AXE PULSE
Coven BerlinFrom the age of 13 years
Language: English
Duration: varying
Prior knowledge necessary ×
Translation into English ✓
Translation into German ✓
Barrier-free WC ✓
Childcare ×
Space for wheelchair ✓
Translation into sign language ×
Adolescence is nothing if not an endless series of paradoxes. As a teenager you spend your days with packs of people, and yet often feel utterly isolated. You’re carving your own identity, yet are indelibly shaped by the influences around you. It’s excruciating, and magical, and formative, with highs and lows that are as devastating as they are delirious. Queer theory understands categories of gender and sexuality as unstable, shifting, malleable, and contextual, and COVEN BERLIN understands adolescence along similar lines: a “not yet there” temporality that is an essential part of our political imagination. The same way the teenage body is imprisoned by its present, suspended in a moment of change, queerness thrives in perpetual becoming, of always existing in a utopian, just-out-of-reach future. As Jose Esteban Muñoz puts it, “we may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.” Adolescence, in this sense, is the space for utopia to become. COVEN BERLIN brings AXE PULSE, a name inspired by an old model of the popular deodorant brand for teens, as a response to care. Adolescence is a time when we all needed care but were rarely taught how to ask or read our own needs, nor did many of us have access to the care we really needed. Adolescence in this sense is a life-long process of learning to care for oneself and others.