workshops

The Gray Voice Ensemble

Workshops and residency at Hausen e.V., Lychen, Germany, 2023.

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Stadtleben/ Urbanes lernen

A series of workshops based on Berlin’s cartography and its traces, with performative actions in public spaces.
With the Klass 4E of the Arkonaplatz elementary school (prof. Oriane Mac Mallick), Berlin-Mitte, 2021/2022.

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Notre Futur/ Unsere Zukunft

Digital art project in collaboration with Isabelle Stamm and Stephanie Labes. With the Rüttli Campus (Berlin-Neukölln) and Jean Lurcat College (Sarcelles).

Funded by the Deutsch-Französische Jugendwerk (DFJW – OFAJ), 2021.

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NIDA ART COLONY

Work retreat in Nida, Lithuania (LT)

http://www.nidacolony.lt/

16-24.12.2019

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ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE 6 ***QUEERING TIMES***

Collective care-making workshops in PA-F Performing Art Forum, St Erme, France
http://http://www.pa-f.net/

11-21.07.2019

“Queering Times” invites all the participants to think their practices in relational time and to contribute to this collective care-making where different modes of being and making, pro-actively doing and wandering can easily shift or even collapse into each other.

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Impulse Theater Festival

Learning Plays – A School of Schools. A meeting of alternative academies, schools and universities

With Chto Delat – School of Engaged Art (St. Petersburg); PAF – Performing Arts Forum (St. Erme); The Silent University (Athen, Amman, Hamburg, London, Mülheim, Stockholm); Vierte Welt Kollaborationen (Berlin)

A LEARNING PLAY: project conceived by Chto Delat (Nina Gasteva, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky), Jonathan Brooks Platt. http://chtodelat.org/

With Aisling Marks, Anastasia Vepreva, Claudia Grigg Edo, Fawad Khan, Ilya Mirsky, Judith Lavagna, Kerri Jefferis, Kristina Lelovac, Lina Ruske, Natalya Pankina, Nina Gojic, Pablo Lechuga, Philipp Rödel, Roman Osminkin, Sumugan Sivanesan, Wong Wai-Yim.

Impulse Theater Festival, Mülheim/Ruhr, Ringlokschuppen Ruhr
Performance: Friday 24 June 2016, 7.30 pm

Four artist-initiated platforms for knowledge production and exchange move to Mülheim/Ruhr for one week. Instead of trying to invent yet another methodology for yet another summer academy, ‘Learning Plays – A School of Schools’ brings together four exemplary initiatives to share their practice by practical means. What are the opportunities and obligations facing art, artists, activism, theory and theater in these increasingly dramatic times? What are the organic intellectual practices which are being lived?

With Chto Delat and the School of Engaged Art, a working group of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers, the weeklong workshop “What is socialist art today?” consisted of creating, rehearsing and performing a new Lehrstück (learning play).‘Learning Plays’ situates itself in the context of alternative educational approaches – ranging from the youth and reform movements of the 1910s and Paulo Freire’s concept of critical pedagogy from the 1970s to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s current approach of aesthetic education – while also referencing Brecht’s Lehrstück theory: the idea of a theater with no division between audience and actors, an agonistic group situation focussed on learning how to understand and act within political reality. All four of the invited initiatives have developed their own very different performing models of knowledge production and transfer, while at the same time being deeply engaged in struggling with contemporary political realities.

The performance A LEARNING PLAY: What is socialist art today? Episode #1. New People attempts to reclaim and reconsider new forms of emancipatory education through art practice, performance and collaborative forms of work. It aims to find a new definition of socialist art and realism, as well as at tracing its genealogy and investigating the possibilities of its practical realization by merging political theory, art, and activism into a tool of political and civic empowerment.

The School of Engaged Art (St. Petersburg) was founded in 2012 by the Russian collective Chto Delat.

The Impulse Theater Festival 2016 is a project of the NRW KULTURsekretariat, in association with FFTDüsseldorf, studiobühneköln and Ringlokschuppen Ruhr.

Image credits: Dmitry Vilensky.

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Performative Encounters
A project by Yvonne Reiners

Curatorial Practices: Fields and Techniques # 2
17 April 2015, District, Berlin.

Performing Encounters about the internet as democratizing medium with unMonastery (Ben Vickers and Kei Kreutler) as well as the artists Sebastian Schmieg and Jonas Lund.

Yvonne Reiner’s Performing Encounters continue the series of workshops and acts which District dedicates to the exploration of current tendencies, questions and methods of curatorial work. Curatorial Practices: Fields and Techniques was initiated by Susanne Husse and Michaela Richter and started in September 2014 with the workshop Casting Creatures. Towards a Materialism of the Encounter by artist Iza Tarasewicz.

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With Yildiz Aslandogan (architect), Fabien Bidaut (architect), Alicia Frankovich (artist), Judith Lavagna (curator), Aude Pariset (artist), Joanne Pouzenc (architect), Cailen Pybus (architect), Tanya Ostojic (artist), Vanessa Safavi (artist), Cathy Larqué (Bureau des arts plastiques), Matthias Böttger (curator at Deutsches Architektur Zentrum).

How to rethink space and matter? This workshop focuses and operates at the intersection of art and architecture, about the relationship between language and the constitution of space. Dealing with projects in public space requires consideration of its discursive context.
How does the work of art or architecture interact with the multitude of voices that construct public space? How does this discursive context influence the relationship between artist, architect and participatory public? And what is its effect on the actors themselves?
The idea of the workshop is to exchange documents around the notion of public spaces and to discuss on the basis of this information.

