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 Meili Barget is an independent curator. Her work explores how technologies shape reality and what becomes of us in these perpetually emerging worlds.
In 2024, she was co-curator of the 15th Gwangju Biennale (KR), and from 2021 to 2024, she was part of the curatorial team at transmediale.
As an independent curator, she is currently developing two long-term projects. The well tempered, inspired by real and imagined attempts to modify the climate, unfolds as a series of micro-fictions, with each chapter taking the form of an exhibition, performance, or text. Her B-side project, Fatal & Fallen, is a film and lecture programme centered on revenge. Launched in 2021, it draws from the aesthetics of grindhouse cinema and East Asian B-movies, while exploring the enduring power of revenge as a popular motif circulating through media, collective narratives, and contemporary imaginaries.
Her curatorial work has been presented by Nguyen Art Foundation (VNM), Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TWN), Frac Île-de-France (FRA), Fiminco Foundation (FRA), Espace Niemeyer (FRA), soft power (DE), Tropez (DE), Asian Film Archive (SGP), Sinema transtopia (DE), Gorki Theatre (DE), Palazzo Re Rebaudengo (ITA), and Nottingham Contemporary (UK).
She also writes micro-fictions and essays, which have appeared in Momus, frieze, The White Review, Art Monthly, THE SEEN, diaCRITICS, Los Angeles Review of Books, and AQNB.
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 Meili Barget is an independent curator. Her work explores how technologies shape reality and what becomes of us in these perpetually emerging worlds.
In 2024, she was co-curator of the 15th Gwangju Biennale (KR), and from 2021 to 2024, she was part of the curatorial team at transmediale.
As an independent curator, she is currently developing two long-term projects. The well tempered, inspired by real and imagined attempts to modify the climate, unfolds as a series of micro-fictions, with each chapter taking the form of an exhibition, performance, or text. Her B-side project, Fatal & Fallen, is a film and lecture programme centered on revenge. Launched in 2021, it draws from the aesthetics of grindhouse cinema and East Asian B-movies, while exploring the enduring power of revenge as a popular motif circulating through media, collective narratives, and contemporary imaginaries.
Her curatorial work has been presented by Nguyen Art Foundation (VNM), Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute (TWN), Frac Île-de-France (FRA), Fiminco Foundation (FRA), Espace Niemeyer (FRA), soft power (DE), Tropez (DE), Asian Film Archive (SGP), Sinema transtopia (DE), Gorki Theatre (DE), Palazzo Re Rebaudengo (ITA), and Nottingham Contemporary (UK).
She also writes micro-fictions and essays, which have appeared in Momus, frieze, The White Review, Art Monthly, THE SEEN, diaCRITICS, Los Angeles Review of Books, and AQNB.
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
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Monday – Sunday
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
