08:15
Verbarium. The Ritual: Tripping Into New Ways of Being
Performance by Stefanie Wenner in collaboration with Planeta Kuz
Garden
Come with us on a trip into a world that is always there, that permeates you with every breath, but of which you have no idea. Welcome to the edge of your perception, where the mind does not rule and life shines in all colors. Become part of a dream incubation for a new language of interconnectedness! Well covered and safely accompanied with stories and sounds, you will go on your own journey. Bring with you: a question to a plant, a mountain, lake, sea, a piece of land or a river, also the idea of a landscape that is home to you and a stone.
The number of participants is limited. Registration at the information desk or at ticketing@burg-huelshoff.de.
from 15:00
A devoured hedge burrows deep
Role play
by Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer with Sarah Giese
Festival site
The artist duo Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer will transform the garden of Haus Rüschhaus into a large playing field. Upon entering the festival grounds, visitors will be assigned a character. They can choose from members of the flora and fauna that do not have a say in the design of the garden that is their habitat. Each participant enters the garden according to their character's interests and meets other inhabitants of this communal space. The game becomes a place of speculation. During the different phases of the game, the garden is continuously redesigned. This is reflected in an interactive map of the garden.
Performance Sarah Giese, Storytelling Daniel Falb, Sound Bastian Hagedorn, Virtual Environment Nicholas Delap, Programming Xing Xiao & Xiyue Hu (In vitro team)
from 15:00
Intelligent commons
Walk-in installation by Sebastian Altermatt, Fabian Raith, Leoni Voegelin, Franziska Winkler with Rafael-Evitan Grombelka, Anna Hetzer, Tim Holland, Kassandra Wedel
Orangery
Visitors interact with the space in the Orangery, the little garden house of the Rüschhaus. The house begins to breathe and bubble. On screens, plant images combine with sign language poetry. A machine continuously generates artificial images of plants. These plant figures are hybrids of plant representations from the 19th century and today. Perhaps we are seeing the plants of the future here.
from 15:00
NEW BEGINNINGS
Writing performance with Hatice Açıkgöz, Duygu Ağal, Elisa Aseva, Hannes Bajohr, Josefine Berkholz, Donat Blum, Kaśka Bryla, Andreas Bülhoff, Susi Bumms, Dorothee Elmiger, Jan Erbelding, Daniel Falb, Lars Fleischmann, Grashina Gabelmann, Heike Geißler, Mara Genschel, Berit Glanz, Uwe Huth, Tim Holland, Suse Itzel, Mascha Jacobs, Stephan Janitzky, Thorsten Krämer, Dagmara Kraus, Anja Kümmel, Son Lewandowski, Enis Maci, Ilija Matusko, Nele Müller, Biba Oskar Nass, Jennifer de Negri, Rudi Nuss, Hendrik Otremba, Kathrin Passig, Pascal Richmann, Monika Rinck, Fabian Saul, Simone Scharbert, Rike Scheffler, Hannah Schraven, Karosh Taha, Evan Tepest, Kinga Tóth, Senthuran Varatharajah, Sinthujan Varatharajah, Stefanie de Velasco, Maxi Wallenhorst, Sarah Claire Wray
Digital castle, stage
In NEW BEGINNINGS, 48 authors write a joint narrative for 48 hours. Without consulting each other, they follow the instructions of a machine. The algorithmic editorial team assigns and structures the writing tasks. You can read the text online and in the Rüschhaus Garden as a live feed. A reading at the end of the festival will conclude the collective writing process.
Concept by Andreas Bülhoff, Brendan Howell, Jennie Bohn
*(stolen by GIESCHE, who also stole it from someone else)
NEW BEGINNINGS is funded within the framework of »Neustart Kultur« of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media by the German Literaturfonds e.V.
from 15:00
Verbarium for Planetary Persons
Language games by Stefanie Wenner
Italian Room
Robin Wall Kimmerer, biologist and indigenous plant expert, talks about the language of the Potawatomi, a group of Indigenous Americans, in which plants are persons and "to be a bay" has a verb form. We are looking for ways of speaking from different languages that speak to the more-than-human world. The language game is an attempt to put other cosmologies and ideas about the world into words.
You can also send your suggestions, thoughts and knowledge in advance by e-mail to verbarium@burg-huelshoff.de.
from 15:00
Mimi's old goods
Performance with Miriam Michel
Festival grounds
Mimi invites you to rummage. Every object brings a story about its origin and meaning. You pay with time, because only those who invest it and listen to the story become the new owners. Mimis Altwaren is a place of reflection, stories and poetry.
from 15:00
Homage to Wilm
Installation by Christoph Otto Hetzel and Karin Mayer
Rondell
Friends will build objects from his life in the Rüschhaus garden in memory of the artist Wilm Weppelmann: the Aaseewand, an earth mound and cabbages.
