Anne Schülke

We are the Vulnerbale

On 4 September 2025 at around 9:20 p.m., Anne Schülke will present a video and a piece of music at the Senior Citizens’ Centre in Ratingen-West.

The musical piece is created in collaboration with Detlef Klepsch. It is a mix of voice and software synthesiser composition. The voice delivers a manifesto-like text that Anne has already presented publicly in recent years in Ratingen-West, Florence, Seoul and Ankara. The text calls on the audience to rethink the past and reshape the present for a different future. Visitors can move freely with wireless headphones and engage with the piece through movement.

The video is a collaboration with Zeynep Özmen, Mübeccel Kaya and Linda Rödel Ҫiftҫi – women from Ankara whom Anne met in May 2025. It features footage of Ankara accompanied by a poem. The poem was written after extensive walks through the city and translated by Coşkun Demirok. In it, Anne transfers bodily reactions triggered by a sense of shame onto buildings. This personification can be extended to other cities or objects. The video will be projected onto a building façade.

Anne, together with Tachi, will also offer the workshop Bilder sprechen in August, which you can register for via the VHS Ratingen website. Registration opens on July 9.

Attendance at the event and the workshop is free of charge.