PARASITISM

Parasites in the Public Space: Stickers (BM8)
Manfred Erjautz, sculptor [Vienna]

The Parasite and the Host - What Parasites Have to Offer and Give to the Ants (BM8)
Nicolina and Goran Sergej Pristas, choreographers, directors, dramaturgs, performers, members of the artistic collective BADco [Zagreb]

The Main Social Welfare Freeloaders in Austria (BM8)
Martina Reuter, member of WochenKlausur, managing director of the Depot [Vienna]

PARTICIPATION

The Way You Move Me. Forms of Participation in the Dispositive of Art (BM4)
Dr. des. Dorothea von Hantelmann, art historian, writer and freelance curator [Berlin]

What Does It Mean to Participate (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Irit Rogoff, holder of the university chair in art history and visual culture at Goldsmith's College, University of London, director of the international AHRB research project "Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts" [London]

PERCEPTION

Anatomy of the Soul (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Dariusz Czaja, PhD, cultural anthropologist, Jagiellonian University [Warsaw]

The Invisible Link Between The Movie and the Spectator. On the Example of "Citizen Kane" by Orson Welles (1941) (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Maciej Karpinski, writer and scriptwriter [Warsaw]

What You Don't See On Screen - The Making of (And Showing) of the Film "The Sisters" (Pawel Lozinski, 1999) (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Pawel Lozinski, documentarian [Warsaw]

You See Not Only What Is Inside the Frame - The Creation of Atmosphere in Movies (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Michal Palka, cameraman and filmmaker [Warsaw]

1. How To Avoid Reminding a Zombie: Cosmetic Advice On Your Personal Condition
2. How To Look 20 Years Older in 30 Minutes - Done by Make-Up Or a Lifting Mask (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Malgorzata Skaryszewska, beautician [Warsaw]

Hysteria and Falling Chandeliers Or: What Cannot Be Seen in Ihe Film "The Fever" by Agnieszka Holland (1980) (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Ewa Toniak, feminist art critic and art historian [Warsaw]

Are You Sure You See What You See? Manipulation Strategies (BM3)
Joanna Zielinska, artist [Warsaw]

How Legible are Body Encodings From Other Cultures? Aspects of Eurocentricity in the Perception of the Body (BM4)
Adolphe Binder, curator, producer, director of Binder + Partner/Berlin, former director of the BerlinBallett - Komische Oper [Berlin]

The Stage is a Movement Space Theatre Installation as an Art Form (BM4)
Barbara Gronau, lecturer in theatre studies, research associate for the sub-project "Aesthetics of the Performative" as part of the Special Research Section "Performative Cultures" at the FU Berlin [Berlin]

Invisible Forms and the Dance of the Eyes: From Survival to Opinion (BM4)
Lisa Nelson, choreographer, improvisational performer, videographer, creator of Tuning Scores, editor Contact Quarterly dance journal, farmer [Vermont]

Frame-Dragging. Perceptual Shifts While Dancing, During Travel and During Sex (BM4)
Siegmar Zacharias, director, communications trainer [Berlin]

PERFORMANCE

The attics of my mind – a possible way to authentic play (Licence No.1)
Prof. Edgar M. Böhlke actor, until 2005 Professor for drama at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt Main [Mannheim]

Daydream. Repetition. How to be real in theatre (Licence No.1)
William Esper acting teacher, one of the leading exponents of the Sanford Meisner Technique, founder of the William Esper Studio [New York]

80s/90s New York Downtown Theatre & AIDS - Lost Knowledge and the Early Deaths of Jack Smith, Ethyl Eichelberger, Ron Vawter and Reza Abdoh (BM6)
Dr. Ehren Fordyce, director, documentary filmmaker, assistant professor of drama at Stanford University [Redwood City, Berlin]

Bringing God in to play – On the art of the liturgy, God the actor and the presence of the Holy Ghost (Licence No.1)
Dr. Benita Joswig theologian and artist, with main focus on exchange, retrospection and mirroring processes in religion and art [Heidelberg]

