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ABSENCE
On the Presence of Absence in Contemporary Dance and in Performance
(BM4)
Dr. Habil. Krassimira Kruschkova, Lecturer in Theatre and
Dance Studies, director of the Theory Centre at the Tanzquartier
Wien, Editor of "Obscene. Zur Präsenz der Absenz
im zeitgenössischen Tanz, Theater und Film" [Vienna]
On Silence and Talking: Poland-Germany, 1981-2005 (BM3/ghostly
knowledge)
Kornel Miglus, filmmaker, based in the Polish Institute Berlin
[Warsaw]
What is absent and invisible on Stage and How Does It Move
Our Imagination (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Gerald Siegmund, Prof. for Theatre Studies at the
University Bern, dance critic, author of "William Forsythe
- Denken in Bewegung" and "Abwesenheit. Eine performative
Ästhetik des Tanzes" [Bern, Frankfurt/M.]
ABU GHRAIB
A Quite Common Torturer - Abu Ghraib Beyond the Images (BM6)
Dr. Carolin Emcke, Author, Political Theoretician, Journalist
[Berlin]
USA: Violations of Human Rights in the Fight against Terror.
The Charge against Donald Rumsfeld in Germany Because of Abu
Ghraib and Guantánamo, Among Other Things (BM6)
Wolfgang Kaleck, Attorney, Head of the Republikanischer Anwältinnen-
und Anwälteverein [Berlin]
ACCIDENTS
How to cartograph your accidents (BM2)
Daniel Belasco Rogers, performance-artist, set-designer, reckless
sleepers, plan b [Berlin]
Tested accident techniques that allow you to emerge uninjured
out of an accident (BM2)
Martin Nachbar, choreographer, dancer, co-curator of mode05
[Berlin]
ACTIVISM, POLITICAL
Only the powerless question the definition and application
of knowledge (BM2)
Biblab Basu, historian [Berlin]
1) Export Tyranny: Activism and Art on the Eve of War
2) Eat Propaganda, Shit Democracy: The Role of American Artists
during War (BM2)
Tim Blue, performance artist, activist, musician [Berlin]
What globalization and democracy don't have in common (BM2)
Matthias von Hartz, director [Hamburg]
3 songs about the Carnation Revolution, Portugal April 25,
1974: E Depois do Adeus / Grandola, Vila Morena / Tanto Mar
(BM2)
Jose Maria Vieira Mendes, playwright, translator [Lissabon]
De-Politisation through political art (BM2)
Philipp Oswalt, architect, publisher, curator of Shrinking
Cities [Berlin]
AERONAUTICS
Welcome on board -the system technology of today's aircrafts
(BM2)
Martin Wagner, aviation engineer, institute for aerospace
technology TU Berlin [Berlin]
AGE
As Far as the Feet Will Carry or: What the Aging Dancer-Body
Knows in Order to Continue Dancing (BM4)
Dieter Baumann, dancer and choreographer, part of the artistic
head of the Tanzcompanie Rubato [Berlin]
What Could Come After the Dance Career and How to Get There
(BM4)
Paul Bronkhorst, career counsellor, chairman of the International
Organisation for the Transition of Professional Dancers (IOTPD)
[Den Haag]
Dance and Age. Generation 50+ in Dance (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Claudia Jeschke, Prof. for Dance Studies, dancer,
choreographer, reconstructionist [Salzburg]
What Dancers Do When They Can No Longer Dance or: How Life
Before the Dance Career Influences Life After the Dance Career
(BM4)
Maja Langsdorff, journalist, photographer, non-fiction writer,
lecturer for adult education, trained dancer [Stuttgart]
AIDS
HIV Prevention and the New Eastern European Mobility (BM7)
Sergiu Grimalschi, street social worker with SUB/WAY berlin
e.V., NFP (National Focal Point) for Aids & Mobility Europe
[Klausenburg, Bucharest, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin]
ALASKA
The Trip to Alaska. A Political and Cultural Account of a
Journey to Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia, Ten Years After Dayton
(BM7)
Bora Cosic, writer [Zagreb, Belgrad, Berlin, Rovinj]
ALCHEMY
Human remains and traces of presence. A life's investigation
of excrement and other forms of human ephemera
(BM11)
Gina Czarnecki , Artist [Liverpool]
The alchemy of performance: Turning 'wasted' into 'wanted'
