TECHNIQUES

How to set up a country garden (BM2)
Amelie Deuflhard, artistic director of the sophiensaele [Berlin]

Working with props. Every thing you find can be useful (BM2)
Constanza Macras, choreographer, dorkypark [Berlin]

Popeshat or Lotusflower - The art of napkin-folding (BM2)
Amelia Seymour, visual artist, English teacher at Universal Music [Berlin]

Creativity: How to get ideas and put them into practice (BM2)
Lutz Engelke, manager of Triad Berlin, scenographer [Berlin]

Making a self-portrait fort he stage (BM2)
Ilja Papatheodorou, performance-artist, sheshepop [Berlin]

The all time hall of shame. How shame and its transgression can become a source of artistic productivity. (BM2)
Monika Rinck, poet, scriptwriter, essayist [Berlin]

Sometimes the most beautiful things happen by themselves. Why nature is an artist. (BM2)
Dr. Friedrich Weltzien, art historian FU, expert for artistic processes [Berlin]

The making and functions of every day and theatre kimonos. (BM2)
Yoshio Yabara, set- and costume-designer [Berlin]

Learning a song or dance which could be helpful during a difficult date (BM2)
Jill Emerson, dancer dorkypark, Pilates-trainer [Berlin]

Electronics and Biology: Eleology a term for artistic research (BM2)
Gertrud Schrader, visual artist, actions, media art, lecturer at the Institute for Aesthetics, University Hannover [Berlin]

TELEVISION

Medial Migrant Self-Empowerment: the Kanak TV Clips (BM7)
Erdal Ahlatçi, computer scientist, PhD candidate and social worker, editor of Xpedient.org, the anti-racism network on the internet [Corum, Berlin]

From "Eure Heimat - unsere Heimat" to "Cosmo TV". Migrants on TV (BM7)
Juri Rescheto, presenter, writer and reporter for WDR, ARTE and Deutsche Welle [Petropawlowsk, Berlin]

TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTIONS

Stacking/ Storing People with Mobile Means: Camp made of huts and containers. With visual examples (BM7)
Dr. Axel Doßmann, historian, cultural scientist, author (with J. Wenzel, K. Wenzel "Architektur auf Zeit. Baracken, Pavillons, Container") [East Berlin, Leipzig, Rotterdam, Weimar-Buchenwald, Berlin]

Martin Pawley's Garbage Housing & Jean Prouvé's Maison des Jours Meilleurs (BM7)
Jesko Fezer, architect, co-manager of the bookstore Pro-qm, co-editor of An Architektur magazine [Stuttgart, Berlin]

TEXT

How to write a bestseller. Ideas on an unpredictable phenomenon (BM2)
Michael Lüders, journalist, political advisor, author [Berlin]

Don't Let Email Take Over. Preserving and Valuing the Sensuality of Letters (BM2)
Sophia New, performance-artist plan b. [Berlin]

1) Subjectivity as a resource. Exercise in academic writing
2) Metaphor. the narrative of knowledge transfer. Exercise in academic writing (BM2)
Edith Püschel, psychological psychotherapist, student advisor FU [Berlin]

THE OTHER SIDE

Getting People Back From the Other Side: The Comparison of My Work As An Anaesthetist and Psychiatrist (BM3/unknown knowledge)
Jerzy Siwiec, psychiatrist [Warsaw]

THEATRE

Theatrum Mundi in the digital age (BM2)
Hamster Damm, set-designer, expert in theatre machines [Berlin]

1) How to analyse theatre performances
2) How to talk about a performance that you didn't understand (BM2)
Barbara Gronau, lecturer in theatre studies, research in Aesthetics of Performativity, associate researcher at the interdisciplinary research project "Kulturen des Performativen", FU Berlin [Berlin]

From A for Abramovic to W for Woosterfroup. A Jukebox of theatre-makers (BM2)
Matthias Lilienthal, artistic director and manager of Hebbel am Ufer [Berlin]

