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Liebe kleine Panke/ Dear little Panke 

© Karolina Sobecka 

Walk 3: Meander 

On Sunday, 26 October, Fluid Interdisciplinarities Festival participants were invited to join the third of seven walks in the Liebe kleine Panke project, undertaken by artist and researcher Cory Tamler along the entire length of the Panke river in autumn 2025. The walk was a 7.5km segment crossing from Brandenburg into Berlin, designed and led in collaboration with dramaturg and writer To Doan as an exercise in speculative thinking with the Panke. We worked with the idea of meandering: When people meander, we walk aimlessly, slowly, without a clear goal. Or we take an indirect path from one point to another. When a river meanders, it changes its course; it re-shapes its curves, over very long periods of time. As the water flows, it moves sediment around. The banks move. The river takes a different path. And as soon as the new path has been formed, it's already starting to form the next one. Moving together with the Panke through fields and forests, past dismantled castles and abandoned buildings, behind shopping malls and ponds rich with wildlife, and in spite of—even delighting in—five hours of rain, we cared for and carried the stories that arose through shared, meandering poems.

walk 3 meander © serena abbondanza - vertikal.jpg
© Serena Abbondanza 

In seven stages, artist and researcher Cory Tamler is spending the autumn, with collaborators, walking the twenty-seven kilometers of the Panke river from its source area in Bernau to its two mouths in Berlin. Each walk experiments with performative, literary, and oral forms of getting to know the Panke and archiving the encounters. Traces of the walks accumulate in a library of sediment, on view at Künstlerhaus Bethanien from 23 October–14 December, 2025.

Supported by a 2025 Mar'a'yeh Artist Fellowship with LABA Berlin.

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© Serena Abbondanza 
© Cory Tamler
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