Art.Power.Humanity

Welcome by the Awareness Team and Equality
Foyer

Lilli Oeverink
Foyer

Our university is permeated by power structures: they can be found in the interpersonal interactions of university members, in the written and unwritten laws of our institution, but they are also engraved in the architecture and use of our building. These space-specific power structures should become visible - our university becomes an exhibition object in ARCHITECTURE MAKES STRUCTURE: Where are the students' common rooms located in comparison to the president's office? Which rooms are available to whom? What are the seating arrangements in the cafeteria? Who is allowed into the building, who fails at the front door?

These structures are explored, named and artistically exhibited in order to challenge our view of the place where we spend so many hours every day.

Maya Adler, Anna Fusek, Valerie Heber, Karolína Mydlárová, Laurens Paulsen
Fanny-Hensel-Saal

Polyphonic Renaissance music means a kind of equal polyphony without soloists, without conductors, without the supremacy of individual voices. Playing in a consort is the cultivation of togetherness and attention training in listening - and of course also enjoyment, as the polyphony creates an embracing, harmonious and at the same time complex whole.

Dan Thi Nquyen, Nina Reiprich
Room 201
Closed workshop for lecturers and teaching assistants. Registration via laura-louise.brunner[at]hfmt-hamburg.de

How can teaching succeed when students and lecturers with different cultural backgrounds, forms of communication and expectations come together? In the second module of the series, we focus on everyday situations at the university: small misunderstandings, unspoken expectations, well-intentioned routines. Using concrete case studies from practice, we reflect on how these dynamics arise - and what ways there are to deal with them sensitively, clearly and at eye level. The aim is to promote a teaching culture in which differences are understood as strengths and diversity is experienced as enrichment.

Melmun Bajarchuu
Mendelssohn-Saal

The workshop addresses the critical handling of power and hierarchies in the context of art, education and professional practice. The focus is on strategies and tools for recognizing and naming power relations and dealing with them constructively. The guiding questions are: How do I deal with power myself? What needs and limits do I have - and do I remain capable of acting in the face of different positions and perspectives in the institution?

Katharina Alsen, Benjamin Sprick
Room 11

We encounter power structures not only on stage, but also in the realities of artistic education - linguistically, interpersonally, institutionally. While "resistance" often carries the pathos of the great deed, "resilience" unfolds in smaller, more subtle forms. In this workshop, we will develop a repertoire of gestures, practices and attitudes that can have a resistant effect in the performative arts and their institutions: What can be said, shown, shaped, beyond individualized narratives of consternation? Based on selected theoretical texts, we will test concrete strategies such as coolness, cuteness, slowing down, recoding spaces or subversive affirmation with a view to their potential for resistance.

Elisabeth Treydte, Dr. Silke Wenzel
Zoom

Almost all higher education institutions for Music and Drama in German-speaking countries now have doctoral rights, although academia there is always subject to institutional peculiarities. Constellations of power and the blurring of boundaries often permeate everyday academic life and have an impact on all areas of life. Several working groups have now been formed across Germany to analyze academic power systems.

(Prospective) doctoral candidates are cordially invited via ZOOM to discuss the difficult interweaving of responsibilities, transgressions of boundaries and humanity.

/ Talks offered by students for students
Awareness team of the HfMT Hamburg
Room 13

You experience discrimination? Abuse of power? Bullying? Do you have a bad feeling? Anger? Grief? Fear of the future? Let's talk about it! We're here for each other!

The Safe and Brave Space offers students a safe space to share topics that require particular sensitivity. This is a space in which security is created through confidentiality and clear rules (safe), but at the same time courage is required to address difficult or uncomfortable topics openly (brave). Accompanied by an external confidant, experiences, concerns and questions can be expressed and heard in a spirit of solidarity.

The open format lasts one hour, registration is not required.

Students of the Master's program in Music Therapy
Forum

Exercise power! Submissiveness. What happens when everything is possible? How do you use your freedom? Do the bodies become active or do they remain passive? Who experiences powerlessness, who experiences power? What arises from this situation? power, but power, but power!

Prof. Dr. Susanne Naumann
Fanny-Hensel-Saal

With the help of Keith Johnstone's (1933-2023) status model, attempts are made in pedagogy - and in the context of personality and leadership coaching - to reflect power structures in order to enable leadership and sovereignty. However, a model that stages and reflects power structures does not yet answer the question of the emergence of authority and an attitude of authentic mutual respect - this question will be pursued in theory and practical exercises.