(BM11)
Rogan Taylor,Director of the
Football Industry Group at Liverpool University and author
of "The Death and Resurrection Show: From Shaman to Superstar"
[Liverpool]
ALTRUISM
About the Egoism Involved in Helping Others (BM8)
Christine Anderwald, head of Marienambulanz Graz (an institution
with 25 voluntary staff members, provides basic medical care
for homeless people, refugees or people with a low income),
Human Rights Award of the regional government of Styria 2006
[Graz]
The Situatedness of Altruistic Acts by Comparison of Legal
Systems - Europe and America (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Willibald Posch, Professor for Comparative
and International Law, currently dean of the Law School, Civil
Law of the University of Graz, author of numerous publications,
e.g. Grundzüge fremder Privatrechtssysteme (1995) [Graz]
ANIMALS
Speculative approaches to public animal sculptures (BM2)
Nicholas Grindell, translator [Berlin]
Uninvited guests in house and home - insect pests on artefacts
and stored products (BM2)
Dr. Rüdiger Plarre, biologist, entomology (science of
insects), advisor for the Federal Government in questions
of pest control and damage precautions against insects that
destroy materials and stored food products, lecturer at FU
Berlin [Berlin]
About Seduction: Playing the Victim as Protection and Defense
Behaviour among Plovers and Other Birds. With Photographic
Examples (BM8)
Leander Khil, conscientious objector performing community
service, birdwatcher and photographer [Graz]
Tangible "Swarm Intelligence": The Protest against
the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm (BM8)
Leo Kühberger, historian, activist and farmer [Graz]
To Overcome Death. Learning from the Butterflies' Metamorphoses
(BM8)
Leo Kuzmits, butterfly researcher and breeder, social pedagogue
[Graz]
Slowness. The Decelerating Creation of a Pet Sloth with Text
Examples as a Response to Indiscriminatingly Accepted Acceleration
(BM8)
Jaschka Lämmert, actress at the Schauspielhaus Graz,
upcoming performance as Christine in Ödön von Horvath's
"Zur schönen Aussicht"(premiere October 9)
[Graz]
____Ants
Finding the Way Without Markings: Desert Ants' Compass in
the Heavens (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ronacher, behavioural scientist and neurobiologist
at the Institute for Biology at the Humboldt University [Berlin]
____Bees
Information Dances of Cave Breeding Honey Bees in the Dark
(BM4)
Prof. Dr. Kaspar Bienefeld, director of the National Institute
for Bee Research, honorary professor at the Agrarian Faculty
of the Humboldt University [Berlin]
____Bugs
Bugs in the gut. The wonderful
world of waste recycling inside us
(BM 11)
Rod Dillon, vector-biologist and Lecturer at the Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine [Liverpool]
____Grasshoppers
Stridulation Movements of Grasshoppers for Finding a Mate
(BM4)
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ronacher, behavioural scientist and neurobiologist
at the Institute for Biology at the Humboldt University [Berlin]
____Horse I
How to Judge the Movements of a Horse (BM4)
Elke Ebert, Holder of the Golden Riding Badge, equestrian
judge for 20 years, candidate for the International Magistracy
in Dressage as well as for Riders with Physical Disabilities
[Berlin]
____Horse II
A Time for Drunken Horses? What is this? A Short Journey through
Kurdish Cinema (BM7)
Miraz Bezar, filmmaker [Ankara, Berlin]
____Insects
The role of insects in the decomposition
of organic material (BM 11)
Guy Knight, curator of Entomology, World Museum Liverpool
[Liverpool]
____Parasites
Black Fever: A tropical disease
caused by a deadly parasite that invades human tissue and
lives inside blood cells (BM 11)
Rod Dillon, vector-biologist and Lecturer at the Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine [Liverpool]
____Swarms I
The Discovery of the Swarms (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Rudolf zur Lippe, philosophy of life forms [Berlin]
