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Subject Catalogue
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Accidents
Daniel Belasco Rogers, performance-artist,
set-designer, reckless sleepers, plan b
How to cartograph your accidents
Martin Nachbar, choreographer,
dancer, co-curator of mode05
Tested accident techniques, that allow you to emerge uninjured
out of an accident
Activism, political
Biblab Basu, historian
Only the powerless question the definition and application of
knowledge
Tim Blue, performance artist,
activist, musician
1) Export Tyranny: Activism and Art on the Eve of War
2) Eat Propaganda, Shit Democracy: The Role of American Artists
during War
Matthias von Hartz, director
What globalization and democracy don't have in common
Jose Maria Vieira Mendes, playwright,
translator
3 songs about the Carnation Revolution, Portugal April 25, 1974:
E Depois do Adeus / Grandola, Vila Morena / Tanto Mar
Philipp Oswalt, architect, publisher,
curator of Shrinking Cities
De-Politisation through political art
Aeronoutics
Martin Wagner, aviation engineer,
institute for aerospace technology TU Berlin,
Welcome on board -the system technology of today's aircrafts
Animals
Anja Dieckmann, Max-Planck-Institute
for Human Development, department of Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition
The comprehension of numbers of sea lions (and other vertebrates)
Nicholas Grindell, translator
Speculative approaches to public animal sculptures
Dr. Rüdiger Plarre, biologist,
entomology (science of insects), advisor for the Federal Government
in questions of pest control and damage precautions against insects
that destroy materials and stored food products, lecturer at FU
Berlin
Uninvited guests in house and home - insect pests on artefacts
and stored products
Architecture
Elke Beyer, historian, specialised
in post-socialistic city-development, Shrinking Cities
Remarkable similarities between Ford's and Stalin's dreams, or:
was the USSR a case of capitalistic wishful thinking? Picture analysis
Bruno Flierl, architecture theorist
Multi-storey buildings. Higher and higher, for whom and against
whom?
Cartography
Neco Celik, film-maker , Life and
Death in 36 (Part 2)
Matthias Heisters, research scientist
at the FAV (Applied Traffic Research Association)
Going by foot - means of transport or means of appropriating
public space
Isabel Platthaus, radio editor,
phD comparative literature
Straightforward to Hell - itinerary for a tour of the under world
Choreography
Meg Stuart, choreographer of damaged
goods
Why beauty is still an option, A choreography for four hands.
Communication
Birgit Althans, research scientist
in educational science, associate scientist at the interdisciplinary
research project "Kulturen des Performativen", FU Berlin
Help with gossip problems: the transit of information in corporate
institutions
Dr. Dirk Baecker, Prof. for sociology,
University of Witten / Herdecke
The Turing-Machine. The Desire to play and the Desire to Win
Jill Emerson, dancer with the
group dorkypark, Pilates-trainer
Advice on dating methods and techniques
Anselm Franke, curator KunstWerke
1) Looking at artistic work, projects and project sketches: an
improvised analysis of curatorial tendencies (bring your own material)
2) Pictorial interrogation, imagination and myth (bring your own
photographs)
Hella Knappertsbusch, saleswoman
at the bookstore Schropp
How to sell a car driver a hiking map. Selling strategies
Thomas Sakschewski, project manager
and lecturer THF Berlin
Corporate communication or: the loudest dogs have the shortest
legs
Customs
Irena Akopjan, translator, cultural
organiser
1) The topography of the table: questions on placing at family-meetings
2) Secular customs: how to ornate the Christmas tree for Chanukka.
Andreas Bredenfeld, translator,
city-guide
Rules of protocol for incoming state visits by foreign dignitaries.
Amelie Deuflhard, artistic director
of the sophiensaele
Lamb chops and Easter celebrations: Recipe and Ceremony
Dilemma
Harald Preissler, future researcher
at DaimlerChrysler
1) The story of the 18. Camel
2) The story of the missing square
Litò Walkey, dancer, performer,
member of the performance group Goat Island Chicago
The Act of Standing on one Leg in Goat Island Performance: Is
it Dance or is it Work?