Playing (The) Robbers: August Wilhelm Iffland in Schiller’s Mannheim debut (Licence No.1)
Prof. Dr. Alexander Kosenina literary scholar, author of books on acting, academic actors and fools, and the actor August Wilhelm Iffland [Mannheim, Hannover]

"I know all about life, I’ve been to the cinema." (Fehlfarben, 1980)(Licence No.1)
Steffen Lückehe video store clerk, screenwriter and owner of the film gallery "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" [Mannheim]

If I Can Make It There … - Wie man in New York City ein Stück produziert (BM6)
Ronald Marx, Schauspieler, Regisseur, Begründer von German Theater Abroad [Berlin]

Von Downtown New York in die Hamptons. Robert Wilsons Watermill Center auf Long Island (BM6)
Jörn Weisbrodt, director of RW Work Ltd, creative director of the Watermill Center [Berlin]

Party Design and Party Counselling (BM6)
Robert Calvin Young, Südstaatler, lebt seit 1987 in Berlin, Clubbetreiber (90 Grad und GMF), Partymacher und Golfer [Bonne Terre, Berlin]

PERSPECTIVE

The museum as stage and playing field (Licence No.1)
Dr. Ulrike Lorenz art historian, Director of "Kunsthalle Mannheim“ [Mannheim]

When kids act out being adults (Licence No.1)
Katrin Nagel state-approved pre-school teacher, works at Eichendorffstraße children’s home [Mannheim]

PHANTOM

Thoughts on Secrets, Literature and Forgiveness - In the Footsteps of Jacques Derrida (BM12)
Michal Ben-Naftali, writer, translator and editor of The French series in Hakibbutz Hameuchad publishing house. Among her books: "A Chronicle of Separation", Resling (2000), "Childhood, a book", Resling (2006). Her translations include: "Mal d'Archive" (Archive Fever) by Jacques Derrida (Resling 2006), and "Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas" by Jacques Derrida (Hakibbutz Hameuchad 2007). [Tel Aviv]

Retelling the Opera "The Flying Dutchman" by Richard Wagner (1843). With Sound Samples (BM12)
Georg Blochman, director of the Goethe-Institute in Tel Aviv. He grew up in a small village in north-western Germany, graduated in history of art from Köln University with a thesis on identity building of German artists of late 19th century, worked as an editor, curator and researcher. The first opera he attended was Verdi's "Trovatore", but the first opera music he remembers is his mother singing "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" from Puccini's "Tosca". He is trying to become a "perfect Wagnerite" (G.B. Shaw) since his early twenties. [Tel Aviv]

On Active Absence (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Oskar Dawicki, artist [Warsaw]

Phantom Pain and Other Mysteries: Unknown Phenomena in Rehabilitation Medicine (BM12)
Avi Ohri, Head of the Rehabilitation Ward in Reuth Medical Center for chronic care and rehabilitation, Tel Aviv, and a Full Professor for rehabilitative medicine in Tel Aviv University. Alongside his clinical work, he has published his research on the history of the medical profession, specifically that of Jewish medicine in Poland between World War I and World War II. Having been a prisoner of war in 1973, he is currently a member of various committees examining Israel's policies towards returning prisoners of war. Ohri is also a drummer and co-founder of the "Second Round Jazz Octet". [Tel Aviv]

Natural Born Killers - On the Connection Between the Y Chromosome and Human Aggression (BM12)
Roi Shani, PhD student in the School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University. He analyzes genetic research about human aggression. He wrote and directed a film about the sexuality of mentally challenged women that was broadcast on Channel 2. [Tel Aviv]

Voice Without Body (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Jacek Skolimowski, music journalist and radio moderator [Warsaw]

PHILOSOPHY

Paul Virilio: Thinker of Velocity (BM7)
Elisa Barth, cultural scientist, works for the Merve Verlag publishing house [Weimar, Lyon, Berlin]

Pure Reason Must Never Win - The Order of the Empire: How Meaningful are Global Theories of Capitalism? (BM7)
Andreas Fanizadeh, journalist, author and publisher (ID Verlag publishing house) [Berlin, Zurich]

