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Dok Night – Exhibition: HX – Pages from “Weltuntergang – a post-apocalyptic queer adventure” graphic novel + Workshop: End of the World Drawing Club

Name: Dok Night – Exhibition: HX – Pages from “Weltuntergang – a post-apocalyptic queer adventure” graphic novel + Workshop: End of the World Drawing Club
Start: 2024-09-26T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-26T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Dokhuis

26 September @ 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or …
Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.

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16.00 – 18.30 Workshop: End of the World Drawing Club by comic artist HX

Welcome to the (POST)APOCALYPTIC COMIC WORKSHOP.

MadMax, climate catastrophy, Putins on their bears, the attack of the Hell Hound Poodles,

did Trump really need to stage a coup and try out all the buttons… so many ends, so little

time!!

In this workshop we channel our end of the world feels into comics and drawings with

fun exercises. In The End I’ll show you how to make your own Mini-Zine – an actual

multi-page zine folded from one(!!) paper.

The workshop is suitable for experienced cartoonists and beginners alike. Accessibility

information and other specifications can be clarified on demand.

End is nigh, let’s draw together!

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max. 12 participants

suggested donation € 15 – 30 /// cash only

All drawing materials are provided

You can sign up for the workhsop by sending an e-mail to:

Feel free to stay after the workshop and continue to draw, the bar is open till 23:00
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18.00 Bar open

19.00 Vegan Food /// 2-course meal for 7 – 10 €

19.00 – 21.00 Opening Exhibition: HX – Pages from “Weltuntergang – a post-apocalyptic queer adventure” graphic novel

Set in Berlin after an extreme climate catastrophe, the upcoming graphic novel focuses on exploring community and group dynamics, and the challenges of survival from queer perspectives.

How does a community look like after a disaster? How do we survive together with limited resources? How do people move from place to place without a constant distribution of fossil fuels? The comic brings the political tensions of Northern Europe into focus in a carnivalesque way, and discusses issues important to queer communities: where to get vital medications, such as hormones, which are a requirement for life for many trans* people? How are gender and sexual norms changing as the post-apocalyptic society changes?

With quirky humour the graphic novel tackles current issues: the looming environmental crisis and the rise of the far-right violence in Northern Europe.

First part available as a zine in the event among other comics!

BIO: Henna Räsänen (HX) is a Berlin-based non-binary and queer comic artist whose work explores social norms through offbeat, prickly humor. Their comics depict subcultures and queer communities in a rapidly eroding world. In HX’s stories dark and troubled noir waltzes with urban topographies, tracking currents and illustrating utopias.

Their comics are mostly published in English language. In 2024 they worked as the Curator of the Comic Invasion Berlin Festival’s International Focus Exhibition at neurotitan gallery. They teach comic workshops that center on norm critical practices, the character of (urban) spaces and the attempt on finding hope in the middle of the current climate catastrophe.

Portfolio: cargocollective.com/hennarasanen
Instagram: @henna.rasanen

20.00 – 20.40 Performance Early Warning System tryout no.2 by Agat Sharma

The Early Warning System project aims to turn the human body into a sensor that can predict extreme geological and weather events. We will look at recent developments in animal monitoring systems and the enhanced capacity of radio tags to collect rich telemetric data from space. We also consider the adivasi idiom ‘jo naachi so baachi‘ – those who dance will survive, as an alternate method to sense the rhythms and patterns of the Earth.

During the tryout we juxtapose the two approaches to telemetry, namely, ‘becoming sensor’ and ‘mounting sensor’. We will start to think together, how to reconcile these approaches or prepare ourselves to mourn the loss of one in the interest of the other.

This is an early tryout of the project and a peek into its research process. The project will premiere in 2026.