Specials
Independent Theater Archive, Silent University, International Visitors, Discussions etc.
Independent Theater Archive
Study presentation and discussion
It began with an initial working group set up by Impulse 2013. Now the plan for an Independent Theater Archive has taken a great step forward: after long-term planning a small team coordinated by the University of Hildesheim has spent over a year examining archive material and registering stocks of material throughout Germany. ‘Performing the Archive – A Study Towards Developing an Independent Theater Archive‘ delivers an informed overview of the scale, storage locations and condition of the stocks in question and formulates initial concrete proposals as to how these can be protected, maintained and made accessible. These results will now be presented and discussed as part of the festival along with thoughts about how they might be implemented on the way to creating our own archive.
Language GER
University of Cologne, Hörsaal G
Friday, 23 June, 5 PM
The Independent Theater Archive is funded by Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste, Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Institut für Kulturpolitik der Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Internationales Theaterinstitut Deutschland together with Mime Centrum Berlin and NRW KULTURsekretariat together with Impulse Theater Festival.
What we want
– Federal funding on the practical test-bed
The BFDK (Federal Association of the Independent Performing Arts) is presently developing strategies for improving the current federal funding through a series of discussions. A workshop will be held as part of Impulse regarding structural questions about instruments for funding festivals and conferences.
Language GER
Festival center / studiobühneköln
Saturday, 24 June, 11 AM – 2 PM
talk series of the BFDK – Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste
Registration necessary until 15th of June 2017: praxischeck@darstellende-kuenste.de
Find more information here
Supported by: the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Seeing the City from the Other Side
A discussion
To mark the conclusion of the video installation ‘state theatre #4-6’ the filmmakers Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck discuss artistic research and unplannable city planning: what artistic responsibility is there for the public space?
Language GER
Agora below the Mülheim bridge, Schauspiel Köln
Saturday, 1 July, 6:30 PM
„Raus aus der Komfortzone“
With Constanze Fischbeck , Daniel Kötter et al.
Discussion within the framework of the district project „Die Stadt von der anderen Seite sehen“ by Schauspielhaus Köln
Silent University
Two years ago the Impulse Theater Festival together with Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and Urbane Künste Ruhr helped to found a Mülheim branch of the Silent University initiated by the Kurdish artist Ahmet Öğüt in 2012: an autonomous knowledge platform whose teaching faculty consists of refugee academics who are unable to pass on their expertise here as they lack work permits, their qualifications are not recognized or for other reasons. The Silent University Ruhr has since developed into a place of continuous learning and encounters. During the festival period the Silent University invites visitors to a lecture and is also involved in the conception and implementation of ‘Of All The People In All The World’ at Ringlokschuppen Ruhr.
The book ‘The Silent University – Towards a Transversal Pedagogy’ published last year is still available.
www.sternberg-press.com
Mülheim an der Ruhr, dezentrale
Tuesday, 7 June, 6 PM
Gespräch „Where are we now? Perspektiven der Silent University Ruhr“
Mülheim an der Ruhr, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr
Tuesday, 27 June, 7:30 PM
Talk „Politische Partizipation von Geflüchteten und MigrantInnen in Zahlen“
with Justin Fonkeu (Silent University Ruhr), Matthias Frense u. a.
Mülheim an der Ruhr, dezentrale
Friday, 30 June, 5:30 PM
„Cardiopulmonal Reanimation – an international comparision“
Lecture by Amrou Al-Mahaini (general practitioner from Syria)
International Visitors
Around ten artists, curators, theoreticians and activists from all over the world will accompany this year’s Impulse at the joint invitation of the Goethe Institut’s “Be My Guest” program, the NRW KULTURsekretariat’s international visitors’ program and the Impulse Theater Festival. While the 2017 festival is dedicated to the fundamental question of how we can still arrive at decisions in both politics and art in times that are apparently “post-democratic” and “post-factual”, the international guests program examines the criteria for such choices.
With Antonio Araújo (São Paulo), Pelin Başaran (Istanbul), Anne Breure (Amsterdam), Ifeoma Fafunwa (Lagos), Malik Gaines (New York), Yi-Wei Keng (Taipei), Helly Minarti (Jakarta), Antanas Mockus (Bogotá), Judha Su (Bangkok)
A coproduction of Impulse Theater Festival together with „Be My Guest“-programm of Goethe-Institut and the International Visitor-Programm of NRW KULTURsekretariat.
