Luhansk Ukraine Archive Description We did not originally plan to create an archive. However, we decided to make our recordings public when we noticed that the excellent polyphonyproject.com lacked singing groups from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Additionally, our materials from the Luhansk region help dispel widespread media narratives that portrayed Eastern Ukraine as merely a „Russian border“. In reality, the Luhansk Region is unquestionably Ukrainian – a place that actively preserves and cherishes its national cultural heritage. We want to share this truth with everyone who hasn’t had the opportunity to visit Eastern Ukraine. Link to Archive Funded by

Silent Moves Description Silent Moves assembles sound recordings, interviews, files of the Ministry of State Security, and music into an acoustic archipelago of Vietnamese life from the GDR to the present and links them to concrete locations. In this way, the district becomes a walk-in audio archive. In addition to contemporary witnesses and the „second generation,“ ethnologists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, musicians, and many more have their say. Among them are Anetta Kahane, the first commissioner for foreigners of the East Berlin magistrate, Tamara Hentschel, founder of Reistrommel e.V. and Thuy Nonnemann. Background Nowhere in Germany are the histories and presences of Vietnamese migration so closely connected to concrete places as in Lichtenberg: whether the Dong Xuan Center with its small pagoda, former factories and dormitories of contract workers*, the first German-Vietnamese kindergarten, the hospital where the first psychiatric outpatient clinic for Vietnamese was established and abortions of Vietnamese women were performed, the headquarters of the Association of Vietnamese in Berlin-Brandenburg, and the headquarters of the Ministry of State Security.  The arrangement of the individual acoustic „islands“ as an archipelago of voices and sounds points to the fact that they belong together in terms of content, but nevertheless avoids the temptation to try to tell a coherent story. The individual orientation of the visitors in the streets and squares is what connects the islands and gives them meaning. Silent Moves always begins in the here and now of the visitors and forms the prologue for the perception of (his)stories. link to silent moves Team Idea and realisation – Matthias Schönijahn Collaboration – Thy Le Scientific consulting – Dr. Anett Laue Concept, realization engl. translation – Ana Berkenhoff Vietnamese translation and voice – Hung Manh Le Graphic design (map) – Claudia Eckstein   Collaboration Funded by Images by Matthias Schönijahn