To Mend

Tomorrow I will give a talk about my topological and choreographic research project To Mend at Zero Point, Wartenburgstr. 17, 18:00. More details nicely written are in the post below 🙂
From the dense inner organs to its light flying feathers wings, down the tail up the crown. Would love if you come and we make it cosy!

𝗧𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗱, 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗿｡ 𝟭𝟮, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲 🌕🪩🌎🌑

This twelfth and final event completed the initial series of To Mend 😅😅😅 My face can tell how relieved, delighted and grateful I was / am …

The event took place on August 12th at the Olympiastadion and park Berlin.

Photos by Michiel Keuper 🙏

🌎 𝗧𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗱 ♾️🫀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗿｡ 𝟭𝟮 ⛅️ 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲 ✨💦

Took place on August 12th at the Olympiastadion and park Berlin🏟

With this final event we completed the initial series of To Mend, forming a circle without a closure but rather an opening. It required a practice to be a witness and give evidence, to make sense of the invisible; “I try to identify those weights and whispers whose presence cannot be seen with the eyes. To pin down the ambiguous forces that influence this place”*. Over a year and half ‘To Mend’ has been tracing invisible threads and hidden realities throughout the cityscape of Berlin. A surreptitious sidelong glance at the city, its unemphatic passages, gaps and syncretic simultaneous times through which it evolves — live decay repair thrived. Certainly an endeavor to access cross-currents of cultural thinking and map out history and legacy, landscape, society, art or politics onto the urban planning and the streets themselves.

So much bliss, gratitude and love - Divine Source for the trust that that allows me to be a vessel for this work, process and enthralled experience.

Much gratitude to my collaborator, my father and teacher Gadi Demer that rides with me on this wild chariot! I learn with you what unconditional love is.

🙌 to the assistants Franziska Dieterich, Sarah Möller, Teaque Owen and Annika Stadler.

🙌 Michiel Keuper and Danny Dietz Uber following the process behind the cameras.

Much 🙏 to the participants, their presence which makes it possible !!

Research production by Mor Demer.


Photos by Michiel Keuper

* quote by Kirsty Bell, The Undercurrent, P. 22.

🌎 𝗧𝗼 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗱 ♾️🫀𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗿｡ 𝟭𝟮 ⛅️ 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲✨💦

Took place on August 12th at the Olympiastadion and park Berlin🏟

To situate the event read selected parts from the invitation in previous posts!

The twelfth event of ‘To Mend’ sheds light upon national representations of cultural heritage, the affinity of systems between history, inter-generational memories, and processes of change that frames the identity of a place. When these monumental vestiges of the past preserve themselves within entangled rings, our mending action ignites a torch, unraveling memories from forest to sports facilities to grounds of performative nationalism and political stratification; today home to football clubs and cultural events. The twelfth event of ‘To Mend’ will negotiate the multiverse of this land of relics, examining balance and trust in the present toward the future. To celebrate diversity and shun the stored prejudices against race, religion and culture; finding and releasing a deep inner peace within this dynamic urban atmosphere. A crack in the concrete reveals a single oak tree bearing witness to the histories passing by. The depth of our life is measured by our ability and faith to expand the human horizon over many generations and times.

So much bliss, gratitude and love - Divine Source for the trust that that allows me to be a vessel for this work, process and enthralled experience.

Much gratitude to my collaborator, my father and teacher Gadi Demer that rides with me on this wild chariot! I learn with you what unconditional love is.

🙌 to the assistants Franziska Dieterich, Sarah Möller, Teaque Owen and Annika Stadler.

🙌 Michiel Keuper and Danny Dietz Uber following the process behind the cameras.

Much 🙏 to the participants, their presence which makes it possible !!

Research production by Mor Demer.


Gorgeous photos by Michiel Keuper

On June 12th‫,‬ 𝑻𝒐 𝑴𝒆𝒏𝒅 - 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑵𝒓. 11 🌄 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎 took place ! Here are some glimpse...


