Hologram Workshop (ZTB E.V. Future Workshop #6 Wert/Value) – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Hologram Workshop (ZTB E.V. Future Workshop #6 Wert/Value)
This workshop is offered for people who are new to The Hologram to learn about the history and reasoning behind The Hologram practice, as well as an opportunity to experiment with it together. The practice itself values and puts together the processes of personal introspection, social cooperation, and strategic anti-capitalist organization. The workshop takes 3 hours and is composed of ⅓ part presentation, and ⅔ part participation. Everyone who joins us will be well supported, challenged, and invited to join the larger global Hologram community of practitioners.
What is The Hologram?
One part social practice, one part technology of revolution, and one part feminist science fiction come to life, The Hologram is a lightweight, replicable, autonomous protocol for human cooperation which at its simplest level sees three people (a triangle) offer care, support and transformative questions to a fourth (the hologram). Soon members of the triangle themselves become holograms with new triangles and the health virus spreads. In time, the triangle becomes a living medical record for the hologram. We hacked everyday online tools to make this open-source, peer-to-peer, viral social technology feel warm and accessible.
By and with: Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova
Co-Facilitators: florence freitag, Holly Sass, Lark Hill
The 35th Tanztage Berlin is a production of Sophiensæle. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. With the kind support of Tanzfabrik Berlin e.V., Theaterhaus Berlin and HZT Berlin. Media partners: Berlin Art Link, Missy Magazine, Rausgegangen, Siegessäule, taz.
Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova is a curator and group facilitator who works to create sneaky training grounds for autonomous organizing and collective liberation. They are one of the founding members of Casino for Social Medicine, a volunteer run space on Berlin’s Sonnenallee that defines itself as “part time coffee house, part time mutual aid gamble, part time clinic for collective experiences.” They are also one of the organizers of The Hologram project, a peer-to-peer health protocol practiced from couches all over the world. Within it, they research the long-term effects of receiving free high quality peer care. With Cassie Thornton, Magdalena recently co-edited a book titled It’s Too Late. Do It Anyway! (Thick Press: 2025) dedicated to all fumbling cultural workers in the apocalypse. Magdalena’s other ongoing projects involve a bedroom gallery Mehringplatz 20, a free university of unlearning that employs artists to teach skills other than art, and strategizing for curating towards the end of Art-as-we-know-it.
Lark Lyra Lou Hill (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles who gathers people around topics and activities including pleasure, play, self-defense, healthy relationship and the holy, ineffable void. Lark has been practicing the Hologram since 2020 and co-facilitating Hologram courses and workshops since 2021.
florence freitag (they/them) is a Berlin based multidisciplinary artist/performer, poet and community organiser for social medicine. Inspired by the strength of collaborative magic, their work revolves around holding and creating networks of care at the speed of trust and crip-time. They have been practicing The Hologram since 2021, facilitating the protocol as well as implementing it into different international and Berlin community organizations. As one of the volunteers of The Casino for Social Medicine, they have been initiating, together with Magda J Härtelova, the ongoing mutual aid clinic and anarchist school for social medicine and rest/repair/resilience... (ASMR). Together with the collective "sick comrades", they attempt at breaking the alienation and loneliness that sickness can bring.
Holly Sass (they/them) is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist, bodyworker, teacher and facilitator. Their performance practice currently provokes the intersections of dance and clown, often inviting in the grotesque and the mundane. Holly regularly practices, and intermittently teaches, contact improvisation, having held multiple class series researching “falling” at 90mil and presently sometimes co-hosts the Queer Contact Improvisation Jam in Tanzfabrik, created and held by Anya Cloud and Makisig Akin. They have an emerging handpoke tattooing practice that brings land based mark making onto the skin. Adjacent to the arts, Holly is a bodyworker of 6+ in the modalities of massage and craniosacral therapy, continuously learning and unlearning from the vast teachings of the healing justice movement. They have been organizing and supporting the emergence of free bodywork and “health” care clinics in New York City and Berlin since 2021. Since moving to Berlin, they have been practicing, and eventually facilitating, the Hologram within the local and international community.