AnaÏs Astan Meyer (JUXTAPOSITIONS)

Astan Meyer also known as Astan KA is an artistic performer, singer-rapper, songwriter, actress, mover and event curator based in Berlin. Malian-French, she considered herself as a child of reconciliation. Her music is mostly experimental as she explores various genres such as jazz, rap, trip-hop or ethno/afro electronic sounds. She develops a musical universe that she names "gangsta jazz". Astan is the lead singer of the band Asphalt Djelis and a member of the Berlin based music collective Sonic Interventions. Her acting career to date has included TV series, short-film, commercials, musicals and dance theatre. She is the co-founder of Cult'Sup', a cultural event focusing on afro-hybrid artistic content and ancestral knowledge. Astan is also doing styling and artistic direction work for the fashion cultural concept KASAPIO.
In the winter semester 2023 / 24, the Studium Generale organized a series of hybrid lectures on the topic of contemporary cultural production at the University of the Arts Berlin. Curated and moderated by Guest Professor Lukas Feireiss, JUXTAPOSITIONS aims at a broad cross-disciplinary audience.
Against the backdrop of the accelerated proliferation of digital technologies in nearly all areas of life, the lecture series pays special attention to the impact and influence these ubiquitous media have on creative processes today and the creation and consumption of popular culture worldwide. Many forms of contemporary cultural production absorb the ever growing pool of source material made possible through these new digital conditions. In a constant revision of what is being created this digital do-it-yourself culture allows everyone in the internet to be simultaneously artist, producer, collaborator and spectator, but equally being participant, subscriber, friend, and follower. Digitization is thus also turning the art and culture industry upside down. It creates new access points, new ways of working and thinking. It also makes new forms of financing possible. But it also brings new dependencies - it changes art, cultural production and the future of work as a whole.
Production and realization: Lukas Feireiss (Guest Professor), Flóra Tálasi (Coordination), Katrin Wendel (Administration), Leon Vatter (Research Assistant), Filipe Pirl (Student Assistant)
For reasons of privacy and data protection all images of the students are cut out of the public videos.
For more information and upcoming lectures: www.udk-berlin... & juxtapositions.net