THEORY

____Theodor W. Adorno
No loot, no toot! (No Party - No Gift). After Adorno (part of ongoing project program!) (BM8)
Janez Janša, theatre director, performance artist, author, 1999-2006 director of Maska, a non-profit organization in publishing, production and education [Ljubljana]

____Georges Bataille
The Gift - An Economy of Expenditure (Georges Bataille) or an Economy of Deferment (Jacques Derrida)? (BM8)
Mag. Dr. Erwin Fiala, visiting lecturer for Media Philosophy and Cultural Philosophy at the University of Graz, teaches Media Design/ Communication at the HTBLuVA Graz-Ortweinschule, Department for Art and Design, curator, cultural publicist and essayist [Graz]

____Jean Baudrillard
The Symbolism of Exchange in Jean Baudrillard's Work (BM8)
Univ-Prof. Dr. Peter Weibel, artist, exhibition curator and art and media theorist, head of ZKM Karlsruhe, since 1993 head curator of the Neue Galerie at the Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, honorary doctor of the University of Art and Design Helsinki (2006), Käthe-Kollwitz-Award (2004) [Karlsruhe/ Graz]

____Pierre Bourdieu 1
Participatory Observation. Pierre Bourdieu's Photographic Documentations in Algeria, 1957 - 1961 (BM8)
Christine Frisinghelli, curator and editor of Camera Austria, Graz, numerous exhibitions ("Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria: Testimonies of Uprooting.", Graz 2003 et al.) [Graz]

____Pierre Bourdieu 2
1. Bourdieu for Social Climbers. A Consultation
2. Technologies of Desire. How to Find the Man/Woman of One's Life with Tightening and Distinction (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fröhlich, philosopher, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Science Theory at the Johannes-Kepler- University Linz [Linz]

____Jacques Derrida 1
The Gift - An Economy of Expenditure (Georges Bataille) or an Economy of Deferment (Jacques Derrida)? (BM8)
Mag. Dr. Erwin Fiala, visiting lecturer for Media Philosophy and Cultural Philosophy at the University of Graz, teaches Media Design/ Communication at the HTBLuVA Graz-Ortweinschule, Department for Art and Design, curator, cultural publicist and essayist [Graz]

____Jacques Derrida 2
The Ethics of the Gift in Jacques Derrida's Writings. Reading in Accordance with the Incalculable (BM8)
PD Dr. Krassimira Kruschkova, has a degree in drama studies, head of the theory center of Tanzquartier Wien and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna [Vienna]

____Alexander Kluge
Strategies from Below: Concepts of Society in the Literary Work of Alexander Kluge (BM8)
Dr. Stefanie Carp, literary scholar and dramaturge, co-director of Schauspielhaus Zürich in collaboration with Christoph Marthaler (2000-2004/5), as of 2008 drama director of the Vienna Festival ("Wiener Festwochen") [Berlin/ Vienna]

____Karl Marx
The Story of Unhappy Mr. Peel (Karl Marx, The Capital, Volume 1) (BM8)
Leo Kühberger, historian, activist and farmer [Graz]

____Marcel Mauss
Marcel Mauss and the Gift - Reciprocity in History (BM8)
Dr. Albert Müller, historian, working at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science (Salzburg and Vienna) since 1984, since 1998 Department for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, secretary general of the Heinz von Foerster Society [Vienna]

____Anatol Rapoport
TIT FOR TAT. Anatol Rapoport's Game of Cooperation (with historical examples) (BM8)
Dr. Albert Müller, historian, working at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science (Salzburg and Vienna) since 1984; since 1998 Department for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, secretary general of the Heinz von Foerster Society [Vienna]

TIME

30 minutes in silence (BM 11)
Daniel Simpkins, artist and curator based at The Royal Standard studios in Liverpool [Liverpool]

TRANSFORMATION

Soul Rinse: Wash day for yer' insides! (BM 11)
Margi Clarke, actress and presenter on City Talk radio. Her films include "Letter to Brezhnev" (1985), "Blonde Fist" (1991) and "24 Hour Party People" (2002) [Liverpool]

