She She Pop: Beziehungsarbeit. Labor für zukünftige Publika

In the relationship between the audience and performers, a space for utopian communication opens up.

The lab explores audience relations through the lens of hospitality. She She Pop are interested in hospitality as a cultural program through which society responds to an inequality. The relationship between guest and host is an asymmetrical one. On the one hand, hierarchy, power relations and attention have to be established and represented; on the other hand, they must be disguised. In the encounter between guest and host lies hope for intellectual understanding and transformation. This is where the lab comes in, to evaluate previous formats of relating to an audience and to develop new strategies for addressing audiences.

The lab explores the act of hosting in three different salons that open up spaces of unplanned gathering. The "Open House" salon inquires into the act of hosting via an evaluation of different forms of participation. The "Archives of the Audience" salon expands our performance "Telephone-Canon", which builds a performative canon of the independent performing arts through collected audience memories, and inquires into new forms of visibility in digital spaces. The salon "Dancing Beyond Borders", in cooperation with the Luminous Festival in Beijing, explores participatory forms of transnational theater work and the associated development of new audiences beyond the usual acts of touring, particularly under the aspect of sustainability.

Sebastian Bark, Tina Ebert, Johanna Freiburg, Lisa Lucassen, Mieke Matzke, Aminata Oelßner, Ilia Papatheodorou, Berit Stumpf & Elke Weber