ABSENCE

On the Presence of Absence in Contemporary Dance and in Performance (BM4)
Dr. Habil. Krassimira Kruschkova, Lecturer in Theatre and Dance Studies, director of the Theory Centre at the Tanzquartier Wien, Editor of "Obscene. Zur Präsenz der Absenz im zeitgenössischen Tanz, Theater und Film" [Vienna]

On Silence and Talking: Poland-Germany, 1981-2005 (BM3/ghostly knowledge)
Kornel Miglus, filmmaker, based in the Polish Institute Berlin [Warsaw]

What is absent and invisible on Stage and How Does It Move Our Imagination (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Gerald Siegmund, Prof. for Theatre Studies at the University Bern, dance critic, author of "William Forsythe - Denken in Bewegung" and "Abwesenheit. Eine performative Ästhetik des Tanzes" [Bern, Frankfurt/M.]

ABU GHRAIB

A Quite Common Torturer - Abu Ghraib Beyond the Images (BM6)
Dr. Carolin Emcke, Author, Political Theoretician, Journalist [Berlin]

USA: Violations of Human Rights in the Fight against Terror. The Charge against Donald Rumsfeld in Germany Because of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, Among Other Things (BM6)
Wolfgang Kaleck, Attorney, Head of the Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein [Berlin]

ACCIDENTS

How to cartograph your accidents (BM2)
Daniel Belasco Rogers, performance-artist, set-designer, reckless sleepers, plan b [Berlin]

Tested accident techniques that allow you to emerge uninjured out of an accident (BM2)
Martin Nachbar, choreographer, dancer, co-curator of mode05 [Berlin]

ACTIVISM, POLITICAL

Only the powerless question the definition and application of knowledge (BM2)
Biblab Basu, historian [Berlin]

1) Export Tyranny: Activism and Art on the Eve of War
2) Eat Propaganda, Shit Democracy: The Role of American Artists during War (BM2)
Tim Blue, performance artist, activist, musician [Berlin]

What globalization and democracy don't have in common (BM2)
Matthias von Hartz, director [Hamburg]

3 songs about the Carnation Revolution, Portugal April 25, 1974: E Depois do Adeus / Grandola, Vila Morena / Tanto Mar (BM2)
Jose Maria Vieira Mendes, playwright, translator [Lissabon]

De-Politisation through political art (BM2)
Philipp Oswalt, architect, publisher, curator of Shrinking Cities [Berlin]

____Boycott
Why Boycott Israel? (BM12)
Rachel Giora, Professor of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University. Among her research interests are language and ideology, women and language, the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of figurative language (irony, jokes, and metaphor), and discourse negation. Her book "On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language" was published by Oxford University Press in 2003. She supports the Palestinian call for Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. [Tel Aviv]

____Community
How to Construct a Communal Political Struggle Within a Divided Community - The Story of the a-Rabitta Association in Late 70s Jaffa (BM12)
Gabi Abed, Arab Palestinian resident of Jaffa. He is a social worker and the chairman of the League for the Arabs of Jaffa, a-Rabitta. [Tel Aviv]

____Feminism
Embroidered Revolution - Embroidery as a Tool for the Empowerment of Bedouin Women (BM12)
Naama Elsana, co founder of "The Association for the Improvement of the Status of Women - Laqiya". She studied Education at Beer Sheva College and returned to Laqiya to volunteer, work, and contribute to the community. [Tel Aviv]

Fundamental Social Change can Happen Only through Extra-establishment Actions - Evidence and Examples from Israeli Feminist Activism (BM12)
Ilana Sugabker, grassroots activist and one of the founders of Mizrahi feminism in Israel. She was head of the "Nashim Lomdot" (women study) organization, and is an autodidact in the fields of music and social issues. [Tel Aviv]

____Occuptation
Far Away so Close - Everyday Life in Gaza through Video shot by B'Tselem Volunteers (BM12)
Yoav Gross, a documentary filmmaker and social activist, currently working as a video coordinator in B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. He has been working on several unique video projects aimed on documenting and exposing human rights violations in the West Bank, among them B'Tselem's camera distribution project, a citizen journalism project in the West Bank and Gaza. [Tel Aviv]

What is a Wind Turbine and Who is it Good For? (BM12)
Elad Orian, lives in Jaffa and works in Mount Hebron, where he co-founded a project of building renewable energy systems for villages unconnected to the Israeli Electricity Company. He studied physics in Tel Aviv and Environmental Policy in a program of the European Union. [Tel Aviv]