Cities of Escape: Jacques Derrida's Theory of the City (BM7)
Dr. Rike Felka, literary scholar and translator ("Telefonbuch" and "Dummheit" by Avital Ronell (amongst others)) [Stuttgart, Berlin]

Thoughts and Velocities (BM7)
Dr. Joseph Vogl, Prof. of contemporary German literature at the Institute of German Literature), HU Berlin [Eggenfelden, Munich, Weimar, Berlin]

PLACES & CITIES

____Casino
1. From Neon to Neo-Baroque - Las Vegas: Casino-Architecture as a Model for Contemporary Spatial Experience
2. "The Venetian", Las Vegas: A Journey to Perfect Venice (with Visual Examples) (BM6)
Dr. Laura Bieger, Americanist at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin, Specialist on Urban and Spatial Experience [Berlin]

____Chicago
Vertical Reservations: Imaging Urban Blight and Renewal in Chicago (BM6)
Benjamin Lorch, Urbanist, Theatre Creator, Director, Improviser, currently a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Germany [Chicago]

____Detroit
Shrinking City Detroit. With Recent Photos (BM6)
Anke Hagemann, Scientific Assistant to the Project "Shrinking Cities", Co-Editor of "An Architektur"-magazine [Berlin]

____Harlem
Harlem Now and Back Then - an Urban Tour with a City Map (BM6)
Dr. Dorothea Löbbermann, Scientific Assistant at the Institute for American Studies, HU Berlin [Berlin]

____Keystone
Keystone: A Garbage Man's Experiences in a Skiing Paradise (BM6)
Maurice Frank, Journalist and Co-Founder of EXBERLINER [Berlin]

____Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Mexico: How Latinas/os Change the Face of an American City (BM6)
Dr. Marc Priewe, Scientific Assistant at the Institute for English/American Studies, Universität Potsdam [Berlin]

____Miami
Miami: Cuba's Secret Capital. Aristocrats and Boat-People in One and the Same Swamp (BM6)
Dr. Christophe Singler, Art Critic, Professor for Latin American Studies, Université de Franche-Comté [Besançon]

____New York
Creating Values, Made in N.Y. How Artists and a City Profit from One Another (BM6)
Ludwig Linden, Former Cultural Attaché in New York, Economist, Head of the Department for Cultural Affairs at the Auswärtiges Amt [Berlin]

____Rochester
George Eastman: The Founding of Kodak and the Making of Rochester, NY (BM6)
Dr. Kelley E. Wilder, Photographic Historian, Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science [Rochester/ Berlin]

____Shopping Malls
The Shopping-Mall - An Architecture of Seduction? (BM6)
Dr. Ing. Kerstin Dörhöfer, Professor for Architecture and Urban Studies, UdK Berlin, researches on Shopping Malls [Berlin]

PLAYGROUNDS

Casino ornamentale: On Persian carpets, mirrors and other ornamental histories from the world of casinos (Licence No.1)
Casino Internationale / Kathrin Böer cultural studies scholar, postgraduate at the Laboratoire d'Esthétique théorique et appliquée - Paris 1 [Paris, Berlin] and Felix Sattler artist [Weimar, Berlin]

Urban cross-country – The art of efficient movement (Licence No.1)
Daniel Fromm parkour runner, founder member of "Movement Mannheim", collaboration between parkour and free runners [Mannheim]

1. Crime games: 20 ways to invent a crime and uncover it subsequently
2. Child crime: How detective games help kids to decipher the world and to appreciate the rules as well as the breaching of rules (Licence No.1)
Corinna Harder author, founder of the "UNDERGROUND Junior-Detektiv-Klub", award winner of the “Children’s Culture Prize“ (DKHW), detective-game author, trained ivory carver [Frankfurt Main]

The art of education - Creativity - Imagination (Licence No.1)
Gunter Keller Waldorf tutor and lecturer at the “Freie Hochschule für Waldorfpädagogik“ [Mannheim]

We’re all actors – self-expression in everyday life (Licence No.1)
Einhart Klucke taxi driver, teacher, trade union secretary, cabaret artist, master of ceremonies, off-theatre expert [Mannheim]

