Team Story

Ida Daniel, Tilman Aumüller, and Zuzana Žabková are friends and artists who, about a year ago, realized that collaborating on the next edition of the Implantieren festival made sense. Filled with visions, frustrations, dreams, disappointments, and hopes, they have developed ideas and poetic desires that shaped the current festival’s concept, which focuses on art as a means of learning, experimenting, and hacking together to challenge exhausting and redundant ideological hierarchies and systems.

In the beginning of this process, while meeting, discussing, and playing a game together with Ruth Schmidt, Philipp Scholtysik, and Narges Behrouzian, they developed the idea of different departments that would serve as the main infrastructure of the festival, conceptualized as an imaginary university. Diving deeper into the current state of art-making and its struggles to find a space for commonality in the art scene in Frankfurt and beyond, they envisioned it as a university in ruins—a university that learns from brokenness and allows us to be broken and ruined.

With the production help of Felix Heimbach in the beginning, they initiated the process of growing the economies and ethics of this festival until Felix decided to become a real gardener. At that moment, Mariya Barashka and Nathaniel Knopp joined the team and helped keep the festival alive despite the budget being more broke than expected due to the funding cuts most artists and institutions are experiencing at this time.

This team is today glad to host and invite artists, neighbors, lifelong students, enthusiasts, and skeptics to join this three-month-long journey and turn the traditional romantic picture of melancholic ruins into a more raw and sensitive place with the agency to learn from collective melancholia, pleasures, and rage.

Team and Organization

Implantieren ‘24 is organized, conceived and designed by the artists Zuzana Žabková, Ida Daniel and Tilman Aumüller in collaboration with the production management team Natanael Knob and Mariya Barashka and another team of collaborators and helpers.

Implantieren ‘24 is the 6th edition of the biennial performance festival and is organized by ID_Frankfurt - Independent Dance and Performance e.V., in collaboration with the network association FESTIVALFRIENDS.