Image captions: Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, Pol Merchan & Sarah Martinus; Curated by Re-Routing & Cruising Curators, as part of nGbK; Habermannsee 2025; Images by Lucía Alfaro Valencia.

“Dissident Paths: Slobber Moss Pee”

Pol Merchan, Audio Visual Work
supported by; Sarah Martinus, Multiperspective Guided Journey

September 2025

We’d like to warmly thank the teams of Re Routing and Cruising Curators for inviting Pol Merchan, with accompaniment from Sarah Martinus to have a moment of Eco-Sexual late Summer nourishment at the Habbermannsee in Berlin.

As preparation, we paused, focusing inwards together in a moment of meditation, through guided word and sound led by Sarah. We opened into multi-perspectives of the ways of living waters, to access new or forgotten ways of eco-cruising-into-mutuality.

Pol Merchan invited us into an audiovisual ecosystem of entangled bodies, waters, pixels, and memories.

𝑺𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝑷𝒆𝒆 explores the interconnectedness of space—natural and urban, visible and invisible—and its inhabitants, human and non-human, tracing the traces of their multiple interactions. A projection at the Kaulsdorfer Baggersee (Habermannsee) places the artwork, the screen, and the viewers within a dynamic of intra-action.

The screen integrates with the landscape, while ambient sounds and birdsong form the soundtrack.

Cast: Xen Ruiz @xenruizart & Pol Merchan
Edit: Ginés Olivares @zetaoral

Thank you to the community who were able to join us and enjoy the fresh air with us, and to Natthapong Samakkaew @nttpsmkw who was documenting the scene through drawing.

We are together looking forward to the next iteration, ‘Traces’, in February 2026.

'Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, Pol Merchan & Sarah Martinus
Curated by Re-Routing & Cruising Curators 
As part of nGbK 
Habermannsee 2025
Images by Lucía Alfaro Valencia @lu.alfarovalenciaa
Film Stills by Pol Merchan

#cruising #mutuality #mutiperspective #livingwaters #ecosexual #ecology #𝑺𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒓𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒔𝑷𝒆𝒆 #rerouting

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“Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive”
Benjamin Busch
[Sound Pools for Virtual Reality]

Opening at
Kasseler Dok Fest Kunstverein,
Honarary Mention Golden Cube Award, 2022.

Exhibited as VR Installation:
KW Institute of Contemporary Art
BPA/ Berlin Program for Artists exhibition,
Dec 2022.

“Monitoring: Exhibition for time-based media art”,
Kasseler DokFest, Nov 2022,
Honarary Mention Golden Cube Award for Digital and New Media Work.

Xposed Film Festival Berlin, 2023.
Kreuzberg Pavillion, 2024.

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3D scan archive can be accessed through:
queerspaces.berlin

“Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive, 2022, ongoing.

Interactive VR installation with point cloud scans, audio interviews and field recordings, video loop on monitor, PVC strips

With his interactive VR installation, Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive, Benjamin Busch maps out spaces significant to Berlin’s various queer communities. Since 2021, he has visited more than thirty spaces and scanned them using the digital imaging technique of spatial LiDAR scans. The three-dimensional point cloud maps of legendary bars like Ficken 3000, the party series Gayhane at SO36, and cultural institutions such as Sonntags-Club, are enhanced with field recordings and audio interviews with their operators, alluding to the many untold stories these spaces harbor between their walls.”

The work of Benjamin Busch “Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive” has seen historically relevant queer spaces of Berlin translated into a VR installation through the use of 3D scanning, digital worldbuilding, narrative story-telling, and feild recordings.“

Thank you to Benjamin for this collaboration project.



Project Credits // (2022)

Director, Producer: Benjamin Busch, studiobusch.com
Technical Director: Vladimir Storm 
Interviewees (German Dialogue): Frank Müller, Frank Redieß, Ficken 3000 ; Sabuha Salaam, Richard Stein, Lilo Unger, SO36 × Gayhane #Gayhane; Kathrin Schultz, Sonntags-Club
Voice Actors (English Dialogue): Sarah Martinus @sarahmartinus, Joshua Lee McKain, Marshall Vincent 
3D Scans: Benjamin Busch
Sound Pools: Sarah Martinus
Audio Recording, Engineering (German Dialogue): Risto Pikkarainen
Audio Recording, Engineering (Field Recordings, English Dialogue): Sarah Martinus 
Interviews & Editorial Support: Kevin Junk 
Translation: Tina Steiger
Music (Ficken 3000 Sound Pool): Sado Opera
Special Thanks: Dr.Christian Haid, Elinor Hasselberg @elinorhasselberg, Pablo Ritter, Wolfgang Tilmans
Funded by: German Federal Gov. Com. for Culture & Media, Berlin Prog. for Artists @berlinprogramforartists, Berlin Senate Department for Culture & Europe, Berlin State Office for Equal Treatment & Against Discrimination

Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive – Trailer from Benjamin Busch on Vimeo.

