The annual conference of the collaborative research centre Intervening Arts (SFB 1512) ‘Dynamics of the Intransitive: Undirected Interventions’, is dedicated to artistic procedures and practices that do not pursue an explicit political or critical agenda but that nevertheless, or precisely as a result, draw forth their specific potential for intervention. As guiding aspects of such interventions, improvisation, obstinacy, and objectlessness will be explored.
Improvisational practices move playfully between normativity and freedom, setting impulses and offering them to other actors for further work. Obstinacy, as an artistic attitude, develops creative spaces of interruption within firmly established power relations in order to escape pregiven rhythms. Finally, some practices of the visual or performative arts derive their effect from an objectless execution.

Even if these interventions are not directed towards a goal, they irritate, disturb, interrupt. Their procedures are those of repetition, refraction, and displacement. They are practices in execution — the beginning and end of which often become apparent only retrospectively — that remain precarious and can ‘slip’ again and again. They keep themselves open to others and other things; they gain their intervening power from their (dis)continuity with the every-day and the established.

The annual conference opens dialogue between artists, scholars, and the public through performances, lectures, and discussions and in shared experiential spaces.

Registration for the annual conference via the ICI will be activated on October 24.

Programme

Thursday, November 09, 2023:

ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry

From 9.00         Registration   9.30 - 10.00    Welcome 10.00 - 11.15    Judith Siegmund: Intervenieren versus Herstellen? Alte und neue Konzepte künstlerischer Praxis 11.15 - 11.45    Coffee break 11.45 - 13.00    Bertram Lomfeld: Intransitive Institutionalisierung: Rechte der Natur 13.00 - 14.00    Lunch break 14.00 - 16.00    fem_arc: F_WALKS − emancipatory city walks and discussion

For the city walks with fem_arc, audio guides are available to download onto your own smartphone in German/English and English versions. Please bring your own headphones.

16.00 - 16.30    Coffee break 16.30 - 17.45    Sue Spaid: The Wilfull Artist: Getting it Built 17.45 - 19.00    Break

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Roter Salon

20.00 - 21.30    Interwoven Sound Spaces

With Robert Ek, Cosima Gerhardt, Berit Greinke, Stefan Östersjö, Mattias Petersson and Federico Visi.
To attend the evening event "Interwoven Sound Spaces" in the Roter Salon, the purchase of a ticket is required.

Friday, November 10, 2023:

ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry

From 9.30         Registration
10.00 - 11.15    Literatur und ungerichtete Intervention: Lesung und Diskussion mit Heike Geißler und Kathrin Röggla 11.15 - 11.45    Coffee break 11.45 - 13.00    Alice Lagaay: (Just) Life...becoming philosophy? 13.00 - 14.15    Free lunch break 14.15 - 15.30    Scheiter eiGEnSiNn Umpruvusutuun – try again. Panel of CRC 1512 with Eva Backhaus, Andrea Schütte, Sophie Schultze-Allen, Mimmi Woisnitza; Moderation: Simon Teune 15.30 - 16.00    Coffee break 16.00 - 17.15    Mateja Bučar: Inter-ventions! / Dancers Without Answers. Presentation and conversation with Gabriele Brandstetter

Pfefferberg Haus 13

17.30 - 19.00    Daily Dynamics: Bodies and Voices as Absence/Presence. Performance / Conversation / Reading

Broken Bet: Theater Performance by Layla Zami & Oxana Chi
Intransitive Listenings: Voice and Void as Interventions. Conversation with Doris Kolesch, Brandon LaBelle and Layla Zami
Dreamtime X: Reading Performance by Brandon LaBelle

19.00 - 20.00    Freitagsküche 20.00 - 24.00    Closing party with DJs Calamidades Lola and Radio Vampiro