PARTIZIPATION
QUEER DEKOLONISIEREN (WORKSHOP)
How do colonialism and orientalism shape the ideas and norms of body, sexuality, gender and national identity? On the basis ofexamples such as #BlackLivesMatter, gay and lesbian tourism labels, discriminatory
tourism seals, discriminatory legislation in former European colonies, homonationalism
pinkwashing, racism on dating apps as well as positions from postcolonial studies, we will investigate
how queer activism can become more intersectional and how our society could deal with its colonial heritage from a queer perspective.
We will engage with the central ideas of Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Achille Mbembe; and apply them to our own everyday life in Germany. Where do we ourselves reproduce colonial structures? How do we describe travel to other countries? Especially in relation to progress in terms of freedom rights. In a next step,we will reflect on the role of the queer emancipation movement within postmodern cultural and social sciences.
Queercademy Berlin (Für junge queere Erwachsene in den ersten Semestern ihres Studiums)
Akademie Waldschlösschen Göttingen (Angebot für angehende Lehrer*innen)
Arbeit und Leben Niedersachen (Sensibilitätstraining für Mitarbeiter*innen)
Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg (Blocksmeinar)
Studio Lev Kassel (Coach the Coaches)
PAUSE! NOW POSE (WORKSHOP)
Movement research on cultural appropriation. Participants are encouraged to make movements together that are now considered problematic by some. Together, the group asks how can a movement, a gesture, a rhythm be understood as racist appropriation and what can be done about it?
In doing so, the group develops a utopian mini-performance with movements and sounds that they mark as their own and mutually acknowledge each other's up-cycling.
Studio Lev Kassel
ME:FRAGMENTA (COMMUNITY STORYTELLING)
World-building workshop in which techniques of creative collective work are explored together with a changing group working on a storyworld. Writing exercises, musical jam sessions, and dance improvisations are combined with questions about the society represented, the aesthetics, and the feel of the newly built world.
Studio Lev Kassel
#dugehörstaufdiebühne (THEATRE PROJECT)
Theater empowerment workshop that explicitly addresses young people who so far have had little conscious contact with art and culture and leads to a common exchange in an extremely heterogeneous group through playing, rehearsing and performing together about life-worldly, political and utopian concerns.
In addition to and getting to know each other, we visit different theater performances in Kassel, Germany. And we have follow-up discussions with professionals. Finally, there is an intensive final week with a joint final presentation.