              

“Ancient Love Story”
Sunni Leilani

~ Double Record ~ “Heaven On Earth” & “World Of Water” ~

Released 28th Dec 2022
www.sunnileilani.com

Flute, Shamanic Sounds and Supporting Vocals
World Of Water & Heaven On Earth
In Collabortion with Sound Ceremonialist, Activist, Artist Sunni Leilani.

In Sunni’s words:

“ Ancient Love Story Is a Double Record Created & Co Created
by the Most Incredible Human BEings
In the Absolute Frequency Of Freedom & Love

Crafted Unconventionally,
Ancient Love Story Spans Turtle Island & Crosses the Atlantic Ocean to Europe
Capturing Recordings From Philadelphia Pennsylvania by John Swana,
Ham Lake Minnesota by Tyrel Collins,
& Berlin Germany by Sarah Martinus

Comprised Of 2 Collections
Heaven On Earth & World Of Water
Ancient Love Story Is An EPIC TALE Of All Relations”


We shared a stage together in Cosica, with Sunni Leilani, John Swana, and me in Feb 2023 thanks to Spatimusica & Jazz Equinox.







The process of recording Sunni’s supporting sounds within Ceremony, and over communcations between Berlin and all over Turtle Island -  Sunni has been on the road on tour and in creation of this album all of 2022.


Mixing and Mastering by Ohm Eye Productions, HamLake, Minnesota.
Images are from Sunni’s recording session in the studio with Tyrel Collins, 2022.
The album art is made by Mel at Haven 33 Creative.

FEMALE:PRESSURE

online networks
intersectionality in digital community

2017 - current

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(THIS PAGE IS INCOMPLETE - currently under construction!)









Conversations documented from me to the Facts Trouble Making team in 2023, and onwards into organising presentations in discusson of Intersectionality, Diversity, Equity, for various conferences and futher presentation.

In context to the 2022 report's intersectional aspects of working - particular to the 'Further Issues to Diversity' and 'Call to Action' sections, Ispeak about:

What sets FACTS apart (that I can see) is a reflection of it's Decentralised perspective:

1. Finding a way to (at least) recognise a third gender category and include discussion on the implications / limitations of this in the written report.

Artists making a self-identification is the only way we can can clarify and classify. Its a generalisation, but some Transgender Identities want the Binary and not to be questioned on pronouns at all. 'Having to identify as something' is also having to 'prove' something. And non-binary demolishes the binary altogether, so people often have no need for pronouns. FACTS is in recognition that transgender persons fall under the pronouns of He and She, and become invisible in many cases, and this might be either a choice or mis-recognition for the artist themselves, and the entire scope of limitations that are discussed

Many institutions were wanting to gather data from self-identifying collection methods (say, from artists who are applying to residency programs or funding) as opposed to how FACTS does it, from the publicly represented view. In both cases the pro's and cons of data organisation through a pronouns-method is a really needed discussion point.

(Berlin Senate for example, still does not include gender non-binary-conforming identities nor transgender identities under their idea of female/woman oriented Film Makers grant money in Oct 2023, even though it would be easy to allow artists to self identify there, they have a female-only AFAB ideology, still.)

2. The qualitative data that was added in 2022 by inviting first person accounts from Bodies of Culture (not speaking for them).

The need and value of Qualitiative Data, (a revaluing of emotional realities and emotional intelligence, a revalueing of non-centrism) As we evolve out of Patriachial systems, we allow everyone to regain connection to the truth of lived experiences and somatic reality.

3. Recognising the Context of individuals existing within systems.

An industry where gatekeeping & political biases, and resources, flow in all directions.

Context is also about Genre (collectives, styles and labels) and booking agencies politics towards gender equality in their portfolio. It is political, (of course, capitalist) and based on hierarchy.

4. Trans-National scale, as is female:pressure.

About remaining Volunteer-Organised Research, How call outs and counting is organised, How to ethically access Qualitative Data through self-governed networks as incubator and allow self identification and non-linear exchange, deeper listening.

5. BIAS

And about Bias, if we exist in a whole reality entrenched in classist systems, it is embedded within how we relate with everything.

We do easily unconsciously replicate, the same systems we attempt to demolish.

(There is no Random selection possible in a non-complete data set.)

Recording the Sounds of Spirit Yurt
Spirit Songs and Artistic Visions and Instrumentation of Roberta Perzolla, Artist, Naturopath and Core Shamanic Practitioner.

Recorded March 22nd, 2022, Praxis Fuer Heilkunde, Berlin.

This project is in-process...

Project Credits:
Music, Concept, Production: Roberta Perzolla
Audio treatments and Post production, Mastering: Sarah Martinus

Supported by The Foundation of Shamanic Studies Europe.