A load of rubbish: From waste to tools of beauty and resistance (BM 11)
The Vacuum Cleaner, cultural resistance collective of one fashioning radical social and ecological change, attempts to disrupt concentrations of power [London]

From stone to God and back again. Transformations in South Indian Hinduism (BM 11)
Soumhya Venkatesan, social anthropologist at the University of Manchester. Research interests include objects and their agency, art and craft, and Hindu ritual. Regional expertise: India [Liverpool]

TOURISM

Easyjetset - a Travelling Choreographer Explains How to Get to Know a City in No Time without Becoming a Tourist (BM7)
Martin Nachbar, dancer and choreographer [Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, New York, Gent, Brüssel, Frankfurt. Berlin]

Where Are We Travelling to? Different Variants of the Motive of "hin-zu" or: the Social and Cultural Dynamics of Tourist Settings and the Actors Behind Them (the Alps Region Serving as Example) (BM7)
Peter Spillmann, artist, independent curator, tourism researcher, Labor k3000 [Grosshöchstetten/ Emmtal, Zurich, Berlin]

Why Do We Travel? Different Variants of the Motive of "Away-From" (BM7)
Priv.- Doz. Dr. Hasso Spode, historian, sociologist, editor of voyage, a yearbook for research on travel and tourism, director of the "Historisches Archiv zum Tourismus" (historical archives on tourism), FU Berlin [Friedrichshagen, Hannover, Berlin]

Visitors itinerary for Berlin tourists without touristic interests (BM2)
Dorothee Wenner, filmmaker, journalist, jury of the International Forum for young filmmakers Berlinale [Berlin]

TRAFFIC

How the Germans Came to Love the Autobahn - and How They Were Kept Under Surveillance and Registered in Transit (BM7)
Dr. Axel Doßmann, historian, cultural scientist, author (with J. Wenzel, K. Wenzel "Architektur auf Zeit. Baracken, Pavillons, Container") [East Berlin, Leipzig, Rotterdam, Weimar-Buchenwald, Berlin]

The Development of the Transport of Goods and Passengers in the Future (BM7)
Frank Hansen, DaimlerChrysler Society and Technology Research Group, researcher on mobility at the Institute for Mobility Research [Westerland auf Sylt, Tübingen, Berlin]

The Different Smells of the 40 International Airports I Know (BM7)
Peyé Psimenou, air hostess since 1988, photographer, expert on "Hot Spots" (Rimini protocol, Athens 2004) [Oklahoma City, Athens, Berlin]

Life in the German Autobahn Network (BM7)
Günter Senkel, writer, used to run a modern antiquarian bookstore [Neumünster, Kiel]

TRANSFORMATION

Turning the World Up-Side-Down. 'Pataphysics' by Alfred Jarry: The General Conception of Everything (BM3)
Jan Gondowicz, Archeologist of Meanings [Warsaw]

Buddha in Everyday Life (BM3)
Maciej 'Magura' Góralski, Music Journalist, Ethnopunk Musician, Poet, DJ and Buddhist Scholar [Warsaw]

1. Cranio-Sacral Techniques: The Invisible Work on the Body
2. The Body Memory: Connections between Body, Mind and Soul (BM3)
Anna Litkie, Neurophysiologist and Body-Work Therapist, Graduated from the International School of Shiatsu and the International School for Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy in Switzerland [Warsaw]

Yoga-'Exorcisms': Body Ghosts, Unknown Emotions, Psychical Wraiths, Ghosts of Spirits and How to Integrate, Tame and Banish them in Practising Yoga (BM3)
Arkadiusz Tabero, Philosophy Ph.D. and Hatha Yoga Teacher at "Joga Foksal" [Warsaw]

1. Everything about Therapy with Drug Addicts
2. The Invisible Work of Monar (BM3)
Jagoda Wladon, Vice-President of Monar, Therapist for Drug Addicted and Leader of Therapeutic Community [Warsaw]

TRANSITION

How to Move Between the Different Disciplines - As a Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher, and Fashion Designer (BM4)
Vladimir Malakhov, general manager of the Staatsballett Berlin [Berlin]

