Conference June 5-8 Program
Prognosis of Movement(s): Ten Scenarios for the Future
Conference from June 5-8, 2008
Performances, Lectures, Workshops and Consultation on the Future
at the Hebbel am Ufer theatre (HAU 2 and 3) Berlin
Hallesches Ufer 32
10963 Berlin
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DAILY 12.00 – 19.00 H
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A project of the Center for Research on Movement (Institute for Theater Science/FU Berlin) in cooperation with the HAU, at the request of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
Concept, Research, Program: Gabriele Brandstetter, Sibylle Peters, Kai van Eikels
Project Management: DepArtment
Visions and utopias are behind us – we have entered the epoch of prognosis. Prognoses are not only predictions of the future, they also define the present. Who makes prognoses and how this happens – these are important social, political and cultural factors. Therefore the Center for Research on Movement proposes to place the future in the hands of people other than the usual economic and esoteric oracles.
Instead of the notorious “Wirtschafts-Weise”, who forecast the future of German economy twice a year, the Center has nominated ten “Wise Guys” of Movement who will make prognoses of another kind and present them between June 5 –8: ten scenarios of the future in the form of lectures, performances and workshops. They will explore political forms of movement, the future of society and collectivity, memory traces, temporal ruptures, the line between war and peace and the rise and fall of financial, spiritual and moral values. They will also question the future of prognosis itself: what defines an art of prediction in keeping with our time? What kind of position can art and cultural studies claim for the mutual determination of the future?
05.06.08 / 17:30 / GEDÄCHTNISKIRCHE/KANTSTRASSE and 22:00 / HAU 2
LIGNA, Art Collective (Germany)
The Unconscious of Stars
Collective Performance in Berlin/ Analysis, Interpretation, Debate
The Unconscious of Stars is a radio performance that will take place in Berlin and is open for everybody to participate. Participants are scattered across the expanse of a square in shifting shapes through various routines and exercises. In the evening, the artist Alice Creischer and the culture & media theorists Hans-Joachim Lenger and Thomas Macho will interpret the resulting figures as astral constellations. What kind of future will this astrology reveal for political movements?
Meeting point and handout of radios: GEDÄCHTNISKIRCHE/KANTSTRASSE
05. 06 2008 / 20:00 / HAU2
Prognosis of Movement(s)
Prelude to the Conference
Gabriele Brandstetter, Sibylle Peters, Kai van Eikels
Center for Research on Movement (Zentrum für Bewegungsforschung)
And:
Bojana Kunst, Philosopher (Slovenia)
When Will We Work Together? What Will We Say to Each Other?
On the Future of Collaboration: on Doing and Talking
Interactive Lecture in English
How do we use prognosis as an instrument for acting collectively? By thinking of it as an experimental exercise that projects us collectively into a future space. Prognoses place us in specific distributive orders. Today theory and art are interested in investigating new, different forms of distribution, organization, and collaboration – in thought and praxis.
Featured future guest: Ivana Muller
06. + 07.06.08 / 12:00-17:00 / HAU 3, Rehearsal Stage 1
Walid Ra’ad / Jalal Toufic, Artist/Philosopher (USA/Lebanon)
Untimely Collaboration
Seminar in English
Walid Ra’ad’s archives document the history of Lebanon, blending memory and invention: Missing Lebanese Wars appear. The archive becomes an uncanny prediction of what will return as the result of repression. Archival work demands an untimely collaboration says Jalal Toufic. Every artist, author or thinker works together in an untimely relationship with future artists, authors and thinkers. A disaster reveals itself when these future collaborators are missing.
Registration from 01. – 30.05.08 at info@dep-art-ment.com
06.06.08 / 18:00 / HAU 3
Karin Knorr Cetina, Sociologist (Germany)
Our Post-Social Future
Presentation
How will our social structures look in 100 years? How will they move in order to extricate themselves from the corner in which they have been pushed by the market’s pressure for efficiency? In the future sociality will be externalized rather than internalized. It will happen at the surface of our bodies instead of in the core of our selves. From of our socializing with objects the courage to think the concept of sociality in a new way will emerge.
Jon McKenzie, Theater Studies (USA)
Democratizing Torture – Three Scenarios
Presentation in English
“Performance,” says Jon McKenzie “will be for the 20th and 21st Century what discipline was for the 18th and 19th Century.” When asked about the future of performance, he confronts us with a prognosis of the relationship between torture and democracy. What will be the future of the “theater of clean torture”?
06.06.08 / 21:00 / HAU 2
Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, Lorena Rivero de Beer / La Pocha Nostra, Performance Artists (USA/Mexico)
Mapa-Corpo 3: Interactive Rituals for the New Millenium
Interactive performance in English
Guillermo Gomez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra invite us to one of their famous/infamous ritual performances: where will the new cultural, political, spiritual and sexual borders be located? What will the new mechanisms and strategies be for transgressing them? The hybrid shamanism of the „cartel of the cultural bastards“ plays with the exoticism and fetishes of the Western world and is itself a prognosis of the future of rituals.
