Moving audience – moving artists?! – Ein Mobility-Check im Flächenland Thüringen

Vacancy is a resource in Thuringia whose use generates movement. Sweep out. Move in. Make culture.

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In the artist lab, "Moving audience – moving artists?! – A Mobility-Check" they investigate questions of mobility, as well as strategies for audience development in the context of the challenging infrastructural conditions in Thuringia. The brain drain, the need for reforms in public funding structures, and the rise of the New Right are all part of their working reality. As the only artist lab in Thuringia, they aim to incorporate as many perspectives as possible and establish the temporary artists' collective: PHOENIX_KANNAWURF_stellwerk weimar_AVANT ART.

During a workshop journey, they visit each other. They discuss research questions related to the audiences among their selves and with the audience. This process leads to radical collaborations, networking, knowledge exchange, and an invitation to depart from established practices and explore new ones.

Key questions include: Who needs to be mobile? And: What defines an audience? A modular questionnaire activates all participants to engage with their audience. Through this process, they develop and test a toolbox for audience development. The toolbox and the questionnaire will be made available to everyone in an open-access format. This approach extends beyond Thuringia, fostering research and networking practices on a regional and interdisciplinary level.

Maren Barnikow (Head of Artist Lab & Team Member PHOENIX Theater Festival), Anica Happich (Head of Artist Lab & Artistic Director PHOENIX Theater Festival), Luca Sonnen (Production Manager Artist Lab, krass&krasser), Simon Hegenberg (Visual Artist, Photographer & Videographer), Cooperation Partners Artist Lab: AVANT ART Festival, Kathrin Schremb (Cooperation Partner Artist Lab, AVANT ART Festival of the Thuringian Theater Association & Managing Director Thuringian Theater Association), Emma Wörtmann (Project Manager Production House Thuringian Theater Association). ), Emma Wörtmann (Cooperation Partner Artist Lab, AVANT ART Festival of the Thuringian Theater Association & Project Management Production House Thuringian Theater Association), Schloss Kannawurf Künstlerhaus Thüringen, Martin Kreusch (Cooperation Partner Artist Lab, Künstlerhaus Thüringen Schloss Kannawurf & Freelance Director & Author), Heinz Barth (Cooperation Partner Artist Lab, Künstlerhaus Thüringen Schloss Kannawurf & board of directors Künstlerhaus Thüringen Schloss Kannawurf), stellwerk junges theater weimar, Louisa Grote (cooperation partner Artist Lab, stellwerk junges theater weimar & theater pedagogue) & Jule Nowak (cooperation partner Artist Lab, stellwerk junges theater weimar & freelance theater pedagogue)