Poison and Play Workshops and Seminar
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 14.10 – 16.10 2011
Berlin, Germany
A weekend of talks, lectures, and workshops for the
exploration of the idea of poison through art, performance, architecture, and
urban nature
“Poison and Play Workshops and Seminar” is programmed by artist Pia
Lindman for her Labor Berlin 6 project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Pia Lindman’s work in progesss “Poison and Play” deals with
the poisoning and detoxification of the body, mind, and environment. How do
human beings cope with the daily exposure to a wide range of toxins? “Poison
and Play Workshops and Seminar” invites participants to approach this question
from the point of view of philosophy, economy, history, biochemistry, and
psychology. In the workshops participants will have the opportunity to
experience their own poisoning and detoxification, as well as develop
performances or workshops of their own.
Unless separately indicated, all events take place in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John Foster Dulles Allée 10, Berlin, Germany
PROGRAM
(HOURS AND ORDER OF PRESENTATION MAY STILL CHANGE)
Friday 14.10 13:00-22:00
13:00 – 16:00 Mollecular Organization
event/intervention in Poison and Play installation at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Mollecular organization studies the functioning of semio-capitalism and
develops soft technologies of cooperation, tools for building the impossible
communities of abstract work and its performers. Kafka Machine is a
collaboration between Presque Ruines in Paris, Ueinzz-theatre group in Sao
Paolo and Mollecular organization in Helsinki.
16:00 – 18:00 Lazy Climbers
workshop by Pia Lindman and Katja Echterbecker
Start
from Haus der Kulturen der Welt and move into surrounding park area.
Reference: http://lazyclimbers.blogspot.com/
Acrobat Katja Echterbecker and Pia Lindman developed together
a workshop specifically for those who usually do not climb trees, to learn in a
safe and fun way to climb trees.
MAX 20 participants. Pre-register by emailing piuska@mac.com. Please note: only adults!
MAX 20 participants. Pre-register by emailing piuska@mac.com. Please note: only adults!
Katja Echterbecker is a performing artist and an acrobat. She trained in
adult education, outdoor training and acrobatics at the Staatliche Ballet
Schule in Berlin, Staatliche Artistenschule in Kiev and at the Universität zu
Köln. She tours internationally with the Duo equi-Libre (www.equi-libre.de)
and performs regularly with the Tangoshow (directed by Martin Quilitz) As a
consultant, she also develops artistic concepts for events and expos held by
companies such as Bosch, Siemens, Jaguar and Audi.
18:00 - 21:00 Lecture: Peter Pàl
Pelbart, Akseli Virtanen, and Franco Bifo Berardi*
Franco Berardi (Bifo) is a contemporary writer, media-theorist and
media-activist. He founded the magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was part of
the staff of Radio Alice, the first free pirate radio station in Italy
(1976-1978). Like others Involved in the political movement of Autonomia in
Italy during the 1970's, he fled to Paris, where he worked with Felix Guattari
in the field of schizoanalysis. During the 1980's he contributed to the magazines
Semiotexte (New York), Chimerees (Paris), Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80
(Milan). In the 1990's he published Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa, 1993),
Cibernauti (Rome, 1994), and Felix (Rome, 2001). He is currently collaborating
on the magazine Derive Approdi as well as teaching social history of
communication at the Accademia di belle Arti in Milan. He is the co-founder of
the e-zine rekombinant.org and the telestreet phenomenon.
* Franco Berardi will
participate his health allowing. TBA.
Peter Pàl Pelbart is a professor of philosophy at the Catholic
University of Sao Paulo and the coordinator of the famous Ueinzz Theater
Company composed of fragile minds and mental distress. He is also a member,
with Suely Rolnik, of the Centre de recherches sur la Subjectivité and
collaborator of the Mollecular organization. Peter was a student of Deleuze and
the translator of Deleuze and Guattari into portugese. He has worked especially
with the concept of time, biopolitics, subjectivity, madness, community and with
thinkers like Guattari, Deleuze, Foucault, Nancy, Blanchot, Agamben. He is one
of the most inventive minds trying to work our way in the comtemporary
problematic of biopolitical economy, art and powers of life. He has published
in Chiméres, Multitudes and his recent books include O tempo não-reconcilado
(Perspectiva, 1998), A vertigem por um fio: Políticas da subjetividade
contemporânea (Iluminuras, 2000), Vida Capital, (Iluminuras, 2003), Filosofia
de la Desercion: Niilismo, Locura y Comunidad (Tinta Limon, 2009).
