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Amargi
With jineoloji towards a free theatre?
Collective Research, Participative Art, Performance, Workshops
by Ceren Yildirim,
In cooperation with Jineoloji Centre Europe and Amara - Kurdish Womens Council FrankfurtAmargi is a collective research project that leads to a performance through partly public, partly closed processes of lectures and workshops. Thematically, we will deal with Jineolojî and invite guests from the Jineoloji Center Europe. Jineolojî is an interdisciplinary science that emerged from the Kurdish women’s liberation movement. The name is made up of “jin” for woman (same root as “jiyan” for life) and “lojî”, which means knowledge/awareness. Its aim is to research the truth about women and society and thus promote the democratization of society.
Participation:
The project consists of viewings, lectures and workshops, autonomous (closed) rehearsals, from which a performance is created that is shown and put up for discussion at the end of the festival. The events are open to everyone, except for the dates in the autonomous framework, to which only women, inter, non-binary and trans people are invited. If you want to take part in the rehearsals, you can contact us at the individual events. More information at the individual eventsAccessibility:
Language: in spoken and written English, German and Kurdish. Translation into these languages will be provided at all events (more information at the individual events)Credits:
Artistic direction: Ceren Yildirim
In cooperation with the Jineoloji Centre Europe and Amara - Kurdish Womens Council Frankfurt-
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Ceren Yildirim
Ceren Yildirim has been studying for a Master’s degree in Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen since 2022 and will finish her studies with the project Amargi. She works with different media in the field of performing arts, mostly in directing and dramaturgy. Her thematic focus is on histories and cultures of resistance in the Middle East, truth regimes and documentality. She has been a fellow of the Hans Böckler Foundation since 2022.
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Das Jineolojî-Zentrum Europa
The Jineolojî Centre Europe was founded in 2017 and has since organised workshops, seminars and public presentations to encourage women to explore their life stories and circumstances. The centre’s main goal is to help women gain more self-confidence by understanding and exercising their rights. It actively campaigns against gender-based violence by providing information and implementing actions, particularly on issues such as domestic violence, rape, honour killings and forced marriages. The Jineolojî Centre Europe also writes articles to spread its message and has the long-term goal of promoting research in the social sciences related to women. It builds partnerships with associations working for women’s freedom worldwide and networks with local organisations in particular to spread the ideas of Jineolojî in Europe. The centre acts as a bridge between different areas of work and action, a contact point for women from different cultures and backgrounds and as a documentation and coordination centre.
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Der Frauenrat Amara
Amara Women’s Council Frankfurt was founded in 2016 and is one of the grassroots democratic council structures of the Kurdish women’s movement. Its goal is a democratic, ecological model of society that is liberated from gender roles. They are committed to improving the position of women in the family, the world of work, politics and society.
Supported by :
Hessische Theaterakademie
Frauenreferat Stadt Frankfurt
Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
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Supported by :
Hessische Theaterakademie
Frauenreferat Stadt Frankfurt
Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
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Booty Bounce 2024
safer space events with a focus on (queer) BI*PoC FLINTA*
Party, Community, Spoken Word, Clubbing
by Crémant. Cava. Booty Bounce
Crémant. Cava. Booty Bounce. is an initiative of queer BI*PoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) FLINTA* (women, lesbians, inter persons, non-binary persons, trans* persons, agender persons and other gender identities) from Frankfurt and the surrounding area with the aim of working against the lack of representation of BI*PoC FLINTA* in clubs, art and culture and at the same time promoting knowledge exchange and further education of BI*PoC FLINTA*. In the long term, C.C.BB. aims to establish safer spaces by and for marginalized voices in society. At the same time, the events open up spaces for reflection and a change of perspective for more privileged people.
Under the project ‘Booty Bounce 2024’, there has so far been a DJ workshop for BI*PoC FLINTA* between May and August, a community hangout in collaboration with Artemis Saleh & werkme069, as well as a karaoke evening.