To situate the work please read the invitation -

The eleventh event of ‘To Mend’ took place at Bezirk Steglitz-Zehlendorf and will address a rift in the area of Lichterfelde, where a memory of silent horror remains alive. Our mending action entered a stagnant cloud at the bank of the Teltow canal, near the Eugen-Kleine bridge, where a stone pillar commemorates the prisoners at KZ-Außenlager Lichterfelde; a forced labor subcamp of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. The camp detained non-conformist civilians from countries invaded and persecuted by the National Socialists. Commemoration is correlated to the notion of eternity, reaching forever for a transformative form of justice. Alongside the importance of cultural commemoration, we also need to develop greater capacity to choose to be courageously alive. When we synchronize with the ‘Time-Wound’ frequency it allows an opening; sediments float upon the surface, triggering possibilities for mature growth and release. The work of ‘To Mend’ conveyed the rift beyond an awareness holding the fear of time. A work of mediation between the present moment as a sage teacher and the imprints of past narrative memories; crafting a guideline for generations to come. Repairing the scarred and broken earth to lay new foundations for worldly eternal structures.

Gorgeous 📷 by Michiel Keuper

Infinite gratitude and love to my collaborator Gadi Demer, that ride with me this chariot!

🙌 to the research assistants Franziska Dieterich , Sarah Möller and Teaque Owen.

🙌 to Initiative KZ-Außenlager Lichterfelde e.V. for the dialogue and support.

🙌 to Michiel Keuper and Marc Seestaedt following the process behind the cameras, and Annika Stadler for translation.

💖 Much gratitude to the participants, their presence and curiousity which makes it all possible !!

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

I am excited to share glimpses from
TO ᗰEᑎᗪ | Event Nr. 10🪞ᑎIKᑌY ᗰE'OᖇOT
which took place on May 9th …

Gorgeous📷by Michiel Keuper

To situate the work please read the invitation -

An elliptic green area on the map of the city bewitched my finger, uncovering a glacial body of water that in ancient times people called, "Blanke Helle” or "Hel-Pfuhl”. Since the twentieth century, a city-square named Alboinplatz has been developed around this lentic shadowland. Its mythical directionality reoriented over time, reflecting a ‘mirror of the sky’; a vanishing point within an urban garden. At the great and central height of the landscape, a bull overlooks the pond, carrying a remarkable story in its stone belly…

The tenth event of To Mend will address a rift at Bezirk Tempelhof-Schöneberg; an area where myth and religion, art and politics, geological landscapes and human society entangle with historical narratives and allegorical memory. A voice from unknown and benevolent wildness will allow the mending, to bear naked the spells from surreptitious urban planners of the area. Our mending will abstract the depression and darkness of this “dead-ice-hole” and the surrounding vicinity; generating a transfiguration of the mystical within cultural encounters from the past and our present. Following the savage pool, we will reveal the light toward metamorphoses and transformation. Enlivening this enchanted place and honoring the untamed strength, yielding longevity to this territory of eclipsed legend.

Gratitude & infinite love to my cllaborator Gadi Demer who is walking with me this enthralling path !

💗🙏 to the research assistants near and far Franziska Dieterich, Sarah Möller and Teaque Owen.

🙏to Michiel Keuper and Marc Seestaedt following the process behind the lenses of the cameras.

🙌 to the participant that makes it possible !!

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

𝐔𝐏𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 « nR. 🥇🥈» 𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝟏𝟐𝐓𝐇 🏟🗺!!
more details coming soon...

On April 19th 𝕋𝕠 𝕄𝕖𝕟𝕕 - 𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕥 ℕ𝕣. 𝟡 - ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥 / 𝕆𝕣𝕥 𝕚𝕞 ℍ𝕖𝕣𝕫𝕖𝕟 took place ! and I am very happy to share some glimpse...


To situate us here are sections from the invitation ‫🌱🌱🌱

The ninth event of 'To Mend' will take place at the rift in Schmargendorf (Ortsteil), under the administration of the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Bezirk. Our mending journey continues to squeeze into the gaps of urban-planning and between the crevices of Nature and Human, City and Landscape; into areas that encompass both the urban and the rural, the social and capital remnants of industry, between legacy and vision. Like a body part of the city which is holding its breath, counteracting the pressure of growth.

