»Let’s Balance and Talk!« – A Discussion Series with Survivors of the Shoah on Seat#12 Art Installation
On Thursday, 5 October 2023, a discussion series with Shoah survivors and their descendants, speakers from Israel and Germany, and lecturers and students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will take place on campus as part of Thuringia’s ACHAVA Festspiele. All interested parties are warmly invited to join. The series will take place on »Seat#12«, a seating installation by artist and Faculty of Media staff member Jenny Brockmann. The installation will be exhibited in the Main Building especially for this day and is intended to inspire a lively space for discussion.
The first part of the event, »Speaking Media«, a collaboration between bauhaus.medien.bühnen laboratory and the ACHAVA Festspiele, will be made up of two discussion rounds moderated by students of Media Culture from the Faculty of Media. Guests include Auschwitz survivor Pavel Taussig and renowned Israeli curator Avi Lubin. Additional guests include Frank Eckardt, Professor of Urban Studies and Social Research, and Nathalie Singer, Professor of Experimental Radio, as well as students from the Faculty of Media and the interested public. The series examines the summer semester’s »Speaking Media« work module topic from multiple perspectives. What can »Speaking Media« signify in relation to memory and commemorating? And how can the knowledge of witnesses and their practice of remembering be passed on?
The second part, »Politics of Speech«, organised by ACHAVA Festspiele, will be held on the same day and director Martin Kranz will be inviting guests to discuss how to maintain and practice a culture of talking. Discussion panel guests include Bauhaus-Universität Weimar President Prof. Peter Benz and Weimar’s Mayor Peter Kleine.
The event is taking place as part of the 100th anniversary of the first major Bauhaus Exhibition in 1923. Further information can be found at https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/profil/bauhaus2023/.
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Time: Thursday, 5 October 2023, 2 - 6 pm
Location:
Foyer of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s Main Building
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8
99423 Weimar
Admission is free of charge
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DISCUSSION ROUND 1: »Speaking Media«
2 – 3.30 pm
Pavel Taussig, Auschwitz Survivor, Artist (DE)
Frank Eckardt, Professor of Urban Studies and Social Research, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (DE)
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Students
3.30 – 5 pm
Avi Lubin, Philosopher, Chief curator of Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod (IL)
Nathalie Singer, Professor of Experimental Radio, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (DE)
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Students
Curated by Jenny Brockmann, artist and and artistic staff member in the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and Martin Kranz, Executive Director and Artistic Director of the ACHAVA Festspiele Thüringen together with students of Media Culture of the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
This portion of the event is part of a cooperation with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s bauhaus.medien.bühnen lab.
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DISCUSSION ROUND 2 »Politics of Speech«
5 - 6 pm
Peter Kleine, Mayor of the city of Weimar
Prof. Peter Benz, President of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Curated by Martin Kranz, Executive Director and Artistic Director of the ACHAVA Festspiele.
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Jenny Brockmann
Jenny Brockmann is an artist and sculptor. She has worked as an artistic staff member at the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar since 2020. Her work combines technology, science and art and it has been exhibited internationally at such venues as BOZAR in Brussels, »documenta fifteen« in Kassel, and at the Hudson Valley MOCA in New York. She was a fine arts student under Rebecca Horn at the »Universität der Künste Berlin«. She completed a degree in Architecture at the TU Berlin. Brockmann’s works is characterized by a discursive aesthetic. The 2016 Seat#12 seating installation is a mobile communicative structure that points in all directions and connects participants. It creates a space for focussed, non-hierarchical interactions. www.jennybrockmann.de
ACHAVA Festspiele Thüringen
Currently the largest Jewish intercultural festival in Germany, ACHAVA Festspiele has dedicated itself to intercultural and interreligious dialogue in Thuringia since 2015. The festival is sponsored by ACHAVA e.V. The event’s various formats provide opportunities for contact and discussion and include concerts, cooking courses, workshops, exhibitions, lectures, readings and discussions with eyewitness survivors, among others in Weimar, Erfurt and Gotha. https://www.achava-festspiele.de/
For questions and further information, please contact Tina Meinhardt, Press and Public Relations Officer for the Faculty of Media, at +49 (0)36 43/58 37 65 or via e-mail to presse[at]medien.uni-weimar.de.