Cory Tamler
Cory Tamler is a writer, dramaturg, and interdisciplinary artist. Her ongoing artistic research with Alex Viteri develops and applies water dramaturgies to performance, teaching, and writing, currently in the context of the Helenesee, a sinking lake in Brandenburg. Since 2019, Cory co-creates with In Kinship Collective, making work with rivers in Wabanaki/Maine alongside human and nonhuman, Native and settler collaborators following the tradition of Native guiding. She has created and participated in research-based performance projects in the United States, Germany, and Serbia, and has worked with museums and companies including Mobile Academy Berlin, Studio KG, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, The Civilians, James Gallery, Sprat Artistic Ensemble, Yinzerspielen, and the School of Making Thinking. Her book A Permanent Parliament: Notes on Social Choreography, an experiment in writing (from) with(in) Michael Kliën's Parliament, was published in 2022 by Segal Center Publications/The Laboratory for Social Choreography.
Walk 1: Casting off (tashlich), September 23, 2025. Collaboration with Annabel Zoe Paran and the 2025 Mar'a'yeh fellows. Photo: Ioana Lungu
Mar'a'yeh Fellowship Project:
Liebe kleine Panke / Dear little Panke
September–December 2025
In seven stages, Cory spends the autumn walking the twenty-seven kilometers of the Panke river from its source area in Bernau to its two mouths in Berlin. Some stages are walked with the public, others with smaller groups of companions. Many walks are designed with collaborators. Each walk considers the Panke as an interlocutor and experiments with performative, literary, and oral forms of encountering the river and recording the encounters. Over the course of the Entropy exhibition, material traces from the walks accumulate in the gallery, forming a library of sediment that in turn will become source material to develop, in the future, a roving performance along and on the Panke.The tentative walk info is below, all still subject to change. Click here for the RSVP form for all walks.
Tue 23.9, 5pm
Walk 1: Casting off (tashlich)
Co-led with Annabel Zoe Paran
For current Mar'a'yeh Fellows only
Tue 21.10, 6:30am
Walk 2: Currents
Co-led with scholar and ritual artist Jacquelyn Marie Shannon
Participation by invitation
Sun 26.10, 11am
Walk 3: Meander
Co-led with writer and dramaturg To Doan
Special addition to the Fluid Interdisciplinarities Festival
Open to public with RSVP
Fri 7.11, 12pm
Walk 4: Flow
Co-led with choreographers Marion Storm and Elvan Tekin
Open to public with RSVP
8. - 22.11
Walk 5: Sediment
Self-guided walk that can be undertaken at time and pace of your choosing
RSVP for details
Sun 23.11, 7:30pm
Walk 6: Bed
For current and former Mar’a’yeh and LABA Fellows
Thur 4.12, 1pm
Walk 7: Mouth
Co-led with performer and scholar Alex Viteri
Open to public with RSVP