Open LAB: Collective Strategies of Resilience and Resistance in the Performing Arts & Get-Together
12-7-2024_10:00 - 18:30
One year ago, the ITI annual conference was held under the title “Conflict & Care: dispute as a part of transformation within the performing arts and its institutions”. Today this topic has become even more charged and the potential for conflict has increased. This makes it even more necessary to stay in touch, come together, and hold conversations.
On 12 July 2024, the office of ITI Germany is very pleased to open its doors, and invites members, alumni and mentors of the ITI Academy, and friends to the Open Lab of the ITI Academy about “Collective Strategies of Resilience and Resistance” and their impact on the Performing Arts, followed by the ITI’s summery Get-Together in the afternoon.
We will give the floor to alumni of the ITI Academy, running three workshops in parallel, to investigate aspects of collective resilience in the Performing Arts from a transcultural, and activist perspective, and re-measure the terrain of (peaceful) resistance within the arts and its institutions, as well as in civil society – in their respective contexts: in Germany, in Europe, in Iran, and China. We will listen to stories of resistance, explore ideas, which could contribute to more justice, and look at forms of collective organisation, which are more resilient against repression, and restrictions on human rights.
In the afternoon we will engage in the lecture performance "The Journey of Becoming Barbaric Female Poets”, an insight into the transcultural project from Dora Yuemin Cheng, Sara Amini, and Jaber Ramezan who will come together for an artistic research process at the ITI throughout the week, followed by a conversation about the project.
Afterwards, at the Get-Together, there will be the opportunity to meet the team of the ITI, learn about our different projects, have a consultation at the touring artists pop-up stand, socialize and (re-)connect over a cool summer drink, waffles, and snacks.
Programme Overview
10:00 – 10:30 Arrival & Welcome
10:30 – Beginning of the Workshops
10:30 – 14:00 – Workshop I _Studio II
Collective resistance and resilience
Dora Yuemin Cheng, Sara Amini & Jaber Ramezan
10:30 – 13:00 – Workshop II _Mediathek
Care and collectivity in the Performing Arts
LIK_Nora Tormann & Lonnie Jasper
10:30 – 13:00 – Workshop III _E 29
Theatre as institutional fabric & political responsibility of justice
BIPoC ensemble network; conceptualised and facilitated by Berfin Orman
13:00/ 14:00 – 15:00 Individual Lunch Break
15:00 – 15:15 – Welcome to the Afternoon & Review of the Workshops_Mediathek
15:15 – 16:30 – Lecture Performance and Talk_Mediathek
The journey of becoming Barbaric Female Poets
Work in progress of the female collective resistance theatre project initiated by Dora
Yuemin Cheng and Sara Amini in collaboration with Jaber Ramezan
16:30 – 18:30_Office/Terrace
Get-Together and Open House
with the Media Library for Dance and Theater, Studio 2, touring artists and Theateruebersetzen.de
Please register in advance!
Programme Pdf
Notes on Accessibility
The event is free of charge. The Mediathek and room E29 are on the ground floor and wheelchair accessible. The Studio 2 is on the second floor and has limited barrier-free access. Childcare will not be provided. Don’t hesitate to contact us with your individual access needs or questions: m.nagel@iti-germany.de or +49 (30) 611 07 65 -15.
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