More information and impressions can be found on Instagram at @c.c.bb.069
Participation:
Booty Bounce 2024 is open to everyone. No ticket is required for the hangout in the base, but open mic is only for BI*PoC FLINTA*. Tickets are available for Halloween.Accessibility:
(more information at the individual events)Credits:
Sherin Striewe
project managementNoëmi Ihrig
Finances, location, event planningJülide Berre Gündoğdu
Finances, Awareness, Artist Care & BookingSarah Ariebu
Finances, location, event planning, artist care & bookingLilav Horo
Finances, public relations, event planningSena Nur Ağırbaş
Internal structure, artist care & booking, awareness, event planningEzgi Yılar
Location, Public Relations-
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Supported by Women’s Department City of Frankfurt
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Supported by Women’s Department City of Frankfurt
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follow up
Participative art, Vacation workshop, Chat game
by FEELINGS and the follow-up Group
“In the ‘Follow Up’ program, teenagers are participating in a holiday workshop and, in addition to that, are becoming part of the Implantieren Festival on the former university campus in Bockenheim.Within their engagement, they are creating a chat-based game, which will be open to the public for play in November.
“follow up” looks at how digital networks of relationships can play with and retell the material space of the “field” at the University Campus Bockenheim. What stories do we inscribe into an otherwise abandoned place? What relationship ghosts hang in the corridors? What traces on the toilets, staircases and spaces in between can we rewrite? How do the old spaces and the new presences lend themselves to appropriation through “follow up” by the festival?”
Participation:
For more information see eventsAccessibility:
Language in English and / or German
If you need translations to another language, please just let us know. We’ll try our best to make it possible.
(more information on the individual events)Credites:
Concept & Workshop: FEELINGS (Jil Dreyer & Joey Mehling)
Production: take the money and run (Maren Küpper & Amelie Haller)
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FEELINGS
FEELINGS comprises the artistic works, performative research, games, and feelings that Jil Dreyer and Josef Mehling have been developing with and for each other since 2017. The collective works at the intersection of performance, theatre, and multi-media art and frequently foreground investigations into corporeality, identity, and situatedness within narrative in our projects.
“followup”is a cooperation with the IMPLANTIEREN 24 Festival in Frankfurt and the queer youth center KUSS 41.
The project is funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste in the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program as part of “Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung” program funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
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“followup”is a cooperation with the IMPLANTIEREN 24 Festival in Frankfurt and the queer youth center KUSS 41.
The project is funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste in the GLOBAL VILLAGE KIDS program as part of “Kultur macht stark. Bündnisse für Bildung” program funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
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Her Shadow Resources
Fictioning Game, Diskurs
by Tilman Aumüller und Christopher Krause
Do we need to demolish the canteen, or is it an important reservoir for tons of CO2? Why don’t we pay for the trees to cool the city? And how can we say goodbye to the idea of the new if there is to be no more waste?
Her Shadow Ressources is a collective fiction game that is being developed in the process of the festival. It is located on the Bockenheim campus, but the site becomes a breeding ground for various, sometimes bizarre groups that desire different futures. Based on their experiments, hidden resources and supposedly impossible economies, the festival will play out how the campus will change over the next 250 years. The aim is not to adopt the planning perspective. As narrators and characters in the game, the players experience how the world is created through the interplay of various fuck-ups in life and in interaction with others.
Participation:
You can take part as a spectator or a player. Particularly suitable for people who enjoy playing along and creating stories and are interested in the topic of sustainability. No gaming experience is necessary
If you want to play along, please register.Accessibility:
Duration: Individual sessions last up to four hours with breaks. Spontaneous breaks are possible at any time.
Languages: Spoken German and English.
Age recommendation: From 16 years
Possible bars: A typical session takes place in a seated position. Following the conversation is necessary to play along. Participation with visual impairment is possible.-
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Tilman Aumüller
Tilman Aumüller writes and makes collaborative art. He is interested in how different actors connect in sympoietic processes through fiction, narrative, and play, creating surprising communities and weird reconfigurations of the familiar. This work includes pen & paper role-playing games, essayistic storytelling, drawing, performances and institutional work. Tilman initiated the Club of What if, a club for shared imagination and analog role-playing games, co-curated the festivals Implantieren 2022/23 & ‘24 and is co-founder of the artist collective ScriptedReality, with whom he has realized numerous performances. He lives in Frankfurt and sometimes in Prague.
