Siegmar Zacharias

Siegmar Zacharias was born in Romania and lives in Berlin. She is a performance artist and researcher, a trained death doula, and she studies traditional plant medicine. At the intersection of art, radical pedagogy, and activism, she works collaboratively learning from grieving. The work generates performances, immersive installations, encounters, and durational projects that address generative ethical dynamics of transformation. Since 2016 she has been curating "Training for political imaginaries", 24hrs festivals where ecologies of artistic and social practice are shared. Together with Steve Heather, she developed the somacoustic listening sessions WAVES – listening towards social bodies as containers for collective grieving, in which the materiality of sound is explored on an intimate metabolic level. Together with Shelley Etkin, Kitti Zsiga, and women in a post-migrant neighbourhood in Neuköln with ancestors from Turkey, Kurdistan, Syria, Iran, Jordan, and Palestine they have developed the SocialBodyApothecary valuing the knowledges and resources stored in our bodies and lands, practicing making medicine together as a decolonial practice of resistance against structural violence. She is finishing her PhD on the Erotics of Grieves. Somacoustic listening towards visceral response-abilities.

Contact
Siegmar Zacharias, M.A.
Performance Art
Email: s.zacharias[at]berlin.bard.edu