Let's Get Intersectional

The future is intersectional!

Katharina Wisotzki, Sri Hartini Santo and Olivia Hotz examine intersectional festival work during the pandemic. In collaboration with the #strongertogether network, they go for walks, enjoy a coffee and discuss the shifting dynamic between audience, artist and organiser - after all, the future is intersectional!
In the lab, their focus was on three themes:

Intersectional transformation: How are artists and festivals shaping the future of performing arts in an ever-changing society? What impact has the pandemic had on audiences and our relationship as organizers to them?

Diversity and inclusion: At an intersectional festival, what is it that makes the relationship to the audience special? How does a focus on intersectionality change structures?

Partnerships and cooperation: On what level can collaborations help shape festivals in the future?

Katharina Wisotzki, Sri Hartini Santo and Olivia Hotz believe that society has always been intersectional and is in a state of constant change. Theater should not only do justice to this change, but should actively contribute to it in the sense of a more just society. To do that, they want to make intersectionality an integral component of the future of performing arts.

Olivia Hotz, Sri Hartini Santo, Katharina Wisotzki, network #strongertogether, workshop participants, Katrin Windheuser (Production Management), China Hopson (Photographer, Photos CLINCH Festival Trailer), Mehdi Amiri (Video), Meghan Skinner (Translation German-English), Nassima Galalou (Speaker) & Michael Rüger (Aftermovie 13° & MULTITUDE).