The festival center is a coproduction of Impulse Theater Festival 2015, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and Urban Arts Ruhr. Sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Ringlokschuppen Ruhr is additionally sponsored by the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Concept / development / realization: Lotte van den Berg & Daan ‘t Sas
In collaboration with: Floor van Leeuwen (NL), Dennis Molendijk (NL), Jonathan Offereins (NL), Bart van Rosmalen (NL), Floris Siekman (NL), Katja Dreyer (DE), Andreas Bachmair (DE), Angelika Fink (DE), Akiko Okamoto (DE) and others
Archive: Paulien Oltheten
Production and Management: Third Space

“Building Conversation” is a coproduction of Impulse Theater Festival 2015, FFT Düsseldorf and Münchner Kammerspiele. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, IN_SITU network in the frame of the MeTA project funded with support from the european Commission (DgeAC – Culture programme) with the coproducers København Internationale Teater and Čtyři dny Prague, Stichting Terschelllings oerol Festival Supported by Performing Arts Fund, The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts and Fonds 21. FFT is funded by the Ministry for Families, Children, Youth, Culture and Sports of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Silent University Ruhr is a coproduction of Impulse Theater Festival 2015 with the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and Urban Arts Ruhr. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. The Ringlokschuppen Ruhr is additionally funded by the Cultural Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Mühlheim.

Right after some performances, two critics or guest authors struggle for words: As live review, they formulate their impressions of what they just experienced, sort out their thoughts, criticize, praise, analyze. Tentatively, at the same time, the text appears on a screen, as work process, a review in progress that is at the same time exposed to the critical review of the other spectators. Formulations are made visible, words are crossed out and replaced by others, the reader can take part in the writing process: a hastily formulated review as an offer for discussion – 30 lines in just 30 minutes, which afterwards will be erased immediately.

Why this particular work? Where is located in the artists oeuvre? What’s its relation to the other performances in the festival? We shortly recount why the works presented that night impressed us, how they interconnect with other pieces or contradict them – in a nutshell: What were we thinking?

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