out.cast

out.cast pours from the inside out, spilling sounds and voices of dreams and struggles, of new maps and bodily territories. Inside becomes outside and the outside is always already inside. out.cast manifests political messages, it activates non-hierarchical, multilingual and multi-perspective knowledge in the acoustic spheres of the city.

New episodes coming out in the summer of 2026:
out.cast CONSTRUCTION AND CONTROL.

Follow listening paths through parks, beyond fences, into construction sites, clubs and community spaces. Which way do we take and what's in our ears as we drift thru the city?

These are the people and ideas behind out.cast:
Since autumn 2023, a group of activists and artists have been working intensively to develop out.cast - a collaborative podcast from Kreuzberg, facilitated by studio lärm at FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum.

In the diverse audio pieces that have come to existence since then, we get to listen to strong, sad and hopeful stories. They tell of dreams of memories of places that were once home, places that no longer exist. We listen to struggles and hopes of bipoc Ukrainian refugees. We follow a mosaic of voices exploring the various shapes of fear experienced in Berlin. Journeys from individual to collective bodies, decolonizing pleasure. We listen to laughter, singing and remembrance at Kottbusser Tor – we listen to Kotti as a home.

out.cast is a podcast series created by Lana Semenova, Alex Berk, Maryna Usmanova, Tazir, Nine, Malek Khemiri, Bino Byansi Byakuleka, Jeanne Möschler, Valeria Mujaes & Diana Torres Valencia, Dalila Daut, Kalle, Polina, Viola, Alejandra, and Céline Barry.

A project by studio lärm in cooperation with FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum.

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Latest episodes

dislocation of the alpha

dislocation of the alpha

8m 55s

It's possible to live in another reality, right in the middle of Berlin.Between Past and Future.
Between Yesterday and Today.
Under the overarching theme of “Construction”, this project explores the layers of
constructions that emerge within the self, between borders and in-between spaces.
Between the cultures left behind and the process of re-rooting within them.
Between arriving and growing up and dreaming far from one’s mother tongue, in worlds not made for oneself.
Integration, sation - uprooting.
But how can cultures and traditions within communities be rediscovered, recoded, and
reimagined from a contemporary perspective, where gender roles and social rules...

Berlin is (not) a construction site

Berlin is (not) a construction site

8m 30s

Berlin breathes—not to the tick of clocks, but to the rhythm of cranes.
Here, the future grows from concrete and longing, while the past whispers between stumbling stones and street art.
Alexanderplatz: a square devouring itself. Who still hears the buskers’ songs when the S-Bahn screams and billboards murmur, “You are not enough”?
Yet in the cracks of the pavement, between the shadows of skyscrapers, the real Berlin lives: unfinished, wild, human.
Podcast: Alex Berk, Lana Semenova. Text: Alex Berk, Foto: Lana Semenova

Prayers from the street to the park

Prayers from the street to the park

4m 56s

Prayers from the Street to the Park is an audio protest by Tazir, capturing the sounds, images, and tensions of Falckensteinstr and Görlitzer Park in Berlin.
Between the police car's sirens, and the Islamic call for prayer, and through footsteps and multiple languages, this piece explores resistance, belonging, and the quiet violence of gentrification in the city.

The Restart

The Restart

6m 1s

Fifteen years of construction. For the people living on Karl-Marx-Straße in Berlin, it meant dust, noise, and disruption. When it finally reopened in 2025, the local administration celebrated revitalization and restart. This is a six-minute audio piece about urban renewal in Berlin—about promises, delays, and whose narrative gets told.

Author and producer: Francisco Aguilera