06/22/21
1:00pm EDT
Training for the Future: Performing Architecture
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Performing Architecture 2021: Absence, Community and Future.
The Goethe-Institut is participating in the German Pavilion throughout the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. It not only makes the contents of the pavilion accessible in its global network, but also brings performative discourses to Venice.
The Goethe-Institut's participation begins with the international project Training for the Future, a project by Jonas Staal and Florian Malzacher. This new, advanced version of the project was conceived especially for Venice in collaboration with Marco Baravalle/ S.a.L.E. Docks and Hayat Erdogan, Nicolai Prawdzic/ Theater Neumarkt.
The eleven decentralized physical trainings of Training for the Future already took place around the world this past March, in Argentina, Italy, Colombia, the Philippines, Rojava, Switzerland, South Africa, and the USA. During the Architecture Biennale, they will find a physical continuation in the German Pavilion with "100 Ways to Say We," which projects them into the year 2038. This utopian marathon in a time of dystopian presence brings together 100 formulations of a future "we" as an archive of the future that, in the spirit of Hashim Sarkis, "highlights architecture as a collective form and mode of expression."
Tune in June 22 for a conversation and online strategy meeting with Lisa Ito (art historian, Concerned Artists of the Philippines), Loreto Garin Guzman and Federico Zukerfeld (artists, Etcétera), Zayaan Khan (artist and food activist) and Ingo Niermann (artist and author, Army of Love).
Moderated by Florian Malzacher and Jonas Staal (dramaturg/curator, artist, co-organizer of Training for the Future).
Main program October 16 to November 9 (tbc) Venice.
About Performing Architecture
With Performing Architecture, the Goethe-Institut looks at the performative dimension of architecture, at its intersections and seams with choreography and the performing arts, in the context of the International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. In the interplay with other arts, architecture can be experienced sensually in a new way and shows its current social and political relevance. The Goethe-Institut uses the extraordinary urban space of Venice as a setting for artistic and discursive confrontations, visions and questions thematically oriented on the exhibition of the German Pavilion in the Giardini of the Biennale. The exhibition 2038. the new serenity was completely moved by the curatorial team from the physical space to the space of a virtual pavilion.
Both with local artistic works, experimental performative formats, and with discussions and installations - whether in the German Pavilion, in theater spaces, or on streets and squares in Venice - Performing Architecture 2021 aims to open up new interdisciplinary spaces for thought and experience. They open up in the sign of the Corona pandemic, the restrictions and new realities locally and globally, in physical space - in empty and vacant, occupied and public spaces - as well as in virtual space.
The Goethe-Institut is cooperating with the German Pavilion, with Jonas Staal and Florian Malzacher, with Rimini Protokoll and with Habibi Kiosk. The artistic research focuses on experimental forms of representation - as the physical presence of the absent as well as a media window for narratives of a future community - and the productive function of the imagined future for the present, with a resulting changed view of ecology and civil society, cohesion and collectivity.
The Goethe-Institut is participating in the German Pavilion throughout the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. It not only makes the contents of the pavilion accessible in its global network, but also brings performative discourses to Venice.
The Goethe-Institut's participation begins with the international project Training for the Future, a project by Jonas Staal and Florian Malzacher. This new, advanced version of the project was conceived especially for Venice in collaboration with Marco Baravalle/ S.a.L.E. Docks and Hayat Erdogan, Nicolai Prawdzic/ Theater Neumarkt.
The eleven decentralized physical trainings of Training for the Future already took place around the world this past March, in Argentina, Italy, Colombia, the Philippines, Rojava, Switzerland, South Africa, and the USA. During the Architecture Biennale, they will find a physical continuation in the German Pavilion with "100 Ways to Say We," which projects them into the year 2038. This utopian marathon in a time of dystopian presence brings together 100 formulations of a future "we" as an archive of the future that, in the spirit of Hashim Sarkis, "highlights architecture as a collective form and mode of expression."
Tune in June 22 for a conversation and online strategy meeting with Lisa Ito (art historian, Concerned Artists of the Philippines), Loreto Garin Guzman and Federico Zukerfeld (artists, Etcétera), Zayaan Khan (artist and food activist) and Ingo Niermann (artist and author, Army of Love).
Moderated by Florian Malzacher and Jonas Staal (dramaturg/curator, artist, co-organizer of Training for the Future).
Main program October 16 to November 9 (tbc) Venice.
About Performing Architecture
With Performing Architecture, the Goethe-Institut looks at the performative dimension of architecture, at its intersections and seams with choreography and the performing arts, in the context of the International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. In the interplay with other arts, architecture can be experienced sensually in a new way and shows its current social and political relevance. The Goethe-Institut uses the extraordinary urban space of Venice as a setting for artistic and discursive confrontations, visions and questions thematically oriented on the exhibition of the German Pavilion in the Giardini of the Biennale. The exhibition 2038. the new serenity was completely moved by the curatorial team from the physical space to the space of a virtual pavilion.
Both with local artistic works, experimental performative formats, and with discussions and installations - whether in the German Pavilion, in theater spaces, or on streets and squares in Venice - Performing Architecture 2021 aims to open up new interdisciplinary spaces for thought and experience. They open up in the sign of the Corona pandemic, the restrictions and new realities locally and globally, in physical space - in empty and vacant, occupied and public spaces - as well as in virtual space.
The Goethe-Institut is cooperating with the German Pavilion, with Jonas Staal and Florian Malzacher, with Rimini Protokoll and with Habibi Kiosk. The artistic research focuses on experimental forms of representation - as the physical presence of the absent as well as a media window for narratives of a future community - and the productive function of the imagined future for the present, with a resulting changed view of ecology and civil society, cohesion and collectivity.