DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN Tag 2 – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN Tag 2
To the day 1 program here (i.a. with Shlomi Moto Wagner & Heinrich Horwitz, Noam Brusilovsky, Oliver Zahn, Sookee, Şeyda Kurt, Luce deLire)
Free day tickets for both days are available here. The day ticket is valid for Sophiensæle and Chamäleon Berlin. Allocation to the individual workshops will take place on site. The day ticket entitles the holder to reduced admission to the performances “The Last Supper” (Sophiensæle) and “Bitter Fields” (Sophiensæle). When registering for the day program, a reduction code will be generated for tickets to the evening performances.
With DIE KUNST, VIELE ZU BLEIBEN, the Fonds Darstellende Künste, together with partners from the field of independent performing arts, is organizing forums at nine locations across Germany – with performance, action and debate that stand up for art, freedom and democracy in a variety of gatherings. The aim is to confront what is probably the most urgent task of the present in a polyphonic exchange: The art of staying many.
The two forum days at Sophiensæle and Chamäleon Theater are dedicated to different forms of resistance against the political right, hatred and discrimination. On 22 June, the forum will focus on perspectives on international resistance practices, including Turkey, Hungary and Poland. On both evenings, the Sophiensæle will also host two guest performances, The Last Supper by MEXA from São Paulo and Bitter Fields by les dramaturx from Bitterfeld, which make different forms of solidarity an aesthetic experience.
Overview 22.06.
10:30-11:30 Artistic impulse & keynote with Q&A
With, among others, András Dömötör, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Aram Tafreshian, Zeyno Pekünlü
11:45-13:15 Working phase I: Workshops & discourse formats
With, among others, Mihály Csernai, András Dömötör, Bernát Gloviczki, Zsófia Tóth, Zeyno Pekünlü, Vicki Dela Amedume (UPSWING)
14:30-15:45 Political Power as Commons - The Rediscovery of Polish“Solidarity” (Solidarność)
Keynote speech by Jan Sowa
16:00 - 17:30 Working phase II: Workshops & discourse formats
with Göksu Kunak, Joana Tischkau & Elisabeth Hampe & Frieder Blume, Vicki Dela Amedume (UPSWING)
from 19:00 Performances Bitter Fields by les dramaturx and The Last Supper by MEXA
10:30–11:30, Festsaal (Sophiensæle)
Artistic Keynote with Q&A
Moderation: Ana Teixeira Pinto
“BETWEEN (If the majority feels comfortable, can you speak of dictatorship?)”
Monologue by András Dömötör, played by Aram Tafreshian
Exactly ten years after the premiere of the monologue “Notizen zu Hurenkinder Schusterjungen” (text: Sasha Marianna Salzmann) at the Maxim Gorki Theater, Hungarian director András Dömötor and actor Aram Tafreshian are facing even more radical questions with the same text. Was their character naive when, three years after Viktor Orbán's election as prime minister, she said that dictatorships were impossible in the EU? Or is it conceivable that the first impressions of a growing populist regime from 2014 are similar to the political changes that are only just taking place in Germany? With our naivety, aren't we too late again to stop right-wing extremism in Europe?
“Battered but not yet completely silenced”
Keynote by Zeyno Pekünlü
Over the past 10 years the political scene in Turkey has been extremely volatile and unstable. In the absence of state support for the arts, almost all major art institutions are founded and run by wealthy business dynasties, enabling the establishment of contemporary art production that is seemingly independent of the ideological and material domination of the state. The relationship between the state, the institutions and the creative artists is uniquely tense due to this structure. The lecture will focus on areas of friction and conflict between these different actors over the last decade and describe the complex alliances and various strategies for resistance.
Working phase I: Workshops & discourse formats
11:45–13:15, Festsaal (Sophiensæle)
Knowledge: “FREESZFE movement”
Staged reading by Zsófia Tóth and Bernát Gloviczki | Discussion with Mihály Csernai and András Dömötör Text: András Dömötör, Dóra Molnár
Two drama students present fragments from their diaries visualized with videos and photos, chronicles of the occupation of the Budapest Theater Academy in 2020. The Hungarian government threatened to withdraw the academy’s autonomy. Followed by a discussion with the leader and main organizer of the occupation, Mihály Csernai.
