Poe:ra Collective

Poe:ra

The artistic duo Po:era (Daniel Weyand & Lucas Lacerda) presents CALADRI, a speculative exoplanetary star system rooted in real astrophysics. Audiences are invited to join an open world-building session, explore Caladri’s night sky, and listen to an audio walk about a human civilization in constant migration towards the twilight of its slowly-rotating planet. Across immersive installations, audio experiences, and collaborative experiments, Anatomia Publica stages research as a shared, imaginative process—one where performance meets science, and future knowledge begins to take shape in the now. We invite all lovers of research to step into a hybrid anatomy of inquiry—vibrant, situated, and in motion. 

Po:era's inter-media performances are based on site-specific research, set in urban and green areas and embedded in storytelling between reality and fiction. They engage audiences in the experience of every-day life as much as questions about what it means to be part of something bigger and how to talk about the future. This year Po:era hosts and curates the fourth edition of ONSITE Residency & Festival for site-specific art in Berlin.

Lucas Lacerda is an interdisciplinary artist with two decades of experience in theatre and a background in TV, dance, and film production in Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His current work as a director and performer is centred around fictional and documentary narratives in relation to the city with its multiple infrastructures. Through site-responsive performances, immersive theatre, audio-video walks, and docufiction films, he engages with themes like family, migration, and decolonial storytelling. His artistic approach and methodology follow the desire to create experiences that connect audiences to the here and now of a space and its potential for imagination. Recent works include the immersive piece “Parte de Nós”, created in collaboration with MAM Bahia, Museum of Modern Art in Brazil, and the participatory docufiction films “Framing Grunewald” and “Brücke Bewegt”, both developed in cooperation with Brücke-Museum in Berlin.

Daniel Weyand is an anthropologist, sound artist and author of audio walks and immersive theatre formats with a focus on speculative world-building and the exploration of alternative futures. In addition to his artistic work as a video and sound editor for Po:era, he has been working for over ten years at the intersection of urban practice, cultural production, and art education. In this context, he has mentored young filmmakers and hosted several exchange formats for artists across disciplines and nationalities. In his current work he combines participatory methods, multi-perspective storytelling and interdisciplinary research to shape concrete experiences of the world - whether through an audio walk, a sound-based installation, or a performative encounter with place and time. Among his works are the site-specific sound walk “The Future in our Backs” in collaboration with Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the app-based audio-video walk “Herzberge Stories” in partnership with Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, Berlin-Lichtenberg. 

ONSITE

In parallel to Berlin Science Week, between 7 – 9 November, the artistic residents of Anatomia Publica, Lucas Lacerda and Daniel Weyand (Po:era), will host the site-specific art festival ONSITE SF which explores the speculative futures of three cultural sites in Berlin: a museum, cinema, and theatre. Po:era’s world-building project CALADRI - developed as part of their research of Anatomia Publica - will kick off the festival program on 6 November at Tieranatomisches Theater. 

ONSITE Residency & Festival is a short-term laboratory of site-specific experimentation and collaborative creation. Through intuitive cartography, shared practices and collective not-knowing, multidisciplinary artists develop personal and communal approaches to a territory, space or institution. The festival takes place in changing locations in partnership with local cultural institutions and in a participatory dialogue with the neighbourhood. The fourth edition of ONSITE invites 15 international artists, creators, researchers, and practitioners to develop and present site-responsive works in relation to one of the three partcipating sites: Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, Kino Central, and the theatre Acker Stadt Palast. 

The artists of this year’s ONSITE SF will engage with speculative storytelling as a method for artistic research and site-specific creation. Building on Donna Haraway’s idea of SF - not only as science fiction, but also as speculative fabulation, science fact, string figures, and speculative feminism – the presented works draw from the histories and presents of each site and its surroundings to imagine what could be. These speculative gestures project utopian, dystopian, satirical, or mythic futures. They are interested in the friction and resonance between inner and outer worlds, between past and potential, between inherited structures and wild imaginaries. SF, in this sense, becomes a tool for territorial storytelling (story-futuring, sensory fantasy, survival futures, subversive frameworks) – one that welcomes more-than-human perspectives, queer ecologies, and decolonial timelines.