Lecture by Florian Malzacher
Co-presented with The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
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Even more successful than the content of theatre scholar Hans-Thies Lehmann's book “Postdramatic Theatre” from 1999, was probably it’s title. It gave the new worldwide, very disparate trends in the performative arts a name under which they have been gathered ever since: A theatre that is not dependent on a pre-written text and that does not want to represent situations but create them itself, always aware of the co-presence of the audience. A theatre that – at least in theory – always starts from the scratch. But where does this theatre stand 25 years later – in a completely different world inside and outside the arts? In this talk performing arts curator and author Florian Malzacher takes a look back at Lehmann’s book and at today’s contemporary theatre scene in Germany and beyond.
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Florian Malzacher is a curator, writer, dramaturg and currently visiting professor for dramaturgy and curatorial practice at the University of Design & Arts in Karlsruhe. Since 2021 he has hosted The Art of Assembly, a series of lectures and talks about the potential of gathering in art and politics. He was artistic director of Impulse Theater Festival in Cologne, Dusseldorf and Mulheim/Ruhr (2013-2017), and co-curator of the multidisciplinary arts festival steirischer herbst in Graz/Austria (2006-2012). As a dramaturge he has worked at theatres such as Burgtheater Vienna, Gorki Theater Berlin or Mousonturm Frankfurt with artists such as Rimini Protokoll, Lola Arias, Mariano Pensotti, Tania Bruguera or, regularly, the Nature Theater of Oklahoma.
His publications include numerous books on curatorial practice and the relationship between art and politics, as well as monographs on theatre makers such as Forced Entertainment, Rimini Protokoll and Nature Theater of Oklahoma. In 2023, his book The Art of Assembly. Political theatre today was published at Alexander Verlag. His books and essays have been translated into over 15 languages.
https://florianmalzacher.net
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