BEINGS OF ABSENCE
Debate in an open-air onsen
Curated by Aljoscha Begrich (dramaturg), Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius (architect) and Ella Ziegler (artist)
HAMBURG (GER) 2023
Ten representatives of those who are absent in the theater institution debate their transformational proposals for the culture of the performing arts. How can non-human life forms, nature cultures, 15-year-olds, lonely mourners, the deceased, those who can’t find their way or believe the theater doesn’t have anything to do with them, those who inhabit new dramatic landscapes of the Anthropocene or those who prefer to devote their time to other things, but also representation itself, become a powerful part of the performing arts audience? How can we understand those who are absent in order to use their absence as a starting point for transformations?
Debaters
Tatjana Ahle-Rosental (religious scientist, artist, curator at Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassel), Dido Aquilanti (student), Louise Brown (funeral speaker, writer, journalist), Christopher Dell (composer, philosopher, urban expert), Bernadette La Hengst (musician, director, activist), Michael John (psychiatrist, theater maker with mentally ill people), Christophe Meierhans (director, activist, musician), Marianne Sonneck (performance artist, organism democracy, Club Real Berlin), Christian Tschirner (author, performer, dramaturge) & Margarita Tsomou (cultural studies and theater sciene, dramaturge, curator, activist)
