Learning Plays – Events
In the framework of the international Impulse summer academy “Learning Plays” the following lectures and public talks will take place in Mülheim/Ruhr. The workshop week concludes with a public presentation of the learning play “What does socialist art mean today?” by the workshop of Chto Delat.
A performative Symposium on the subject matters of “Learning Plays” will take place on 25 June, 10 am – 6 pm in Düsseldorf.
All events in English
Prefigurative Practices
PAF / Valeria Graziano, Vanessa Ohlraun & Mårten Spångberg
Public Talk
To prefigure is to imagine something in the future. In politics it is a way to perform today forms of social relationships that aim for tomorrow. Could prefiguration be a way to consider the political agency of art in a cultural context depleted of futurity?
Mülheim/Ruhr
Ringlokschuppen Ruhr
Sunday, 19 June, 7.30 pm
Pandora’s Daughters, or the Counter-Techniques of Production
Boyan Manchev & Vierte Welt Kollaborationen
Silent University Lecture
Philosopher Boyan Manchev takes his mutual work with Vierte Welt Kollaborationen as a starting point of a collective meta-critical exercise: What are the counter-techniques of production of (artistic, philosophical) forms?
Mülheim/Ruhr
Ringlokschuppen Ruhr
Monday, 20 June 4.30 pm
At the conclusion of Contemporary Art
Boyan Manchev & Ludger Schwarte
Moderation: Dirk Cieslak, Vierte Welt Kollaborationen
Public Talk
Two philosophers debate the challenges of a coming art practice: Meta critique of artistic, theoretical and critical discourses on the one hand and an art philosophical critique of contemporary art on the other.
Mülheim/Ruhr
Ringlokschuppen Ruhr
Tuesday, 21 June 7.30 pm
Organic Intellectual Practices
Chto Delat, PAF, Silent University, Vierte Welt Kollaborationen
Moderation: Nora Sternfeld
Public Talk
The summer academy ‘Learning Plays’ has invited four artist-initiated platforms for knowledge production to share their practices. What are the organic intellectual practices which are being lived? The initiatives together with Nora Sternfeld discuss their pedagogical models as well as their struggles with political realities.
Mülheim/Ruhr
Ringlokschuppen Ruhr
Tuesday, 23 June 4.30 pm
Learning Play: What does socialist art mean today
Chto Delat und TeilnehmerInnen
Performance
The performance is an attempt at finding a new definition of socialist art, as well as at tracing its genealogy and investigating the possibilities of its practical realization. It is the common creation of a weeklong workshop by the St Petersburg collective Chto Delat, a working group of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers with the aim of merging political theory, art, and activism into a tool of political and civic empowerment.
Mülheim/Ruhr
Ringlokschuppen Ruhr
Friday 24 June 7.30 pm
