raphael daibert
hearing from, gathering with, writing towards, learning otherwise
book: walk notations
Walk Notations brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025. Moving between artistic practices, curatorial conversations, and reflections, the book approaches walking as a method for being together in public space. Some contributions revisit specific sites or gestures while others move further afield, driven by personal memory, archival research, theoretical analysis, or speculative fiction. Conceived as a portable companion, Walk Notations invites the readers to navigate the city otherwise—attentive to detours, thresholds, and the possibilities that emerge when paths are made collectively.
Besides taking part of the general conceptualization and production of the book, I'm very glad to have written the text The Curatorial as Contact: Practicing With and Through Each Other as well as being in dialogue with the other curators of the project in the conversation text entitled A Flashlight, Two Whistles, and Twenty or So Mortars and Pestles.
Besides taking part of the general conceptualization and production of the book, I'm very glad to have written the text The Curatorial as Contact: Practicing With and Through Each Other as well as being in dialogue with the other curators of the project in the conversation text entitled A Flashlight, Two Whistles, and Twenty or So Mortars and Pestles.
📚️ get your copy at ︎︎︎
https://ngbk.de/en/shop/publikationen/01-walk-notations
Ed.: Eirini Fountedaki, nGbK Press
With contributions by: Alternative Monument, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, Elena Biserna, Mirja Busch, Clementine Butler-Gallie, Suelen Calonga, Saverio Cantoni, Bengisu Çağlayan, Raphael Daibert, Eirini Fountedaki, Carolin Genz, handbreastheart kollektiv, House’ it going?, Gabriel Francisco Lemos, Luise Leon Elbern, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Pol Merchan, Harun Morrison, Pitchaya Ngamcharoen, Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling, Minh Duc Pham, Project In/Visibility, Liz Rosenfeld, Natthapong Samakkaew, Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, ssssSssssssss (Ashkan Sepavand and virgil b/g taylor), Viviane Tabach, Sarnt Utamachote
Graphic design: Paula Buškevica
The publication is primarily in English, with selected contributions in German.
photos by Lucía Alfaro Valencia & me.
https://ngbk.de/en/shop/publikationen/01-walk-notations
Ed.: Eirini Fountedaki, nGbK Press
With contributions by: Alternative Monument, Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, Elena Biserna, Mirja Busch, Clementine Butler-Gallie, Suelen Calonga, Saverio Cantoni, Bengisu Çağlayan, Raphael Daibert, Eirini Fountedaki, Carolin Genz, handbreastheart kollektiv, House’ it going?, Gabriel Francisco Lemos, Luise Leon Elbern, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Pol Merchan, Harun Morrison, Pitchaya Ngamcharoen, Marlene Oeken & Martha Schwindling, Minh Duc Pham, Project In/Visibility, Liz Rosenfeld, Natthapong Samakkaew, Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, ssssSssssssss (Ashkan Sepavand and virgil b/g taylor), Viviane Tabach, Sarnt Utamachote
Graphic design: Paula Buškevica
The publication is primarily in English, with selected contributions in German.
photos by Lucía Alfaro Valencia & me.
curatorial
artist contributions by Saverio Cantoni, Harun Morrison, Suelen Calonga, Pitchaya Ngamchareon and Lauryn Youden;
photos by Lucía Alfaro
Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method
a project by Cruising Curators and The ReRouting Project
"When does walking become a refusal, a reclaiming, a reimagining? What stories does the city whisper when you move through it at different paces? What forms of knowledge emerge when we walk together, rather than alone?
Dissident Paths is a curatorial project unfolding over a year, by means of collective movement along traced, imagined, and yet-to-be-discovered paths across Berlin. Walking can be both a necessity and a gesture of dissidence, a refusal to accept the given infrastructures of a world increasingly defined by polarization and devastation. Walking through the city can change perceptions and awareness, at once exposing barriers and impossibilities, whilst also opening up new routes. Movement, in both its bodily and political forms, holds the potential to reshape our sense of belonging and collective agency."
See more at nGbK website.
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3-day public program coming up at nGbK space (Alexanderplatz) on February 26th-28th, 2026.
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3-day public program coming up at nGbK space (Alexanderplatz) on February 26th-28th, 2026.
teaching
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Curatorial Practice as Contact
seminar at UdK ~ winter semester 2025/2026
seminar description:
„§2.1. Contact is the conversation that starts in the line at the grocery counter with the person behind you while the clerk is changing the paper roll in the cash register. It is the pleasantries exchanged with a neighbor who has brought her chair out to take some air on the stoop. It is the discussion that begins with the person next to you at a bar. It can be the conversation that starts with any number of semiofficials or service persons—mailman, policeman, librarian, store clerk or counter person. As well, it can be two men watching each other masturbating together in adjacent urinals of a public john—an encounter that, later, may or may not become a conversation.”
(Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Samuel R. Delany, p. 123, 1999)
This seminar was an open invitation to “think, act, recollect, fuse and circulate together with our communities-to-be”, as Cruising Curators collective proposes with their practice. Drawing primarily from queer writer Samuel R. Delany’s notion of contact, the main idea is to study – in an improvisational and being together sense of the word, as put by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney – the curatorial as a practice focused on the coincidental, the ephemeral and meaningful encounters a city can provide.
seminar at UdK ~ winter semester 2025/2026
seminar description:
„§2.1. Contact is the conversation that starts in the line at the grocery counter with the person behind you while the clerk is changing the paper roll in the cash register. It is the pleasantries exchanged with a neighbor who has brought her chair out to take some air on the stoop. It is the discussion that begins with the person next to you at a bar. It can be the conversation that starts with any number of semiofficials or service persons—mailman, policeman, librarian, store clerk or counter person. As well, it can be two men watching each other masturbating together in adjacent urinals of a public john—an encounter that, later, may or may not become a conversation.”
(Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Samuel R. Delany, p. 123, 1999)
This seminar was an open invitation to “think, act, recollect, fuse and circulate together with our communities-to-be”, as Cruising Curators collective proposes with their practice. Drawing primarily from queer writer Samuel R. Delany’s notion of contact, the main idea is to study – in an improvisational and being together sense of the word, as put by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney – the curatorial as a practice focused on the coincidental, the ephemeral and meaningful encounters a city can provide.
With the brilliant participation of guests Ana Druwe, Luise Leon Elbert (Cruising Curators), Clementine Butler-Gallie (ReRouting Project), Cláudio Bueno and students: Sana Al-Kurdi, Ben Behrends, Mina Buker, Maria Eglau, Paulina Graw, Jiwoo Lee, Paula Pleuser, Mira Reeh and Luna Schamal.
artistic research
Cotorradio is an artistic research project that tackle questions based on ecology, migration, more-than-human histories and the urban endeavor. In April 2021, it was hosted by Idensitat in Barcelona with the intention to seek for sounds of belonging – having the sound of tropical parakeets found in European cities as its centrality. A sound piece and a sound-walk came together after almost a month in the city.
The sound piece with the ensemble of sounds and voices recorded during the residency process brought together not only the sounds of the birds, but also of the queer and migrant community that hosted the artist. The sound-walk happened throughout the Besòs river length, departing from a nest of cotorras (parakeets in Spanish) on a palmtree – depicted in one of the photos above – leading to the river's estuary where a known cruising area is located.
In September 2021, in the context of the exhibition Què amaga aquest silenci?, where the sound piece was installed, a sound-walk bursting the recorded voices happened throughout the streets of Sant Andreu, the district of Barcelona where the project was hosted.
The sound piece with the ensemble of sounds and voices recorded during the residency process brought together not only the sounds of the birds, but also of the queer and migrant community that hosted the artist. The sound-walk happened throughout the Besòs river length, departing from a nest of cotorras (parakeets in Spanish) on a palmtree – depicted in one of the photos above – leading to the river's estuary where a known cruising area is located.
In September 2021, in the context of the exhibition Què amaga aquest silenci?, where the sound piece was installed, a sound-walk bursting the recorded voices happened throughout the streets of Sant Andreu, the district of Barcelona where the project was hosted.
︎To listen to cotorradio, please access:
https://soundcloud.com/rdaibert/cotorradio
Produced and edited by Lucas Rosa
Voices from Nêga Lucas, Manauara Clandestina, Paula Daibert & many others.
In loving memory of Nêga Lucas.
Photos by Albert Gironès, Raphael Daibert.
https://soundcloud.com/rdaibert/cotorradio
Produced and edited by Lucas Rosa
Voices from Nêga Lucas, Manauara Clandestina, Paula Daibert & many others.
In loving memory of Nêga Lucas.
Photos by Albert Gironès, Raphael Daibert.
Info
about
raphael daibert (b.1988, Brazil) is an artist, curator, researcher and educator.
︎ currently:
co-curating Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method (a joint effort between his collective Cruising Curators, and ReRouting project) at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) for 2025-2026 in Berlin; lecturing at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) in the Institute for Art History, Art Theory and Aesthetics; writing his PhD as part of the DFG Research Training Group Cultures of Critique at Leuphana University Lüneburg – where he also worked as a lecturer and research assistant (WiMi) in 2022-2025.
daibert holds a Master's degree in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI), where he nowadays collaborates as a member of the Admission's Committee of the program;
one of the founding members of the curatorial collective Cruising Curators.
raphael’s research interests include art praxis & education, performance studies, decolonial theories and pluriepistemic knowledge productions.
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raphael daibert (b.1988, Brazil) is an artist, curator, researcher and educator.
︎ currently:
co-curating Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method (a joint effort between his collective Cruising Curators, and ReRouting project) at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) for 2025-2026 in Berlin; lecturing at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) in the Institute for Art History, Art Theory and Aesthetics; writing his PhD as part of the DFG Research Training Group Cultures of Critique at Leuphana University Lüneburg – where he also worked as a lecturer and research assistant (WiMi) in 2022-2025.
daibert holds a Master's degree in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI), where he nowadays collaborates as a member of the Admission's Committee of the program;
one of the founding members of the curatorial collective Cruising Curators.
raphael’s research interests include art praxis & education, performance studies, decolonial theories and pluriepistemic knowledge productions.
[selected] CV
teaching
2025-2026
> Curatorial Practice as Contact
University of the Arts Berlin
seminar to Bachelor and Master's students during the 2025-2026 winter semester
2024
> Art, Decoloniality and Popular Knowledge
Leuphana University Lüneburg
seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024-2025 winter semester (14.10.24 → 31.01.25)
> Neocolonialism and Film
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024-2025 winter semester (14.10.24 → 31.01.25)
> Body narratives and world-making. A practice-based seminar on performance studies and art
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024 summer semester (02.04.24 → 03.07.24)
2023
> “The Word for World is Forest”: Art and Human Ecological Restoration Leuphana University Lüneburgseminar to Bachelor students during the 2023/2024 winter semester (17.10.23 → 01.02.24)
> Decolonial Thought and Practice Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2023 summer semester (04.04.23 → 04.07.23)
> Queer Cities: Cruising, Spaces and Encounters
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2023 summer semester (04.04.23 → 04.07.23)
curatorial projects
2026 Dissident Paths: Traces
︎nGbK – Berlin/DE
A three-day gathering-exhibition where workshops, performances and collective meals marked the public culmination of Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method with the book launch of Walk Notations ︎ get your copy here!
︎
<https://ngbk.de/en/programm/programm/dissident-paths-traces>
2025 Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method
︎nGbK – Berlin/DE
A year-long curatorial project that unfolded through artistic walking practices across Berlin.
︎
<https://ngbk.de/en/programm/programm/dissident-paths-walking-together-as-a-method>
2024 Nightmares, Colonial, Neocolonial ︎Kunstraum Leuphana Universität/Scala Kino - Lüneburg/DE
Film series co-curated with Philip Rizk.
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<https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/641929/nightmares-colonial-neocolonial/>
2024 Inside Wounds
︎ Kunstraum Leuphana Universität - Lüneburg/DE
Performance series co-curated with Christopher Weickenmeier.
︎ <https://kunstraum.leuphana.de/en/projects/inside-wounds>
2021 Tracing the Ephemera
︎ Hopscotch Reading Room – Berlin/DE
Event series curated by Cruising Curators with the awarded grant from Draussenstadt fund in Berlin.
2021 Third Space: Disordering the Mess
︎ Lenbachhaus – Munich/DE
Year-long mediation program embedded in the art education department to facilitate dialogue between the art institution and local communities.
Project co-founded and co-coordinated with Clara Laila Abid Alsstar and Mako Sangmongkhon.
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<https://www.lenbachhaus.de/digital/gruppendynamik>
residencies
2024 Temporary Gallery, Cologne/DE. Curatorial research residency: two weeks of research in contact and communication with the artistic scene of the city of Cologne, Germany.
2022 documenta fifteen, Kassel/DE. Selected art educator in residence at CAMP Notes on education: part of the second cohort of art educators in residence in direct contact with documenta fifteen's artists and curatorial team.
2021 Fahrrender Raum, Munich/DE. from the Kulturreferat of the city of Munich, Germany, together with artist Mako Sangmonkhon. Project: Paillette*Etikette, art education project with migrant kinds on questions of identity and queerness.
