Structural Stream: Panel | Keynote Speech | Dialogue – FORMALITY

The questions and demands regarding structural solutions and radical systematic changes are getting louder and louder. At the same time, a desire for rules and regulations persists, as well as the utopian belief in bureaucracy. But how do we, in fact, achieve a fluid, diverse and socially just society with established, fixed rules? We will stream our discourse programming from Acker Stadt Palast every day from October 25 to October 28 as a primary programming focus, using it to thoroughly examine this apparent paradox both in terms of cultural policy as well as conceptually. It will begin every day with a cultural policy panel discussion that will be followed by a keynote speech at lunchtime and close at the end of the afternoon with a dialogue focusing on specific daily topics.

Formality

The form, the formula, the formality - even if it hardly seems possible, we will use this day to bring together people who believe in the utopian power of these three Fs or are working with them on a variety of levels. Form follows function, or is it the other way round?

11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Panel discussion with, amongst others, Stephan Behrmann (Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin, Special Programs), Christina Hilmer-Benedict (Initiative Berliner Kulturfördergesetz), Heinrich Horwitz (director, actor, choreographer) and Lars Zühlke (administrative director HAU Hebbel am Ufer), moderated by: Janina Benduski (Performing Arts Program)

1:00 to 1:20 pm
Lunchtime keynote speech by Julian Warner (cultural anthropologist/musician)

2:30 to 4:00 pm
Dialogue between Marie Schleef (director) and Christoph Winkler (choreographer)