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8 FEB 2023, 19.00 (CET) Playground, Labor Ateliers, Studio 3, Dachauer Str. 112d, Munich & online live stream

Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly XXII

Provoke Me if You Can. The Crisis of Artistic Disturbances

With Núria Güell, Renzo Martens & The Last Generation (tbc.)
Hosted by Florian Malzacher

12 FEB 2023, 17.00 CET Berliner Ensemble

“Tod der Dialektik”. Kunst nach Brecht zwischen Popularität und Politik

On the Occasion of 125th Birthday of Bertolt Brecht

Panel with Florian Malzacher, Patrick Primavesi & Christina Tscharyiski

In German language

Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly

Since 2021 Different venues & online platform

Hosted by Florian Malzacher

With Ahmed Al-Nawas, andcompany&Co., Athena Athanasiou, Marco Baravalle, Merve Bedir, Claire Bishop, Claudia Bosse, Tania Bruguera, Judith Butler, Phil Collins, Jodi Dean, Radha D’Souza, Didier Eribon, Marcelo Expósito, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius / raumlaborberlin, Isabelle Fremeaux & Jay Jordan, Max Haiven, Satu Herrala, Lisa Ito-Tapang, Edit Kaldor, Wolfgang Kaleck, Oliver Marchart, Markus Miessen, Alia Mossallam, Chantal Mouffe, Antonio Negri, Sibylle Peters, Julia Ramírez-Blanco, Milo Rau, Lady Bitch Ray, Oliver Ressler, Jonas Staal, Nora Sternfeld, The Church of Stop Shopping, Lotte van den Berg, Eva von Redecker, Dana Yahalomi, Ann Liv Young et al.

Training for the Future

Since 2019 Bochum, Bogotà, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Dêrik, Manilla, New York, Torino, Venice, Zurich

A project by Jonas Staal
Curated and co-programmed by Florian Malzacher

Come together now: Theatre as arena for struggle and agreement

24 Sep 2021 Taoyuan Iron Rose Festival & the Goethe Institute in Taiwan (online)

How can one employ strategies from theatre as curatorial strategies?

In: Curating Dramaturgies: How Dramaturgy and Curating Are Intersecting in the Contemporary Arts. Eds. Peter Eckersall & Bertie Ferdman. London & New York: Routledge, 2021. 141-150.

Lola Arias: Identities in Negotiation

In: Lola Arias: Re-enacting Life. Ed. Jean Graham-Jones. Abersystwyth: Performance Research Books, 2019. 242-247.

“We need a new social Imaginary”

In: Demokratie heute. Probleme der Repräsentation. Eds. Florian Malzacher, Raimar Stange. Exhibition Catalogue. Berlin: KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, 2021. 14-15.

Gesellschaftsspiele. Politisches Theater heute

Florian Malzacher. Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2020.

As a reference point of positions 20 years later, almost as indispensable as Postdramatic Theatre. Peter M. Boenisch, Aarhus Universitet

Rarely have the pitfalls of representation as the cornerstone of theatre been explained so elegantly. Berliner Zeitung

Alexander Verlag

Theatre as Assembly

In: Why Theatre? Eds. Milo Rau / NTGent et al. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag, 2020. 170-173.

The Life and Work of Nature Theater of Oklahoma

Ed. Florian Malzacher. Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2019.

The lovingly designed book is a successful mixture of analysis, biographical material, and voices of artist friends. Karin Cerny, Profil

Alexander Verlag

Empty Stages, Crowded Flats. Performativity as Curatorial Strategy

Eds. Florian Malzacher & Joanna Warsza. Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2017.

Order at Alexander Verlag

Bethinking One’s Own Strengths. The Performative Potential of Curating

In: Curating Live Arts. Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice. Eds. Dena Davida et al. New York & Oxford: Berghahn, 2018. xvi-xxi.

“I Guess the Objects Remained Rather Unimpressed”

In: Curatorial Things. Eds. Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019. 118-130.

Truth is Concrete

21-28 SEP 2012 steirischer herbst festival, Graz, Austria

Curated by Anne Faucheret, Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Kira Kirsch & Florian Malzacher (idea & concept)

Truth is Concrete. A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics

Eds. Florian Malzacher & steirischer herbst. Sternberg Press, 2004.
Coedited by Anne Faucheret, Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Kira Kirsch, Andreas R. Peternell, and Johanna Rainer.

Out of Print (but free for download)

Curating Performing Arts

Eds. Florian Malzacher, Tea Tupajić, Petra Zanki. Zagreb: Frakcija. Performing Arts Journal. No. 55, summer 2010.

Out of Print (But free for download)
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