The Moment of Transition: Interferences of Disparate Worlds of Experience, Temporary Non-translatability, Transformation and Vacuum (BM4)
Joachim Schlömer, director, choreographer (Basel/Berlin), curator and artistic director of the Tanz Kooperative [Freiburg]

TRANSLATION

HIS MASTER'S VOICE: how to find the right intonation in literary translation. With examples (BM2)
Frank Heibert, literary translator (DeLillo, LaBute), lector, jazz singer [Berlin]

Moments of untranslateabilty in the international theatre touring business. With examples (BM2)
Nele Hertling, former artistic director and manager of the Hebbel Theater, chairman of the DAAD artist program, deputy director of the Akademie der Künste [Berlin]

Learning Viennese with Asterix (BM2)
Christof Kurzmann, musician [Berlin]

TRAVELLING

Buffalo Bill's Travels - On the Origins of the Wild West's Globalization (BM6)
Dr. Ronald Düker, Cultural Scientist, Journalist [Berlin]

On the Road Again - America-Simulations in Word, Image and Sound, Inspired by Jacob Holdt (BM6)
Lutz Engelke, Founder and Head of Triad Berlin [Berlin]

Naval Ways to and Overland Routes Across America. A Travel Report (BM6)
Dr. Dorothea von Hantelmann, Art Historian, Author, Curator [Berlin]

1. Applied Movements by Boat: Battling Cargo from Mopti to Timbuktu
2. How to Travel Around Armenia Without a Car (BM4)
Renate Klett, dance and theatre critic, permanent traveller [Berlin]

____Armenia
"Stone Time Touch" (2006) - A Film on an Imaginary Homeland (BM7)
Gariné Torossian, Filmmaker [Beirut, Toronto, Berlin]

____Autoput
Autoput- E5 Karayolu from Alamanya to Türkiye. A Narrative from Childhood (BM7)
Ipek Ipekçioglu, DJ and activist, graduate in social pedagogy, event as well as quality manager, part of Kanakwood, co-founder of GLADT and Amuso, freelance writer [Izmir, London, Berlin]

____Berlin-Istanbul
A Team, an Adventure and 3000 km on a Bicycle. From Berlin to Istanbul (BM7)
Dennis Crosby, student of technical computer science [Berlin]

____Ex-Yugoslavia
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]

____Home
The Way to School as Transit: a Self-Directed Road Movie, Stories from Memory (BM7)
Barbara Meyer, artist and intermediary of art, coordinator of the OFFENSIVE KULTURELLE BILDUNG IN BERLIN of the Council for the Arts and member of the Council of Refugees Berlin [Winterthur, Berlin, Luzern]

____Turkey
Narratives from Gaziantep, Diyarbakir, Van and Dogubayaz?t, with still photographs (BM7)
Thomas Arslan, scriptwriter and filmmaker [Braunschweig, Essen, Ankara, Berlin]

TRUTH/FAKE

"... eliminated in a hardly noticeable way ..." Asynchronously and Not at All Unpolitically - Film Synchronization as the Craft of Art Fakers? (BM10)
Hannes Auinger, Ego ltd., engaged in research, writing and lecturing with a focus on film, media, gender, intercultural social work [Vienna]

How Did it Really Happen? Historical Truth as Impossible Dream - And the Need to Tell us Stories (BM10)
Philipp Blom, writer, journalist and translator [Vienna]

Legends of Guilt in Peace Processes - Camp David II (2000) and John Mearsheimer/Stephen Welt: "The Israel Lobby" (2007) (BM10)
Mag. Dr. Gudrun Harrer, editor-in-chief of the Austrian daily "Der Standard", lecturer in Modern Arab History at the University of Vienna and at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna; 2006 special emissary and chargé d'affaires of the Austrian embassy in Bagdad during Austria's EU Presidency [Vienna]

The Problem With Poetics in Iranian Film (BM10)
Arash T. Riahi, film director, producer (Golden Girls film production), grew up in Isfahan, lives in Vienna since 1983 [Vienna]