2021 Sounds of Our Cities / Idensitat, Barcelona/ES.
Selected artist to a one month residency in Barcelona researching on questions of sound and sense of belonging together with a queer migrant community and tropical parakeets present in the urban landscape. Project: Cotorradio
education
2022-on going : Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
PhD candidate at Cultures of Critique DFG Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg)
> Awarded with a Doctoral Scholarship (2025/2026) by the Cultural Studies Faculty and Kustraum, Leuphana University Lüneburg;
2018-20 : Dutch Art Institute – ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands
MFA in Art Praxis
> Awarded with Holland Scholarship (2018/2019) and Heij Konijn Fonds (2019/2020) and Schuurman Schimmel Van Outeren Stiching (2019/2020) scholarships;
2008-12 : Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil BA in International Relations
> Exchange semester in winter 2010 at Université Paris X Nanterre, France;
teaching
2025-2026
> Curatorial Practice as Contact
University of the Arts Berlin
seminar to Bachelor and Master's students during the 2025-2026 winter semester
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
2024
> Art, Decoloniality and Popular Knowledge
Leuphana University Lüneburg
seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024-2025 winter semester (14.10.24 → 31.01.25)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024-2025 winter semester (14.10.24 → 31.01.25)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
> Body narratives and world-making. A practice-based seminar on performance studies and art
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024 summer semester (02.04.24 → 03.07.24)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
2023
> “The Word for World is Forest”: Art and Human Ecological Restoration Leuphana University Lüneburgseminar to Bachelor students during the 2023/2024 winter semester (17.10.23 → 01.02.24)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
> Decolonial Thought and Practice Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2023 summer semester (04.04.23 → 04.07.23)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
> Queer Cities: Cruising, Spaces and Encounters
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2023 summer semester (04.04.23 → 04.07.23)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
curatorial projects
2026 Dissident Paths: Traces
︎nGbK – Berlin/DE
A three-day gathering-exhibition where workshops, performances and collective meals marked the public culmination of Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method with the book launch of Walk Notations ︎ get your copy here!
︎
<https://ngbk.de/en/programm/programm/dissident-paths-traces>
2025 Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method
︎nGbK – Berlin/DE
A year-long curatorial project that unfolded through artistic walking practices across Berlin.
︎
<https://ngbk.de/en/programm/programm/dissident-paths-walking-together-as-a-method>
2024 Nightmares, Colonial, Neocolonial ︎Kunstraum Leuphana Universität/Scala Kino - Lüneburg/DE
Film series co-curated with Philip Rizk.
︎
<https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/641929/nightmares-colonial-neocolonial/>
2024 Inside Wounds
︎ Kunstraum Leuphana Universität - Lüneburg/DE
Performance series co-curated with Christopher Weickenmeier.
︎ <https://kunstraum.leuphana.de/en/projects/inside-wounds>
2021 Tracing the Ephemera
︎ Hopscotch Reading Room – Berlin/DE
Event series curated by Cruising Curators with the awarded grant from Draussenstadt fund in Berlin.
2021 Third Space: Disordering the Mess
︎ Lenbachhaus – Munich/DE
Year-long mediation program embedded in the art education department to facilitate dialogue between the art institution and local communities.
Project co-founded and co-coordinated with Clara Laila Abid Alsstar and Mako Sangmongkhon.
︎
<https://www.lenbachhaus.de/digital/gruppendynamik>
residencies
2024 Temporary Gallery, Cologne/DE. Curatorial research residency: two weeks of research in contact and communication with the artistic scene of the city of Cologne, Germany.
2022 documenta fifteen, Kassel/DE. Selected art educator in residence at CAMP Notes on education: part of the second cohort of art educators in residence in direct contact with documenta fifteen's artists and curatorial team.
2021 Fahrrender Raum, Munich/DE. from the Kulturreferat of the city of Munich, Germany, together with artist Mako Sangmonkhon. Project: Paillette*Etikette, art education project with migrant kinds on questions of identity and queerness.
2021 Sounds of Our Cities / Idensitat, Barcelona/ES.
Selected artist to a one month residency in Barcelona researching on questions of sound and sense of belonging together with a queer migrant community and tropical parakeets present in the urban landscape. Project: Cotorradio
education
2022-on going : Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
PhD candidate at Cultures of Critique DFG Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg)
> Awarded with a Doctoral Scholarship (2025/2026) by the Cultural Studies Faculty and Kustraum, Leuphana University Lüneburg;
2018-20 : Dutch Art Institute – ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands
MFA in Art Praxis
> Awarded with Holland Scholarship (2018/2019) and Heij Konijn Fonds (2019/2020) and Schuurman Schimmel Van Outeren Stiching (2019/2020) scholarships;
2008-12 : Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil BA in International Relations
> Exchange semester in winter 2010 at Université Paris X Nanterre, France;
contact
︎︎︎ raphaeldaibert@gmail.com
IG: rdaibert
︎︎︎ cruisingcurators@gmail.com
IG: cruisingcurators
︎ cruisingcurators.com
︎︎︎ raphaeldaibert@gmail.com
IG: rdaibert
︎︎︎ cruisingcurators@gmail.com
IG: cruisingcurators
︎ cruisingcurators.com