"gastronomía = A directive for stomach maintenance" – Why every gastronomic enterprise is only as good as it’s workforce (Licence No.1)
Bettina Pfeil owner of the event management agency "gastfreundschaft.", coach on etiquette, jurist, football fan, connoisseur [Alsbach a.d. Bergstraße]

The Reality Game: We turned Mannheim into a stage (Licence No.1)
Erik Pold choreographer, director, performer [Copenhagen]

PLEASURE

On Growing Islamization and the Art of Enjoying It (BM7)
Neco Çelik, writer, social worker, director for film and theater [Berlin]

Therapy Through Singing: Karaoke-Migration (BM7)
Ron Rineck, runs the karaoke bar Monster Ronson's in Berlin-Kreuzberg [Salt Lake City, New York, Berlin]

POETRY

Explaining poetry, even single lines, with examples by Benn, Born, Brodsky, or brought by the client (BM2)
Alexej Kairetdinow, poet, translator [Berlin]


POLITICS

We Thought We Knew Everything about Netanyahu and his Government, but We Didn't - How is the New Government Different, and in What Ways Does this Affect Palestinian and Israeli Societies? (BM12)
Haneen Zoabi, Member of Knesset for the National Democratic Assembly (Balad), the first Arab woman to be elected to the Knesset as a representative of an Arab party. She has a BA in philosophy and psychology and an M.A. in Communications and Media from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before becoming a Member of Knesset, she was Director General of I'lam - Media Center for Arab-Palestinians in Israel. [Tel Aviv]

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Of the Myth and Desire of Culturalism in International Affairs (BM7)
Dr. Markus Engels, political scientist, expert on international law, assistant director of the Department of International Politics of the

SPD party executive [Duisburg, Portsmouth, Berlin]

Political Theology: Kemalism as State Religion (BM7)
Alp Ilyas Klanten, graduate student of political science, part of de center, a political group with a focus on migration and culture [Bergisch-Gladbach, Istanbul, Genf, Berlin]

Persistent Myths of Immigration Politics (BM7)
Özcan Mutlu, MSC in Communication Engineering, Member of the Berlin House of Representatives and spokesperson for education and migration policies for the Green Party - Bündnis/90 Die Grünen [Kelkit, New York, Omaha, Berlin]

"Close down the casino" – an introduction into the system of international economics and the possibilities for change (Licence No.1)
Maria Rigot social worker, founding member of "ATTAC Mannheim" and contributor for the initiative "Freie Flüchtlingsstadt Mannheim” (Mannheim free for refugees) [Mannheim]

Money game vs. game money – What is money and who produces it? Are we living in capitalism or in a materialistically financed real socialism? (Licence No.1)
Dr. Viktor Winschel late repatriate, then film producer, programmer, graduate in commercial studies, currently freelancing, academic contributor at Mannheim University [Mannheim]

____Absentee Vote
Vote Bush out of Office with "Vote 44": The American System of Absentee Votes (BM6)
Matt Lehitka, Music-, Fashion- and Entertainment-Manager, Founder of "Vote 44", Co-Founder of "Street Voice Group Networks" [Berlin/ New York]

____Anti
Anti-Americanism, Anti-Fascism, Anti-German, Anti-Folk: Is Resistance Repression? (BM6)
Amie Siegel, Video Artist, Filmmaker [New York/ Berlin]

____Elections
If Elections Changed Something, They Would be Prohibited. Elections in the U.S.A. (BM6)
Dr. Thomas Greven, Scientific Assistant, Department of Political Science at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin [Bonn/ Berlin]

____Foreign Affairs
"A Turn to the Left" in Latin America? - The US-Policy towards Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America (BM6)
Raul Zelik, Writer and Political Author, lectures on war, state models and emancipation in Latin America at FU Berlin [Berlin]

____Independence
Enlightened America: All Men are Created Equal: Declaration of Independence (BM6)
Dr. Ekkehart Krippendorff, Professor (em.) for Political Science, FU Berlin [Berlin]

