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A very short Play for Bank DirectorsFebruary 19

Video of a performance in a bank hall, Hamburg - Germany (32 min) In a banking hall people are waiting to be served, are reading. A woman dressed in white is approaching the counter, shouts out into the hall, is attracting attention. She kneels down, people are taking pictures of her. She sings. The surounding people are ...

Saskia Sassen: Fear and CamouflageMay 16

Volksbühne at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin "Calling forth and mobilizing panic and fear helps to secure a crumbling consent to the present state of things. Yet, as Saskia Sassen will show, spaces and possibilities of emancipatory action are opening in and beyond this current crisis." (Thomas Atzert) AUDIO (50 min, 38MB) VIDEO (50 min, 170MB)

Theater und das Problem der OffenheitApril 10

scroll down for english version Theater hat ein Problem: Es ist immer geschlossen. Seine Geschlossenheit ist sozusagen sein selbstkonstruktives Moment. Es bezieht seine Form und seine Schönheit aus seiner Exklusivität und unterscheidet immer gewaltsam zwischen Inklusion und Exklusion. Die Geschlossenheit besteht sowohl auf der Produktionsseite als auch auf der Rezeptionsseite. Man kann also Theater einerseits als Ausdruck des Verschließens ...

In-KLO-sion / ExklusionApril 1

[deutsche Fassung siehe unten] Sound art in public toilets Short remark on the ethymology: “Closett” & “exclusive/inclusive” have the same roots: lat. claudere ‘to close, to shut’. Inc-LOO-sion/Exclusion is a sound installation in public and half public loos in art and culture institutions. The material for the installations ...

Collective Subjectivity – On the way to new methods of working and distribution formats in audiovisual mediaMarch 20

[pdf - version] (deutsche Fassung siehe unten) Janus von Abaton / Till Nikolaus von Heiseler / Sophia Nabokov / Andres Fuentes Cannobbio / Schlomo Uhlenspiegel 1. About this Text Together with the camcorder revolution and with the digital possibilities of post production and distribution an immense technical space of feasibility was opened. The actual possibilities of ...

Five LoopsFebruary 23

[deutsche Fassung siehe unten] Loops repeat themselves endlessly. Fragments and pieces of garbage are the material of these repetitions. The discourse moves around the thematic centres of freedom of movement and freedom of communication, inferiority and self reflection. In the first contribution Florian Schneider talks about the meaning of freedom of communication. The second loop is inferior in every respect and ...

Formats and the culture of the 21st century – 7 thesisses on convergence of the media and differentiation of formatsFebruary 6

Druckversion (pdf) in german as published in the whoistwho (berlin-brandenburg.media 8.0, Sep. 06), scroll down for german version. 1. We find ourselves on a treshold: In modern history all media (printing, radio, television and so on) converge partly or totally with the computer. This convergence which will take place within the next five to ten years ...

Per Kitsch ad astraJanuary 31

Let’s imagine we were all alone in the world. We would not like several things and we would like other things, we would perhaps be pleased by some things and we would not by other things, we would have our preferences. But this alone would not be a taste judgement. Taste judgement starts only where ...

Do we need a World Constitution?January 20

The question of a World Constitution has two sides, because any constitution wants to be a real instrument of positive law. That is why one has to ask firstly the following questions: 1) Who could introduce such a constitution? 2) Would such a centralist judicial instrument really be desirable? The efforts of the ATTAC-movement over many years ...

VideolettersJanuary 7

[deutscher Text siehe unten] Video letters were sent out by the 5th International Summer Academy for Performance Artists and Theatre Makers (August 23th to 28th 2004, Frankfurt/Main). The action was part of the Ad-hoc-Academy and represented a cooperation of the Expertenmobil and the Team of NEUE METHODE. Video letters put to the test the format Media for One. [visit ...

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