Ausreden – Kunst zwischen Performance und Verstellung

Actors, performers, life experts, citizens, participating audiences: it’s getting crowded on stage. More and more new forms of “representation” have been invented to compete with classical acting. The production ‘50 Grades of Shame’ , invited to Impulse 2016, offers a suitable occasion to examine the different artistic opportunities and consequences which arise from various forms of theater: in their co-production with the Münchner Kammerspiele, the influential independent company She She Pop are working together for the first time with ensemble members from a – comparatively diverse – city theater company. Are there still aesthetic borders between independent theaters and city theaters? Where are they productive and where are they a hindrance?

Festival Center
19 June, 15 h
Language German
With Verena Billinger (Billinger&Schulz), Justine Hauer (Fringe Ensemble Bonn /Tatort Konstanz), Matthias Lilienthal (Intendant Münchner Kammerspiele), Mieke Matzke (She She Pop)
Presentation Tobi Müller

The talk is available as stream on Voice Republic

An event by Favoriten 2016, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste in association with Impulse Theater Festival.

Clandestine Agents and Subversive Service Providers

„Make Art Policy“ invites politicians and cultural workers into an artistic and political setting, playfully reinventing the choreographies and rituals of parliamentary debate. A unique event, it seems – but one within a longstanding tradition in Düsseldorf. The Kunsthalle hosted many iconic interventions into politics and society: From Joseph Beuys’ legendary actions to the projects by the Artist Placement Group in the 1970s. The latter placed artists directly in business or governmental contexts. Artist Dana Yahalomi, political theorist Oliver Marchart and Director of Kunsthalle, Gregor Jansen, discuss the ideas of artists as agents and subversive service providers, the necessity of leftist populism, and using theater as a public, agonistic sphere.

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
20 June, 19:30 h
Language English
With Gregor Jansen (Director, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf), Oliver Marchart (Professor for Political Theory, University of Vienna ) and Dana Yahalomi (Public Movement), presented by Kathrin Tiedemann.

The talk is available as stream on Voice Republic

An den Grenzen des Darstellbaren

Following the broadcast of andcompany&Co.’s ‘Schlepperoper’ , artists, theoreticians and sociologists will discuss the role of the river as a deadly barrier (which also features prominently in ‘Evros Walk Water’ ), and how art can handle such drastic reality, how aesthetics and politics impact on and complement each other and the responsibilities artists have. During the discussion Oliver Ressler will première his new 15 minute short film “Emergency Turned Upside-Down“, which is minted by the “summer of migration” of 2015.

Festival Center
22 June, 20 h
Language German
With Alexander Karschnia (andcompany&Co.), Oliver Ressler („Occupy, Resist, Produce”), Vassilis Tsianos (Impulse Board) and Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll, via Skype)

The talk is available as stream on Voice Republic

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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Language German
starts 20 minutes before the performance

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.

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The Festival Center is a commission of Impulse Theater Festival 2016 and supported by Hüttemann Holzfachzentrum.

With Markus Bader (Urban School / raumlaborberlin), Jamil Dishman (KulTür auf!, JugendtheaterBüro Berlin), Nils Erhard (KulTür auf!, JugendtheaterBüro Berlin), Valeria Graziano (Mind Your Head), Stefano Harney (School for Studies), Ahmet Öğüt (The Silent University), Alessandra Pomarico (Home Free University), Rubia Salgado (Universität der Ignorantinnen / maiz), Mårten Spångberg (PAF), Vierte Welt Kollaborationen, Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat)

Curated by Nora Sternfeld and Florian Malzacher

A project of the Impulse Theater Festivals 2016 in cooperation with Urbane Künste Ruhr. Funded by the Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin.