#1 Between generation and trauma
How can intergenerational dialog build bridges between different generations? How can dealing with (collective) trauma contribute to understanding and healing?
About the guests:
Pauli Nafer, art position
Pauli Nafer (she/her) has been working in the fields of stage, text and intervention since 2006. Before completing her training in contemporary dance in Chile, she worked intensively as a dancer and choreographer for dance companies, performance groups and music ensembles. She is currently a freelance dancer-choreographer with the WHY NOT? Kollektiv and ENSEMBLE_X in Witten. Besides her stage work, she has dramaturgically accompanied and curated numerous interdisciplinary events. She is currently specializing in scenic research as part of her master’s degree at the Ruhr University.
Alexis Rodríguez Suárez, activism position
Dr. Alexis Rodríguez Suárez comes from Mexico and has lived in Germany since 2014. He holds a PhD in social anthropology and specializes in youth research and youth politics. As a community organizer, he creates spaces for underrepresented or invisible communities and their stories. He works with various organizations in Germany to develop community, intersectional, queer-feminist, film and art projects as well as cultural and political education. He was co-leader of the project “Bochum – City of the Many” at IFAK e.V. He is currently leading the socio-cultural work at Hüller Medienwerkstatt e.V.
Nesrin Tanç, science position
Nesrin Tanç is author of the study “What has remained? What remains?” for the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen ifa.de. She has researched and published various archives as part of her dissertation “The Order of Diversity” on the subject of literature and the culture of remembrance. Under the pseudonym “Anatolpolitan”, she develops prose such as “Bericht aus dem Haus, das es nicht gibt”, audio and stage plays such as “Operation Heimat” and “Agentur Ausländerrauș” and realizes lecture performances (FAVORITEN Festival 2020) or installative arrangements from research results (Akademie der Künste der Welt Köln 2020).
With originals from:
- Pottporus
- Pedro Crovetto
- Taiye Selasi
- Dr. Gabor Maté
- Waltraud900
- Helena Waldmann
- Frank Heuel
- Gerda König
- Constantin Hochkeppel
- Katharina Sehnert
- She She Pop
Quotes from the audio pieces:
Pauli Nafer / “Samen-Im-Samen” (in Chilean Castilian)
Nesrin Tanç / “Agentur Ausländerrauş”
Waltraud900 / “grandmothers of the future”
Hosted and curated by: Margo Zālīte, Artistic Director FAVORITEN Festival
External curation and dramaturgy: Frederika Tsai