31.5.-2.6. Workshop for artists/activists/researchers:
Development of Hybrid Future Personas
Info and registration at info@dep-art-ment.com
07.06.08 / 18:00 / HAU 2
Mamoru Takayama, Philosopher (Japan)
What is the Future of History? An Earthquake for Hegel
Presentation in German
With a flashlight and emergency rations in my pocket I enter the Tokyo metro – gripped by the prediction of an earthquake. I collect prognoses so that I can continue to live out the future as I have until now, as an “I,” a “self.” Is a prognosis conceivable that wrests the present from the clutches of wanting to remain an “I” or “self”? Is ‘history’ imaginable in a fashion that would allow for such liberating prognoses?
07.06.08 / 20:00 / HAU 2
Francois Jullien, Philosopher (France)
For a Coherence of Prognosis/ Pour une cohérence de la prognose / Für eine Kohärenz der Prognose
Presentation and Experiment in Translation
Francois Jullien confronts European thought with what was thought in China – and with what was not thought there, as, for example, the concept of time. Without such concept of time can there be a coherence of prognosis? The technique to read the potential of the present will take the place of prediction in its European fashion. Can this technique also be applied to China’s political and economic present? Jullien’s presentation will be translated – twice: from French to German and from the present to the future.
07.06.08 / 22:00 / HAU 3
Geheimagentur, Performance Collective (Germany)
China Is Our Future. “as if these were the early days of a better society”
Interactive Performance
With the help of an oracle machine, migrant workers, taxi drivers, artists, cooks, intellectuals and prostitutes from Peking predict the future for the audience. This is possible because China Is Our Future. At least this is what the banks, fortune cookies and even the time zones tell us. The Geheimagentur took a trip through time to Peking in order to find out.
08.06.08 / 19:00 / HAU 3
SheShePop, Performance Collective (Germany)
Oracle Box
Interactive Performance
SheShePop takes the accidental collective formed by the members of an audience literally: the predictions and inventions of the audience become the performance. SheShePop’s „Oracle Box“ is a discourse workshop with theatrical strategies and political implications. They will attempt to activate the (im)possibility of community, the modern individual’s desire for collectivism.
08.06.08 / 21:00 / HAU 2
Joshua Sofaer, Performance Artist (Great Britain)
Face It
Performance Lecture in English
Joshua Sofaer predicts the future of Berlin: six expert representatives, six people of public interest in and around Berlin have been photographed: Hans-Christian Ströbele, Dr Gülnaz Gönül-Aslan, Maike Senger, Dr Ottmar Edenhofer, Sabine Werth, and Ambassador Professor Peter Katjavivi. These photos have been amalgamated into a composite image, a seventh portrait, which will be given to experts in the art of reading faces. In his performance Joshua Sofaer will present the results: „Come and see the face of the future of Berlin. Come and hear what lies in store for you!“
Research Assistance: Florian Feigl
08.06.08/ 22.30 / HAU2
Conference Conclusion
Ten Scenarios for the Future
with Matthias Anton, Ulrike Bergermann, Hans-Friedrich Bormann, Stefanie Diekmann, Florian Feigl, Paul Fleming, Barbara Gronau, Janez Jansa, Martin Jörg Schäfer, Elke Siegel, Kathrin Wildner and others
05.-08.06.08 / Foyer HAU 2
Mobile Akademie/ Hannah Hurtzig
Consultation Office for the Completed Future
Personalized expert fortune telling in 20 minute, one-on-one meetings
(Room: Anke Philipp)
The Consultation Office for the Completed Future opens its doors in the Foyer of HAU 2. Book your own personalized consultation! Experts remember your present from the perspective of the future and advise you about important aspects of your life that your future still has in store for you.
Themes and Experts:
The actor I will have been. (Bible predictions with Bruno Latour). Karin Harrasser
What I will not have done. Nicolas Sieben
Where I will have been. Hasso Spode
Which expert I will have been. Helgard Haug
How I will have moved. Gabriele Brandstetter
How I will have loved. Judith Hopf
Office Hours:
Thursday, 05.06.2008
Booking from 19.00 Uhr
20.00 – 21.00 ACTIVISM: Karin Harrasser
21.00 – 22.00 EXPERTISE: Helgard Haug
Friday, 6.6.2008
Booking and Archive open from 19.00 Uhr
20.00 – 21.00 NOT DONE: Nico Siepen
21.00 – 22.00 TRAVELING: Hasso Spode
Saturday, 07.06.2008
Booking and Archive open from 18.00
19.00 – 20.00 MOVES: Gabriele Brandstetter
20.00 – 21.00 LOVE: Judith Hopf
Sunday, 08.06.2008
Archive open from 20.00 Uhr, the office is closed
Booking 1 h prior to counseling, Foyer HAU2
Pay as you consider appropriate after the counseling.