____Outer Space
Orbital America: How the U.S.A. Uses Satellites (BM6)
Lisa Parks, Ph.D., Research Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin and Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California-Santa Barbara [California/ Montana]

____Populism I
Populism as a Democratic Movement (BM6)
Priv. Doz. Frank Unger, Guest Professor at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin, Subjects of Research: International Political Economy and American Foreign Policy [Berlin]

____Populism II
Arnold Schwarzenegger: From Terminator to Governator. On Populism, State Weariness and the Californian Exception (BM6)
Heinrich Wefing, Editor at F.A.Z., for Several Years Foreign Correspondent of the F.A.Z. in California [Berlin]

____Poverty
Poverty and Inequality in the U.S.A.: The Result of a Misled Social Policy? (BM6)
Britta Grell, Political Scientist, Scientific Assistant (Politics Department) at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin [Berlin]

____Unions
"Change to Win" - An Awakening of American Unions? (BM6)
Dr. Michael Fichter, born and raised in the U.S.A., teaches Political Science, FU Berlin [Albuquerque/ Berlin]

____Worker
Future of the American Worker in a Globalized Financial Market (BM6)
Phillip H. Phan, Ph. D., Professor of Management at the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Fellow-in-Residence at the American Academy Berlin [Baltimore/ Berlin]

POP

The Malinche: A Pop-Icon (BM6)
Dr. Anja Bandau, Junior Professor at the Institute for Latin American Studies, FU Berlin, Research Focus on: Hispanic Cultures and Literatures in the U.S.A. [Berlin]

How to Get Backstage Without Doing Any "Favors" (BM6)
Dr. Dot, Star Masseuse [New York/ Berlin]

Why Self-Censorship? Madonna's Video-Clip "American Life" (BM6)
Dr. Matthias Weiß, Art Historian, Theatre Scientist, Sonderforschungsbereich "Kulturen des Performativen" ("Cultures of Performance"), FU Berlin [Berlin]

POTLATCH

The Potlatch as a Killer Gift or The Economy of Waste (BM8)
Fritz Ostermayer, radio host ("Im Sumpf"/ FM4), writer, DJ and musician [Vienna]

"Who Gives Takes." Exploitation through Giving - The client gets 500 euros!, as gift in return she has to tell as much as possible about herself (women only!) (BM8)
David Schalko, writer and TV director (e.g. "Sendung ohne Nanmen" and "Dorfers Donnerstalk"), his debut novel Frühstück in Helsinki was published in 2006 [Vienna]

POWER

The Spooky Side of Your Beauty: How Make-Up Becomes a Weapon (BM3)
Agata Kalabarczyk, make-up artist working for fashion magazines ("Elle", "Twój Styl", "Uroda") [Warsaw]

Violence Against Women in Poland (BM3)
Joanna Piotrowska, WenDo trainer, author of Internet feminist bookshop "Feminotheque', co-organizer of female festival Mia100Kobiet, working at OSKa (National Women's Information Center) [Warsaw]

Invisible Borders of Freedom and Censorship (BM3)
Slawomir Sierakowski, editor in chief of "Krytyka Polityczna" [Warsaw]

POWER & MANIPULATION

"I’ve done my part. Now you do yours." (King Don Carlos, after murdering his son) - Monstrous scenes: The dark side of Schillers aesthetics (Licence No.1)
Felix Ensslin director, author and curator [Potsdam]

Manipulative games and how to deal with them (Licence No.1)
Jürgen Gündel certified psychologist, coach for transaction analysis and Enneagramm Professional Training according to Helen Palmer [Mannheim]

Power abuse in the context of gender-related hierarchical structures on hand of examples of violence in partnerships (Licence No.1)
Annette Heneka certified social worker, graduate in business administration (VWA), active since 1990 at Mannheim’s home for women, employee at Women’s Information Centre, trauma consultant [Mannheim]

PRACTICAL EXERCISES & COURSES

Eternal seduction – A course in flirting (Licence No.1)
Gabriela Badura actress at the National Theater Mannheim [Mannheim]

