With Sam Cottington, Sanja Grozdanić, Elin McCready, and NCUBE in collaboration with CUTT PRESS
Thursday, 17.07.2025
5:30 PM
Reading Performance with Sam Cottington, Sanja Grozdanić, Elin McCready, and NCUBE in collaboration with CUTT PRESS
In English
Pogo Bar
KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s on-going programme, Pogo Bar, is an experimental event series for live and time-based arts. The series provides a platform for works in progress and excerpts from existing pieces by emerging Berlin-based artists working with performance, sound, video, or text.
For TROPEZ, KW partners with CUTT PRESS – a publishing project that produces artist books and zines, based at Hopscotch Reading Room, a Berlin bookstore and event organizer focused on queer and diasporic perspectives. Together, they present a four-part reading performance on the lawn of the Sommerbad am Humboldthain.
The invited artists are Sam Cottington, Sanja Grozdanić, Elin McCready, and NCUBE. Each artist will read for approximately 10 minutes, starting from 6 pm. The total duration of the reading is planned for 60 minutes, allowing time for a short break and maybe a swim. Bring a towel or blanket to sit. Throughout the event, visitors are also welcome to explore a selection of zines presented by CUTT PRESS.
Photos: Silke Briel
About the artists
Sam Cottington is an artist, writer and theatre/performance maker living between London and Frankfurt. He has presented work at High Art (Paris), Nir Altman (Munich) and SculptureCenter (New York). He is an associate artist at London Performance studios and his first collection of plays, Phone Plays (written to be performed over the phone), was published by Montez press last year. His first book People Person was published by JOAN. He is a graduate of Monica Baer’s class at Städelschule (Frankfurt) and Goldsmith’s Art and Art history programme (London), and he is an intern at The Wooster Group (New York).
Sanja Grozdanić is a writer and artist living and working between Berlin and New York. Across text, performance, and film, her work attends to the slippages between public and private grief, anxiety, and imagination. With Basyma Saad, she is currently working on a film titled Permanent Trespass, based on a performance of the same name.
Elin McCready is a linguist and philosopher and is employed as Research Professor at ICREA and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her academic work centers around language and she has published several books and many articles on this topic; her current research is on social meaning and political speech, and on other topics involving language such as conceptual literature, spellcasting, and embodiments. She is an organizer of the club event WAIFU (and, previously, SLICK) and is a member of the art collective MOM and the book collective NEON. She is also engaged in other artistic research and projects, including zine publishing, work on botanical and other natural agency, and games of interpretation and translation. She is also involved in activism around LGBT rights, non-normative families, and immigration.
NCUBE is a writer / director / producer / editor / playwright / novelist / songwriter / actor / roller-skater / pop culture aficionado. Examples of their writing, filmmaking and all things in-between can be found online.
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