40 spectators. Everyone is asked to hand in their cash before the performance - it will be distributed at the end, but how? The performance College for the Rediscovery of Class Consciousness is a playful setting in which the audience practically tests their own position in society and the unequal distribution of resources. The starting point is a series of conversations with participants from different professional backgrounds.
There is a fight against racism, capitalism, and for feminism. These struggles are often separated and a fundamental solidarity is missing. How can the demands of factory workers, refugees, unemployed individuals, and those who work in households be formulated in a way that their interests become a collective interest? In a series of discussions in Frankfurt, Mannheim, and Berlin, we spoke with trade unionists and strike alliances, sex workers, journalists, professors, representatives of blind organizations, and sociologists about a contemporary "class consciousness" that is able to formulate individual concerns as common ones.
The result of this artistic research was a performance. The audience was led through playful scenarios, such as a wedding celebration or a lunch in the cafeteria of a large company, experiencing the different thoughts of the guests of the discussion series.
The guests of the discussion series: Bojana Kunst (SVN), Juanita Henning (Doña Carmen e.V. - Verein für soziale und politische Rechte von Prostituierten) (D), Christian Krähling (Amazon-Streik-Bündnis) (D), Elfriede Harth (Netwerk Care Revolution) (D/COL), Nikita Dhawan (IN), Maria do Mar Castro Varela (ES/D), International Women’s Space (int/D), David Riff (RUS/D), Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union (D), unter_bau (D), Black Diaspora School (D), Illia Yakovenko (UKR), Gregory Sholette (US), Stefanie Sargnagel (AUT), Anna Kow (D), Siegfried Saerberg (D), Katherine Braun (D), Alex Demirović (D), Roswitha Scholz (D), Paula Ezquerra (ARG/ES) und Xiomara Tortoza (VE/D)
Theater der Zeit, 11/2017,Mannheimer Morgen, 24.09.2017, Gisela Stamer, Distanzierte Kapitalismuskritik, Mein Feindbild und ich
ongoing project, "Kolleg zur Wiederentdeckung des Klassenbewusstseins. Eine Retrospektive zum Projekt des Künstler*innenkollektivs ongoing project". In: Kim Kannler, Valeska Klug, Kristina Petzold, Franziska Schaaf (Hrsg.), Kritische Kreativität. Perspektiven auf Arbeit, Bildung, Lifestyle und Kunst. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2019.
The first screening dates for the documentary Sisterqueens by Clara Stella Hüneke have been set.
The film opens the new Berlin film and media festival @dokumentale.ber and will be shown on two more evenings after the opening.
10.10., 19:30 Colosseum Filmtheater
12.10., 18:30 Festival Center
13.10., 20:30 City Kino Wedding
You can also see the movie at @filmfest_frauenwelten
26.10., 14:00 Kulturbrauerei
27.10., 14:15 Kulturbrauerei
At both festivals, the team will be there for a Q&A after the screening.
The sister*hood project brings girls* and young women* together around Mehringplatz. Together we have organized various artistic workshops, film evenings and excursions. In December there will be a final event with an exhibition and various creative activities. Follow @sisterhood_mehringplatz for more information.
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