Your Sexually Uninhibited Alter Ego: Seven Minutes of Training to Become Your Very Own Burlesque Performer. An Exercise (BM6)
Anna Curtis, Burlesque Superstar, Photographer and Performer [New York/ Berlin]

GO. The four rules of the game (Licence No.1)
Tilo Dickopp studies in mathematics and informatics, scientific contributor for Chair of Business Informatics III, Dan 3 in GO [Mannheim]

Massage and More (How to Make Massage Your Business) (BM6)
Dr. Dot, Star Masseuse [New York/ Berlin]

"Pull all the strings, be a puppet master" – On the magic and charm of marionettes (Licence No.1)
Irmela Engelland puppeteer and Head of the amateur puppet project "Kalyptra", expert for marionettes and other puppet types, play therapist with puppets, teacher at special needs school [Altrip, Mannheim]

An Activity: Non-verbal Communication, Rhythm and Play (BM4)
Nathan Fuhr, conductor, performer, trance researcher [USA/Berlin]

10 Risky Ways to Relax in Public (including how to roll a joint, internal massages and coordination games)
Jared Gradinger, dancer Constanza Macras/dorkypark and video maker [Berlin]

1. Body Architecture: Discoveries for the Left and the Right Hand and a Table
2. A Short Fondue Evening: An Exercise in Classical Ballet and A Speciality in Swiss Cuisine (BM4)
Anna Huber, choreographer and dancer [Berlin/Bern]

Practical Instructions for the Construction and Ignition of Explosives Made of Eggs, Peas, Powdered Sugar and Cocoa (With Small Closing Fireworks) (BM4)
Eva Meyer-Keller, performance and video artist, singer in the Band Ochosa [Berlin]

The Brand Game: My half-hour with your brand. Bring your own communication resources along! (Licence No.1)
Prof. Axel Kolaschnik professor for corporate design, corporate identity and brand communication at Mannheim University, faculty for design [Mannheim, Berlin]

Telling, reading and inventing fairytales (Licence No.1)
Christa Krieger certified social pedagogue, amateur theatre actress, storyteller and passionate reader of stories, dialect interpreter, director of the "Freilichtbühne Mannheim“ [Mannheim]

You craft me, I’ll craft you, and then we’ll converse! Or: The wonderful world of foamed plastic puppets (Licence No.1)
Florian Loycke founder and mastermind behind "Das Helmi", puppet crafter, collective director, poet, composer [Berlin]

Why Do Mental Training for Dancers? With Practical Exercises (BM4)
Dr. Herbert Schmitz, graduate psychologist, psychological service of the police, crisis intervention, NLP trainer, behavioural therapist, supervisor [Hamburg]

The "Red Tape": Step by Step Towards Studies or an Exchange in the U.S.A. Guidelines on How to Fill out a Visa-Form (BM6)
Ute Strack, Employee at the Information Center in the US-Embassy [Berlin]

An Introduction to "Leetspeak". A Graphic Design Nightmare (BM6)
Vera Valentine, Student for Graphic Design at Art Center Los Angeles [Lafayette]

____Character Building
A Brief Introduction to Egomania: Suggestions for Conforming or Resistance (BM10)
Prof. Dr. Hubert Christian Ehalt, university professor of Social History, science advisor of the City of Vienna, secretary general and board member of the Municipal Promotion of Science Fund; since 1987 planning and coordination of the Vienna Lectures; numerous publications on cultural theory themes [Vienna]

Me Too! Revealing Your Inner Creativity (BM12)
Itay Mautner, cultural activist, creator, screenwriter, curator, journalist, editor, former TV presenter. He is a group facilitator, lecturer and student. He organizes and presents the "Pecha Kucha" nights in Tel Aviv, and is the artistic director of various cultural events in Tel Aviv and Jaffa. Overall, he's confused by all the things that he does. [Tel Aviv]