Live Television from the Ghost Town of Hebron - A Conversation and a Private Broadcast (BM12)
Mich'ael Zupraner, multi-disciplinary artist, co-founder (with Issa Amro) and director of HEB2, an experimental television station broadcasting from the Israeli-occupied sector of Hebron,West Bank. He was born in Beer Sheva, and studied Film and Art at Harvard University. He has been living in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, for the past year. [Tel Aviv]

____Refugees
How do Refugees Contribute to Israeli Society? A Talk about the "Giving Back with Love" Project (BM12)
Yohannes Bayu, officially recognized refugee living in Israel for 12 years. He is the founder and director of the "African Refugee Development Center". [Tel Aviv]

____Theater
Community Theater as a Tool for Sociopolitical Change (BM12)
Zmira Ron, born in Kefar Saba, choreographer, writer and director, mainly as part of interdisciplinary-activist theater. She studied Theater at Tel Aviv University, and is a graduate of Alvin Ailey Dance Center, New York. She spent a year in Congo and Uganda helping to build community theaters in refugee camps in the framework of the U.N. "CARE" project. Nowadays she manages projects of activist theater for women and girls in the Bedouin communities, in the unrecognized villages. [Tel Aviv]

ADMINISTRATION

____Culture
Culture in Uniform - On Patriotism, Art, and What They Don't Have in Common (BM12)
Ofira Henig, theater director, and artistic director of the Herzliya Ensemble. She started as the residence director of The National Theater, Habima, and was the artistic director of The Israel Festival, and the Khan Theater and The Lab in Jerusalem. She moved from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv two years ago and now suffers from the hot weather. [Tel Aviv]

____Municipality
The Untouchables - On the Role of the Municipality Comptroller (BM12)
Amer Abo-Hani, comptroller of the Rahat Municipality. He has an MA in Business Administration from Marburg University, Germany. He has worked as a comptroller in municipalities for more than 10 years. He is also a communal activist for the unrecognized villages of the Negev and for the education of Bedouin women. [Tel Aviv]

____Prison
Jailhouse Rock - A Day in Military Prison Life (BM12)
Hisham Naffa, journalist and editor of the cultural and political supplement of Al Ittihad newspaper. He writes a political column for Al Akhbar newspaper in Lebanon and a personal column in a Haifa-based tabloid. He is a political activist and a translator, taking his time studying philosophy, and waiting for his first book to be published, and he loves fishing. He spent over a year in military prisons. [Tel Aviv]

An Inside Look at the Management and Operation of the Israel Prison Service (BM12)
Avi Sagiv, former Brigadier in the Israel Prison Service, where he held positions of staff, command, and instruction. He holds degrees in Criminology and Political Science. [Tel Aviv]

____Urban Planning
Crimes and Guilt of Urban Planning and the Creation of Unrecognized Citizenship - the Case of Jaffa, Ramleh, and Lod, Told with Maps and Aerial Photos (BM12)
Buthayna Dabit, an architect and the director of Mixed Cities Project "Shatil", founded by the New Israel Fund. The project deals with the housing problem and the failures of planning in mixed cities, focusing mainly on Ramleh, Lod, Jaffa and Akko. In 2002 she established the "Adar Association" in Ramleh, aiming to preserve and rehabilitate the old city, solve the housing problems in the city, improve the quality of the environment, and promote joint living in Ramleh. [Tel Aviv]

"Monkey Business" - What are the Real Strategies and Decision Making Processes in Cities' Planning Committees (BM12)
Nahle Shaker, transport engineer and activist. He is the regional traffic engineer for the Tel Aviv and Central regions at the Ministry of Transportation. He was one of the co-founders of a-Rabitta, The League for the Arabs of Jaffa, in 1979, and ever since he has been taking part in many long struggles for Jaffa and its inhabitants. [Tel Aviv]


AERONAUTICS

Welcome on board -the system technology of today's aircrafts (BM2)
Martin Wagner, aviation engineer, institute for aerospace technology TU Berlin [Berlin]

AGE

As Far as the Feet Will Carry or: What the Aging Dancer-Body Knows in Order to Continue Dancing (BM4)
Dieter Baumann, dancer and choreographer, part of the artistic head of the Tanzcompanie Rubato [Berlin]

What Could Come After the Dance Career and How to Get There (BM4)
Paul Bronkhorst, career counsellor, chairman of the International Organisation for the Transition of Professional Dancers (IOTPD) [Den Haag]

