Discussions

Panel discussion - ‘Really now? Reality dimensions of puppet theatre’

Sunday 20.10 | ca. 7 p.m. | HochX | after Replik:AWith: Mareike Gaubitz (dfp Bochum) | Evelyn Hriberšek (eurydike.org) | Michael Krauss (Meinhardt & Krauss)
Moderation: Albert Kümmel-Schnur (Universität Konstanz)

The realities of puppet theatre are both limited and exuberant. On the one hand, it has to lavishly animate the inanimate, while on the other hand, the figures endowed with borrowed life can do more than human actors could. Since ancient times, the human-moving figure has been juxtaposed with automatons moved by machines. And although the two resembled each other, they rarely found each other on stage. That has since changed. Do these encounters simply continue the history of the moving theatre figure or do they radically change it? And what can these new mixed realities on stage tell us about our world and our lives?



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Talk and Discussion– Of tarantulas and ideas

Performative perspectives on knowledge, appropriation and dialogue | After the show Five ExhibitsFriday25.10. | ca. 21:30 | HochX

With: Laia Ribera Cañenguez, Antonio Cerezo, Yahima Piedra,Daniela del Pomar (KMZ Kollektiv), Patricia Vester (Process support for colonial contexts & museum practice)
Moderation: Sarah Bergh (chakkars – moving interventions)
Language: German

The production ‘Five Exhibits’ deals with the Western approach to the objects and creations that ended up in European museums in the context of colonial art theft. Patricia Vester gives a critical introduction to Alexander von Humboldt and the museum's handling of his ‘discoveries’. Moderated by Sarah Bergh, the panellists will develop performative perspectives on knowledge and appropriation.

KMZ KOLLEKTIV consists of Laia RiCa, Antonio Cerezo, Yahima Piedra Cordova and Daniela del Pomar, and has been working together since 2021. Three of the artists come from Latin America and live in Berlin.
Patricia Vester is a process facilitator on colonial contexts and museum practice, develops concepts for art and cultural mediation critical of racism and designs interventions in museums. The artist and author lives in Potsdam.
Sarah Bergh's work focuses on educational work and the topics of diversity, discrimination and empowerment. Since 2015, she has been working in the Civic Education Department at the Pedagogical Institute - Municipal Education Management of the Department of Education and Sport of the City of Munich.

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Double-Diskurs – The Thing with the body. Contemporary Circus and figure theatre
Saturday 26.10. | 11 a.m. | Venue: Studiobühne der Theaterwissenschaft |  LMU München, Neuturmstr. 5, 80331 München

With: Kolja Huneck (Sawdust Symphony), Alexis Rouvre (Cie Modogrosso), Cécile Briand (Cie Non Nova), Johannes Böhringer (Paper People Paradox, BUZZ - Bundesverband zeitgenössischer Zirkus)
Moderation: Katja Spiess (FITZ Stuttgart)
Language: English

double-Diskurs is the name of a discussion series created by the editors of the magazine for puppet, figure and object theatre ‘double’, which deals with current developments in the genre. The last issue of the magazine focused on the relationship between contemporary circus and puppet theatre under the title ‘The thing with the body’. As in the ‘theatre of things’, things and materials become real counterparts in circus, materials are explored and the hierarchy between object and subject is questioned. In dialogue with artists from the festival, we will examine the topic from different perspectives.
Afterwards, we will toast two anniversaries: the 20th anniversary and the 50th issue of the magazine, which will be published in November 2024.