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Politics of the small act

Conceived by Katalin Erdödi (Robert Bosch Fellow), Julia Kurz and Radmila Joksimovic

Museum of Contemporary Art (GFZK), Leipzig, 4-5 October 2012.

The initiative «Politics of the small act» invites 34 international actors (activists, artists, curators) from 13 countries to Leipzig for a two-days workshop at the intersection of artistic and socio-political discourses.With presentations, discussions, working groups and dinner debates, the event focuses on ‘small acts’ – micro-strategies of self-empowerment and self-organisation – as potential tools to induce social and/or political change. It explores different forms of intervention in the social fabric and maps artistic and civic strategies in the context of small acts.

With the support of Robert Bosch Foundation, Polish Institute Berlin – Branch in Leipzig, Heinrich Böll Foundation and Open Society Foundations.

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Initiative PAiR _ Performing Arts in Residence

Conceived and organized by PaiR, ResArtis and Schloss Bröllin e.V.

Conceived by Josephine Heide, Katharina Husemann, Peter Legemann, Christine Schmalor.

Participants: Riitta Tarvainen (Hovinkartano International Arts and Cultural centre, Finland), Judith Lavagna (curator, Germany), Adriana Garbagnati and Andrea Paciotto (La MaMa Umbria International/Offucina Eclectic Arts PG, Italy), Dock 11 Studios (Berlin, Germany), Alexander Schwan (FU Berlin, Germany).

K-Salon, Berlin, 02.12.2011

PAiR, part of the worldwide network Res Artis, was founded as a form of a working group in the aim of developing intercultural artistic productions and cooperations through « the general objective to strengthen existing and support the development of new residencies for performing artists ».

Residencies managers, curators and artists took part on a working day based on performing art practices in a residency context, its perspectives, ways of collaboration, production and fundings of the future.
Dance, theater and fine arts fields involved in residences centers and performance programs where selected by Schloss Bröllin, an international research center based in Germany focusing on theater, performance, dance and workshop projects.

With the support of ResArtis, Schloss Bröllin e.V, Initiative internationaler Tourismus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (IIT), Réseau Européen des Centres Culturels de Rencontre (ACCR).

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Platforma 11

Conceived by Yvonne Anders and Julia Kurz

Platforma11 is an international and interdisciplinary project week which aims to create an open space process reflecting on the topics ‘art, politics and education’ and their relationship to one another. Around 50 artists and activists from Germany, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, North Afrika and Israel with interdisciplinary approaches worked together in organizing workshops, panels and lectures as well as exhibitions, concerts, performances and interventions.

The «Building Networks» group, through a series of discussions, approached the topic of networking from as many possible angles as the number of its members. It was a task, not only of defining the term, but as well of finding possible application methods. To enrich this process we approached all the participants of Platforma11 in an attempt to document how networks are perceived and what networks exist among the people of the workshop.

10.-19.09.2011, Leipzig and Markkleeberg, Germany

With the support of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Kulturbahnhof Markkleeberg e.V., Giro e.V.

www.platforma11.net

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fugitif

A series of workshops and meetings conceived by Judith Lavagna and Neven Allanic.

Participating artists and curators: Stefan Riebel, Julia Kurz, Regine Ehleiter, Ludovic Sauvage, Yannis Perez, Emmanuel Pevny, Pascal Chirol, Falk Messerschmidt.

Guests artists and curators: Géraldine Longueville, Gwenola Wagon et Stéphane Degoutin, Camille Paulhan et Emilie Bouvard (Portrait la Galerie), Marion Prouteau (DENA Art Fundation).

Artists and curators from Leipzig and Paris met at the gallery space Ars Longa for a 5 days workshop based on site-specificity exchanges, art in public space and creative networks.
Based in Leipzig (Germany) since 2008, fugitif is an non-profit organization run by artists and researchers. Residencies, art projects and workshops are initiated between France and Germany in order to promot artistic productions and collaborativ practices.

Ars Longa, Paris, 21 – 25 may 2010. With the support of L’Office franco-allemand de la Jeunesse (OFAJ) and Ars Longa.

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Kiss me Deadly

Workshop co-organized with prof. Eric Perrier, Jeff Guess and Judith Perron.
École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris-Cergy and Ars Longa, Paris, April 2009.

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Curating Degree Zero Archive
Barnaby Drabble and Dorothee Richter

Curated by Celia Cretien, Marie de Bouard and Mélanie Mermod

Artistic contributions from: Nicolas Floc’h, Yann Sérandour, Aloïs Godinat, Jean-Christophe Huguenin, Körner Union.

Participants: Claire Daudin, Morgann Guyomarc’h, Marianna Liosi, Chen Tamir, Aria Spinelli, Judith Lavagna, Florence Ostende, Maïwenn Walter.

Curating Degree Zero Archive was launched to research, present and discuss changes in the practice of freelance curators, artist-curators, new-media curators and curatorial collaborations. Beginning in 1998 with a three-day symposium and an ensuing publication, the project focused on an expanding archive about these practices and its 1200 documents. Between 2003 and 2008 the archive toured to 17 venues, where it was displayed, used and accompanied by a programme of live events and discussions.

June 16. – July 08. 2007, Point Éphémère, Paris.

With the support of Association D.R.A.S.H, DRAC Île-de-France, Mairie de Paris.

www.curatingdegreezero.org