Dance and Age. Generation 50+ in Dance (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Claudia Jeschke, Prof. for Dance Studies, dancer, choreographer, reconstructionist [Salzburg]

What Dancers Do When They Can No Longer Dance or: How Life Before the Dance Career Influences Life After the Dance Career (BM4)
Maja Langsdorff, journalist, photographer, non-fiction writer, lecturer for adult education, trained dancer [Stuttgart]

AIDS

HIV Prevention and the New Eastern European Mobility (BM7)
Sergiu Grimalschi, street social worker with SUB/WAY berlin e.V., NFP (National Focal Point) for Aids & Mobility Europe [Klausenburg, Bucharest, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin]

ALASKA

The Trip to Alaska. A Political and Cultural Account of a Journey to Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia, Ten Years After Dayton (BM7)
Bora Cosic, writer [Zagreb, Belgrad, Berlin, Rovinj]

ALCHEMY

Human remains and traces of presence. A life's investigation of excrement and other forms of human ephemera (BM11)
Gina Czarnecki , Artist [Liverpool]

The alchemy of performance: Turning 'wasted' into 'wanted' (BM11)
Rogan Taylor,Director of the Football Industry Group at Liverpool University and author of "The Death and Resurrection Show: From Shaman to Superstar" [Liverpool]

ALTRUISM

About the Egoism Involved in Helping Others (BM8)
Christine Anderwald, head of Marienambulanz Graz (an institution with 25 voluntary staff members, provides basic medical care for homeless people, refugees or people with a low income), Human Rights Award of the regional government of Styria 2006 [Graz]

The Situatedness of Altruistic Acts by Comparison of Legal Systems - Europe and America (BM8)
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Willibald Posch, Professor for Comparative and International Law, currently dean of the Law School, Civil Law of the University of Graz, author of numerous publications, e.g. Grundzüge fremder Privatrechtssysteme (1995) [Graz]

ANIMALS

Speculative approaches to public animal sculptures (BM2)
Nicholas Grindell, translator [Berlin]

Uninvited guests in house and home - insect pests on artefacts and stored products (BM2)
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 [Berlin]

About Seduction: Playing the Victim as Protection and Defense Behaviour among Plovers and Other Birds. With Photographic Examples (BM8)
Leander Khil, conscientious objector performing community service, birdwatcher and photographer [Graz]

Tangible "Swarm Intelligence": The Protest against the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm (BM8)
Leo Kühberger, historian, activist and farmer [Graz]

To Overcome Death. Learning from the Butterflies' Metamorphoses (BM8)
Leo Kuzmits, butterfly researcher and breeder, social pedagogue [Graz]

Slowness. The Decelerating Creation of a Pet Sloth with Text Examples as a Response to Indiscriminatingly Accepted Acceleration (BM8)
Jaschka Lämmert, actress at the Schauspielhaus Graz, upcoming performance as Christine in Ödön von Horvath's "Zur schönen Aussicht"(premiere October 9) [Graz]

____Ants
Finding the Way Without Markings: Desert Ants' Compass in the Heavens (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ronacher, behavioural scientist and neurobiologist at the Institute for Biology at the Humboldt University [Berlin]

____Bees
Information Dances of Cave Breeding Honey Bees in the Dark (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Kaspar Bienefeld, director of the National Institute for Bee Research, honorary professor at the Agrarian Faculty of the Humboldt University [Berlin]

____Birds
Killing Two Birds with One Stone, or How we Used to Hunt Birds (BM12)
Muhammed Jabali, poet, born in Taybe. He spent his childhood among vineyards, olive, peach, and orange groves, in the Triangle region, where he learned to recognize different types of birds and their relation to their surroundings. He used to spend his summer vacations hunting birds - a luxury after a day of hard work on the farm. Today, he teaches psychometric courses and is totally addicted to Tel-Aviv's night life. [Tel Aviv]

____Bugs
Bugs in the gut. The wonderful world of waste recycling inside us
(BM 11)
Rod Dillon, vector-biologist and Lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine [Liverpool]

____Elephants
The Olfactory Organ as a Tool to Understand and Know the World: The Elephant's Way! (BM12)
Rafi Ben Shahar, environmental consultant. He spent ten years in a nature reserve in Africa studying the behavior of elephants, their communication, and their effect on their habitat. He also has an impressive collection of model airplanes that he built himself. [Tel Aviv]