Saturday 15.10 11:00-19:00
11:00 – 12:30 “Vocal walk” workshop
by Heidi Fast
Start from Haus der Kulturen der Welt and move into surrounding park area.
Start from Haus der Kulturen der Welt and move into surrounding park area.
Heidi Fast invites people to
"sing" and walk with her to experiment with creating a slow space for
one’s sensibility, with "attuning" oneself with the surrounding life
and co-walkers and to enliven the expressions of humanity within the urban
landscape.
MAX 20 participants. Pre-register by emailing piuska@mac.com
Heidi Fast,
Helsinki-based vocal artist, teacher, and researcher works with collective
compositions and vocal installations. She is co-founder of the international research
group Mollecular Organization. Her artwork deals with the mutations of
sensibilities and nervous systems caused by current changes in the social and
mental environment and the potential therapeutic and healing affects of art in
these conditions.
12:30 – 13:30 Presentation: Mia
Keinänen “Walking and insight”
How and why does walking help your
thinking? What share in the effect has the actual physical motion, the rhythm
of the walk, or the view changing in front of your eyes?
Dancer and choreographer Mia
Keinänen holds a PhD in Embodied
Cognition from Harvard University. Her most recent projects include creating
social choreography through Twitter (www.aloneornot.org), investigation of
peer-to-peer online learning among parkour practitioners and use of intuition
in creative processes– and now, walking as a creative thinking action. She is
currently a Post Doctorate Researcher at Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in
Oslo.
13:30 – 15:00 Chicken Game workshop
by Marina Kronkvist. Chicken Game is a fun game that aims through non-verbal communication and stimuli at reconnecting the participants with their reptilian brain and reach insight through a non-rational, instinctual process.
MAX 20 participants. Pre-register by emailing piuska@mac.com
MAX 20 participants. Pre-register by emailing piuska@mac.com
Artist Marina Kronkvist works with body and movement awareness, core stability
and massage. Chicken Game is a fun game that makes it necessary for the
participants to reconnect with their reptilian brain. Reference:
http://reptilianbrain2011.blogspot.com/
Marina Kronkvist holds a
Bachelor Degree in Aesthetics and Body Awareness from Helsinki University, Dept
of Aesthetics. She is also a somatic sex educator with a license from the
Sexsibility Coach Training Program in Stochkolm, Sweden.
15:00 Presentation: Prof. Dr. Ralf Stahlmann, Institut für Klinische
Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Charité Berlin. Prof. Dr. Stahlmann represents
the medical scientific perspective into questions of toxins.
15:30 Presentation: Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen:
"Progress, Food, Ethics and Health".
Elisabeth
Meyer-Renschhausen is a freelance
researcher, author, journalist based in Berlin. She also works as an adviser
for urban agriculture and as a garden activist.
After receiving a doctorate
in Philosophy at the Free University in Berlin, she became a Private Lecturer
at the Department of Political Sciences and Sociology at the Free University.
She also lectures at different universities in Germany and abroad. Her research
and writing address eating habits, agriculture in a globalised world, urban
agriculture, urban gardening and women´s studies. Her most recent book is a
study on community gardening in New York City as well as the globalization of
the European universities.
On her Homepage www.breigarten.de
you will find links to some of her published texts online.
17:00 – 19:00 “Bread and Circus”
Participating discussants: Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen, Mia Keinänen, Marina
Kronkvist, Mollecular Organization, and Prof. Dr. Ralf Stahlmann
19:00 – 23:00
OPTIONAL:
Dinner (cooked together) and
continued seminar with Mollecular Organization, discussing their most recent
project, the Kafka Machine, a collaboration between Mollecular Organization,
professor Luca Guzzetti and film makers Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thompson.
