Burning questions

The content on this page was translated automatically.

In cooperation with the Theaterakademie, the performative congress Burning Issues Meets Kampnagel. Performing Arts and Equality will take place at Kampnagel

'Burning' questions about gender and the contemporary scenic cultural landscape will be given a new perspective at this congress.

To the program booklet

An accompanying seminar (theory: Katharina Alsen & Nicola Bramkamp, practice: Franziska Henschel) will give students of the University of Music and Drama the opportunity to actively shape the congress through their own artistic contributions. In the theoretical part of the seminar, critical concepts of gender, power and diversity in the context of theater and the performative arts will be developed. In addition to an overview of cultural theory, current structures of (in)equality and possible future perspectives and utopias will be discussed. This includes methods for sustainable empowerment and strategies for making often invisible structures visible. The discussions will therefore focus on both structural-institutional critique and concrete artistic-scientific concerns. In the practical part of the seminar, the students will then develop artistic interventions that will be presented at the Marketplace of Possibilities and at the Young Burning Issues at the congress.

Katharina Alsen and Sabina Dhein are involved in the Teaching Arts and Equality panel with a lecture on the topic of Resistant Practice - Artistic Research Goes Gender.
Content: (Wild) research precedes (standardized) science, as the sociologist Bruno Latour states, because "research is jungle, science is park" (Scheller 2014). Just how large and colorful the metaphorical jungle is in the context of artistic research can be guessed. How many invisible perspectives are to be found in it can be feared. In this lecture, we will question various artistic research practices for implicit and explicit comments on gender (in)justice. In addition to methods such as cultural hacking, points of friction between theater and science will be discussed and placed in a common context of resistance between subversion and affirmation.

Location: Kampnagel (K6), time: Sun, November 1, 2020, 11.00 am (with livestream)

Further information can be found on the Kampnagel homepage and the Ensemble Netzwerk website.