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Christopher Krause
Christopher Krause researches at the interface of art, psychoanalysis and digitality. As a game developer, dramaturge and cultural manager, he develops pen & paper role-playing games, performances and interdisciplinary community formats, such as at the international games and playful media festival “A MAZE./Berlin” or the PAD Festival in Wiesbaden. He lives in Frankfurt.
Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
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Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
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Hide & Seek
Participatory Movie Project, Movie
by Alicja Wysocka und Vera Varlamova
Hide and Seek explores themes of resilience, imagination, and the reimagining of societal norms in a world of increasing precarity. Centered on a group of elderly women—former war migrants from Eastern Europe—the film delves into their personal stories and collective creativity to envision alternative futures. Through intimate storytelling and performative rituals, the women articulate their hopes and fears, crafting a narrative that blends memory, trauma, and speculative utopias. The film examines themes of migration, aging, and queerness while challenging the constraints of traditional family structures and capitalist systems.
Inspired by theatrical pioneers like Tadeusz Kantor, Konstantin Stanislavski, and Bertolt Brecht, Hide and Seek combines visuals with a layered narrative that interweaves communal dreaming, shared rituals, and acts of creative resistance. At its core, the film invites audiences to reflect on collective survival and the power of imagination as a tool for crafting more inclusive and sustainable futures.Participation:
Hide & Seek meets as a closed group. The movie will be shown in November-
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Alicja Wysocka
Director, costume and set designer.
Alicja Wysocka was born in Poland and works internationally. She graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. She is an artist whose practice explores alternative economic models, commons, and collaborative, community-based forms of coexistence. Her work challenges conventional structures, proposing imaginative frameworks for collective living and shared prosperity. Through a multidisciplinary approach, she crafts projects that often function as collective therapeutic experiences, inviting audiences to critically reflect on societal norms and envision alternative futures.
Recently, she has focused on time-based media, creating video installations that blend storytelling, ritual, and speculative narratives. Her work frequently draws inspiration from theatre, opera, and diverse cultural practices, using collaboration as a central methodology to amplify marginalized voices and foster communal creativity.
Recent exhibitions include Kunstverein Wiesen (2023), Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2021), Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2021), Venice Biennale of Architecture (2021), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020), Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw (2017).
She was an artist-in-residence at Jan van Eyck Academie in Netherlands (2022-2023), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (2023), PARADISE AIR, Tokyo (2023), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2020), Jatiwangi art Factory, Indonesia (2019). Selected film screenings include: Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (2024), 143km Truck Screening, Ourweek Screening, Seoul (2023), Film POLSKA Spezial KUNST IM KINO, Berlin (2023), Almost Personal, Á Space, Hanoi (2023).
Exhibitions and Performances in Frankfurt am Main: Gentle Heterodoxy, fffredrich gallery (2018), Lamentations, Jo-anne Gallery (2021) Research on Unstable Ground, Studio Naxos (2021), ZDROJ, fffredrich gallery (2022) -
Vera Varlamova
Translator, co-producer, cinematographer.
Born in Kiev in 2000, currently lives in Frankfurt am Main. In 2017 she entered the National I. K. Karpenko-Kary National University of Theater and Cinema, Kyiv, where she studied traditional Chekhov/Stanislavsky performance models both in theory and in practice, until this was discontinued due to the increasing instability in the region. Since 2019 she has been studying Fine Art at the Städelschule in Judith Hopf’s class, where she currently works with film, photography and performance. Her artistic practice is deeply connected to community practice and socio-political engagement. Since 2018 she has been involved in the neighborhood initiative Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit, and since 2020 in the Center for Culture and Recreation Strandbad Tegelseeee. In both initiatives, she offers art
summer art workshops for children and young people with and without a migration background.Each summer program is project-oriented and ends with a public exhibition or film screening. Since 2019, it has been part of the foundationclasscollective, which campaigns against discrimination in the German art scene and academies. In 2021, foundationclasscollective presented an exhibition at the NGBK and in 2022 participated in Documenta 15. Performances in Frankfurt am Main: ‘The Dinner’ fffriedrich gallery, 2023; ‘Reading Hard’, Nizza Hotel, 2023; ‘Generous Enormous Hole’, Städelschule Rundgang 2023; ‘Cynthia 466’, Frankfurt Lab.
Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
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Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
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Holding Spaces
the hanging out score
Participation, Performance
by Imaginative Choreographic Centre ICC
This is a spaceholder.
We are a spaceholder.
Let’s hold spaces.
Together.This is a spaceholder for:
If Holding Spaces is keeping silence
If Holding Spaces is insisting on Loudspeakers and Loudspeaking
If Holding Spaces is learning how to make a carrier bag
If Holding Spaces is learning how to postpone a decision
If Holding Spaces is learning how to slow down
If Holding Spaces is learning how to hangout with ghosts
If Holding Spaces is always already staying in the moment just before the last moment
If Holding Spaces stands for defending and insisting on the right to hanging out
If Holding Spaces is the durational mapping out of the hanging out places in an ever expanding area
If Holding Spaces makes an exhibition of actual placeholders
If Holding Spaces is an act of solidarity
If Holding Spaces is keeping the door open for someone else to enter or go out
If Holding Spaces is Squatting Places
If Holding Spaces is lighting up spaces
If Holding Spaces is filling them up with things to the top
If Holding Spaces is a series of speeches, gestures, dances, scores that insist on the activity of holding spaces not only in the direct action of insisting that the future of Bockenheimer Campus belongs to the cultural organisations and the neighbourhood and the protection of histories, but also other metaphorical, phantastical, playful, dreamy and agitational approachesParticipation:
It is an invitation to persons of all ages and walks of life who feel like now is the time to hang out. No previous experience is needed.Accessibility:
Language: in English, German, Spanish, Bulgarian and MacedonianFor more see the Events
Credits:
initiation/invitation: Ida Daniel
co-thinking/co-imagining/co-making: Aleksandar Georgiev - Ace, Dario Barreto Damas, Zhana Pencheva-
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Imaginative Choreographic Center - ICC
is an artistic project in the field of choreography and dance that explores the imaginative institutionalisation of artists’ work. It was initiated by Aleksandar Georgiev – Ace and is co-dreamed by Zhana Pencheva, Darío Barreto Damas and Ida Daniel together with cultural worker Victoria Kostova. It is currently active in Sofia, Skopje, Stockholm, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Frankfurt am Main, as the people involved live and work in/between these places.
Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
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Monsterhearts
& the Halloween Party
Workshops, Performance, Party
by Zuzana Žabková und René Alejandro Huari Mateus aka Weird Sisters
with Nik Timková und Vojtěch Hlaváček und Lebenshilfe FrankfurtMonsterhearts is a series of public dance and costume workshops, for and by people with and without disabilities, leading up to a Halloween party. Inspired by ancient and current mythologies of monsters, drag and camp culture, the goal is to create a brave space where normativity and virtuosity are rejected, and where people with disabilities and other festival attendees engage in dialogue through the means of performance art. The project responds to the desire of Lebenshilfe to revive a popular Halloween party for people with disabilities, which previously took place at Lebenshilfe and will implant itself during the festival Implantieren ‘24 on the Campus Bockenheim.
The main theme of the workshop series Monster<3 is to invite participants to delve into the feminist discourse of monstrosity and study monsters, which have historically been excluded from normative society by Western Eurocentric knowledge production and depicted as beings to dread. With Monster<3, we aim to create a space for learning with and about monsters and their background stories, which reflect the anxieties constructed by different societies centered on the male citizen, often used to demonize women, marginalized groups, and disabled and deviant bodies. We want to explore both old and recent mythologies to understand how the feminization of monsters has been used as an instrument to humiliate women. Our goal is to challenge this logic by transforming fear and hatred into tools of empowerment, turning monstrosity, disability, debility, and deviation into strengths, and creating safer spaces for queer, trans, non-binary, intersex, agender/gender-fluid, femme and crip bodies.
