Harburg-HUB Walkthroughs and encounters
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The Sustainable Theater Lab at ligeti zentrum Hamburg explores the technical, social and aesthetic possibilities for a theater of the 21st century. It explores new narratives and looks for innovations and exnovations in the face of diverse ecological and social challenges. The establishment of a socially and ecologically sustainable theater in Hamburg-Harburg is planned for 2027. During the 3-day hub in October, we will first take a closer look at the Harburg district with walks, lectures and bike tours.
You can expect exciting lectures, workshops and artistic walks on topics such as sustainability, the transformation of urban districts and artistic practice. Highlights include contributions by Christian Tschirner, Dominic Wills and Frederik Schawaller as well as a soundwalk session through Harburg.
Program on 16 October
10:00 - 12:00 Welcome
Welcome, the Sustainable Theater Lab introduces itself, guided tour through the ligeti zentrum Hamburg
12:00 - 12:20 Artistic freedom. Freedom of ownership. Vogelfreiheit.
Input Christian Tschirner: Francis of Assisi as a late medieval performance artist.
12:20-13:00 Music in birdsong/Birdsong in music
Lecture by Dominic Wills
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break (self-catering)
14:00 - 15:00 Strategic uselessness
Discussion Benjamin Sprick, Christian Tschirner
Problems of sustainability are less to be localized in the consumption habits of individuals, but have to do centrally with our idea and practice of work. Work is the place of "metabolism" with nature. In the workplace - also in culture - bodies and materials are subjected to the capitalist logic of exploitation, an expansive regime of utility. Paradoxically, it is precisely the logic of efficiency and utility that produces utilization, exploitation and wear and tear. The task of a sustainable theater would therefore be to break out of the regime of utility and to develop strategies/aesthetics/politics of uselessness and, in doing so, to respond artistically to a defense against uselessness (one of the "primal fears of modernity" (Zygmunt Baumann)) that is currently rampant in the logic of efficiency. How would a theater be organized that does not profit from the exploitation of artists? That does not live from a vampiristic utilization of signs and discourses? How can uselessness be conceived and practiced as a subversive artistic method?
15:00 - 16:30 Wandering as an artistic practice
The search for meaning is always associated with certain directions of movement and postures. Letting oneself drift without a destination or meandering promenading has recently found itself in a certain predicament. It is prescribed when stress levels get too high. At the same time, it is also treated as a life-enhancing measure that secretly aims to increase productivity. "Just doing nothing" becomes a disciplined self-abandonment. Can this be explored performatively? We go for a walk or lead ourselves around on a (more or less loosely pulled) leash to see what lines of flight emerge in this way. The only guiding question will be how time passes when the theater makers move around the houses.
16:30 - 17:30 Concluding discussion
Day 1: October 16
Day 2: October 17
Day 3: October 18
Eintritt frei
Please register in advance by e-mail at stlab@hfmt-hamburg.de.
Spontaneous guests are still welcome.