Structural Stream: Panel | Keynote Speech | Dialogue – FUNCTIONALITY

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.

Functionality

Rules have the function of avoiding chaos or at least keeping things under control. But does art want to be control and to control? Or is the image of chaotic art in times shaken by catastrophes one that must be urgently questioned? The time has come to ask the crucial question - what is all of this for?

11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Panel discussion with, amongst others, Rabea Grand (Coordination Artistic Program Gessnerallee), Steffen Klewar (program direction Fonds Darstellende Künste) and Peggy Mädler (author/dramaturge), moderated by Fatima Çalışkan (artist, curator, consultant)

1:00 to 1:20 pm
Lunchtime keynote speech by Stefanie Wenner (professor/artist)

2:30 to 4:00 pm
Dialogue between Max-Philip Aschenbrenner (artist/dramaturge) and Fabian Lettow (kainkollektiv)