TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

Responding to the programme of the conference, the performer selects and remixes fragments in a way that corresponds to the principles of Bertolt Brecht’s “Lehrstücke,” the so-called learning or teaching pieces that deconstruct and expose the mechanisms of (power) relationships inherent in the (media/art) system in question. The audience are invited to comment upon or otherwise respond to these “unlearning pieces”, opening a space of (self)reflexive interaction among all the involved people, other (non)living beings, and machines as well, discussing their aesthetics and mechanics, the narratives and poetics as exposed.

Provoking both rational and irrational perspectives, possibilities of (un)learning through acting, playing roles, adopting postures etc. shall be explored, dissolving (or at least questioning) the divide between authors and audiences, both invited (in Brechtian terms) to acquire attitudes rather than to consume an entertainment. The form-and-content question is transgressed in favour of focusing on the function: the author–audience interaction is to become dialectical, guided by the principles of deep interaction.