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Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge Frankfurt

Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge

16 SEPT 2023 Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt/Main

Licence #12

A project by Mobile Academy Berlin
In cooperation with Zentrum verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung (zewedi)

Curated by Florian Malzacher

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

Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge

14 Oct 2022 Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin

Licence #11

A project by Mobile Academy Berlin
In cooperation with Fonds Darstellender Künste

Curated by Florian Malzacher

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.

After Supervising the Machinery

25-27 SEP 2020 Engelskirchen

On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Friedrich Engels

With contributions by Bini Adamczak, Ulf Aminde & Manuel Gogos, Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler, Dirk Baecker, Felicitas P. Berg, María do Mar Castro Varela, Antje Ehmann & Harun Farocki, Manfred Fischedick, Daniel Häni, Dagna Jakubowska, Brigitta Muntendorf, Sibylle Peters, Dan Perjovschi, Alexandra Pirici, Quarantine, Dries Verhoeven, Zorka Wollny et al.

Curated by Florian Malzacher

“I Guess the Objects Remained Rather Unimpressed”

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

How to prepare for the (un)predictable? A marathon

08 JAN 2018 INSTAR – Instituto de Artivismo Hannah Arendt, Havana, Cuba

Curated by Florian Malzacher & Joanna Warsza in collaboration with Abel González Fernández.

On invitation by Tania Bruguera

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.

Agonism and the Next Word

In: Curating Crisis. Theater 47:1 (2017). 17-38.

The Potential of Performativity

Nero Magazine
02 Aug 2017

Feeling Alive. The Performative Potential of Curating

Empty Stages, Crowded Flats. Performativity as Curatorial Strategy. Eds. Florian Malzacher & Joanna Warsza. Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2017. 28-41.

Sense of Possibility

20 JUL - 07 AUG 2017 St. Petersburg, several locations

With andCompany&Co., Pavel Aseniev, Keti Chukhrov, Olga Jitlina, Thomas Myrmel, Boris Nikitin, Alexandra Pirici, Vokrug da Okolo, u.a.

Curated by Florian Malzacher

Empty Stages, Crowded Flats. Performativity as Curatorial Strategy

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

Also available in Chinese language
Order at Alexander Verlag

Appropriations

16 NOV 2014 Ethnological Museum Berlin

With Ulf Aminde & Shi-Wei Lu, Yael Bartana, deufert&plischke, Maria Gaida, Richard Haas, Ant Hampton & Britt Hatzius, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Kapwani Kiwanga, Siegmar Nahser & Alexandra Pirici

Curated by Florian Malzacher

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)

steirischer herbst

2006 - 2012 Graz, Austria

Director: Veronica Kaup-Hasler
Festival Programming: Florian Malzacher

Anwalt der Nische

In: Theater Heute. 04 (2011): 6-21.

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)

Cause & Result: Curating Performing Arts

In: Frakcija 55. Eds. Florian Malzacher, Tea Tupajić, Petra Zanki (2010): 10-19.

Unfriendly Takeover

2000 - 2008 Frankfurt/Main

With Oliver Augst, Jérôme Bel, Black Market International, Frank Bretschneider, Dat Politics, deufert&plischke, Diedrich Diederichsen, Heinrich Dubel, Tim Etchells, Paul Granjon, Brian Holmes, Emil Hrvatin, Dennis Loesch, Lone Twin, Sylvère Lotringer, Jan Jelinek, Stefan Kaegi, Thomas Kapielski, Khan, Felix Kubin, Xavier Le Roy, Lone Twin, Brian Massumi, Sebastian Meissner, Avi Mograbi, Martin Nachbar, Dan Perjovschi, Jan Peters, Franz Pomassl, Portable, Rimini Protokoll, Raqs Media Collective, Jan Ritsema, Irit Rogoff, Jack Smith, Mårten Spångberg, Marcus Steinweg, David Weber-Krebs, Jan Verwoert, Klaus Walter, Adrian Williams et al.

Dictionary of War

2006 - 2007 Städelschule Frankfurt, steirischer herbst/Graz, Muffathalle München, Sophiensaele Berlin & online

A project by Multitude e.V. & Unfriendly Takeover

Developed and curated by Annett Busch, Jan Gerber, Susanne Lang, Tom Lamberty, Sebastian Lütgert, Florian Malzacher, Anke & Heike Schleper, Florian Schneider, Bernhard Schreiner

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