____Fish
Swimming Strictly Forbidden! The Contamination of Tel Aviv - Jaffa's Coastal Waters and Fish over the Past 50 Years (BM12)
Abu George Shibli, comes from a family of fishermen. His father operated the Jaffa lighthouse, and his family lived within the lighthouse grounds. Nowadays he resides in Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood. He is an activist, working with organizations for Jaffa and its residents and for the "Sulcha Peace Project". He also counsels groups as a volunteer in a drug addiction rehabilitation center. [Tel Aviv]

____Grasshoppers
Stridulation Movements of Grasshoppers for Finding a Mate (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ronacher, behavioural scientist and neurobiologist at the Institute for Biology at the Humboldt University [Berlin]

____Horse I
How to Judge the Movements of a Horse (BM4)
Elke Ebert, Holder of the Golden Riding Badge, equestrian judge for 20 years, candidate for the International Magistracy in Dressage as well as for Riders with Physical Disabilities [Berlin]

____Horse II
A Time for Drunken Horses? What is this? A Short Journey through Kurdish Cinema (BM7)
Miraz Bezar, filmmaker [Ankara, Berlin]

____Insects
The role of insects in the decomposition of organic material (BM 11)
Guy Knight, curator of Entomology, World Museum Liverpool [Liverpool]

____Parasites
Black Fever: A tropical disease caused by a deadly parasite that invades human tissue and lives inside blood cells (BM 11)
Rod Dillon, vector-biologist and Lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine [Liverpool]

____Swarms I
The Discovery of the Swarms (BM4)
Prof. Dr. Rudolf zur Lippe, philosophy of life forms [Berlin]

____Swarms II
Birds and Humans in Transit - the Discovery of the Swarms (BM7)
Prof. Dr. Rudolf zur Lippe, philosophy of life form [Berlin, Hinterpommern, Westfalen-Lippe, Heidelberg, Kloster Hude]

____Sealions
The comprehension of numbers of sea lions (and other vertebrates) (BM2)
Anja Dieckmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, department of Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition [Berlin]

____Werewolf
"A Workingclass Werewolf is Something to Be". Lykanthropy as a Trope of Migration (BM7)
D-L Alvarez, artist [Stockton, Boulder, San Francisco, Paris, New York, Berlin]

ANTI-AMERICANISM

What is Anti-Americanism? (BM6)
Dr. Ekkehart Krippendorff, Professor (em.) for Political Science, FU Berlin [Berlin]

Philosophical Racism: Analytical Versus Continental Philosophy (BM6)
Dr. Ludger Schwarte, Assistant Professor on the FAG-Chair "Theory of Images" at Universität Basel, NFS Bildkritik [Basel/ Berlin]

ANTIZIGANISM

On the Myth that Sinti and Roma Have a Passion for Roaming (BM7)
Petra Rosenberg, graduate in pedagogy, president of the Landesverband Deutscher Sinti und Roma Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. [Berlin]

South Eastern European Roma Migrants in Germany (BM7)
Dr. Sevasti Trubeta, sociologist [Berlin]

ARCHITECTURE

Homes for non-heroes. How the architecture for social housing will look in the future (BM 11)
Rob MacDonald, reader in Architecture at the Liverpool School of Art & Design, Liverpool John Moores University. Practicing Architect and Vice President of the Liverpool Architectural Society [Liverpool]

Intelligent rubbish. An anecdotal report of architectural waste in Liverpool (BM 11)
Roger Phillips, broadcaster on BBC Radio Merseyside since the early 1970s.[Liverpool]

Remarkable similarities between Ford's and Stalin's dreams, or: was the USSR a case of capitalistic wishful thinking? Picture analysis (BM2)
Elke Beyer, historian, specialised in post-socialistic city-development, Shrinking Cities [Berlin]

Multi-storey buildings. Higher and higher, for whom and against whom? (BM2)
Bruno Flierl, architecture theorist [Berlin]

Archive

The lifecycle of the document and how does a document become archival? (BM 11)
From archon to on-line: What (and where) is the archive? (BM 11)
Alexandrina Buchanan, Lecturer in Archive Studies at the University of Liverpool [Liverpool]

ART BUSINESS

Impossible Architecture of Curatorial Generosity. On Precarious Life, Ethics of Mutuality and Unavoidable Harassments (BM8)
Adam Budak, curator at Kunsthaus Graz, co-curator of Manifesta7 (Trentino, 2008), co-founder of post-graduate studies in curatorial practice and theory at Jagiellonian University in Krakow [Krakow, Graz]