Location in a Berlin apartment (TBA).
Sunday 16.10 11:00 – 19:00
11:00-17:00 “City Walk” with Heimo
Lattner.
The walk will connect a point on
the periphery (tba) with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Other than a “regular” tour, the walk
refrains from any comment and thus breaks the hierarchy between tour guide and
participant (artist and audience) and instead makes the experience a collective
one.
MAX 20 participants. Pre-register by emailing piuska@mac.com
Heimo Lattner’s works have traversed the density of the urban, whilst enabling specific experiences of the local. He also works under the name of e-Xplo (www.e-Xplo.de): the framework for the collaboration with Erin McGonigle and Rene Gabri. Their collaborative work many times manifested itself in the form of nightly bus-tours through different cities in which the articulation of individual narratives and their approaches to larger references became a highly charged site.
Lattner’s installations and
performances have been produced for and presented at, among others: ICA,
London, UK; PS1/Moma, New York, USA; 8th Sharjah Biennale, United Arab
Emirates; and Transmediale, Berlin, Germany.
12:00 – 14:00 OPEN WORKSHOP
Based on the workshops and
discussions from the previous days, create and teach a workshop to us!
14:00 – 16:00 Play Fight Club by
Frank Taherkhani. Fun and safe way to learn to live out emotions such as aggression in a creative, playful way.
MAX 20 participants. Pre-register by emailing piuska@mac.com
MAX 20 participants. Pre-register by emailing piuska@mac.com
Frank
Taherkhani
studied philosophy, German literature and economics; for his Master’s degree he
wrote his thesis on “Prejudices” and is writing on the same topic for his
doctoral dissertation. Frank has been practicing various martial arts since
1984 (incl. karate, jiu-jitsu and WingTsun since 1991). Through the years he
has developed his own, unique approach to play fighting and has taught
workshops with Gabriela Tarcha, Eva Kreimendahl, and Paula L. Rosengarthen.
Taherkhani has also taught workshops by recurrent invitations by choreographer
Felix Ruckert (Schwelle7 and Xplore).
Reference:
http://www.play-fighting.com
16:00 – 17:00 Presentation: “The
Good Life”. Curators Theo Ligthart and Anna Redeker will speak about the
conceptual background for the “Stay Hungry” exhibition at Gleisdreieck
Schrebergärten, Berlin January – May 2011
Reference: http://stay-hungry.net/
Artist, writer, and curator Theo
Ligthart is based in Berlin, Germany.
He was trained as a cameraman in Poland, Germany and the USA, and studied
philosophy in Vienna, Austria. His films, installations and videos have been
shown at numerous international venues such as Ars Electronica, Transmediale,
Rotterdam Film Festival, Moscow Film Festival, ARCO Madrid, and Sao Paolo Film
Festival. Ligthart has exhibited widely among others in the U.S., Korea,
Austria, Hungary, Romania, Switzerland, Germany, and Spain. Ligthart writes on
film, media, and art and his most recent book Terminator... Über das Ende
als Anfang. Pasagen Verlag, Wien
(2004), discusses the 1984 Hollywood film “Terminator”. He recently published
an essay in Revue titled
"démodé oder demodern" about the relationship between art fashion and
utopia.
Anna Redeker is currently finishing her MA in art history at Humboldt University,
Berlin. She has worked with Berlin based
galleries such as Max Hetzler, Konrad Fischer and Thaddaeus Ropac. She curated
shows for Antje Wachs Gallery and the Forgotten Bar Project, both in Berlin,
Germany.
17:00 – 19:00 End discussion with Heimo Lattner and his fellow walkers, Theo Ligthart, Anna Redeka, Frank Taherkhani and others
19:00 – 23:00
OPTIONAL:
Dinner (cooked together) and
continued seminar with Mollecular Organization, discussing their most recent
project, the Kafka Machine, a collaboration between Mollecular Organization,
professor Luca Guzzetti and film makers Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thompson.
Location in a Berlin apartment (TBA).
Further references:
Lindman, Pia. Poison and
Play Workbook. Berlin, Haus der Kulturen
der Welt, 2011
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