International conference: Radical Theatre Yesterday and Today | AKCENT FESTIVAL 2013
The arts versus social issues. Politics and art. Working with untrained performers. The principles of devised theatre. Theatre and community. These are the topics that creators of contemporary theatre are increasingly concerned with. What are the specifics, assumptions and principles of art in a social context?
Speakers: Lola Arias (ARG), Boris Bakal / Bacači Sjenki (HR), Johanna Freiburg, Ilia Papatheodorou / She She Pop and Gob Squad (D), Márta Schermann (HU), Edit Kaldor (NL), Barbora Uríková and Ivana Rumanová / Truc Sphérique (SK), Maria Schejbal and Krzysztof Tusiewicz / Teatr Grodzki (PL), Jana Svobodová and Ondřej Hrab / Archa Theatre (CZ), Eugen van Erven (NL), Henk Keizer (NL), Chris Torch (S), Jiří Sulženko and David Kašpar (CZ) and others. Moderator: Jiří Havelka.
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10.00 - opening, welcome speech: Ondřej Hrab and Jana Svobodová
10.10 – 10.30
2. Chris Torch: RESISTANCE - Cultural Strategies for Political Change
10.35 – 10.55
3. She She Pop: The Art of the Collective, the Collective as Art
10.55 - 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 11.35
4. Márta Schermann: Life Donation
11.40 – 12.00
5. Jana Svobodová, Archa Theatre: For whom and why?
12.05 – 12.25
6. Ivana Rumanová, Barbora Ulríková-Truc Sphérique, Stanica Žilina: Think, write, send, participate. On the limits of participation and confusion of critics
12.25 - 13.25 Lunch break
13.25 - 13.45
7. Boris Bakal: The Years of Dangerous Dreaming
13.50 – 14.10
8. Eugen van Erven: The radical, the avant-garde and community arts
14.15 – 14.35
9. Edit Kaldor: The Potential of Powerlessness
14.35 - 14.55 Coffee break
14.55– 15.15
10. Maria Schejbal, Krzysztof Tusiewitz, The Bielsko Artistic Association Grodzki Theatre: Radical Theatre - Crossing Borders
15.20 – 15.40
11. Jiří Sulženko: Radical Theatre vs. the Establishment
15.45 – 16.05
12. Lola Arias: Temporary Families
Conference co-organized by the Archa Theatre, the Goethe Institute and the Arts and Theatre Institute
The conference is part of the Art & Politics theme of the House on Fire network and is supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union

price: | 150 CZK |
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student/senior: | 80 CZK |
Fee: adults CZK 150, students and seniors: CZK 80
Time: 10.00 - 17.00
Where: Conference room of the Goethe Institute, Masarykovo nábřeží 224/32
The conference will be simultaneously interpreted into Czech.