April 16, 2026, 10 am – 2 pm
Many thanks to the artist Kerstin Honeit for her lecture THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL – translating personal experiences into resistant and political aesthetics and discussing the works of our participants within the Studio Program Art Residency at BAI.
“With our bodies and backgrounds, we all bring inherent contexts that inescapably intertwine us with a hyper-complex and political world. In her lecture Berlin artist Kerstin Honeit will talk about how personal experiences can be transferred into empowering and thus political-aesthetic translations. Honeit will use some of her latest works to present what such an artistic translation can look like in connection with the topics of ‘poverty’ and ‘queerness‘.” (Text by courtesy of Kerstin Honeit)
Kerstin Honeit works as an artist with experimental documentary moving image formats. She lives in Berlin, where she studied Fine Arts and Stage Design at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule. In her video works, she researches cultural and linguistic modes of translation. Her focus is on the politics of the (film) voice and in particular on how the voice as a queer event, between the moving images, can shake up prevailing regimes of the gaze. In 2022, the monograph ‘Kerstin Honeit. Voice Works / Voice Strikes’ will be published by b_books-Verlag in 2022. Honeit’s works are presented internationally in exhibitions and at film festivals, including KINDL, Berlin / Whitechapel Gallery, London / Hammer Museum, LA / CAC, Quito / Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran / n.b.k., Berlin / Off Biennale Cairo / International Short Film Festival São Paulo / MMOMA, Moscow / HKW, Berlin / International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen / Arsenal Berlin / Berlinische Galerie, Berlin / Gallery 400, Chicago / BFI London / MCAD, Manila.
More information on the Kerstin Honeit Website.
