THURSDAY, 6 /11
16:00-21:00 Kollektiv gärtnerpflichten: KALTBEWERBUNG ⎥ SPONSOR*INNEN:LAUF
Performance, Theaterlabor
Duration: whole day
Content Notes: None required
Unfortunately, the performance has been cancelled due to illness. As an alternative, we will be showing a film by gärtnerpflichen as a video installation at Theaterlabor.
With the ongoing performance KALTBEWERBUNG the interdisciplinary art gang gärtnerpflichten responds to the current crisis of cultural funding cuts. They go all out, tirelessly moving through Giessen, aka the cultural city on the Lahn, as part of a three-day SPONSOR*INNEN:LAUF (SPONSORS' RUN).They reliably show up wherever they haven't been invited and throw themselves into the ring, shaking hands. They move from one sponsor event to the next and, with friendly cheekiness, solicit very specific financial resources for DISKURS.
16:00-20:00, 21:00-22:00 Oliver Hardt: PROTEST/ARCHITECTURE
Installation, Foyer Theaterlabor
Duration: 16:20 min, looped
Content Notes: Physical violence, noise, explosions (chapters IV and V)
The conceptual documentary film Protest/ArchitectureThe conceptual documentary film Protest/Architecture uses archival material to capture, in five chapters, the essence of twelve powerful protest movements between 1968 and 2023. Oliver Hardt focuses on protest architecture, which always emerges When protests move into public spaces and take root there, blockading, defending, or seizing these spaces.
5 p.m. FESTIVAL OPENING
8 p.m. Smadar Goshen: BODY THAT STANDS
In Body that Stands Smadar Goshen explores resistance trough the lens of resilience. On a stage embedded with hundreds of wooden bricks, the dancers inhabit a continuous loop of destruction and construction, explore a range of responses to encounters with opposing forces and engage in simple acts of physical resistance — toward one another and the space itself.
There will be a artist talk after the performance.
10 p.m. OPENING PARTY with Gutelauni
party, Pits Pinte
Dauer: open end
Chill and calm, but groovy and shaky at the same time - Gutelauni brings some tunes to the soft opening of the Diskurs Festival. The foreshocks to the Foreshocks festival, genre - miscellaneous, launi - gute and relaxed.
FRIDAY, 7 /11
9 to 5 + overtime collective gärtnerpflichten: KALTBEWERBUNG ⎥ SPONSOR*INNEN:LAUF
Performance, Theaterlabor
Duration: whole day
Content Notes: None required
Unfortunately, the performance has been cancelled due to illness. As an alternative, we will be showing a film by gärtnerpflichen as a video installation at Theaterlabor.
With the ongoing performance KALTBEWERBUNG the interdisciplinary art gang gärtnerpflichten responds to the current crisis of cultural funding cuts. They go all out, tirelessly moving through Giessen, aka the cultural city on the Lahn, as part of a three-day SPONSOR*INNEN:LAUF (SPONSORS' RUN).They reliably show up wherever they haven't been invited and throw themselves into the ring, shaking hands. They move from one sponsor event to the next and, with friendly cheekiness, solicit very specific financial resources for DISKURS.
2 p.m.-10 .p.m Oliver Hardt: PROTEST/ARCHITECTURE
Installation, Foyer Theaterlabor
Duration: 16:20 min, looped
Content Notes: Physical violence, noise, explosions (chapters IV and V)
The conceptual documentary film Protest/ArchitectureThe conceptual documentary film Protest/Architecture uses archival material to capture, in five chapters, the essence of twelve powerful protest movements between 1968 and 2023. Oliver Hardt focuses on protest architecture, which always emerges When protests move into public spaces and take root there, blockading, defending, or seizing these spaces.
2 p.m. KÜFA – KITCHEN FOR EVERYONE
Lunch on a donation basis, festival center (Seltersweg 50)
Duration: 60 minutes
Let's sit at a table and eat together! We offer a free vegetarian and nut free meal at 14:00h at the Festival Center. Archana will choose three dishes and top them with Indian spices. Sunday evening there will be a pumpkin soup. Be on time, first come first serve. If you want you can donate to aid initiatives for Gaza led by Palestinians or to the atw student run initiative “Notgroschen” in return.
15:30 TALK mit Oliver Hardt zu PROTEST/ARCHITECTURE
Artist talk, Foyer Theaterlabor
Duration: TBA
We are meeting Oliver Hardt for an artist talk at the foyer of Theaterlabor to discuss his video installation Protest/Architecture .
4 p.m. Kemelo Nozipho Sehlapelo: DABKE WORKSHOP
Workshop, Georg Büchner Saal, alte Universitätsbibliotek
Duration: 120 minutes
Dabke is a diasporic dance of the Levant region (Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and parts of Turkey and Egypt). Stretching across these regions means that it's form shapeshifts across different cultures. In this workshop, we will learn a medley of dabke that Kemelo Nozipho Sehlapelo learnt through a Syrian person and a Palestinian friend.
Kemelo Nozipho Sehlapelo says: ‘As I am a guest of this culture, I am grateful for every contribution from people from the Levant region.’