____Swarms II
Birds and Humans in Transit - the Discovery of the Swarms
(BM7)
Prof. Dr. Rudolf zur Lippe, philosophy of life form [Berlin,
Hinterpommern, Westfalen-Lippe, Heidelberg, Kloster Hude]
____Sealions
The comprehension of numbers of sea lions (and other vertebrates)
(BM2)
Anja Dieckmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development,
department of Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition [Berlin]
____Werewolf
"A Workingclass Werewolf is Something to Be". Lykanthropy
as a Trope of Migration (BM7)
D-L Alvarez, artist [Stockton, Boulder, San Francisco, Paris,
New York, Berlin]
ANTI-AMERICANISM
What is Anti-Americanism? (BM6)
Dr. Ekkehart Krippendorff, Professor (em.) for Political Science,
FU Berlin [Berlin]
Philosophical Racism: Analytical Versus Continental Philosophy
(BM6)
Dr. Ludger Schwarte, Assistant Professor on the FAG-Chair
"Theory of Images" at Universität Basel, NFS
Bildkritik [Basel/ Berlin]
ANTIZIGANISM
On the Myth that Sinti and Roma Have a Passion for Roaming
(BM7)
Petra Rosenberg, graduate in pedagogy, president of the Landesverband
Deutscher Sinti und Roma Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. [Berlin]
South Eastern European Roma Migrants in Germany (BM7)
Dr. Sevasti Trubeta, sociologist [Berlin]
ARCHITECTURE
Homes for non-heroes. How the architecture for social housing
will look in the future (BM 11)
Rob MacDonald, reader in Architecture at the Liverpool School
of Art & Design, Liverpool John Moores University. Practicing
Architect and Vice President of the Liverpool Architectural
Society [Liverpool]
Intelligent rubbish. An anecdotal report of architectural
waste in Liverpool (BM 11)
Roger Phillips, broadcaster on BBC Radio Merseyside since
the early 1970s.[Liverpool]
Remarkable similarities between Ford's and Stalin's dreams,
or: was the USSR a case of capitalistic wishful thinking?
Picture analysis (BM2)
Elke Beyer, historian, specialised in post-socialistic city-development,
Shrinking Cities [Berlin]
Multi-storey buildings. Higher and higher, for whom and against
whom? (BM2)
Bruno Flierl, architecture theorist [Berlin]
Archive
The lifecycle of the document and how does a document become
archival? (BM 11)
From archon to on-line: What (and where) is the archive?
(BM 11)
Alexandrina Buchanan, Lecturer in Archive Studies at the University
of Liverpool [Liverpool]
ART BUSINESS
Impossible Architecture of Curatorial Generosity. On Precarious
Life, Ethics of Mutuality and Unavoidable Harassments (BM8)
Adam Budak, curator at Kunsthaus Graz, co-curator of Manifesta7
(Trentino, 2008), co-founder of post-graduate studies in curatorial
practice and theory at Jagiellonian University in Krakow [Krakow,
Graz]
Figures with Symbolic Capital. The Economy of the Art System
(BM8)
Martin Fritz, director of the Festival of Regions, curator,
advisor of art institutions and artists in organizational
and structural issues [Vienna and Upper Austria]
Art in Love with Law: "Autonomy" of Art as a Present
of the State? (BM8)
Aldo Milohnic, MA in sociology of culture, editor of the book
series "Politike", co-author and co-editor of publications
on performing arts theory, epistemology of the humanities
and cultural policy, researcher at the Peace Institute [Ljubljana]
Items on Loan. Who Gives What to Whom? Big Art Exhibitions,
the Loan Dealings and their Unwritten Rules of the Game (BM8)
Stella Rollig, exhibition maker, author, director of Lentos
Kunstmuseum Linz [Linz/ Vienna]
ARTISTS
Art in Transit. The Work of Female Artists between Istanbul
and Berlin (BM7)
Ezgi Kilinçaslan, artist [Besni, Mersin, Istanbul,
Berlin]
The Problematisation of Nationalist Ideology in the Balkan
Contemporary Art - Raša Todosijevic, Milica Tomic, Hale
Tenger, Halil Alt?ndere, Vlad Nanca, Albert Heta (BM7)
Erden Kosova, writer, editor for "art-ist" and "Siyahi",
co-writer of "Szene Türkei: Abseits aber Tor!"
