Prof. Christiane Kühl & Prof. Chris Kondek
Futurisms Reloaded
Workshop, Deutsch/English, 2 SWS, 2 ECTS
Donnerstags, 16-20 Uhr, 6 Termine: 30.4., 7.5., 21.5., 4.6.2026, 18.6., 2.7.2026 (16-21:30 Uhr)
Einsteinufer, 41-43, Raum 202 (außer 4.6.: Ha33, Raum 101)

Anmeldung auf Moodle beginnt am 9.4.2026: https://moodle.udk-berlin.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=3043
Einschreibeschlüssel: reload

„Wir erklären, dass sich die Herrlichkeit der Welt um eine neue Schönheit bereichert hat: die Schönheit der Geschwindigkeit.“ – Ausgehend vom Futuristischen Manifest von F. T. Marinetti (1909) untersucht und experimentiert dieser Workshop mit dem Manifest als künstlerische und politische Form. Im Zentrum stehen dabei zentrale Motive des Futurismus – Technologiebegeisterung, Gewaltverherrlichung, Männlichkeitskult, Frauenverachtung – und ihre Aktualisierung in heutigen Tech-, Theorie- und Politikdiskursen.

Dabei verbinden wir kritische Lektüre mit künstlerischer Praxis. Manifeste werden nicht nur gelesen, sondern zerlegt, überschrieben, illustriert, vertont, verfilmt, KI-generiert und performt. Wir schauen auf Trump, Musk und Andrew Tate, aber auch auf Dada, Surrealismus, Akzelerationismus und Xenofeminismus. In interdisziplinären Gruppen werden eigene künstlerische Manifeste der Zukunft entwickelt. Zum Abschluss organisieren wir ein Futuristisches Dinner, inspiriert von Marinettis Futuristischem Kochbuch: Die Manifeste werden in Menüs übersetzt, serviert und als soziale Situation erfahrbar gemacht.

Leistungsanforderungen für den unbenoteten Schein: regelmäßige und aktive Teilnahme.

Christiane Kühl is a theater maker, author, editor, and curator of interdisciplinary symposia between art and theory. Since winter term 2023/24 Kühl is Guest Professor for Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice and Theory in Studium Generale at the University of the Arts Berlin. After studying Modern German Literature, Philosophy, and Spanish at the University of Hamburg, she worked as an arts editor for the newspaper taz, SPIEGEL magazine, and radio station radioeins/RBB. She has  freelanced for various media outlets, including Die Zeit, F.A.S., dummy, and Du (Switzerland). From 2006 to 2015, she collaborated with the steirischer herbst festival (Austria), and from 2011 to 2013, she served as deputy to the artistic director of the Berliner Festspiele. She is a co-founder of the performance group doublelucky productions, which has been creating theater pieces, lecture-performances, and video installations since 2005, in co-production with HAU Berlin, Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, Münchner Kammerspiele, among others. Their work has been critically acclaimed and tours internationally (www.doubleluckyproductions.org). Since 2018, she has been part of the team for "Weiter Schreiben. A Platform for Literature from War and Zones of Crisis," which has been awarded the Power of the Arts Prize in 2018, the PEN Centre Germany's Encouragement Award in 2022, and the BDI Cultural Promotion Prize in 2023. More information on www.christianekuehl.de.

Chris Kondek, born in Boston in 1962, started as a video designer for theater in 1990 working with the New York Theater company The Wooster Group. In 1995 he began a multi-year collaboration with performance artist Laurie Anderson; in the late 90's he made video for productions by Robert Wilson, The Builder's Association and Michael Nyman. After moving to Berlin in 1999 Kondek established himself in the German Theater world, working with directors Stefan Pucher, Falk Richter, Jossi Wieler, Armin Petras among many others, as well as with choreographer Meg Stuart. In 2007 Kondek created video for the first of many opera productions with Sebastian Baumgarten. With director Lydia Styer he worked on Stockhausen's “Donnerstag aus Licht”, which was named production of the year 2016 by Opernwelt magazine. For his video work in theater Kondek received the OPUS/Deutscher Bühne Prize in 2008 and the Faust Theater Prize in 2012. Since fall 2023, he and Prof. Christiane Kühl share the Professorship for Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice and Theory at Studium Generale at UdK Berlin.