A SCENARIO FOR TOGETHERNESS

Bread. Freedom. Dignity. Social Justice. These words, borrowed from a slogan repeated by protestors in several countries in 2011, form the starting point of A Manual for Togetherness. The manual has been written collectively by various people, and shares proposals on how we may live together.

Inside a performance space, there are a few beds, a table or two, chairs, mats, a kitchen, several cameras, an editing table. From Friday night to Sunday morning, the three artists and their guests together, sit, sleep, eat, discuss elements of A Manual for Togetherness, the state of things, their doubts, their impasses, their questions, at different hours guests arrive. What unfolds could become a living theatre or cinema, on some occasions moving into intensities of performativity and on others toward the most everyday gestures or activities, cooking, washing dishes, brushing teeth, resting or sleeping. The entire process is enacted, embodied, woven, improvised in the time of its unfolding.

Guests

with Ayreen Anastas, Adania ShibIi, Rene Gabri, Hauke Heumann, Zhao, Philip Rizk Peter, Patrick Watkins, Nicole Schulze, Marion Tok, Zahra Malkani, Shahana Rajani Stefano Harney, KAD, KHM, Susanne Fasbender, Lisabona Rahman Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan, Houria Abdelkafi, Sista Oloruntoyin, Tomiwa llori, Chizurum Enyia Mohammad Tamim, Ella Klaschka and The Friends to Come

Schedule

6 May 21:00-24:00
21:00-21:45 Threshold: Ayreen Anastas, Adania Shibli, Rene Gabri, Hauke Heumann & guests.
21:45-22:45 Sound Rite: Zhao (Collective Vocal Improvisation).
22:45-24:00 Next Time: Philip Rizk (Texts & Film excerpts).

7 May 00:00-24:00
01:00-07:00 La commune (Paris, 1871) (dir. Peter Watkins, 2000).
07:00-10:00 Breakfast.
10:00-11:00 Casting La commune: Patrick Watkins (On making La commune).
11:00-13:00 Some Questions: Nicole Schulze & guests (Workshop on work and on conditions of oppression and depression, designed by Marion Tok).
13:00-14:00 Lunch.
14:00-15:00 No Study Today, Not Even Tomorrow I: Zahra Malkani, Shahana Rajani, KAD students & guests.
15:00-18:00 No Study Today, Not Even Tomorrow II: Stefano Harney, KHM students & guests.
18:00 -19:30 Around War Yet From a Distance: Susanne Fasbender.
19:30-21:00 Dinner.
21:00-22:30 Manifesting Loud: Lisabona Rahman; Sekolah Pemikiran Perempuan/The School of Women’s Thoughts (Collective reading of manifesto and short films screening).
22:30-23:30 Dance Was Not Written: Houria Abdelkafi (Text & Images).
23:30-24:00 Rhythm & Image Assemblage.

8 May 00:00-12:00
00:00-07:00 Rhythm & Image Assemblage.
07:00-10:00 Brunch with Sista Oloruntoyin, Tomiwa Ilori, Chizurum Enyia & guests to join later.
10:00-11:30 Affection Infection: Mohammad Tamim (workshop around transmitting happiness).
11:30-12:00 A Possible End: Ayreen Anastas, Adania Shibli, Rene Gabri & guests.