How Do I Feel? a symposium about emotions in global dialogue
An international symposium about emotions on display in the dialogue between audience and stage – you and me – and what effect the emotions have on our communication with others in a global perspective. The symposium aims at exploring the possibilities and risks of putting emotions on stage. The personal and global – micro and macro perspectives on the state of our world – are put on stage and reflected upon as commodity and as well as conflict solver. How do I feel today? Do emotions draw us closer together or do they make us turn away?
Symposium / May 15 – May 16 2012 at CaféTeatret
With: Prof. Dr. Doris Kolesch Theatre researcher – Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität, Berlin; Prof. Boyan Manchev Philosopher – SODA, Universität der Künste, HZT, Berlin; Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt Danish performance artist and researcher; Lilian Munk Rösing Associate professor at Department of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen; Anna Mendelssohn Austrian performance artist; Brina Stinehelfer American performance artist; Sanja Mitrović Yugoslavian
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who’s there? a symposium on the subject on stage in reality
The border of the theatre institution is moving towards public space and the public enters the stage: the prostitute, the asylum seeker, the unemployed or the everyday life expert enter the stage in the role as them selves. The common boundary between art and reality is challenged and the illusion of a well-defined artwork and an autonomous subject on stage breaks. But how do we see the subject on stage when he/she no longer (only) plays a role? Who’s then speaking on stage? The director, the political reality, the audience’s prejudices or the human being itself?
who’s there? involves a lecture by German philosopher Marcus Steinweg, lecture performances by Danish students of Performance Studies, dialogues between delegated experts and directors as well as impulses from the international stage art scene.
The European performance scene guests Copenhagen: Swiss-Russian Boris Nikitins lecture performance Woyzeck (2007, recently pricewinning at the Impulse Festival 2009) and the French conceptual choreographer Jérôme Bels’ moving conversation with the Thai colleague Pichet Klunchun, Pichet Klunchun and myself (2005, received Routes Princess Margriet Award).
who’s there? was a collaboration between Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, The University of Copenhagen, The Institute for Arts and Cultural Studies, Warehouse 9, Republique and The Danish National School of Theatre – Continuing Education on the 7th & 8th of May 2010.
who’s there? was supported by The Danish Arts Council.
