Program

Tuesday 24 May 2011

18:00 Welcoming address

Prof. Carmen Mörsch, Leader Institute for Art Education, ZHdK

Lecture

Bruce Henderson, Ithaca College NY (USA)
Of Bengal Tigers, Blind Men and Other Matters: Aesthetics/ Authenticity/ Disability/ Performance

In his keynote speech Bruce Henderson examines the tension between Authenticity and Aesthetics in performing arts performances by disabled persons.

After the speech:
Street performance by Bill Shannon (USA).
Retaining Sculptural Integrity Through A Forest of Heroic and Tragic Positions

20:00 Vorstellung

Performance: Monster Truck (D)
«The Hunchback of Notre-Dame»
Tanzhaus Zurich, as part of the Okkupation festival!

Wednesday 25 May 2011

9:00 Start of symposium

Hedy Graber, Leiterin Direktion Kultur und Soziales, Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund Andreas Rieder, Eidgenössisches Büro für die Gleichstellung von Menschen mit Behinderungen

Lectures

Frank M. Raddatz, Berlin (D)
Das Authentische: Vom Theater der Verkörperung zum Tod der Repräsentation.
(The Authentic: Theatre of incarnation upon the death of representation)

Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan (USA)
Un/Sichtbar: Behinderung, Theater und Moderne Kunst. Eine Tele-Observation.
(In/visible: Disability, theatre and modern art. A tele observation)

Yvonne Schmidt, University of Bern, ZHdK (CH)
Freak show today? Perform to be a Freak

Lecture Performances

Bill Shannon, Pittsburgh (USA)>br /> Urban Performance Art. A real-time sociological anthropology.

Sahir Rahimi, Manuel Gerst, Berlin; Philipp Schulte, University of Giessen (D)
Portrayal/non-portrayal of disability at work by the performance collective «Monster Truck».

Lunch

Workshops

Characters with disabilities = actors with disability ?!?
The film directors Stina Werenfels (Zurich), Paul Riniker (Zurich) and Alvaro Pastor (Madrid) discuss their strategies and experiences by choosing actors for roles with mental disabilities.

Dancing wheelchair – dancing body
Theory and artistic practice of the manipulation of the object, with Lila Derridj, Paris.

We go places you can’t go in real life
Alice Nash, the producer of the Australian Back to Back Theatre presents and discusses together with Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann the works of the innovative theatre group (a.o. Small Little Objects, The Democratic Set and Food Court).

Can disable actors be professional?
Discussion with a.o. Mira Sack, Head of BA Theater, ZHdK; Ralf Rainer Reimann, Head of Akademie Darstellende Kunst (Academy of Performing Arts), Ulm.

Closing paper

Jens Roselt, University of Hildesheim (D)
The spectator as the perpetrator

Close with finger buffet

Performance

«Lilith’s Return», Music Theatre (Berlin/Beirut)
Schiffbau Theatre, as part of the Okkupation festival!