____Communication
Israeli Sign Language (BM12)
Nechama Perl, an interpreter in Israeli Sign Language and Touch Sign Language. She works at "Na La'Ga'at" (please touch), a cultural center which employs the deaf, blind, and the deaf-blind as interpreters and tutors for a group of deaf-blind actors. She has also instructed student groups on how to communicate with the deaf community, as well as being an acting instructor in the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem. [Tel Aviv]

____Composition Tutorial
Blues Course: Practical Introduction to The Music Score of "selber schuld" ("you're to blame") (BM10)
Hüseyin Evirgen, Komponist und Musiker, DJ und Produzent, Tätigkeit als live electronics performer, Kollaborationen im Bereich Video, Tanz und Theater, zahlreiche Aufführungen im In- und Ausland, Veröffentlichungen bei temp~records, aber Records (A) und Living Records (UK) [Vienna]

____Culinary Treats
The Arc of Taste: Save what we want to eat (with food sample) (BM10)
Barbara van Melle, journalist, TV moderator , head of Slow Food Vienna [Vienna]

____Ensuring Livelihood I
Debt Counseling (BM10)
Alexander A. Maly, degree in social work, since 1988 debt counsellor, managing director of debt counciling, Vienna, author ("Tatort Banken. Österreich, Schuldenfalle Europas") [Vienna]

____Ensuring Livelihood II
To whom is a bestseller indebted or Must be I take on debt for my book?
Counseling for those wanting to publish (BM10)
Dr. Nora Pester, political scientist, head of press and marketing of ZOOM children's museum, many years of experience in publishing [Vienna]

____Existential Analysis
Relations of Projected Debt: Introduction and Consulting on the New Working Relations (BM10)
Dr. Klaus Neundlinger, philosopher, translator, teaches German as a foreign language, head of the research project on the new self-employed at the Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute for History and Society [Vienna]

____Mental Tool
How to Think and Know Beyond Language? (BM12)
Gil Alon, Zen master, Reiki master, singer, actor, and theater director. He is an initiated disciple and a dharma heir of Gudo Waffu Nishijima roshi in Japan, Soto Sect, the Dogen Sangha lineage. He was awarded an honorary membership in the International Film and Television Research Center, The Asian Academy of Film and Television, New Delhi, India. [Tel Aviv]

Let's Revive Memories You Didn't Even Remember You Forgot (BM12)
Yuval Meskin, radio presenter and editor of art, culture, and jazz programs, he also has a daily sports section. He is an eternal member of the artistic committee of The Acco Festival for Alternative Theatre. He is a singer with Giv'ol choir, an actor for hire, and a storyteller. Recently, he has been treating himself to a new tattoo on a yearly basis. [Tel Aviv]

Converse With Your Subconscious Through Tarot (BM12)
Ruth Netzer, Jungian clinical psychologist, artist, literary critic and researcher, and poet. She has published eight poetry books - wining her four literary awards - as well as two non-fiction books (Modan Publishing House), "A journey into the Self - the Alchemy of the Soul - Symbols and Myths" and "The Magician, the Fool and the Empress - Tarot Cards in the Circle of Life and in Therapy." Her book "The Whole, the Fragments and its Reparation - Symbol-Literature-Poetry" (a collection of articles from a Jungian perspective ) is currently in press (Carmel Publishing House). [Tel Aviv]

____Pain Experience
Future Facial Injuries: Burns, Cuts, Bruises. A Make-up Course (BM10)
Georg Klüver-Pfandtner, make-up artist, stylist, actor, works for theatre and film, member of free Artists' Collective GRUPPE DAGMAR [Vienna, Graz]

____Perception
The Blue Box (32 Photographs), FormulatedAlong the Lines of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), a Psychoanalytical Diagnostic Tool to this Day. You are Invited to Participate in the M.H.T. (BM12)
Michal Heiman, artists, curator, lecturer, and composer of "Michal Heiman Tests (M.H.T)". She has been formulating new exchange relations between photographs and viewers, objects of art, subjects and speech since 1997, at Documenta X. The title of her recent solo exhibition at the Tel-Aviv museum, "Attacks On Linking" (2009), comes from a 1959 article by the British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, and deals with the destruction of and attack on "links" such as thought processes, language, and emotional development. [Tel Aviv]