15:00–19:00
Edit-A-Thon
Editing workshop with Han Dittmar
Rüschhaus
Women make up 17.38% of the more than 900,000 German-language biographies on Wikipedia. Just under 10% of Wikipedia authors are non-male-readers, i.e. FLINTA (Women, Lesbian, Inter, Non-Binary, Trans and Agender*). Over the course of two days, you are invited to create articles about FLINTA people from literature, art and science on Wikipedia. The aim is to make contributions about and by FLINTA persons more visible and to increase their number. Please bring your own laptop or tablet.
15:00–16:30
Harp Making
Workshop with Simon Bauer and Hans Unstern
Sundial
Simon Bauer and Hans Unstern share their harp-making recipe with you: they show you how to make a harp yourself. The principle is simple. Design and build your own mini harp with a pickup, which you can then take home with you. The workshop is suitable for everyone from the age of 6 and up.
The number of participants is limited. Please register in advance at the information desk.
15:00
What I Need to Live: A Poetic Encounter with the Artist Wilm Weppelmann
Musical reading with Carsten Bender, Christoph Otto Hetzel, Manfred Kerklau, Karin Mayer, Gudula Rosa
Rondell
In September 2014, the artist Wilm Weppelmann lived on a floating vegetable garden with a micro-house in the Aasee. Now friends of the late artist are commemorating Wilm Weppelmann with an installation and a musical reading. They will read from his proclamations, which he shouted every day from the floating garden to the shore: 30 proclamations in 30 words for 30 days.
15:00–18:00
Sabotique: Body and Reading
Performance by Sabotique (Heike Geißler, Anna-Lena von Helldorff)
Stage
In this interactive collage, this utopian re-reading, the female body takes what it can read and recognize about itself in its different roles, inspects the material and/or restages itself. The female body eludes general access and shows and forms interfaces, overlaps and surfaces of attack at its own discretion. It publishes itself, as money, currency, subtext, manifesto. [on and off stage]. This is a work-in-progress.
15:45
Allmenden of the Internet
Discussion with Heike Gleibs, Shintaro Miyazaki, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
Moderated by Annekathrin Kohout
Tenne
The internet produces and distributes knowledge. Access to this knowledge is often encrypted. The original commons structure of the internet has changed over time: in addition to openly available knowledge, there are closed places behind pay walls. Whether the World Wide Web can be regarded as commons 2.0 will be one of the topics of the discussion.
from 16:00
Healing drinks
Bar by Julius Metzger
Julius Metzger serves Healing Drinks in his bar. The drinks, based on water kefir, kombucha and kvass, contain microorganisms with which a relationship of mutual benefit can be established. Offshoots of the cultures can be taken away and propagated further.
17:15
Alice, You Must Be The Fulcrum of Your Own Universe
Reading with Amanda Lee Koe
Tenne
The short story Alice, You Must Be The Fulcrum of Your Own Universe, published in German translation as Ministry of Public Agitation by CulturBooks, is about a romantically ambiguous relationship between a girl in her twenties and an older, upper-middle class woman in Singapore. The story takes place away from the garishly lit sky-high glass landscapes and neon worlds in small in-between realms of the metropolis.
17:45
Dahdi
Film screening with Kirsten Tan
Tenne
A story about moral and legal responsibility. An elderly woman (Grandma) finds an unexpected visitor, a young asylum-seeking girl, in her house during dinner. The film is based on an incident in 2012 when 40 Rohingya refugees arrived by boat in Singapore harbor.
18:00
Women on the Edge of a Tropical Breakdown
Discussion with Amanda Lee Koe, Kirsten Tan
Moderated by Lara Sielmann
Tenne
Girls and grandmothers are the protagonists of Amanda Lee Koe's short story and Kirsten Tan's short film. In conversation with Lara Sielmann, they explore the question of what political and individual pressures or expectations lie on female-read bodies (the fictional characters in the stories or the artists themselves)? The setting is Singapore, a conformist city-state in Southeast Asia with contradictory and dazzling structures.
19:45
Forever Allmende
Performance by Costa Compagnie (Hauke Heumann, Felix Meyer-Christian, Stéphanie Morin, David Pallant)
Tenne
In three interlinked works, Costa Compagnie take an essayistic approach to the historical Allmende. With dance, text and video, questions are raised about possible commons of the future: The underground, the moon or the (in)efficient body? Forever young, forever Allmende!
21:15
What Are People For?
Concert with What Are People For
Stage
What Are People For? are not just a band, they are an experience! They make the perfect dystopian dance music for our times with a precise sound palette and subversive language manipulations. Despite profound themes, they remain entertaining. The band creates a space for collective dreams from queer sexiness paired with second-hand aesthetics.
22:15
Searching Eva
Film screening by Pia Hellenthal
Tenne
The documentary follows Eva, who has lived her life publicly and online since she was 14. At 17, she leaves her small hometown in Italy and goes to Berlin. She embodies multiple identities as a model, a feminist, a queer author and a self-determined sex worker.
