Sage Ni'Ja Whitson: A Ritual for the Flying

26.06.2026 / 20:30 – 23:00
With Sage Ni'ja Whitson

Together with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, SAVVY invites you to a weekend program by current Berlin fellow Sage Ni’Ja Whitson. On Friday, Whitson premieres the performance installation of their book Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities – part performance reading, part ritual, part indoor and outdoor space activation – at SAVVY. Taking place after sunset, Whitson, as “Trans Trappist the Extraterrestrial”, leads witnesses through an unworlding that amplifies the dark through the aches of what is. Since 2017, Whitson has created a constellation of art|works, entitled The Unarrival Experiments, projects centering dark matter and dark energy through a Transembodied lens. The works connect astrophysics, Yorùbá spirituality, and other African Cosmologies, building what they’ve coined a “sacred scientific”. 

8:30 pm: Doors open & arrival
9:00 pm: Opening Performance outside and oppposite of SAVVY Contemporary
ca. 9:30 pm: Performance installation at SAVVY Contemporary
10:15 pm: Conversation with Sage Ni’Ja Whitson

SAVVY Contemporary, Reinickendorfer Str. 17, 13347 Berlin
Free admission / in English