Gabriele Leidloff, visual artist,
producer, author of the project
l o g - in / l o c k e d o u t - A Forum of Art and Neuroscience
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www.locked-in.com.
Imagine a person who is shown nothing yet believes to have seen
everything -what will she see?
Ecotrophology
Lindy Annis, director, performance-artist
The Artichoke: Its history and its consumption (bring your own
fork!)
Bernhard Thome, performance-artist,
cook
Art and Cooking. Variations in taste and aesthetics of your favourite
recipe.
Yoshio Yabara, costume- and set-designer,
and much more
The universe of the Japanese rice and the secrets of sushi rice
Education
Marijke Hoogenboom, associated
Prof. for Artistic Practice and Interdisciplinary Development, co-founder
of DasArts
If education is the answer - what is he question? Instructions
for a self-made school
Bernd O. Hölters, director
of the Community College Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
1) Community College today: approaches to a successful learning
2) Simplify your life: instructions for an easier life
Lars Rudolph, actor & Assistant,
Promises of salvation for people with discipline
Ethics
Sabine Chwalisz, artistic director
of the fabrik Potsdam, choreographer, psychologist
Surprisingly easy methods how to lead a long and happy relationship
Dr. Anja Dieckmann, research scientist
Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Adaptive Behaviour and
Cognition
Simple heuristics for good decision making
Dr. Monika Keller, research scientist
Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Adaptive Behaviour and
Cognition, research area social and moral development in different
cultures, lecturer FU Berlin
Ideas on friendship and promises in a cultural comparison between,
China, Island, Russia, USA, Japan, Spain, and FRG/GDR
Angela Richter, director
1) Strategies how to avoid responsibility
2) How to build a small explosive device
Marc Siegel, lecturer in film
studies FU Berlin, research in experimental film and queer studies,
member of the performance group CHEAP
Pick yourself up with Anita O'Day: Applicable survival strategies
of a jazz singer
Games
Xavier Le Roy, molecular biologist,
choreographer, dancer
How to play the "Three-games-game"
Susanne Sachse, actress, member
of CHEAP
Excitement and relaxation. How to get the most out of horror
films.
Language
Inge Foerster-Baldenius, journalist,
speaker of the SPD party in the GDR parliament, examiner in the
centre for documentation of the victims of German dictatorships
1) De Kedelkoppersprook, a secret language in the port of Hamburg.
Useful for relationships and intimacies.
2) Love letters in Low German
Abdel Amine Mohammend, student,
Initiative for Refugees Brandenburg
1) Haussa: an African language
2) Dendi: an African language
Media
Irena Akopjan, translator, cultural
organiser
Self-representation in a virtual world: which Avatar fits me
well?
Carmen Bruder, Psychologist, phD
TU Berlin, men-machine-interface
Why it's not your fault if your computer goes nuts
On the psychological background of technical system development.
And what you can contribute.
Claudius Hagemeister, author for
game-CD-Roms, short prose, writing lessons for youngsters
Scriptwriting for game-CD-Roms, Book-keeping virtues for exciting
gameplay
Memory
Harun Farocki, film-maker Shut
Up, Memory!
Maria Kwiatkowsky, actress, winner
of the silver leopard in Locarno
Procastination taught by a professional.
Meteorology
Christoph Keller, artist, scientist
Cosmic overlapping and Cloudbusten in Wilhelm Reich
Millinery
Dorothee Dubrau, architect, Departmental
City Councellor for city development in Berlin/Mitte
Politics, children, household - how to make them all fit in.
Music, historical stringed instruments
Timan Muthesius, violin-maker
Historical stringed instruments before 1800. The Viola da Gamba
and the Viola da Braccio
Music, listening
Eunice Martins, improvisation/composition
for diverse occasions and locations, pianist of the cinema Arsenal
Ear plays - on listening to the world and moving pictures
Matthias Osterwold, artistic director
of MaerzMusik - Festival of the Berliner Festspiele for topical
music - originally urban planner
How to avoid premature aging of the ear - or how I become a music-lover
of good music
Music, composing
Nathan Fuhr, conductor, performer,
dancer
An Activity: The musicality of everyday gestures and non-verbal
communication in silent cycles of rhythmic play
Ulrike Haage, composer, pianist,
radio-playwright
A bar for ear consumption: treating music and language with equal
rights. A laptop exercise.
