Eckert, Jo

Jo Eckert (c) Dirk Eckert

Jo Eckert was born 1996 in Munich and has lived in Berlin for the past seven years. After completing a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and history at Freie Universität, they is currently studying for a master’s degree in philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. As part of their undergraduate research, Jo worked on feminist family critique and is now focusing on gendering and reproduction. They also frequently writes poetry and essays, and is in search of yet unrecognised futures.

Festival Content

Poets´ Corner in Hohenschönhausen

Drahtseilakte

Cabuwazi-Zirkus, Wartenberger Str. 175, 13053 Berlin | Free entry

Where artists usually perform their acrobatic feats on a high wire, we will use the space to juggle with words, free from giddiness, and, should the weather hold, next to Cabuwazi circus. While we should manage to avoid close calls, we may still see tension between body and word, whether during the act of writing itself or in the moment of speaking and performing a text. Words may jump between languages and bodies, may maintain or skillfully lose their balance, may stretch, bend or make themselves very small: Clear the stage for poetry.

 

Irmey, Mel Manuel • Eckert, Jo • Alum Kollektiv: Casanyes, Mireia • Alum Kollektiv: Marco, Carla • Kama Duo