Talks
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
