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29/5/2002

In transit

Haus der Kulturen der Welt - HKW, Berlin

Transforming the Arts

30th May to 15th June 2002 at the House of World Cultures

With IN TRANSIT, the Berlin House of World Cultures is developing a completely new type of festival for the 21st Century at the level of intercultural dialogue.
The process oriented series of events, conceived as an on-going laboratory, focusses not on finished products but on encounters between 130 performance artists, musicians, theatre and video artists from Africa, Asia, the Arab world, Europe and The Americas. Writers, critics, curators and dramaturges will support the participating artists in their travels between the worlds.

IN TRANSIT seeks to negotiate the existing cultural perception in Europe, proposing alternative models. Today cultural divergence and diversity are considered the key potential for the future development of the arts. Clear-cut geographical, gender, and biographical boundaries have already shifted. An ineluctable process of transformation is shaping globalised societies worldwide. The singular once-and-for-all membership of a given culture has given way to a plurality of cultural spaces in which individuals can readily move.

How do we want to live together with people from other cultures? Do we see our future in a nationally determined culture or in the encounter with cultures that embrace the challenge of international change? What does accepting this challenge mean in practice?

In the search for new orientations in the arts and culture of the 21st century, IN TRANSIT wants to provide a common platform, an experimental arena where artists and spectators can be both actors and spectators. Ideally, the festival will also be a forum for a new, sensitive globalisation-expressed in concrete artistic and cultural exchanges in Berlin.

Intercultural dialogue in the context of IN TRANSIT will be in the hands of curators-artists from Asia, Africa, Latin American and the Near East. Their specific situations in life, their concomitant cultural perspectives and hence their creative methodologies guide the choice of participating artists.

The first curator of the annual festival in Berlin is Ong Keng Sen, director of "TheatreWorks" in Singapore. He is known in Germany primarily from his production of "King Lear" performed at the Berlin "Theater der Welt" festival in 1999. To ensure continuity, Ong Keng Sen will also be in charge of IN TRANSIT in 2003. His partner at the Berlin House of World Cultures is the artistic director of the Programme Department Music, Dance, Theatre, Johannes Odenthal.

Curators: Johannes Odenthal and Ong Keng Sen
"The tone of IN TRANSIT must indeed be provocative! We want Germans to engage with The Other, The Outsider, and the different biographical, ethnic and political backgrounds of their art production." (Ong Keng Sen)

The Laboratory for New Art
The performance laboratory with some 40 artists from the fields of music, dance, theatre, the performing arts, constitutes the creative core of IN TRANSIT. Here elders of traditional arts meet young contemporary artists from the cities. Spiritual healers rooted in ritual come up against members of marginal disadvantaged minorities.

The Malayan dancer Aida Redza may develop a new improvisation with the Brasilian performer Michel Groisman, while the Emigrant Theater from Equador may encounter radical queer performance artists from Johannesburg. Young concept artists from Europe may meet South African dancer Vincent Mantsoe and the Sangomashealers. Dancer Sophiatou Kossoko from France will have the chance to talk to the Karaja-people from the Amazon region. Drag Queens from Kyoto may come together with an Egypt director, while an architect from Beirut mingle with contemporary indigenous musicians from the Philippines.

Lectures on the "Politics of Translation"
The fundamental issues of IN TRANSIT will be addressed in the form of lectures: How can culture become political again? What role do broken biographies play in a new artistic, cultural, and political context? Does the meeting of different traditions and cultures generate something new, a new language of art?

Both the artists participating in the laboratory and specially invited artists and intellectuals will be speaking on these subjects.

Program
Every evening at 6.30 p.m. (except Mondays and Tuesdays) In Transit opens for public reflections | admission free | with simultaneous interpretation The performers, theatre people, musicians, and video artists invited to the laboratory will be presenting their latest solos or performance projects: works from recent months; works created for IN TRANSIT or work in progress. On view will be radical positions that draw their strength from the cultural cleavages in the metropolises of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world, and which stand for the emancipatory tendencies in local art scenes. Daily at 20:00

THE CLUB - IN ASSOCIATION WITH WMF, BERLIN
http://www.wmfclub.de
Ritual may be an early form of club. Club can be perceived as an urban ritual. There is much expression between these extreme forms of event. Both are integrative components of IN TRANSIT, part of the intercultural dialogue. On the one hand the festival will be presenting, for example, the rituals of Amazonian Indians and ritual song and dance from Africa. On the other hand, it will be addressing extreme positions, e.g., the gender transgressions in the maelstrom of the megapolises.
In the "Club" international DJs and musicians invite the public to take part in new urban rituals.
Daily at 18:00.

The DocuPerformance series
From three corners of the world, the different strategies of translating a life lived onto stage. Who is the player today? The project to project a representation? Collaborations between art and life, what are the borders? Are there any boundaries?

-"He left quietly" Duma Khumalo and Yael Farber
-"The Continuum: Beyond the Killing Fields" Em Theay and Ong Keng Sen
-"Three Posters" Elias Khoury and Rabih Mroué
-Biography Ong Keng Sen

Artists
Ahmed El-Attar - Paris, Egypt ; Elias Khoury - Beirut/Lebanon ; Rabih Mroué - Beirut/Lebanon ; Company Rary - Antananarivo/Madagascar ; Ariry Andriamoratsiresy - Antananarivo/Madagascar ; Duma Kumalo - Johannesburg/South Africa ; Yael Farber - Johannesburg/South Africa ; Vincent Mantsoe - Johannesburg/South Africa ; Sangomas Tranceformation - Johannesburg/South Africa ; Steven Cohen & Elu - Johannesburg/South Africa ; Sophiatou Kossoko - Paris/Benin-Nigeria ; Rubato - Berlin/Germany ; Dieter Baumann - Berlin/Germany ; Jin Xing - Beijing-Shanghai/China ; Anuradha Kapur - New Delhi/India ; Em Theay - Phnom Penh/Cambodia ; Ong Keng Sen - Singapore/Singapore ; Theatreworks - Singapore/Singapore ; Matthew Ngui - Singapore/Singapore ; Aida Redza - Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia ; Gumarang Sakti - Jakarta/Indonesia ; Boi G. Sakti - Jakarta/Indonesia ; Radhika Subramaniam - New York City/India ; Marian Pastor Roces - Manila/Philippines ; Benny Sokkong - Baguio City/Philippines ; BuBu de la Madelein - Kyoto-Osaka-Tokyo/Japan ; Akira the Hustler - Kyoto-Osaka-Tokyo/Japan ; Toru Yamanaka - Kyoto-Osaka-Tokyo/Japan ; Karajá - Matto Grosso/Brazil ; Siridewe Xavante - Sao Paulo/Brazil ; Michel Groisman - Rio de Janeiro/Brazil ; Grupo de Teatro Malayerba - Quito/Ecuador-Argentina-Spain ; Aristídes Vargas - Quito/Ecuador-Argentina-Spain ; María del Rosario Francés - Quito/Ecuador-Argentina-Spain ; Lágbájá - Lagos / Nigeria

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