____Reading Experience
Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908): On "Nasenpein" and "Haselrute". A Joint Picture-Reading (BM10)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst Strouhal, cultural studies scholar, author, teaches at the University of Applied Art Vienna [Vienna]

____tinkering
How to Create a Whole Wardrobe Out of Two Shirts - A Workshop Based on the "Double Trouble" Design (BM12)
Frau Blau, Helena Blaunstein and Philip Blau's fashion brand. Since 2002 they have been creating high quality fashion with a special ambiance, through a profound and optimistic view of life and their aim to bring joy to everyday life. "Frau Blau" is German slang for "drunk lady", a fact that is reflected in the "serious-nonsense" air of the couple's designs. They won the 2007 Ministry of Education and Culture's award for textile and fashion design. [Tel Aviv]

PRECARIOUS

Get Organized! International Strategies for Organizing Precariously Employed Workers (BM7)
Hae-Lin Choi, PhD stipendiat of the Heinz-Böckler-Stiftung, does research on organizing in the USA, Italy and Korea, ver.di [Bochum, Seoul, Berlin]

Fluidizations: Precarious Circumstances and Basic Income (BM7)
Adrienne Goehler, university president, senator of culture (retired), curator, writer [Lahr, Bourgoin Jallieu, Hamburg, Berlin]

PREVIEWS

____Book
Unmarried Sex. "Look to the Lady!" (BM10)
Veronica Buckley, writer ("Christina, Königin von Schweden: Das rastlose Leben einer europäischen Exzentrikerin", "Madam de Maintenon: Die geheime Frau von Louis XIV"), presently working on her next book "The Other Woman: An Intimate History of Sex without Marriage" [Vienna]

____Film
Power Relations in Architectural Models. With Film Excerpts from "Mock-Ups in Close-Up (Architectural Models in Cinema 1927 - 2007)" (BM10)
MMag. Gabu Heindl, architect, exhibition maker, urban planner, teaches at the Academy of Visual Arts, Vienna, publications on architecture, sustainability, post-Fordism [Vienna]

Exclusive Pre-Information on the New Film "One Moment of Freedom" (film to be launched in November 2008) (BM10)
Arash T. Riahi, film director, producer (Golden Girls film production), grew up in Isfahan, lives in Vienna since 1983 [Vienna]

PRICE

Play-money: Utopian concepts for the distribution of cultural subsidies (Licence No.1)
Miriam Caroli councillor for the Green Party, theatre, film and media studies graduate, project manager for "tower media" [Mannheim]

How much does good drama cost? On projects for which the State Theatre pulverises millions, and the alternative scene itself (Licence No.1)
Malte Jelden artistic director of DRAMA COLOGNE e.V., dramaturg at “Kammerspiele Munich“ [Munich]

PROLIFERATION

Cancer Cells: What Makes Them So Expansive? (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Magdalena Chechlinska, PhD, department of Immunology, Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology [Warsaw]

Your Personal Ghost Story On Demand - Invented in 30 Minutes From Scratch (BM3/invisible knowledge)
Jerzy Siwiec, psychiatrist [Warsaw]

PUBLIC SPACE

Beggars and Punks Not Wanted. The Public Space as a Catwalk for the Rich and the Beautiful. From the Citizens' City to the Tourists' Stronghold (BM8)
Tatjana Kaltenbeck-Michl, city counsellor, deputy chairperson of the SPÖ Graz; responsible within the city government for youth and family, women and the social sector [Graz]

Colourful People for the City - A City for Colourful People (BM8)
Otmar Pfeifer, head of the 'Sozialinterventionsstelle', a municipal social intervention office of the City of Graz; cooperation with ErfA (an association and employment project for people in need) [Graz]

Art in Public Space. Calculating the Public and/or a Gift of the Moment? (BM8)
Dr. Anna Schober, cultural studies scholar, historian; research on the aesthetics of the public space and on movements in cinema, lecturer at the University of Vienna, gender studies, Department for Art and Design, Vienna University of Technology [Vienna]