Series of talks, hosted by Tina Mendelsohn
Since 30 years the queer director Rosa von Praunheim produces films which did not only help to emancipate the German gay and lesbian movement, but also investigated the scene from an inner perspective regarding own cliches. Thereby he touches themes as physical violence or right ideology without depicting one-sided victim-abuser-attributions. Within ON VIOLENCE, three dialogs with protagonists from the field of theater, film, and music focus on strategies concerned with violence in our society, or more specifically, with violent experiences' processing. The guests discuss their own exposure to violence, as well as violence'socio cultural transformations and its coding in each one of their fields. All events take place on occasion of the group exhibition FIRE AND FORGET. ON VIOLENCE and are moderated by Tina Mendelsohn, who provides continuity between the three evenings, and conveys and accumulates the knowledge from each conversation to the next one. Thursday 20 August 2015 20 h.