Alongside a chaotic tension of the municipal, socio-economic, real estate and cultural factors; there is a call to redefine fundamental value systems of sensibility towards a biodiverse environment & sustainable preservation, transforming the very continuity of the horizon. At the site, a guardian chimney from the past stands on a blank page, still as a cyclops on the battlefield. The smoke of the tube's progression used to be blinding. Now, it embodies a fluted monument between the sky and earth, witnessing and cycling between directions. Humanity as an organic part of the cyclical movement of nature, co-creates a symbiotic dance with its rhythm. The mending act will restore a holistic fragrance of harmony and health; a Place in the Heart, honoring the legacy, abundance and speculative visions of how one lives in, or rather, with the ecosystem of a city.

Photos © Michiel Keuper

Much gratitude to my collaborator Gadi Demer, together we walk this enthralling path!

Thanks to the assistants near and far Franziska Dieterich, Sarah Möller and Teaque Owen

Thanks to Michiel Keuper and Marc Seestaedt following the process behind the lenses of the camera.

Grand merci to the participants that make it possible !!

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

On March 8th we gathered for the eighth event of ‘To Mend’;
mending a rift at the Weißensee quarter.

During the action, an embodied-image came to me; the water from the lake rising up in a vase-like-shape, a massive fountain arching over us like a flower becoming a 360 degree hug, embracing the whole rift. It was a special sensation. I could lean backwards into a soft and containing sphere.

In the morning before I wrote this after-thought and expressions of gratitude, I randomly opened the book of Tehillim (Psalms) to tune my mind and it landed on chapter 114. I believe that there are no coincidence in life. This chapter links with Passover the current holiday in the Jewish tradition. I resonate with the last sentence of this chapter (in Hebrew), because it hides within it a sacred and transformative reading. In other words poetry; an intimacy through language. ‘Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters’.

Much gratitude to Gadi, my partner for this mending journey. Sarah Möller, Franziska Dieterich and teaque owen who support wholeheartedly the process. Alexander from Strandbad Weissensee that was willing to be in a conversation with us. Michiel Keuper and Marc Seestadt documenting and beyond the events. The curiosity and the precious presence of the participants. Thank you Thank you!!

Photos © Michiel Keuper
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To Mend is a research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With a friendly support of DOCK ART (DE) and ICI-CCN Montpellier-Occitanie (FR).

To Mend 🌳 Event Nr. 8 🦆 Retten wir den See Save the Lake
Tuesday, March 8th (women's day!)
16h30 Tram station Weißer See

All details are in the event' s link is in the first comment 👇

The images are from one of the preparation walk around the area.

Please join us and bring others 💙🐝🦜🐿🐛🦗🐟
(why all these animal emojis are facing the same direction ?? )

Looking forward !

To Mend | Event Nr. 7 | האור שבחושך The light in the darkness
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‘You could never get used to the fear, says a timekeeper. Fear flew with bullets across the shelled city. Countless whistles through Berlin. One broke through the bridge pillar. Like butter.’ *

The seventh event of ‘To Mend’ addressed a rift at Bezirk Charlottenburg, with an epicenter of Leibnizstraße. As life goes by renovating itself, ‘To Mend’ continues to observe memorial culture in the city. The action detected unofficial hidden remains from the Battle of Berlin in the S-Bahn bridge that crosses Leibnizstraße and several biographies of people, Jews and non-Jews alike, whose Stolpersteine are located in the immediate vicinity of the bridge as well as in Duisburgerstraße. In a transformative act, we listened to the stories of these streets, a zone of high intensity, releasing these stray souls above the rift back toward infinity. Through a dissociative labour between notions of forgiveness and forgetting, the wounds and "cracks" of the past are to be healed.

Photos © Michiel Keuper 🙏

Much gratitude to my collaborator Gadi Demer, walking with me this path!
Much gratitude to my partners and witnesses that support the process with curiosity and whole heart: Sarah Möller, Franziska Dieterich, Sigal Zouk and teaque owen.

