THE ART OF STAYING MANY | Weimar

THE ART OF STAYING MANY 1: POETIC POSITIONS

With Manja Präkels (writer and musician), Sivan Ben Yishai (playwright and theater director), Anne Rabe (playwright and poet), Deniz Utlu (writer) and others, accompanied by a welcome address by Holger Bergmann (Managing Director Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.) and Professor Carola Lentz (President Goethe-Institut)

The art of staying many can only be imagined with many voices. This is why the Weimar forum invites different writers and playwrights to give their subjective takes and personal highlights on the title of the forum series. And, thus, to allow voices and positions to be heard in a kind of authors’ kaleidoscope, which individually and yet together seek to open up possibilities, perspectives, even visions for a social future of coexistence by and for the many.

• Venue: AUDIMAX of the Bauhaus University Weimar

THE ART OF STAYING MANY 2: PHILOSOPHICAL POSITIONS

"(Radical) universalism – a strategy for multiplicity and humanism?"

Two positions in conversation

With Omri Boehm (philosopher) and Hito Steyerl (filmmaker and professor of contemporary digital media), Moderation: Catherine Newmark

With reference to the humanist appeal of the biblical prophets and, above all, Immanuel Kant, the Israeli-German philosopher Omri Boehm outlines a new understanding of what universalism can be and mean today and how it can point the way out of the struggles and particularisms of contemporary identity debates in his award-winning book "Radical Universalism," which is currently attracting much discussion. The filmmaker, media artist and professor of contemporary digital media Hito Steyerl responds to Boehm's concept of universalism with her own take, in order to spark a conversation on the basis of the two positions brought into play, which traces the possibilities of thought and existence of a (future) humanity and a human(istic) world in the face of all the crises and wars that shape our present.

• Venue: AUDIMAX of the Bauhaus University Weimar

“Sounding Light”

Dance performance by CHENG Tsung-lung/Cloud Gate

Cloud Gate from Taiwan takes the audience into a non-human world: into the light moods and sounds of a forest, its animals, plants and elements. In doing so, he fundamentally raises the question of non-human or more than human coexistence, of the planetary conditions for the art of staying many, even beyond the human species.

• Venue: Großes Haus, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (DNT)

Performative actions on the Theaterplatz

With Tanja Krone and Tina Pfurr

• Venue: Theaterplatz
  

Truck Time

Truck Time is an active and activating chill out time and place of constant discussion about the ART OF STAYING MANY: Come by, inform yourselves and us, exchange ideas – about fears, questions, wishes about contemporary history. On our journey through nine venues, the truck will offer you a listening ear and connect the experiences, places and reports via analog CHAT. And if you want to do something concrete, you can build DIY wind turbines with us – in order to measure together how and where the political wind is blowing.

"Get involved! An exercise in adding your own mustard to the mix."

By and with Tanja Krone

The director, musician and performer Tanja Krone invites everyone to add their own bit of mustard to the general situation, in the literal sense: in the collective process of making mustard, you can enter into conversation with Krone – about the meaning of the spicy paste when it’s once again about the sausage, as well as about the mustard of the present in general.

“(You gotta) sing for your right (to live in a democracy)”

Democracy karaoke with Tina Pfurr (cultural producer, actress)

In her feminist democracy karaoke format, the actress and performer Tina Pfurr provides a microphone and/or herself as a mouthpiece to give voice to paralyzing anger, singing or screaming, very loudly or very quietly, and to offer a rejection of political developments or a declaration of love for artistic freedom.

05.30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Finale on the DNT balcony

"THAT'S NOT NORMAL, IS IT?"

Lecture by Arne Vogelgesang on the far-right battle over gender

Using examples from a new generation of far-right video activists, Arne Vogelgesang (internil) examines the argumentative set pieces, emotional offers and self-presentations that are being used right now to wage a cultural struggle against the target group of young people over gender issues, body images and inclusive ways of speaking. Arne Vogelsang works as a video artist and gives lectures and workshops on radical internet propaganda.

• Venue: Foyer, DNT Weimar

Departure shuttle bus to the Redoute

„VACA" (world premiere)

Performance by Guillermo Calderón (Chile)

With his political media satire, which takes place somewhere between a theater that has become ineffective, a trash TV studio and the world of bicycle/motorcycle couriers and their economic struggle for survival, Calderón asks "how do people become fascists without realizing it."

VACA will be shown as part of the Goethe Medal 2024 cultural program.

• Venue: Redoute
• Shuttle bus to the Redoute at TBC p.m.

"BEVOR WIR KIPPEN - Review cabaret by and with Schorsch Kamerun"

Live radio broadcast / with guests Tina Pfurr and Arne Vogelgesang

Singer, author and director Schorsch Kamerun (Die Goldenen Zitronen) unleashes a "cabaret about un- or necessary forms of expression" with BEVOR WIR KIPPEN and interviews people on the street with questions such as: "Do we need the gender star? Or can it go?" in order to make the collected voices and statements part of a live radio show produced and broadcast on site in the evening for the local station Radio Lotte.

Schorsch Kamerun will broadcast the day’s collected voices and statements live and on site as a radio show for the local station Radio Lotte and will be assisted by Tina's investigations and Arne's expertise.

• Venue: Pavillon, Radio Lotte

"Three East German women get drunk and found the ideal state"

Performative reading with punch – by and with Peggy Mädler, Annett Gröschner, Wenke Seemann, moderated by Franziska Werner

Three friends, a kitchen table, the night beyond the window: Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler and Wenke Seemann talk. They describe themselves as "East German women," whatever that means exactly, about the joys of crooked lives, about the present with its constantly intruding past. They drink, laugh and argue, talk about scraps of memory and contradictions, about the complexity of influences and about ideals that have become alien over the years. In Buddhism, there are spirits that are born from carelessly discarded things - "what would the spirit that came from the GDR look like?" the three ask. Their book is as witty and warm-hearted toward remembering and reinventing oneself as any great social discussion deserves.

• Venue: Studio stage, DNT Weimar

"Sounding Light"

Dance performance by CHENG Tsung-lung/Cloud Gate

Cloud Gate from Taiwan takes the audience into a non-human world: into the light moods and sounds of a forest, its animals, plants and elements. In doing so, he fundamentally raises the question of non-human or more than human coexistence, of the planetary conditions for the art of staying many, even beyond the human species.

• Venue: Großes Haus, DNT Weimar