Noah Schulte Hemming, Fabio Joel Tunno, Elena Yaqubee
Multifunktionsstudio

This performance combines eight original songs, narration, theater and specially produced video recordings. It traces a journey to Afghanistan and makes the forbidden voices of the women behind the burqa just as audible as the suppressed art. The focus is on the dark, tyrannical regime of the Taliban, which forces people to flee: across borders, on the waves of the Mediterranean, even to the point of shipwreck. At the same time, the performance offers a glimpse of hope - for freedom and a peaceful world.

Narratives and structures of abuse of power in music (science)
Shoko Kuroe, Elisabeth Treyde with other authors and guests
Forum

To mark the publication of the anthology, we invite you to an interdisciplinary book presentation. With music, readings and discussion rounds, authors and guests will provide insights into historical narratives and dynamics of power abuse and discuss perspectives for a culture of solidarity in musical life together with the audience.

The event is dedicated to people affected.

Flora Stecher Alonso Lillo
Fanny-Hensel-Saal

With the Sirius 6.0 keyboard, the keys are 1-1.7 mm narrower, i.e. around half a key less per octave (= an octave width of 6.0 inches). Even this "small" change makes a big difference - adapting the keyboard to the player(s) - and not the other way around - offers pianists with smaller hands the opportunity to develop their full potential.

Teresa Hager
Movement studio
Closed workshop for students. Please register in advance via awareness[at]hfmt-hamburg.de

The lecture followed by a mini-workshop introduces the work of intimacy coordination. How can a professional framework be created that is based on consent, respectful handling of boundaries, desexualization, choreography techniques and documentation? The basis is the concept of Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE) developed by Chelsea Pace and Laura Rikard.

Frauke Aulbert & Dr. Shin-Hyang Yun
Fanny-Hensel-Saal

Younghi Pagh-Paan (*1945) writes works in which the signs of resistance against power can be read. In this lecture, these will be explored through the performance of the piece Flammenzeichen (1983) for female voice alone with percussion instruments - based on texts by the resistance group Weiße Rose - which cleverly combines contemporary singing techniques with the performance style of the Korean folk epic song Pansori .

Antonis Adamopoulos
Mendelssohn-Saal

The piece deals programmatically with the struggle against the abuse of power. The flute, which mainly plays p and legato, symbolizes the constant quiet struggle in the background, while the percussion, characterized by great dynamic, rhythmic and timbral variety, symbolizes the energetic struggle in the foreground.

Clara Quandel, Florian Stürmer, Isabel Vonessen Wilson
Orchesterstudio

The one-hour format invites you to a participatory exchange based on the World Café method. In ten discussion rooms, accompanied by tandems of teachers, members of the Executive Board and students, issues relating to power, responsibility and collaboration are discussed. The results are visibly documented and serve as impulses for further university-wide debates.

Sara Wentrup-Garcia
Forum

The artistic performance addresses social oppression and abuse of power using the example of Honduras - one of the poorest and most dangerous countries in Latin America. In a combination of film footage, photography, live music and texts, the voices of those affected are made audible and power relations are reflected artistically. "Until God Decides" shows how violence, poverty and crime intertwine and explores the possibilities of resistance and solidarity.

Antonis Adamopoulos
Mendelssohn-Saal

The plot of the opera Platée revolves around the god Jupiter, who abuses his power with the help of other gods and exploits the nymph Platée in the hope of alleviating the jealousy of his partner Juno. The lecture will deal with the plot in general, which subtly criticizes power structures and underlines the helplessness of the defenceless, and also explicitly present central passages of the opera in terms of plot and music.

Maya Adler, Anna Fusek, Valerie Heber, Karolína Mydlárová, Laurens Paulsen
Foyer

Polyphonic Renaissance music means a kind of equal polyphony without soloists, without conductors, without the supremacy of individual voices. Playing in a consort is the cultivation of togetherness and attention training in listening - and of course also enjoyment, as the polyphony creates an embracing, harmonious and at the same time complex whole.

Daria Lysenko, Negin Razzaghi
Location to be announced.

How does our soul influence our voice? In this performance, four musical phases show how performance anxiety shapes the voice and how inner peace can lead to more freedom in sound.

Foyer

At the end of the action day, we invite all participants to reflect together. In short moderated impulses, we record what has moved us, what has remained and what questions or wishes we will take with us into the coming weeks and months.

This shared moment brings together voices and moods, creates clarity and rounds off the day of action with a conscious look ahead - open to what we want to carry forward and shape together.