Taking as our springboard the mythical „Holodeck“, a fictional room in fictional spaceships like the Starship Enterprise in Star Trek, the Beben crew will guide you through a critical and creative deep dive into the mechanics and techniques of worldbuilding, in all of its trans-formative power to identify and navigate your ships to the worlds out there. We will use sound recording and collective creative practice to explore our relationship to outer space, and how it can galvanize us into taking action towards socio-political change in our own planets. This workshop is for BIPoC racialised FLINTAQ+ folks. While a welcome asset, no previous space flight experience or cosmonaut training is required.

Captain Pro / Promona Sengupta

is a multidisciplinary artist, academic, activist, and curator. Her creative practice engages with decolonial speculative imagination as a means for radical politics. She co-created and co-flies the deep space exploration vehicle FLINTAQ+ Spaceship Beben, as its serving captain and chef. She co-curates Radio Kal, as a part of the trans-oceanic longform artistic project kal. In 2020 she was the resident artist at District Berlin. She co-founded the Berlin–Delhi based progressive cultural politics pop up Mo’Halla. She lives and works in Berlin.