3
Miriam Simun
How to Become an Octopus (and Sometimes Squid)
Octopus Workshop
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
Limited capacity! RSVP via bonjour@tropeztropez.de
Matto Zoppi & Tommaso Cappelletti
“This goes against our community standards.”
Reading & Performance
3:00 - 3:15 PM
Duration: approx. 15 minutes
No registration required
lololol (Sheryl Chung and Xia Lin)
Guided Tai Chi practice facilitated by Marly Borges
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
No registration required
The Parasite School
In a world governed by productivity, clarity, and optimisation, The Parasite School invites you to do the opposite: waste time, misdirect, distract, confuse. Through a collection of how-to guides, tips, and experimental tutorials, participants share tactics for the misuse of systems, from infrastructures and interfaces to attention economies. Here, hospitality is not a neutral gesture but a political arrangement. Who hosts, and under what terms?
From glitchy symbioses to asymmetrical dependencies, The Parasite School thinks with the parasite not as invader or virus, but as a figure of adaptation, survival, and subtle sabotage. Parasites do not destroy systems; they learn to live within them. They distract just enough. They feed off structures while refusing to reproduce their logic. They remind us that to thrive does not always mean to grow, expand, or win. This is not a toolkit for success. It is a bootcamp for failure, sabotage, and awkward inhabitation.
About the Curators
Nora O’ Murchú (she|her) lives and works in Ireland. As a curator and researcher, she explores online culture and the impact of technological developments. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses narratives and fictions that result in objects, exhibitions and interventions. She is currently a lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick in Ireland and was Artistic Director of transmediale in Berlin.
Jade Barget (she|her) is a curator based in Paris (FR). She explores atmospheres after nature, a theme at the heart of her recent multi-chapter and ongoing programme The well tempered, with performances at Espace Niemeyer in Paris and soft power in Berlin, as well as exhibitions at Frac Île-de-France and Fondation Fiminco, both in Romainville (FR). Jade was part of the curatorial team of transmediale, Berlin (GER), for the 2021-22, 2023 and 2024 editions and was part of the curatorial team of the 15th Gwangju Biennale (KOR).
Saturday, 02.08.2025 & Sunday, 03.08.2025
1 - 6 PM
Workshop Weekend
The Parasite School
DAY 1: SATURDAY, AUGUST 2
Nadja Buttendorf
Sewing Workshop
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
Limited capacity! RSVP via bonjour@tropeztropez.de
Anna Ehrenstein
A performative decolonial group hypnosis
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
No registration required
Juan Pablo Cámara
A practical how-to guide
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
No registration required
DAY 2: SUNDAY, AUGUST 3
Miriam Simun
How to Become an Octopus (and Sometimes Squid)
Octopus Workshop
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
Limited capacity! RSVP via bonjour@tropeztropez.de
Matto Zoppi & Tommaso Cappelletti
“This goes against our community standards.”
Reading & Performance
3:00 - 3:15 PM
Duration: approx. 15 minutes
No registration required
lololol (Sheryl Chung and Xia Lin)
Guided Tai Chi practice facilitated by Marly Borges
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
No registration required
The Parasite School
In a world governed by productivity, clarity, and optimisation, The Parasite School invites you to do the opposite: waste time, misdirect, distract, confuse. Through a collection of how-to guides, tips, and experimental tutorials, participants share tactics for the misuse of systems, from infrastructures and interfaces to attention economies. Here, hospitality is not a neutral gesture but a political arrangement. Who hosts, and under what terms?
From glitchy symbioses to asymmetrical dependencies, The Parasite School thinks with the parasite not as invader or virus, but as a figure of adaptation, survival, and subtle sabotage. Parasites do not destroy systems; they learn to live within them. They distract just enough. They feed off structures while refusing to reproduce their logic. They remind us that to thrive does not always mean to grow, expand, or win. This is not a toolkit for success. It is a bootcamp for failure, sabotage, and awkward inhabitation.
About the Curators
Nora O’ Murchú (she|her) lives and works in Ireland. As a curator and researcher, she explores online culture and the impact of technological developments. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses narratives and fictions that result in objects, exhibitions and interventions. She is currently a lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Limerick in Ireland and was Artistic Director of transmediale in Berlin.
Jade Barget (she|her) is a curator based in Paris (FR). She explores atmospheres after nature, a theme at the heart of her recent multi-chapter and ongoing programme The well tempered, with performances at Espace Niemeyer in Paris and soft power in Berlin, as well as exhibitions at Frac Île-de-France and Fondation Fiminco, both in Romainville (FR). Jade was part of the curatorial team of transmediale, Berlin (GER), for the 2021-22, 2023 and 2024 editions and was part of the curatorial team of the 15th Gwangju Biennale (KOR).
TROPEZ
at Sommerbad Humboldthain
Wiesenstraße 1, 13357 Berlin
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Monday – Sunday
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
TROPEZ
at Sommerbad Humboldthain
Wiesenstraße 1, 13357 Berlin
Google Maps
Monday – Sunday
10.00 am – 6.00 pm