Participation:
Welcome to our Classroom of Monsters! Our workshops are open to everyone eager to create their own Halloween mask by imagining a unique role, background story, movements, and appearance. We embrace diversity and celebrate differently abled bodies in our creative community.
The workshop is divided into two parts: first, you’ll develop your mask and character, and then you’ll bring that character to life on our fictional runway, specially prepared for the Halloween party.
We’ll be crafting costumes from old clothes, so if you’re ready to transform yours, bring them along! We’ve got all the tools you need to rework your wardrobe into something truly monstrous. Join us for a creative, inclusive, and fun-filled experience!Accessibility:
Language in English and GermanCredits:
Artistic direction: Zuzana Žabková and René Alejandro Huari Mateus
Lebenshilfe assistance: Eva Wick and Mareike Müller-Christ
Visual and Stage design: Nik Timková and Vojtěch Hlaváček
Production: Mariya Barashka-
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Weird Sisters
Zuzana Žabková and René Alejandro Huari Mateus aka Weird Sisters explore the embodiment of self-identity in alienated bodies. They look at what it means to feel foreign - be it in relation to a country, a language, a body, a gender or a system. Their work explores how this otherness can create new alliances and what impact it has on the relationships between dance and choreography and between language and writing. In this project they will collaborate with professional guidance of Eva Wick and Mareike-Christ Müller from Lebenshilfe Frankfurt and the visual artists Nik Timková and Vojta Hlaváček.
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Lebenshilfe Frankfurt
Lebenshilfe Frankfurt e.V. has been campaigning for an inclusive world for more than 60 years. Lebenshilfe Frankfurt was founded in 1961 as a non-profit association by parents and relatives of people with intellectual disabilities. Today, it is also a professional social service provider. More than 1,200 people who need support make use of the services offered by Lebenshilfe Frankfurt.
Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, dem Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur und dem Deutsch-Tschechischen Zukunftsfonds
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Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, dem Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur und dem Deutsch-Tschechischen Zukunftsfonds
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Playhouse
On the Ruins of the Erotic
Performative Research, Dance, Tarot Reading
by Maeve Johnson & Eva Priecková
The research focuses on two different modes, Play and House. Play is being with the consensual exploration of non-traditional desires, power dynamics and fantasies. House is a structural element of choreography; kink practices become danced scores, tarot spreads become lustful scenes. Likewise, a sense of belonging, collectivity and community. Together, these modes form a container to hold us in the underbelly of our ruined erotic. The project explores different forms of performative intimacy, from the coziness of a one-on-one tarot reading, to the dynamic playfulness of a workshop and the voyeuristic aspect of a staged performance. Faced with a ruined erotic shaped since birth by the male gaze, by selling our bodies, our time and our labor, forced into conditions of patriarchal oppression and neoliberal instrumentalisation, how can we fuck the pain away and transform our shivers of grief into the undulating convulsions of ecstasy?
Participation:
Playhouse contains a tarot reading, two workshops and dance performance. Learn more about the participation at the eventsAccessibility:
Language: in spoken EnglishCredits:
Artistic direction: Maeve Johnson
Research and development: Maeve Johnson, Eva Priečková
Production: Joni Barnard-
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Maeve Johnson
Maeve Johnson is a queer-feminist artist based in Berlin, who (hyper)focuses on creating works that explore the body as an intersection of intimacies, sensations, and imaginations. Their practice gets wet for de-authorship, collectivity, care, kink, intimacy, and relational subjectivity. Currently, they are whispering in your ear and asking the choreographic question, “how can kink move us?”
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Eva Priečková
Eva Priečková is a(n in)dependent movement artist working in Slovakia, Germany and Europe-wide. In her research, she refutes the concept of dance virtuosity and a perfectly controlled and trained body. She focuses on the phenomenon of movement in everyday life and its development in community. As a performer and choreographer, she is interested in interdisciplinary and experimental approaches, community projects and situations outside the dance floor.
Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main
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Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main
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Psychoanalysis of Money
Participatory Performance
by Deepfake Situations (Felix Falczyk/Johanna Herschel)
Money releases different emotions and affects. Money is an object of fixation and projection, an everyday neurosis and a means of fulfilling desires. It determines our social interaction down to the last detail.
In the “Psychoanalysis of Money”, we turn money into its opposite. Together as a group, we examine money as a repression of our social dependencies and confront ourselves with the unconscious of money. Our everyday and seemingly natural use of money is put to the test in the “Psychoanalysis of Money”. Money becomes a means of therapy.For the analysis money is provided.
Participation:
Each session is limited to 20 places. Registration required.
Registration: https://forms.gle/qjSfqPyeS1Q42aL6AAccessibility:
Duration: 90 min.
Language: German or/and English spoken language (see date).
No previous knowledge required.Credits:
Deepfake Situations-
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Deepfake Situations (Felix Falczyk/Johanna Herschel)
Deepfake Situations work on strategies and tactics for the misappropriation of (everyday) situations. Together with the public they construct situations, in which new ways of behaviour are rehearsed, unlearned or simulated. Deepfake Situations is a performance collective by Felix Falczyk and Johanna Herschel.
Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, dem Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur
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Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, dem Hessischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur
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¿QUIÉN ES EL VERDADERO HUAQUERO?
(waˈkero ) Noun. Term for a grave robber or desecrator of graves
Collective Research, Dance, Video, Installation-Performance, Workshops
by Amelia Uzategui Bonilla and Daniela Zambrano Almidón,
a production by T.I.A. dance productionsIn the context of provenance research and the history of the German colonial collectors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Daniela Zambrano Almidón and Amelia Uzategui Bonilla approach the topic of restitution from their perspective as part of the Quechua-descendant diaspora living in Europe today.
Seeking to support the development of Andean identities and anti-colonial knowledge in Frankfurt Rhein-Main, the artists will host learning circles addressing the topics of racism as part of the colonial project, cultural appropriation, the exhibition of their ancestors’ bodies in German museums, and indigenous rights. They will share a film, cultural practices, and facilitate discourse.
Creating in relationship to music from the Andes, archive material and traditional cultural dances, they will develop an audiovisual installation and dance performance. Audio description and language translation will aim to provide access to German, English, and Spanish language speakers as well as blind and visually impaired audiences.
Participation:
The project consists of participatory learning circles and culminates in an installation performance, which will be produced and presented at the end of the festival. The learning circles are open to everyone and do not have to be attended sequentially. If you want to join, you can just drop in, or feel free to get in touch with any questions you might have: contact@amelia-uzategui.comAccessibility:
Each event will have facilitation available in Spanish with interpretation offered in English and German. Audio description and access assistance such as a pick-up service will be provided at our events. Please email us for pick-up service: contact@amelia-uzategui.comCredits:
Concept and Artistic Direction: Amelia Uzategui Bonilla, Daniela Zambrano AlmidónMusic/Sound Design: Mariano Sauco
Dramaturgy and Artist Care: Rebekka Pattison
Access Dramaturgy: Fabian Lilian Korner
Production Management: Jordan Tanner
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Amelia Uzategui Bonilla
is a Peruvian dancer, choreographer and teacher who lectures regularly at the HfMDK and has premiered work at Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and Frankfurt LAB. Amelia first learned traditional Peruvian dances from her mother and the Master in Marinera Norteña, Nestor Ruiz. As a migrant-kid growing up in Los Angeles, California, Amelia danced with cousins and family friends, part of the Peruvian diaspora. Returning to Peru as a young adult and professional contemporary dancer, Amelia’s interest in Peruvian dances led to collaborations with the Conjunto Nacional de Folklore with dancer/choreographer Alex Alvarez and Adu Proyecto Universal, directed by Antonio Vilchez. In the United States, Amelia has learned from and participated in projects based in Peruvian dance traditions with Carmen Roman and Pierr Padilla Vasquez (California) and Cynthia Paniagua (New York). In Germany, Amelia has collaborated with Luz Hualpa Garcia. Additionally, Amelia has trained with former members of Peru Negro and Kimbafa in Lima, and the Ballumbrosio family in El Carmen.