A cooperation with the Katona Theater Budapest
11:45–13:15, Kantine (Sophiensæle)
Alliances: “Battered but not yet completely silenced”
Working Session by Zeyno Pekünlü
The working session aims to discuss and collaboratively develop the multi-layered structures of local and global events and political struggles in order to make visible the invisible connections between unconnected collectives and organizations and to create a shared environment in which they can evolve. The session is a proposal to discuss the cycle of alliances and moments of solidarity within their specific history(ies), not in order to remember them in a melancholy way, but to rethink their emancipatory potentials.
11:45–13:15, Chamäleon Theater
Knowledge: “Principles and practice” (Part 1)
Working Session by Vicki Dela Amedume (UPSWING)
In spring 2021, a toolkit was developed in the UK to identify the basic expectations of companies, venues and artists when it comes to touring production. Three years on, the question is what production and touring look and feel like for global, majority-owned companies. How can anti-racism principles be applied in a real-world context where resources are often limited, and how do principles survive this process?
14:30–15:45, Festsaal (Sophiensæle)
Political Power as Commons – The Rediscovery of Polish "Solidarity" (Solidarność)
Keynote speech by Jan Sowa
The emergence of “Solidarity” (Solidarność) in Poland in the early 1980s – a massive trade union with 10 million members – shook the foundations of the Soviet bloc. However, “Solidarność” wanted more than a simple transformation of the post-Bolshevik regimes into parliamentary democracies. It strove for something that still appears today as a radical political program: the idea of “communing” – the people’s fight to place the basic resources and mechanisms of social life under their direct democratic control – and the creation of a genuine “commonwealth”.
The lecture will address the rediscovery of Solidarność’s radical legacy and reformulate it in the contemporary conceptual terms of the “commons”.
Sprache: Englisch
Working Phase II: Workshops & discourse formats
16:00 – 17:30, Hochzeitssaal (Sophiensæle)
Practice: “AJAIB - A Working Session about Camouflage and Self-censorship”
Working Session with Göksu Kunak
Ajaib is a working session that deals with the concepts of camouflage and self-censorship. The concept of taqiyya in Islam is at the center of a deeper exploration of camouflage: a kind of hyper-camouflage in the sense of merging with a figure and camouflage as protection.
16:00 – 17:30, Kantine (Sophiensæle)
Practice: “Colonastics” - Trainingslecture
Trainingslecture with Joana Tischkau (Performance), Elisabeth Hampe (Performance), Frieder Blume (Sound)
Colonastics was developed in 2020 by Joana Tischkau and Elisabeth Hampe as a performative fitness workout that deals with the social construction of whiteness. It appeared as a video format and as a multi-day installative performance project. As a blueprint of white male embodiment, it sheds light on the colonial and neo-colonial practices of the fitness industry, which produces and shapes our bodies and thus also our ideologies. In this workout lecture, Joana Tischkau shares her research process and gives participants a best-off into the various workout techniques.
Comfortable clothing is recommended.
16:00 – 17:30, Chamäleon Theater
Knowledge: “Principles and practice” (Part 2)
Working Session by Vicki Dela Amedume (UPSWING)
19:00, Hochzeitssaal (Sophiensæle)
„Bitter Fields“
Performance by les dramaturx
Bitter Fields is an activist research revue consisting of ¾ white spots, ⅝ dramatic trains of thought and 100% flashes of insight. The performance collective les dramaturx ask themselves whether there is a connection between the rise of the political right and climate change, and they come to the bitter realization that they themselves are much more entangled than they would like.
20:30, Festsaal (Sophiensæle)
„The Last Supper“
Performance by MEXA
Based on the Last Supper, the Brazilian collective MEXA invites you to a banquet performance about farewells. Between dishes and stories, the performers' lives intertwine with religious motifs. A celebratory and thought-provoking evening about the duty to tell the stories of those who cannot tell them – and an explosive moment of union that renews the vow of solidarity.