(with Vasif Kortun, 2004), curator of "Leaps of Faith"
in Nicosia in May of 2005 (with Katerina Gregos) [Istanbul,
London]
The Conception of Migration Exemplified by Selected Artistic
Works by Július Koller and Roman Ondák (BM7)
Kathrin Rhomberg, curator, amongst others Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana,
Wiener Secession, director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein,
artistic direction of "Projekt Migration", with
Marion von Osten [Bludenz, Ljubljana, Cologne, Vienna]
Turkish Travelling Theater - Karagöz, Meddah, Ortaoyunu
(BM7)
Long Distance Driving Documents - Translocalism as a Narrative
in Mobile Art Projects (BM7)
David Rych, artist [Innsbruck, Vienna, Jerusalem, Bourges,
Berlin]
Özge Tomruk, theater scholar and theatre pedagogue, tutor
for the Volicity project (job orientation for Turkish youth
in cooperation with Naunynritze) [Sivas, Istanbul, Mödling
near Vienna, Berlin]
ATMOSPHERIC POLITICS
Blackboxing. Device whose parts are unknown or irrelevant,
but whose function is understood. Somebody, full of suggesting
mystery, who produces a deliberately engineered impression
in the mind of somebody who sees, hears, or reads something.
His presence is not to be noticed but the effect of his actions
always visible. (BM9/salon version)
Mariana Castillo Deball, artist [Berlin]
The many gesture manuals published in the nineteenth century
are instructive texts from the literature of moral, political
and aesthetic anxiety that has surrounded the sphere of human
gesture for at least two centuries, and propose a bizarre
prehistory of our contemporary bodily regimes. (BM9/salon
version)
Brian Dillon, UK editor of "Cabinet" magazine [London]
Improvisation on Various Themes with the Visitor, Using Words
and Conventional Drawing Aids (BM9/salon version)
Cevdet Erek, artist [Istanbul]
What Goes without Saying: Gesture as the Language of the
Social Implicit (BM9/salon version)
Anselm Franke, curator (Manifesta 7, Extra City Antwerpen)
[Antwerpen]
Using as a point of departure a take on the story of Antonie
van Leeuwenhoek (Holland 1632-1723) I will talk about the
relationship of observation and representation in history
of sciences, making a link with my individual practice as
a contemporary artist. (BM9/salon version)
Irene Kopelman, artist [Amsterdam]
Shortcomings of Heroic Gestures (BM9/salon version)
Erden Kosova, writer and curator [Istanbul]
Posture, Demeanor, and Composure: A Lament for the Loss of
the Stylish Masses! (BM9/salon version)
Dieter Rolstraete, curator and writer [Brussels]
Is Locality a Political Gesture of Space? (BM9/salon version)
Pelin Tan, sociologist, writer, editor [Istanbul]
Architecture is Gentrification and Will Remain So Unless
It Gets Rid of the Logic of Representation (BM9/salon version)
Bulent Tanju, professor in Architectural Theory, writer [Istanbul]
Hooked on Demonics: Vomiting Machines and Eavesdropping Statues
(BM9/salon version)
Jennifer Teets, resident curator of Platform Garanti, former
curator of Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros [Mexico City]
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