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Daniela Zambrano Almidón
a Peruvian researcher and Quechua artist based in Berlin, holds a Master’s degree in Art in Context from Universität der Künste Berlin, UDK and a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the National School of Fine Arts of Peru (ENSABAP).Currently, as an independent artist, she conducts art workshops, decolonial literature reading groups, artistic mediation, and co-organizes cultural events in Berlin through the Peruvian intercultural center “Todas las Sangres”, in cooperation with the forum of Colonialism and Resistance - BARAZANI Berlin. As a research artist, she has participated in exhibitions and international academic spaces such as the Biennial of Arts in Singapore, VIII GEAP Seminar - Study Group on Public Art in Latin America, at the University of Havana, Cuba, among others.
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Dr. Marilú Huertas de Schneider
is a Peruvian botanist and works at the Department of Didactics of Biosciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt. With this interactive tour, she wants to show the importance of the work at the didactic level.
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T.I.A. dance productions
Uzategui Bonilla and Zambrano Almidón previously researched together in 2023 during a residency at HELLERAU. Both work with PEX Alemania, activists who inform on political developments in Peru. For this project, they collaborate with Mariano Sauco, Frankfurt-based singer and composer from Cordoba, Argentina, and Fabian Lilian Korner, Blind activist specializing in the Aesthetics of Access.
T.I.A. dance productions aim to contribute an intersectional, accessible perspective to different dance traditions and social issues. Assembling an interdisciplinary, intercultural and mixed-ability team of artists, they integrate Aesthetics of Access such as Audio Description and Relaxed Performance into their artistic works.
Supported by Kulturamt Stadt Frankfurt
and Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
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Supported by Kulturamt Stadt Frankfurt
and Hessische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
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Silent Acts
Performative walk, workshop
by Rodrigo Andreolli de Campos
in Collaboration with Nina DeLudemannTo enter the ruins of the European university is to walk through systems that have extensively dominated over other forms of knowledge and has shaped a hegemonic cosmovision rotted in modern westernized values.
A challenge to that space has to be done sensitively, but radically. It should not allow nostalgia to take over, but rather celebrate the decay as a form of reform, and challenge language as a form of domination and limitation for broader ways of communicating.
The Silent Acts is a proposition to find ways of sharing knowledge and establishing collaborations in action through emerging sources in constant negotiation. Through the practice of drifts and cartographies we will challenge the perception of our bodies as constitutive elements of the flows composing the urban space, and elaborate ways of mapping those experiences through sensorial notations.The research will be organized as a 5-day-workshop and a Silent Cooking Event, both open for public participation.
Participation:
The Format is a five day long workshop, taking place both indoors and outdoors, with moments of reflection in the studio and experimentations in public spaces of the city. To participate people should register in advance here: https://forms.gle/YCb2hLcTP2v2tiob8
Part of the workshop is also a Silent Cooking event in NovemberAccessibility:
Language: English/ no language. German/ Portuguese/ Spanish translations are possible according to the people participating. The proposal will try to focus on finding ways to communicate beyond oral and written language, using drawings, maps, sounds and movement as scores for work.Credits:
Artistic direction: Rodrigo Andreolli de Campos
Dramaturgy: Rodrigo Andreolli de Campos
Collaboration: Nina DeLudemann-
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Rodrigo Andreolli de Campos
Rodrigo Andreolli de Campos transits through the performing arts exercising the body as an element for sensitive activation of the visible and invisible layers of what is public. He acts in elaborating production structures for multidisciplinary art projects dealing with matters of memory and virtuality, High and Low technologies for narrative and world building. Andreolli engages performance, dance, theater, sculptural/visual crafts and social practices in situated art and education projects.
Unsec – The Unsecurity Conference
Collective Research, Participative Performance, Conversation
by helfersyndrom/Popp & the Weatherpunks (featuring Nicole Horny)
Listened to the weather forecast again – and still got wet? In these times, you can no longer rely on anything. Hardly on pension insurance and election forecasts, less often on the common sense of our fellow human beings, and certainly not on the promise of a better future. The weather situation: a „new general uncertainty“.