6 p.m. Pablo Santacana López: SOFTCORE REENACTMENTS
Lecture, festival center (Seltersweg 50)
Duration: 60 minutes
Content Notes:
Historical and contemporary violence: Discussion of fascist movements, war, and political violence
Racism and xenophobia: Analysis of exclusionary ideologies and discriminatory practices
Colonialism: References to colonial histories and their contemporary manifestations
Genocide: Brief mentions in historical context
From spectacular mass reconstructions to revived military parades and political rallies choreographed like historical tableaux, contemporary far-right movements are perfecting what we might call a “reactionary repertoire”—a sophisticated arsenal of performative strategies that blur the lines between entertainment, education, and political indoctrination. Pablo Santacana López approaches this phenomenon in his lecture Soft Reenactments using the example of the historical theme park chain Puy du Fou, founded and managed by the right-wing politician Philippe de Villiers.
8 pm. Janina Möbius: BLICKWECHSEL
Filmscreening, Festivalzentrum (Seltersweg 50)
Duration: 60 minutes
Content Notes:
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Culture is one of the most important targets of right-wing extremist forces. The ideological campaign against the arts has recently become increasingly overt. BLICKWECHSEL explores this development in dialogue with Rimini Protokoll, CHICKS*, Katharina Warda, Sibylle Peters, Julia Wissert and many other personalities. Insights into performances and plays from across the spectrum of the performing arts shed light not only on how they counteract polarisation, but also on how the performing arts invite us to reflect and think ahead together on a daily basis. And thus strengthen democracy in the long term.
9 p.m. SECRET MOVIE NIGHT
Filmscreening, Festivalzentrum (Seltersweg 50)
Duration: 60 minutes
Content Notes:
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To conclude the second evening, we will all watch a film from the ATW archive together at the festival centre. What it is remains a secret for now.
SATURDAY, 8 /11
9 to 5 + overtime collective gärtnerpflichten: KALTBEWERBUNG ⎥ SPONSOR*INNEN:LAUF
Performance, Theaterlabor
Duration: whole day
Content Notes: None required
Unfortunately, the performance has been cancelled due to illness. As an alternative, we will be showing a film by gärtnerpflichen as a video installation at Theaterlabor.
With the ongoing performance KALTBEWERBUNG the interdisciplinary art gang gärtnerpflichten responds to the current crisis of cultural funding cuts. They go all out, tirelessly moving through Giessen, aka the cultural city on the Lahn, as part of a three-day SPONSOR*INNEN:LAUF (SPONSORS' RUN).They reliably show up wherever they haven't been invited and throw themselves into the ring, shaking hands. They move from one sponsor event to the next and, with friendly cheekiness, solicit very specific financial resources for DISKURS.
2 p.m.-10 .p.m Oliver Hardt: PROTEST/ARCHITECTURE
Installation, Foyer Theaterlabor
Duration: 16:20 min, looped
Content Notes: Physical violence, noise, explosions (chapters IV and V)
The conceptual documentary film Protest/ArchitectureThe conceptual documentary film Protest/Architecture uses archival material to capture, in five chapters, the essence of twelve powerful protest movements between 1968 and 2023. Oliver Hardt focuses on protest architecture, which always emerges When protests move into public spaces and take root there, blockading, defending, or seizing these spaces.
2 p.m. KÜFA – KITCHEN FOR EVERYONE
Lunch on a donation basis, festival center (Seltersweg 50)
Duration:
Let's sit at a table and eat together! We offer a free vegetarian and nut free meal at 14:00h at the Festival Center. Archana will choose three dishes and top them with Indian spices. Sunday evening there will be a pumpkin soup. Be on time, first come first serve. If you want you can donate to aid initiatives for Gaza led by Palestinians or to the atw student run initiative “Notgroschen” in return.
6 p.m. Azadeh Ganjeh: PERFORMING PRESENCE – ACTIVIST BODIES AS PRACTICES OF APPEARANCE
Lecture, festival center (Seltersweg 50)
Duration: 90 minutes
In her lecture Performing Presence: Activist Bodies as Practices of Appearance widmet sich Azadeh Ganjehexplores what it means when contested bodies, whose very presence in public space is challanged, nevertheless appear in public. Through their appearances on stages, digital platforms, and at protests, activist bodies rehearse a right of appearance that both claims space and opens it up for others.
8 p.m. äöü: GEH ZUR RUH'
Performance, Theaterlabor
Duration: 80 minutes, no break
Content Notes: Discussion of exhaustion and burnout
symptoms, fog, darkness, slowness
Are you tired? You are warmly invited to a celebration of exhaustion. Yours, mine, that of the German healthcare system and the worn-out utopias of past decades. Where state care was still provided for the exhausted until the mid-1990s, today there are commercial spa resorts and rehabilitation clinics. The sanatorium has been abolished. Exhaustion has taken its place. How can we deal with it? What practices can we learn together so that we don't have to chase after strength, but can establish a practice of prevention? Geh zur Ruh’ is a theatrical evening of pause and revolution, between staying in bed and healing protest.
There will be a artist talk after the performance.
SUNDAY, 9 /11
9 to 5 + overtime collective gärtnerpflichten: KALTBEWERBUNG ⎥ SPONSOR*INNEN:LAUF
Performance, Theaterlabor
Duration: whole day
Content Notes: None required
Unfortunately, the performance has been cancelled due to illness. As an alternative, we will be showing a film by gärtnerpflichen as a video installation at Theaterlabor.