Thanks to the participants, Marc Seestaedt (video documentation), Jewish Museum Berlin and every/body near and far that support the mending process.

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With a friendly support of DOCK ART (DE) and ICI-CCN Montpellier-Occitanie (FR).


-Behnbridge -souls .

To Mend | Event Nr. 6 | יד לשלום Hand for Peace

The sixth event of ‘To Mend’ was extended again to the legacy of the city’s railway system. The event delved into a rift at Bezirk Tempelhof-Schöneberg, addressing the history of Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk Berlin-Tempelhof, another place no longer existing in the urban landscape, yet sediments still linger in the complex interconnected layers of space-time. Today, the site is an area of commerce, including IKEA, Bauhaus, and Deutsche Post, another pivot in the story of the place. It is time to mend; emancipating the harms of the past from the rift’s wide area, through a transformative act of release and forgiveness.

The title given to the event is Hand for Peace, named as a semantic and philosophical response to an inscription on the WWII memorial, „Toten des Bombenkrieges“, built at the site by the members of the Deutsche Reichsbahn to commemorate their wounded and deceased colleagues during the war. The end of the memorial inscription reads, "You must not be next, so fight with us for peace“.

Thank you for the generosity of the participants that made the work more profound! 💙



'To Mend' is a topological research by dance-artist Mor Demer. The research will delve into the rifts of twelve sites in the cityscape of Berlin by offering participatory and transformative actions. We will activate and restore each of these places – and thus bring them into the present. Each location and action will be announced regularly from June 2021 onwards.

Research project in collaboration with Gadi Demer

Aides: Sarah Möller, Sigal Zouk, Franziska Dieterich, Jette Büchsenschütz, teaque owen, Michiel Keuper and Ayako Toyama.

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With a friendly support of DOCK ART.



Photos © Michiel Keuper

Next Event will take place on January 7th - Details Coming Soon!

A little late, I am glad to share an introductory film we made two months ago for To Mend Event Nr. 4 at DOCK 11. Since then there are already more insights, renewable movement and the language continues to refine itself. Nevertheless, this film was significant to bring me here... I am very grateful for the people that were part of the making. Camera: Sigal Zouk, Marc Seestaedt, אילנה דמר & Myself. Edit: Shabi Kedem 💗🙏 Music: Dougherty.

Special thanks to all the participants, Igor Dobricic,
Gal klein, Michiel Keuper, Ayako Toyama, Jette Anton and to my partner in this journey Gadi Demer.

Hope it will touch you and that you hear the call to participate in the following events 🌿 Next event taking place this week on Wednesday! the event page in the first comment.

With love,
Mor.

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by NEUSTART KULTUR program, DIS-TANZEN program and Senat for Culture and Europe. With a friendly support of DOCK ART.

TO MEND_MOR DEMER ( Introductory film 2021) To Mend is a topological research by dance-artist Mor Demer. The research will delve into the rifts of twelve sites in the cityscape of Berlin by offering participatory…

To Mend | Event Nr. 5 | מרכבות חופש

The fifth event of 'To Mend' attended to the underground of the city and its railway services. The event took place in the district of Mitte Bezirk where the mending action was dedicated to Nordbahnhof, formerly named Stettiner Bahnhof. During this event, we traveled way back in history to unearth a rift that began in the 18th century, the gallows being previously located in this area. The area has undergone many changes and upheavals during its human occupation; at one point a zone of glamour then turning into a place of heightened intensity and conflict. The rift incorporated the social, political and environmental memories over time, continuing to expand and deepen to about 100 meters under the earth/ground until the 1980s. Since then, it has remained the same size. One coping strategy to mediate the divisive legacy in Berlin has been to attend to these complex pasts on a superficial level in the city’s reconstruction. Still, vital restoration work is needed for lingering sediments of the past to excavate the interconnected layers of time-space memory.

I give a lot of gratitude for the blessing of rain during our mending. For me, the essence of rain is a connection between the upper and lower worlds. Its clearing presence gave a large dose of strength to the mending action.
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Thank you to Gadi Demer for being my partner and mentor for this profound journey.

Thanks to Franziska , Sigal, Jette and teaque and to all the participants!