One antidote perhaps: start talking about it! The Unsecurity Conference this autumn is your basic training camp in dealing with uncertainties, ambiguities and unpredictability of all kinds! The unsec is pure invention – but becomes reality when we work together. In order to learn strategies from each other on how to better navigate the fickle world. Cyberpunk was yesterday, Solarpunk is a long time coming. So Weatherpunk now!Participation:
Just drop by our unsicherheitsSALON or our unsicherheitsSESSIONS and exchange ideas: What insecurities are there, how do they differ? Who produces them, who benefits from them? What language(s) do we find for them? And what ancestral wisdom and everyday tricks would be a remedy? Show your wonders and wounds!
You can exchange ideas informally, but also become part of the UNSECURITY COUNCIL, which is working towards the final SUMMIT at the end of November.
www.weatherpunk.jetztAccessibility:
Language in German and Englisch
(more information on the individual events)Credits:
A production by helfersyndrom/Popp & the Weatherpunks (featuring: Nicole Horny) in collaboration with the Implantieren Festival Frankfurt and SCAPE° Offenbach.-
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helfersyndrom
helfersyndrom is a theatrical aid organisation that is open in terms of its personnel. Its plays are linked to social knowledge, assembly and action/negotiation systems and usually aim towards a more beautiful future in which „man is a helper to man“. If everyone thinks of themselves, has everyone been thought of? Nope. Unconditional helper syndrome for all!
helfersyndrom received the 1st „Innovation Award Socioculture“ from the Socioculture Fund in 2022 on the topic of Sustainability for the „Climate Parliament of All Beings and Non-Beings“.
Supported by Kulturamt Frankfurt and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture
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Supported by Kulturamt Frankfurt and the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture
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Undo
Workshop,Video, Participatory Art
by Nargess Behrouzian, Pooyesh Frozandeh
The Undo Project explores unlearning and collective archiving in a two-day workshop in Neu-Isenburg. Our aim is to practice, search, and explore together as we create an archive of untold stories. This process will culminate in the production of a video, which will be presented in the Cinema club of Neu Isenburg in November.
By collecting narratives, photos, videos, and other materials that document participants’ experiences, we will work to reinvent the archive of the place in new poetic, performative, and creative ways. This may include unlearning these places through individual or group collages.
Participation:
A two-day workshop in Neu Isenburg about unlearning and the art of collective archiving. The workshop is especially well suited for people who like to tell stories together. No special skills or experience with performance art necessary. Just bring good shoes, because we will wander around.
Email for registration will be providedAccessibility:
Language: in English.
We speak also Farsi and German(more information on the individual events)
Credits:
Artistic direction: Nargess Behrouzian, Pooyesh Frozandeh-
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Nargess Behrouzian
Nargess Behrouzian is a choreographer,theater maker,writer and set designer. She merges her theater and visual arts background to create experimental choreography and multidisciplinary art. Nargess is passionate about merging archives, narration, documentaries, and visual art and movement. Her interests encompass archiving, documentary storytelling and exploring the body- related aspect. Through her work, she delves into the connection between the body, space ,object and narrative, crafting engaging experiences for her audience.
She received the Best Directing/ Candidate Award for her set design in “Home Worker”at the 20th International Tehran Student Festival in 2017. she performed with the Around The World 1 project ensemble at the Tanztage Festival in Sophiensaele Berlin in 2017. Additionally, her play was selected for Iran’s 36th Fadjr Festival.
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Pooyesh Frozandeh
Pooyesh Frozandeh (1992 Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian theatre director, playwright, performer, choreographer and video artist (based in Berlin). With his play “Stone Rite” he won the Polish Grand Prix of the It-Self Festival in Warsaw in 2017 and the Jan Bocza-Szabowski Critics’ Prize.
He studied theatre directing at Soore University in Tehran and then completed a B.A. in theatre studies and art history at Ruhr University Bochum. He is currently studying choreography at the HZT in Berlin.
Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main
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Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main
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