Hyper Cultural Passengers

Concept and curator team of the international Art/Philosophy Project Hypercultural Passengers, funded by the city of Hamburg, started in 2016. With Michael Kress and the Artist run Space FRISE.

Syncopated Resistance: Rhythms of Post-Colonial Thinking

With Ariel Flórez:
Syncopated Resistance: Rhythms of Post-Colonial Thinking

Philosophy Shows

Since 2002 I have been presenting philosophical performances. My formats show the philosophical WHAT through the HOW, stemming from political and everyday problems, which are being discussed and exposed on a discursive as well as on a non-discursive level. The shows always imply improvisational parts and public involvement. Every event, though each one is different, implies an invitation for the audience to participate.

Links:
http://expeditionphilosophie.wordpress.com/
http://performancephilosophy.ning.com/

THINKING_BODIES! Philosophy Performance Symposium

THINKING_BODIES! (KÖRPER_DENKEN!)
Performance Philosophy Symposium, January 29/30, Ampere, Munich Germany

The symposium examines the relation of thinking and the body in Performance Philosophy – specifically in terms of Nonhuman Thinking and Body Politics – by presenting performances, video installations, workshops, lecture performances and an experimental panel discussion, asking questions such as: What happens at the “fringes of our consciousness” (William James)? What is “becoming animal” (Deleuze/Guattari) like? When does a gesture become subversive? Is thinking always parasitic?
https://koerperdenken.wordpress.com/

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The Return of "The Merry Night of City Neurotics"

Which one is your favorite neurosis? Do you sometimes wonder if the stove is still on, while already sitting in the train? Or do you suffer from God complexes ...

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The Philosophical Couple Therapy by EGG

Resisting the phantasm of binary logic!
EGG (Eternal Greatness of Mind, Dr. Heidi Salaverría and Dr. Christian Gefert)

The philosophy shows from EGG show philosophical dimensions of the libidinal everyday life. Philosophical knowledge is not a requirement, but it does not really bother either.

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Bataille - The Logic of the Excessive

Philosophy Show, Episode 5:
 
The dynamics of giving and taking is central to the love relationship, money its most significant symbol, as giving and taking seemingly are ...

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Cannibalism or Photosynthesis? Freud – and the Lust of Fear

Philosophy Show, Episode 4
 
Is lust being fed by lack or is it not? If it is, lust will be constantly threatened by the fear that the lack might become too big ...

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Hegel – are you my Oracle? On the Dialectics of Amorous Projections

Philosophy Show, Episode 3

Often we make the other our oracle of self-confidence – as the authority of prophecy which will tell us whether we are lovable or not ...

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The Libido Battery Charger. The Economy of Desire

Philosophy Show, Episode 2

(freely adapted from Butler and Laurie Penny, unfreely adapted from Marx and Lacan)

The currency of the capitalist love order is desire. As much as money, desire never is distributed evenly – a one-sided accumulation of libidinal ...

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The Merry Night of City Neurotics!

Which one is your favorite neurosis? Do you sometimes wonder if the stove is still on, while already sitting in the train? Or do you suffer from God complexes ...

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Sartre – On The Metaphysics of Jealousy

Philosophy Show, Episode 1

For Sartre, freedom means being human. In being jealous we recognize painfully the freedom of the other. What do we learn in jealousy about the freedom of the self? 

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Philosophy on the Couch. Couple Therapy with Irigaray

Philosophical Performance with Christian Gefert, Soundcheck Philosophy. Puppentheater Halle, Germany (http://www.soundcheck-philosophie.de/index.html).

Pragmatist philosophy shows: extraordinary implications of the ordinary

Institut für Philosophie, SFB Kulturen des Performativen, Berlin, Performance and Philosophy.

Speeddating with Marx. Economies of Love

Workshop Economies of Culture – Cultures of the Economic, Goethe-Institut Munich.

Timinglab: Sleeping, Loving, Aging

Insomnia with Levinas, Speeddating with Augustinus, Dance your Age away with Kierkegaard. With Christian Gefert, in: Jetlag – a Series of Exorbitant Performances. Jetlag No. 3, A Philosophical Stroll through the Night, Pact Zollverein, Essen. (http://www.pact-zollverein.de/english/archive/programme/2009/0907jetlag3.html)

Figurations of Fear. Kierkegard, Freud, Sartre

With Christian Gefert. Philosophical Society, Bremerhaven

Walking your Nose

Art Happening, with Julia Bonn, Hamburg.
(www.einstellungsraum.de/archiv_inter.html)

On Health (Aristotle and Butler)

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, DEPOT, State Theater, Stuttgart.

On Memory (Platon, Nietzsche, Rorty)

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, DEPOT, State Theater, Stuttgart.

The Other. Present/Absent

(with Karen Scholz), Participatory Art Project, Part of the Exhibition: Kurd Alsleben und Antje Eske. Mutualité. From Computer Drawings to Net Art Affairs 1961-2006, Catalogue, Art Museum Bremen. (http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/Netzkunstaffairen)

How Does the Sensus Communis taste?

Participatory Art Project, Part of the Exhibition: Kurd Alsleben und Antje Eske. Mutualité. From Computer Drawings to Net Art Affairs 1961-2006, Catalogue, Art Museum Bremen. (http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/Netzkunstaffairen).

On Family

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, DEPOT, State Theater, Stuttgart.

No Pains, no Gains? On Diligence (Calvin and Weber)

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, DEPOT, State Theater, Stuttgart.

299.792,458 KM/S – Thinking faster than Light! (Heidegger, Derrida, Virilio)

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, DEPOT, State Theater, Stuttgart.

Surveillance. I know that I know nothing. (Foucault)

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, DEPOT, State Theater, Stuttgart.

Giving and Taking. Augustinus and De Sade

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg.

Lazyness (Marx, Diogenes)

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, DEPOT, State Theater, Stuttgart.

Lazyness (Marx, Diogenes)

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg.

On Death (Kant/Schopenhauer/Levinas)

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY: Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg.

Levinas. Death and the Other

Multimedia-Presentation, Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg.

On Laughther (Plessner/Freud)

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg.

On the Anarchy of Laughing

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, Multimedia­-Presentation, Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg.

On Playing

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg.

Derrida + the Fly

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHIE: Multimedia­-Presentation, Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg.

On Felicity

EXPERIMENT PHILOSOPHY, Kampnagel Theater, Hamburg.