NUBBEL-WORKSHOP
with Hilma Bäckström and Jil Lahr
as part of the costume workshop
Fri 21 February, 5—7 p.m.
Please register at info@temporarygallery.org
The costume workshop will be open one last time next Friday from 15:30 to 19:30. Everyone is welcome, even those who have not been there before, we have plenty of material. A children's costume workshop (for young people between 3 and 14 years) with Blanca Barbat will be offered from 16:00 to 18:00.
In cooperation with M*Treff Alte Feuerwache, ROOTS & ROUTES Cologne e.V., Rutfront Fastelovendsbund e.V. and the artists, costume and mask designers Hilma Bäckström, Brigitte Dunkel, Sarah Ferreira dos Santos, Nora Hansen, Jil Lahr, Christina Neuss, Paula Noller and Corinne Riepert.
In simple language:
On February 21, 2025, there will be an “open costume workshop” in the Temporary Gallery from 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
Everyone can sew or build their own carnival costumes in the workshop.
There will also be artists in the workshop who can help with sewing and building.
In the costume workshop we want to find new costume ideas for the carnival.
We want to make costumes ourselves, because:
- Many carnival costumes that you can buy in stores break quickly.
- Many old carnival costumes are discriminatory.
Art and carnival belong together:
- Artists and performers have always enjoyed costume parties.
- And the carnival floats in the Rose Monday parade are made by artists and are often political.
Everyone should feel comfortable in the costume workshop and no one should be hurt.
We all want to ensure this together.
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The open costume workshop is a format of the Temporary Gallery. It takes place every Friday between 31.01. and 21.02. from 15:30 to 19:30. The workshop is a temporary space led by local artists where costumes can be artistically developed. Everyone is welcome here to design, sew, build, learn and exchange ideas. The Cologne Carnival can be prepared in a safe environment, and there is room for any questioning of the festival.
The costume workshop aims to encourage people to think about the practice of dressing up and the transformative potential of costuming beyond the boundaries of stereotypical carnival costumes. For these are now part of the fast fashion movement - the cheapest materials are poorly made so that they can hardly be worn for more than one season. In addition, the selection of affordable costumes is very limited and characterized by a norm-binary, sometimes sexist and racist world view. The scope of possibilities and free fantasies - who or what one would like to dress up as - often seem limited, manipulated by the influences of the omnipresent consumer society and at the same time also a question of the social environment. In terms of content, the format deals with the practices of dressing up in the context of customs and tradition, but also wants to break away from many practices and gain its own perspectives. In this way, carnival can be viewed in a new light and artistically shaped.
The Cologne art scene and the Cologne Carnival, as a place of political debate and satire based on the democratic right to freedom of expression, have always been closely intertwined in the past—artists designed carnival floats, backdrops for carnival shows and organized costume parties. The artists' festival Laange Ent (1920s), the activities of the Ahl Säu (founded in 1946), the Lumpenball at the Kölnischer Kunstverein and the carnival party DA BA DEE? at Temporary Gallery (2020) are just a fraction of the avant-garde impulses that used artistic means and strategies to help shape the Cologne festival, and not infrequently and not often enough, as it were, to question and thwart militaristic, patriarchal structures.
Program:
14 February, 4:30—7:30 p.m.
Open costume workshop
22 February
Joint participation in the ghost parade with interested costume workshop participants
28 February—Save the Date!
Cadavre Exquis carnival dinner
More information will follow soon!
We are still happy about material donations! These can be dropped off Mondays and Thursdays between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. and on Fridays from 11 a.m. or picked up by arrangement within Cologne.
Everyone is welcome! The costume workshop is free of charge and accessible without registration (except for two workshops, see details). You can bring your own material or draw inspiration from our material pool.
Code of conduct at Temporary Gallery:
The costume workshop in the Temporary Gallery aims to create an accessible, low-injury and barrier-sensitive space as a basis for our togetherness. We do not tolerate any form of racism, sexism, ableism, anti-Semitism, queer and trans hostility, or any other discriminatory, violent behaviour. All event participants agree to our behavioural guidelines. All participants in our programme want to feel comfortable and safe in this space. Therefore, we do not tolerate assaultive, transgressive and/or discriminatory behaviour in any way and reserve the right to exclude people from the event if they violate our code of conduct (which will also be visible in the room). If you feel uncomfortable or witness any abusive behaviour, please contact Lisa Klosterkötter.
Information on the accessibility of the events:
Relaxed atmosphere: The event is designed to be relaxed. This means that everyone is welcome in the room and can stay there even if they are not actively working on something. The rooms can be left and re-entered at any time. Hot drinks and water are provided. A variety of seating furniture (chairs, beanbags, stools) is available.
Physical access: The exhibition rooms are steplessly accessible, unfortunately there is no barrier-free toilet available. The a&o Hostel, about 200 meters from the Temporary Gallery, offers barrier-free toilets.
Language access: The workshop leaders speak German and English. The team is open to providing practical instructions via translation programs in various other languages. We also try to use plain language as far as possible. Questions of understanding are always welcome. Unfortunately, interpretation into sign language cannot be offered.
Contact us: If you have any further needs or access requirements, e.g. pick-up service from a nearby bus stop, please contact us by e-mail at info@temporarygallery.org
Temporary Gallery, Mauritiuswall 35, 50676 Cologne
Further information at: https://www.temporarygallery.org/project/mobile-kueche/
