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The Berlin Sessions:
Reza Abdoh, Here and Now

Dates

Wed, 10.04.19

Time

19:00

What does Reza Abdoh have to offer contemporary European performance? Daniel Mufson, editor of the Reza Abdoh anthology, and Ehren Fordyce, former professor of directing and contemporary performance at Stanford University, discuss Reza Abdoh’s work in the context of European and American performance since his death in 1995.

Ehren Fordyce is a translator living in Germany. He has published on Reza Abdoh’s work in Modern Drama, as well as on other contemporary performance groups, such as the Wooster Group, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Goat Island, and Rimini Protokoll. He has worked recently with the Instituto República in Rio to initiate the RAIR (Residência Artística Instituto República) program, which embeds artists in public ministries in the State of Rio.

Part of project: The Berlin Sessions

Since February 2017, KW Institute for Contemporary Art organized a series of monthly public talks in collaboration with various institutions and organizations located in Berlin. The series entitled The Berlin Sessions explored the fabric of cultural producers in the city by inviting one Berlin-based speaker to give a presentation on another cultural producer that he/she/they find inspiring. The goal of the lecture series was to highlight the work of Berlin-based creatives from the perspective of their peers; to map connections between the various producers and fields and to strengthen the existing networks between locally based artists, authors, musicians, performers, researchers and other creative producers.