Daniel Ott, composer, new music
theatre, site-specific orientation
Inventing new branches and forms of art. Intercultural composition.
Hannes Strobel, musician, composer
In lack of ideas randomize: composing at the computer with Metaphysical
Function (N.L.)
Music, noise/sound
Patric Catani, musician (EC8OR,
Candie Hank, Gagarin)
Kinderzimmer Homecomputer Pioneer (Flex Busterman - Candiehank.com)
Living in Noise - how to produce counter noise with an Amiga
Commodore
Hannes Strobel, musician, composer
What is a music- digital and analogue ways of sound
Music, song
Nadja Michael, soprano
Big body - big voice? On the interdependence of physiology and
vocal effectiveness
Burkhardt, von Puttkamer, opera
singer, specialist for concerts at unusual locations (Antarctica,
mine)
Penguin-concert. An illustrated hummed singing lesson in the
Antarctica.
Money
Stephan Geene, co-founder of the
b_books publishing house and bookstore, curator, member of the collective
film ping pong d'amour
Money-surrogates. Where money can be worth less than little money
Tom Lamberty, publisher (Merve),
strategy consultant (Hewitt), and stachyologue
They just don't get it - knowledge as currency in academy, industry,
and scenery
Nirvana-Principle
Sofia Hulten, visual artist
How to disappear.
Johannes Mergener, Taiji-instructor,
lecturer at the Theatre Institute FU Berlin, actor, director, choreographer
Introduction to Taiji. An exercise.
Eva Maria Schön, visual artist
Loosing control? Blindfolded drawing and blueprinting
Patricia Thielmann, actress, Yoga-teacher,
founder of Spirit Yoga
Free your mind. Yoga for Metropolitans.
Nina Thorwart, costume-designer,
member of the performance group CHEAP
The Japanese technique of tying a knot and the art of self-loss
No Headword
Benjamin Förster-Baldenius,
projective architect
How to organise your life in large communes. Or on building without
planning and building permission
Michael Stehr, communication manager
Having fun and the BTM. An instruction
Florian Zeyfang, artist, author
Production resources 1970: The TVideopolitics of Sonimage (J.L.
Godard &A.M. Mièville) taking into account the theory
of "The two Avant-Gardes" (P. Wollen)
Orientation
Julian Klein, director, composer,
member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of
the Science, German Academy of the Natural Science Leopoldina
Golden Section in Mathematics and Art
Poetry
Alexej Kairetdinow, poet, translator
Explaining poetry, even single lines, with examples by Benn,
Born, Brodsky, or brought by the client
Dr. Claudia Lux, President of
the Central Libraries Berlin
How to find the right things. Professional searching methods
in the libraries of Berlin
Benjamin Scheibehenne, psychologist,predoctorial
research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development,
department, Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition
Too much choice can be de-motivating
Dr. Udo Tietz, lecturer at the
department of philosophy, HU, guest lecturer Marburg, co-publisher
of the magazine Berlin Debatte INITIAL
How to formulate a social critique. Getting one's bearings.
Quantum mechanics
Alexej Kairetdinow, poet, translator
The uncertainty principle does (not) work without formulas. A
philologist explains an experiment from quantum mechanics.
Sex
Sachse/Siegel, CHEAP
Dildos and Dildon'ts: How to Have Fun with Boys and Girls
Somatology
Marijke Hoogenboom, Amsterdam School
for the Arts associate Prof. for artistic practice and interdisciplinary
development, co-founder of DasArts
Scoliosis consultation
Percy McLean, judge at the Administrative
Court, expert for human rights, honorary president of the organization
for holistic medicine Der Weg der Mitte
Face- and neck massage. Theory and practice
Space
Monika Bruns, aura-reader
Individual reading of your life energies. An Aura- and Chakra
reading.
Jesko Fezer, lecturer department
of architecture UdK, associate pro qm, co-publisher of AnArchitektur
On the impossibility of spacial planning in principle
Katharina von Wilke, producer
How to use a 20-foot container with one glass wall as mis en
scene.
