Melanie Schmidli and team reanimate the lost sounds of historical “hysterical” women*. In an installative sound world they invite to conversations with experts on the female* voice. Finale: a participatory concert by Kreischende Weiber* including dinner.

For some time now, the actress and director Melanie Schmidli has been dealing with the discourse of hysteria as a means of social exclusion and oppression of women* in her work cycle Divina Hysterika. The multi-layered artistic process takes place in changing formats and collaborations. “Kreischende Weiber*” is the second collaboration with dramaturg Almut Wedekind, freelance artist and scenographer Barbara Lenartz, and actress and assistant Saskia Mommertz in this context. For the first time the team collaborates with the sound artist and noise maker Almut Schwacke.

The dancers listen to the space, inwardly and to each other, and move in response. In the four-hour process, they learn from what they hear to find other ways of moving. A highly sensitive mode of slow attention.

Labor Sonor – the series for experimental music, film and performance – presents the spectrum of current experimental formsbeyond genre-specific determinability – from real-time music to electronics, performance, audiovisual formats, conceptual music, new composed music and experimental pop.

A Durational Online Festival A new festival: It’s about time! It’s about time! (Es ist Zeit!) It’s finally about time! (Es geht endlich los!) It has been about time (Die Zeit war reif) since November 2020. Back then many people were supposed to come together for four days in very small spaces for very long or very short performances. But the festival went with time and transformed its essence: It moved its program into the endless time and space of the Internet and will present itself there from September 2021. Curated by Anne Brammen, Monika Gintersdorfer, Tina Pfurr and Daniel Schrader, the Durational Online Festival It’s about time will develop, present and archive artistic works by Barbara Lenartz, Club Real, Elisabeth Tambwe, Felizitas Stilleke | Smruthi Gargi Eswar, GRUPO D3 CHOK3, Markus&Markus, ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS, vorschlag:hammer, vt corp. and many more for an unpredictably long period of time. It’s about time is a tribute to durational performances that allows art to take its time. It is a festival that will last.

Für das Projekt »Re/Locating Amo« haben sich ghanaische und deutsche Theatermacher:innen zusammengetan, um Anton Wilhelm Amos Leben und Denken theatral zu deuten und für einen transkulturellen Dialog um Themen wie Rückkehr und Zugehörigkeit, Tradition, Identität und Philosophie als Anlass zu nehmen.

Gibt es den gerechten Tyrann:innenmord? Einen vertretbar militanten Widerstand? Einen ethischen Terrorismus? Schauspielerin Karin Enzler (Schweiz), Punkmusikerin Stéphanie Morin (Frankreich) und Choreographin Maque Pereyra (Bolivien) kämpfen sich in drei filmisch-performativen Solos durch die Geschichte bis zur Gegenwart.

Gerhart Hauptmann’s Helene shows effects of increased alcohol consumption in her own milieu and her family, from which she cannot break away until the tragic end. Blomen, Moré and Reiniger question Hauptmann’s text “Before Sunrise” and complement it with their own and imagined experiences.

New session with Linda Fisahn, Christian Fleck & Lis Marie Diehl
June 2, 2022, 6.00 pm
After what feels like a hundred years, three members of the theater group I CAN BE YOUR TRANSLATOR meet again on the Reeperbahn and welcome the newborn baby, uncover the secrets of the father-to-be, and process together how things can and will continue with children and career. Head cinema guaranteed!

Felizitas Stilleke aunt, curator, dramaturg, artist and person, gathers in herself and in seven performative podcast sessions voices of international artists for a collective discourse rededication. Searching for words for not-yet/not-more/maybe/motherhood.

Asian mud-dauber Wasp, a relatively new citizen of Organisms Democracy with migrational background, meets Herring, who is visiting from Helsinki to learn about the governmental procedures of a system of Equal Rights for all Living Beings. Humans are invited to accompany the pair on an urban exploration into the wilds of a democratic ecosystem in Berlin Wedding. While fetching water for the notoriously dry state territory, they discuss the meaningfulness of democratization movements in relation to the internet. A mobile screen with autonomous power source serves as channel of participation and communication with another three urban explorations. These will happen simultaneously in the streets and parks of Zurich, Vienna and Amsterdam.

The artists group Club Real was founded in 2000 and is devising and realising participatory site-specific projects: Installations, one-to-one encounters, political role play scenarios and participatory urban development projects invite visitors to help shape alternative concepts of reality. Since 2018, Club Real has been working on the theme of Organisms Democracy – Equal Political Rights for all Living Beings. In 2019, Organisms Democracy Vienna was invited to Impulse Theater Festival.

»Remote Together – Reality Vaccine« is a format that seeks new digital and hybrid forms of shared theatrical experience while bringing together diverse international artists using new digital tools. For the first edition, Transit Productions Zurich is developing a series of simultaneous performances with theater maker Pankaj Tiwari (Amsterdam), the collective Club Real (Berlin) and visual artists Thomas Hörl & Peter Kozek (Vienna) that can be experienced both locally and digitally.

For the second time, the extremely mixed choir is making a guest appearance in Berlin. This time the group of amateurs and professionals explores ways of coexistence in the »Digitalocene«. How are contemporary technologies changing the way we live together? Can we act responsibly and without false anxieties in an environment of omnipresent, constant media exposure? In the midst of audience members, loudspeaker trees and cable groves an installative concert for human and non-human bodies takes place: a song about the loneliness of humans, about the love of the machines and the complexity of the world.

The extremely mixed choir is a multi-professional, diverse and intergenerational singing collective, which was founded in 2018 for the music theater production »Declaration of Dependence«. The artistic direction team consists of composers Lukas Huber and Leo Hofmann, director Benjamin van Bebber and scenographer Zahava Rodrigo. Together they search for possibilities of an integral interaction of space, music and scene in the compositional and staging process.