Performance, workshop und conclusion

“hands on nails” concludes with the event “Starting point:Exploration” which creates ties to supposedly unrelated areas such as nature, technology and music. Celebrate with us, show off your moss-covered or magnetic nails to the world and start exploring!

5:30 pm – 8:30 pm | The Moss Nail Project. Performance with Maharu Maeno
The Moss Nail Project is based on a novel by Tomoyuki Hoshino in which people get plant tattoos on their skin and let vegetables grow on their head in place of hair. When Maharu Maeno tried to live with moss growing on her fingernails, she found it to be an incredible challenge. In Maharu Maeno’s moss nail performance, intrepid visitors can get their own nails “mossed” and enjoy the unique experience of being connected to another living organism.

5:30 – 8:30 pm | Nadja’s magnetic Nail Art Studio. Workshop with Nadja Buttendorf
As co-founder of Cyborgs e.V. (cyborg = hybrid consisting of a biological organism/body and machine), Nadja Buttendorf is interested in how the relationship between technology and the human body can be reimagined without necessarily succumbing to the logic of continuous optimisation. In Nadja’s magnetic Nail Art Studio, visitors can have their nails “magnetically enhanced”. With magnetic nails, one can perceive electromagnetic waves and pick up small metal objects with one’s fingernails.

The performances by Camilla Inge Volbert and THAMS have been rescheduled to our closing event.

Object of Love. Interactive art performance with THAMS
For Eily Thams, nails are a playing field where conventional gender roles are split asunder. At their private studio “Thams Does Claws”, they offer a safe space for Berlin’s queer, trans, Black and indigenous people of colour (QTBIPOC) community. Their aim is to create a protected environment where people can freely express their individuality and practise self-care. In their performance “Object of Love”, Thams transforms objects of emotional value, which visitors have brought with them – jewellery, lucky charms, songs or poems – into nail art.

Nail art performance by Camilla Inge Volbert
Building on her experience in fashion design, Camilla Inge Volbert has devoted herself to nails and nail art for several years. Her meticulously designed nails are high in demand and often featured in avant-garde photo shoots. Despite her established position, Camilla is familiar with the downsides of the branch. In “Playing field:Body” she wishes to draw attention to these shortcomings and difficulties. In her performance, she offers insights into her artistic work.

5:30 – 9 pm | isla radio
On the premises of isla Berlin, the community can express themselves musically using existing DJ equipment on location. This offer led to the creation of “isla radio”. The sound of isla radio will accompany the concluding events of “hands on nails”.

Free entry. Please register here