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3rd – Sat. 5th of December 2009
From 7 pm – 11 pm
continuous entry
HAU 1, Stresemannstr. 29,
Berlin
Concept & Space:
Mobile Acadamy/Hannah Hurtzig
Installation Design:
raumlaborberlin/Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Florian Stirnemann
Project Director Excellence Cluster:
Prof. Dr. Irene Albers, Dr. Markus Edler
Team:
Carena Brenner (Research), Ina Driemel (Film Assistance), Susanne Görres
(Technical Management), Novina Göhlsdorf (Interviews), Karin Harrasser
(Scientific Consultation), Philipp Hochleichter (Stage Manager), Jörg
Johow (Camera Silhoutte Film), Ulrich Kalliske/Mathias Kirschke/Florian
Fischer (Sound Silhouette Film), Margret Meyer, Annette Heft, Annette
Lazai
(Palentypists), Tito Knapp (Sound), Merle Kröger (Cut Silhouette
Film), Frauke Luther (Production Management), Hila Peleg (Curatorial Consultation),Thomas
Schmidt (Technical Production Management), Daniela Schöler (Archivist),
Pit Schultz (Sound Design), Fridjof Vareschi (Production Assistance)
The Musicians
Rabih Mroué, flute
Actor, director, author of theater texts, and performance artist, Beirut
Margarita Zalite, vocals
Performance researcher, speechwriter, singer, Riga
Special thanks to the students of the Graduate School and
the eye-tracker-team of the Excellence Cluster “Languages of Emotion”,
Stefanie Wenner, Elisabeth Knauf and the colleagues from Hebbel am Ufer,
Anja Lindner, Lisa Lucassen & cat, and to Haus der Kulturen der Welt
A project of Mobile Academy at HAU and the Excellence Cluster
“Languages of Emotion”, Freie Universität Berlin
Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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On the Scene of
Intimacy.
A Phantasmagoria
With a silhouette
film, a parlamonium, in the carousel
of shadows: the Excellence Cluster “Languages of Emotion”
of the Free University Berlin, charismatic counseling: “Cooling
Down Passion” and several oxytocinists.
On the 100th Anniversary of Freud in America!
! *
On the 300th Birthday of Étienne de Silhouette! **
There are no adequate words for most feelings. Or
vice versa: one always has only those feelings for which one has
words, which one defines or interprets. We are thereby constrained
to speak in jargon, in the language available to us. Ultimately,
then, what is felt seems to correspond to what is formulated. Thus,
narrative templates create feelings, assisted by a burgeoning market
of consultation and counseling with its therapeutic language terrorism
that penetrates into every public and private sphere.
Observe your verbal strategies of self-ascertainment
and emotional self-enchantment at the showplace of intimacy!
The new installation of the Mobile Academy presents current scientific
and poetic attempts to formulate excitement, affect, and feeling
in dialog.
Speech and counter-speech and phantasmagoric word
added value at a fair populated by 100 silhouettes!
1
Languages of Emotion
A
Shadow Carousel with Scholarly Showpeople
2 20
Silhouettes on the Shade
based on the true story of Susanne Sachsse, Marc Siegel,
and friends (1999-2009)
3
Cooling Down Passion
(or: the end of self-improvement)
Hebbel am Ufer, HAU1
Zeichnung: Florian Stirnemann
*
In September 1909, Freud traveled to America. His five lectures
at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts made him famous
overnight and ignited the international career of psychoanalysis.
** Étienne
de Silhouette (born 1709), a protégé of Madame Pompadour,
was briefly the French Finance Minister. He was a terrible miser,
introducing property tax for the wealthy, reducing pensions, and
even attempting to abolish excessive material in clothing. It was
said that no paintings hung in his house; instead, he had only money-saving
paper cutouts, which were then named for him (he was very gifted
at producing these portraits himself). “Á la silhouette”
meant stinginess, scantiness, and cheap art.
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