Rike Glaser and Krishian Rajapakshe

#2 What happens when we come together? Gestures of hosting: an invitation to being


Interaction designer Rike Glaser and artist and educator Krishan Rajapakshe invite you to the table. Together, our voices, silences, and gestures shape the small ritual of being together. Around a table, we ask: What happens when we come together? This is about opening questions, embracing uncertainty, and seeing what unfolds in the act of gathering.

Rike Glaser is an interaction designer exploring the social dimensions of design through process, tools, and methodology. Working across craft, digital and participatory formats, she uses collaborative making as a shared language to address contemporary phenomena, opening a field where methods are as important as outcomes.

Krishan Rajapakshe is an artist and art educator exploring and producing spaces for the choreography of narratives and critique across drawing, graphic design, zine-making, and kitchen practice. Their practice treats these sites as platforms for relational aesthetics and knowledge production, reflecting a commitment to connecting artistic production with everyday life, social engagement, and collective processes.

Time:16:00 – 18:00

Duration: 2 h

28.08.2025, Thursday

Philipp Rhensius

#3: Home Is Where the Heart Strives – On the Sonic Fiction of Everyday Life


Writer, musician, poet, and editor Philipp Rhensius aka alienationist_ will present the new norient sounds book ‘Home Is Where the Heart Strives’, sharing excerpts from his introductory essay and selected contributions. He will then reflect on sonic fiction, belonging, and the realities and futures of global DIY cultures — situated between intimacy, resistance, and noise.

The book ‘Home Is Where the Heart Strives’ explores the meaning of place in relation to music and sound. From a metalhead smuggling banned tapes across the Syrian border to a vogueing oasis in the mountains of Bogotá, it asks: how does place shape music, and is it possible to listen beyond one’s history? Edited and curated by Philipp Rhensius, the book brings together 85 contributors from 38 countries who map their sonic landscapes of migration, war, queerness, and home through essays, poetry, and images.

Biography:
Philipp Rhensius aka Alienationist is a writer, musician, poet, and editor at Norient. He currently publishes the experimental column ‘Was Macht Mich’ in the newspaper ‘taz’. His texts and music projects are based on the idea that feeling the chains is the first step toward emancipation. As editor at Norient, he works with artists and authors from over 60 countries to promote (sub)cultural diversity. In his music (Kl.ne, aphtc, Alienationist), he blends sonic fiction with poetry, queer theory, spoken word, and visceral club sounds. Recently, he released the double-EP ‘Your Data Is Funnier Than You’ and published the book volume ‘Home Is Where the Heart Strives’.

https://norient.com/


Time:16:00 – 18:00

Duration: 2 h

13.11.2025, Thursday

Dr phil. Juan Almarza Anwandter

#4 Childhood’s Memories


Chilean architect and artist Dr phil. Juan Almarza Anwandter will lead an interactive session on the topic of Memories and Identity, inviting you to partake in exploring the significance of childhood memories in shaping personal identity.

Participants will be asked to create a simple drawing of a meaningful childhood memory such as a place, an object, or a moment. The table will gradually transform into a mosaic, a collective collage of memories.

Dr phil. Juan Almarza Anwandter will then invite participants to share the stories behind their drawings.

This shared drawing session invites reflections on memory, identity, and belonging, as we consider how early experiences connected to place and time influence the way we understand ourselves and the world.

Biography:
Dr phil. Juan Almarza Anwandter is a Chilean architect and artist based in Berlin. The sublime natural landscapes of his homeland have imbued his work with a poetic and philosophical sensibility, further enriched by his engagement with German thinkers such as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Rilke. Alongside his artistic and architectural practice, he has taught architecture and design for more than 25 years.





Time:16:00 – 18:00

Duration: 2 h

27.11.2025, Thursday

Clemente Ciarrocca

#5   A Circle Is the Only Geometric Shape Defined by Its Centre


Inspired by Sarah Kane’s play Crave, a script in which the characters are denoted only by initials, their gender identifiable only through context, and where no stage directions are provided apart from the occasional indication of a beat, artist Clemente Ciarrocca hosts an hour of confessions, diffusing the lines between the personal, the private, and anonymity.

You are invited to share small confessions, alone or in pairs, for seconds or for minutes, into a microphone placed at a distance from the crowd,
 allowing you to have an intimate moment with it while remaining unheard by others. Prompts offer simple guidance: an image, a script, or something evocative.

Together we create a durational aural script that will later be pitched down four octaves, anonymised, and paired with a video work showing slow-motion, close-up footage of a mouth speaking, slowed to the point where the articulation of the lips becomes untraceable to the original utterance.


Biography
Clemente Ciarrocca (b. 1994, Rome) is an artist and theorist living in Berlin. Working across sculpture, printmaking, video, and poetry, his practice turns around intimacy as an intangible force that influences discourse while refusing to be fixed. Recent solo exhibitions include Aktionshaus, Berlin (2025), Obelus, Berlin (2025), and Fondamenta dei Penini, Venice (2024). Ciarrocca holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2023) and a BA in Philosophy and Economics from University College London (2016).

https://clemente-ciarrocca.com/
@nemecees






Time:20:00 – 22:00

Duration: 2 h

13.12.2025, Saturday

 Bika Rebek, founder of Some Place Studio

#6 The Anti-Calendar: A Reflection on the Year Past  


As the year draws to a close, Yellow Salon invites you to join architect and educator Bika Rebek, founder of Some Place Studio, for a session of making anti-calendars. Participants will create twelve doodles reflecting on the past year, making a little booklet in the process. While sketching, we will chat and enjoy coffee and tea.

Some Place Studio is one of the most distinctive architecture practices emerging in Berlin, recently featured in Stylepark Magazine. The article describes how Bika’s work “shakes up the Berlin architecture and design scene with her refreshing and unconventional approach to design”. Read more at stylepark.com or via the link in bio.

Biography
Bika Rebek is a licensed architect, educator, and curator, and the founder and principal of the architecture firm Some Place Studio. Understanding architecture as deeply entangled with, and inherently complicit in, the systems it inhabits, she is committed to building a more sustainable and equitable practice. Rebek has collaborated with institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Venice Biennale, and the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. Most recently, she led a team of architects and landscape designers to win the two-stage international competition for Tempelhofer Feld. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Metropolis Magazine, Domus, e-flux, Elle Decor Italia, and AD Germany, among others. She holds a diploma from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and a master’s degree in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices from Columbia University.

https://someplace.studio/
@someplacestudio



Time: 16:00–18:00

Duration: 2 h

17.12.2025 , Wednesday