Gratitude for Divine Source that enables me to lead and experience this process. I am honored.

Photos © Michiel Keuper 🙌💗

Next Event December 1 - Details Coming Soon! JOIN US!



To Mend is a topological research by dance-artist Mor Demer. The research will delve into the rifts of twelve sites in the cityscape of Berlin by offering participatory and transformative scores and actions. We will activate and restore each of these places – and thus bring them into the present.

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the friendly support of DOCK ART.

A month ago, on October 3, the forth event of To Mend took place at DOCK11 theatre located in Prenzlauerberg neighbourhood.

Like the number four the forth event was perhaps an anchor to the mending process and the fourth rift to which the research attended. Bringing the research into a ‘commonplace’ the theatre space, was an opportunity to expose and invite others to join the mending journey. The mending action was a tribute to the DOCK11 theatre, and the historic date, October 3rd, the German Unity Day, that strengthen the mending of the district and the city as a whole.

In the preparation for the event an overwhelming extra spice added - that made me realise how much the script this research writes is phenomenal. We discovered a connection between my genealogy and the building where DOCK 11 was founded.

These To Mend Events thrill the heart with their delicate and deep melody.
Thanks to the place, DOCK 11 for the trust and support, to Wibke and Anna.
Thanks to Gadi for being my mentor and partner for this wild journey.
Thanks to Franziska Dieterich who joined us and Sigal Zouk, Jette Anton and Igor
and to all the participants!
In the evening, a film about the research was shown - and there I thank Shabi and Brendan.

Gratitude the source-creator that enables me to lead and experience this process.

Photos: Michiel Keuper

There's another way ahead and seven more events (last week we did the fifth)! You have more opportunities to join this unique mending journey, if you hear the call please come! Next Event December 1 - Details Coming Soon!



To Mend is a topological research by dance-artist Mor Demer. The research will delve into the rifts of twelve sites in the cityscape of Berlin by offering participatory and transformative scores and actions. We will activate and restore each of these places – and thus bring them into the present. Each location and action will be announced regularly from June 2021 onwards.

Research production by Mor Demer, funded by the NEUSTART KULTUR program DIS-TANZEN and Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the friendly support of DOCK ART.

😅😅😅 This is happaning next weekend ! TWICE AS GOOD
New Rear | Sept 30 - Oct 1,2 | 19:00
To Mend | Oct 3 | 19:00

🌊 Come to shake up time with me ...

I am looking forward and I hope you too !

Better to reserve ticket in advance :
https://dock11-berlin.de/theater/service/tickets

On Friday I surrounded and encircled with the bicycle the massive rupture in the cosmos, which will be mended today, Sunday 29.08.21 in the third event called 'Without Walls', which is part of my research project To Mend

‏It’s time to To Mend, we were given a window of time to repair!

COMEEEEE!‏ It will be powerful ! 🤘
Invitation is in the images.
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*** Those who are interested in joining the action but can not join us for any reason at the S-Bahnhof Nöldnerplatz at 18:30 (please arrive a little earlier), you can join us at Warschauer Pl., 10243 Berlin around 20:00.

It’s the street that is from the other side of the station and train tracks of U-Bahnhof Warschauerstr.
There is an access through a small passage under the track and also there is another exit from the train station in this direction or from all the streets around.

ביום שישי הקפתי ותחמתי באופניים את הקרע המאסיבי בקוסמוס, אותו נאחה היום, יום ראשון 29.08.21 באירוע השלישי שנקרא ׳בלי חומות׳, במסגרת הפרוייקט מחקר שלי ׳לאחות׳.

עת לאחות, ניתן לנו חלון זמן של תיקון!

יהיה עוצמתי! יאללה בואו!
Looking forward 💫
&bridge #

To Mend | Event Nr. 3 is happening tomorrow!

There is a window of time To Mend this massive rupture!

Before the autumn is covering us with its blanket...
We will move through the body of the city with calm focus,
repairing (mending) what is torn, during the (still) late sunset.

Please join us !!

* Link to the event in the first comment.

# S/UWarschauerstr.