Context #3/Lectures

February 13th-19th (Berlin,Germany)

Sarma co-operates with the Berlin arts centre HAU (Hebbel am Ufer) for the documentation of three lectures that take place during its project CONTEXT #3: "Learning by Doing" in February 2006.

CONTEXT is a platform for contemporary dance, as well as for its latest theories and experiments. For ten days CONTEXT #3 "Learning by Doing" brings together dancers, choreographers and teenagers from Berlin. They are given room to communicate and appropriate forms of dance. The body is the vital part of it all, and it is considered as both experimental ground and medium for human and artistic experiences. The Festival comes up with a situation similar to that in a lab, with workshops, lectures, showings and performances, where the theatre’s adventure space and the school’s social space become one.

Context #3 offers a series of public lectures and talks and offered Sarma the opportunity to record these talks and preserve them in a different medium and a different context in the aftermath of the festival.

Sarma werkt samen met het Berlijnse kunstencentrum HAU (Hebbel am Ufer) voor de documentatie van drie lezingen die plaatsvinden tijdens het project CONTEXT #3: "Learning by Doing" in Februari 2006.

CONTEXT is een platform voor hedendaagse dans, zowel voor theorievorming als experiment. Tien dagen lang brengt CONTEXT #3: “Learning by Doing” dansers, choreografen en tieners uit Berlijn samen. Ze krijgen er de gelegenheid om dansvormen uit te testen en toe te eigenen. Het lichaam vormt de spil van het hele gebeuren en wordt als vertrekpunt en medium voor menselijke en artistieke ervaringen genomen. Het Festival creëert een laboratoriumcontext met workshops, toonmomenten en performances waar de avontuurlijke ruimte van het theater en de sociale ruimte van de school één worden.

CONTEXT #3 biedt een aantal publieke lezingen en gesprekken aan en Sarma kreeg de gelegenheid om deze lezingen te documenteren en archiveren in een ander medium en een andere context.

Programme & archive

* Franz Liebl: Dirty learning: innovation durch subversion
18 February 2006, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin

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Franz Liebl studied business management at the Ludwig-Maximilians University at München. He holds a university chair in Strategical Marketing at the Witten/Herdecke University in München. His research interests are amongst others: Strategical Management, Issue management, Business-Design as well as “Marketing under Bedingungen gesellschaftlicher individualisierung”. Since 1995 he is bringing Theorie-Performances under the label “Unbekannte Theorie-Objekte der Trendforschung”. His last monography is “Der Schock des Neuen: Entstehung und Management von Issues und Trends” and he is co-editor of “Cultural Hacking: Kunst des Strategischen Handelens”

* Irit Rogoff: Smuggling/an embodied criticality
19 February 2006, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin

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Irit Rogoff holds a University Chair in Art History and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Rogoff writes extensively on the conjunctions of contemporary art with critical theory with particular reference to issues of colonialism, cultural difference, and performativity. She is author of Terra Infirma: Geography’s Visual Culture (2000), editor of The Divided Heritage: Themes and Problems in German Modernism (1991), and co-editor, with Daniel Sherman, of Museum Culture: Histories, Theories, Spectacles (1994). Rogoff is director of an international AHRB research project “Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts,” housed at Goldsmiths College.

* Bojana Cvejic: Theory, police and disagreement
20 February 2006, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin,

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