Figures with Symbolic Capital. The Economy of the Art System (BM8)
Martin Fritz, director of the Festival of Regions, curator, advisor of art institutions and artists in organizational and structural issues [Vienna and Upper Austria]

Art in Love with Law: "Autonomy" of Art as a Present of the State? (BM8)
Aldo Milohnic, MA in sociology of culture, editor of the book series "Politike", co-author and co-editor of publications on performing arts theory, epistemology of the humanities and cultural policy, researcher at the Peace Institute [Ljubljana]

Items on Loan. Who Gives What to Whom? Big Art Exhibitions, the Loan Dealings and their Unwritten Rules of the Game (BM8)
Stella Rollig, exhibition maker, author, director of Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz [Linz/ Vienna]

ARTISTS

Art in Transit. The Work of Female Artists between Istanbul and Berlin (BM7)
Ezgi Kilinçaslan, artist [Besni, Mersin, Istanbul, Berlin]

The Problematisation of Nationalist Ideology in the Balkan Contemporary Art - Raša Todosijevic, Milica Tomic, Hale Tenger, Halil Alt?ndere, Vlad Nanca, Albert Heta (BM7)
Erden Kosova, writer, editor for "art-ist" and "Siyahi", co-writer of "Szene Türkei: Abseits aber Tor!" (with Vasif Kortun, 2004), curator of "Leaps of Faith" in Nicosia in May of 2005 (with Katerina Gregos) [Istanbul, London]

The Conception of Migration Exemplified by Selected Artistic Works by Július Koller and Roman Ondák (BM7)
Kathrin Rhomberg, curator, amongst others Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Wiener Secession, director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein, artistic direction of "Projekt Migration", with Marion von Osten [Bludenz, Ljubljana, Cologne, Vienna]

Turkish Travelling Theater - Karagöz, Meddah, Ortaoyunu (BM7)
Long Distance Driving Documents - Translocalism as a Narrative in Mobile Art Projects (BM7)
David Rych, artist [Innsbruck, Vienna, Jerusalem, Bourges, Berlin]
Özge Tomruk, theater scholar and theatre pedagogue, tutor for the Volicity project (job orientation for Turkish youth in cooperation with Naunynritze) [Sivas, Istanbul, Mödling near Vienna, Berlin]

ATMOSPHERIC POLITICS

Blackboxing. Device whose parts are unknown or irrelevant, but whose function is understood. Somebody, full of suggesting mystery, who produces a deliberately engineered impression in the mind of somebody who sees, hears, or reads something. His presence is not to be noticed but the effect of his actions always visible. (BM9/salon version)
Mariana Castillo Deball, artist [Berlin]

The many gesture manuals published in the nineteenth century are instructive texts from the literature of moral, political and aesthetic anxiety that has surrounded the sphere of human gesture for at least two centuries, and propose a bizarre prehistory of our contemporary bodily regimes. (BM9/salon version)
Brian Dillon, UK editor of "Cabinet" magazine [London]

Improvisation on Various Themes with the Visitor, Using Words and Conventional Drawing Aids (BM9/salon version)
Cevdet Erek, artist [Istanbul]

What Goes without Saying: Gesture as the Language of the Social Implicit (BM9/salon version)
Anselm Franke, curator (Manifesta 7, Extra City Antwerpen) [Antwerpen]

Using as a point of departure a take on the story of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (Holland 1632-1723) I will talk about the relationship of observation and representation in history of sciences, making a link with my individual practice as a contemporary artist. (BM9/salon version)
Irene Kopelman, artist [Amsterdam]

Shortcomings of Heroic Gestures (BM9/salon version)
Erden Kosova, writer and curator [Istanbul]

Posture, Demeanor, and Composure: A Lament for the Loss of the Stylish Masses! (BM9/salon version)
Dieter Rolstraete, curator and writer [Brussels]

Is Locality a Political Gesture of Space? (BM9/salon version)
Pelin Tan, sociologist, writer, editor [Istanbul]

Architecture is Gentrification and Will Remain So Unless It Gets Rid of the Logic of Representation (BM9/salon version)
Bulent Tanju, professor in Architectural Theory, writer [Istanbul]

Hooked on Demonics: Vomiting Machines and Eavesdropping Statues (BM9/salon version)
Jennifer Teets, resident curator of Platform Garanti, former curator of Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros [Mexico City]