Sports
Amit Dasgupta, deputy ambassador
of India
How to become a Sillymidoff - An introduction to cricket
Ines Meyer, martial artist, QUANDAO
kung-fu trainer, jurist
DER: Discover, Explore, Relate - martial arts in every day life
Techniques, arts
Lutz Engelke, manager of Triad
Berlin, scenographer
Creativity: How to get ideas and put them into practice
Ilja Papatheodorou, performance-artist,
sheshepop
Making a self-portrait fort he stage
Monika Rinck, poet, scriptwriter,
essayist
The all time hall of shame. How shame and its transgression can
become a source of artistic productivity.
Dr. Friedrich Weltzien, art historian
FU, expert for artistic processes
Sometimes the most beautiful things happen by themselves. Why
nature is an artist.
Yoshio Yabara, set- and costume-designer
The making and functions of every day and theatre kimonos.
Techniques and body
Jill Emerson, dancer dorkypark,
Pilates-trainer
Learning a song or dance which could be helpful during a difficult
date
Gertrud Schrader, visual artist,
actions, media art, lecturer at the Institute for Aesthetics, University
Hannover
Electronics and Biology: Eleology a term for artistic research
Techniques, crafts
Amelie Deuflhard, artistic director
of the sophiensaele
How to set up a country garden
Constanza Macras, choreographer,
dorkypark
Working with props. Every thing you find can be useful
Amelia Seymour, visual artist,
English teacher at Universal Music
Popeshat or Lotusflower - The art of napkin-folding
Text
Michael Lüders, journalist,
political advisor, author
How to write a bestseller. Ideas on an unpredictable phenomenon
Sophia New, performance-artist
plan b.
Don't Let Email Take Over. Preserving and Valuing the Sensuality
of Letters
Edith Püschel, psychological
psychotherapist, student advisor FU
1) Subjectivity as a resource. Exercise in academic writing
2) Metaphor. the narrative of knowledge transfer. Exercise in academic
writing
Theatre
Hamster Damm, set-designer, expert
in theatre machines
Theatrum Mundi in the digital age
Barbara Gronau, lecturer in theatre
studies, research in Aesthetics of Performativity, associate researcher
at the interdisciplinary research project "Kulturen des Performativen",
FU Berlin
1) How to analyse theatre performances
2) How to talk about a performance that you didn't understand
Matthias Lilienthal, artistic
director and manager of Hebbel am Ufer
From A for Abramovic to W for Woosterfroup. A Jukebox of theatre-makers
Tourism
Dorothee Wenner, filmmaker, journalist,
jury of the International Forum for young filmmakers Berlinale
Visitors itinerary for Berlin tourists without touristic interests
Translation
Frank Heibert, literary translator
(DeLillo, LaBute), lector, jazz singer
HIS MASTER'S VOICE: how to find the right intonation in literary
translation. With examples
Nele Hertling, former artistic
director and manager of the Hebbel Theater, chairman of the DAAD
artist program, deputy director of the Akademie der Künste
Moments of untranslateabilty in the international theatre touring
business. With examples
Christof Kurzmann, musician
Learning Viennese with Asterix
Urbanism
Elke Beyer, historian, research
area post-socialistic urban development, research assistant at Shrinking
Cities, Projekt Schrumpfende Städte
A tour through Leningrad 1983 - sights of a soviet city with
sprinkles of history
Dr. Klaus Brake, Prof. for regional
and urban development, researcher, and consultant, conductor of
the BerlinStudie
1) How to help the progress of your city with every day knowledge.
Between city budget and Ich -AG
2) Imposed mobility: 1945 and today
Work
Matthias Heisters, research scientist
at the FAV (Applied Traffic Research Association)
Sensed Knowledge. An alternative for non-academics
Katja Reichard, co-initiator of
the bookstore pro qm, artist, collective projects on urbanism, gender,
work
Forms of self-exploitation: working life in times of difference
capitalism
Katharina von Wilcke, producer
DepArtment: the enterprise of leading a free production office
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