WELCOME ON BOARD
ARTISTIC ONBOARDING AND OFFBOARDING STRATEGIES
Workshop Digital Culture Talks & Workshops
Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the crew, I would like to welcome you on board. Hereafter, we will make you acquainted with the conditions on board.
How do we welcome people in digital, hybrid, or technology-supported spaces of art? How do we convey our very own rules? How do we ignite the spark of interaction and motivate the audience towards active participation? And what would we like to provide our guests with during their, hopefully smooth, transition back to everyday life?
Together with host Christiane Hütter, we explore strategies of onboarding and offboarding. In the open workshop setup, we want to share experiences and new ideas for addressing the audience with each other – whether in game theatre, installation, or performance.
Together, we will discuss approaches for different age groups, experiential horizons and communication styles. The workshop is open to artists, dramaturges, curators, educators, and anyone else interested in artistic communication in unfamiliar situations. Participants are invited to contribute their own examples and questions.
The medienwerk.nrw office offers this workshop in collaboration with the FFT Düsseldorf as part of the ON/LIVE 2025 festival.
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Philipp J. Ehmann studied Theatre Practice at the University of Exeter. As a director and game designer, he translates stories about people and society into playful, interactive art forms.
His works have been developed and shown worldwide for the European Capitals of Culture Plovdiv (2019) & Tartu (2024), at Ars Electronica Festival, Ensemble Modern, Exeter Fringe Festival, Playful Arts Festival, Volkstheater Vienna, Tiroler Landestheater, and elsewhere. They range from intimate telephone performances in public spaces (Der Personal Adventure Automat, Streetlife Festival 2014) to immersive game theatre on stages (Press Staat for Revolution, Schauspielhaus Graz 2016), social media soaps with young refugees (Stahlstadt, Ars Electronica Festival 2019), multimedia installations in hotels (Hotel Europe, Green Room Hotel, 2017), urban games in the city (Ludovico & Kulturjahr Graz 2020) to community research projects in housing estates (Die Siedler von Süd-Wien [The Settlers of South Vienna], Play:Vienna & WERK X 2020).
In 2019, he was Artist in Residence at the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics in Washington DC, and in 2016, he received the Dr. Rudolf Kirchschläger Prize for the discursive theatre performance Jalla, Jalla, Geh Ma!. He is also the co-founder of Play:Vienna, Austria’s first initiative for playful art in public spaces, and regularly teaches on the topics of public space/play/theatre.
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ON/LIVE is organised in cooperation with the medienwerk.nrw office. The guest performance of In Skills We Trust as well as the ON/LIVE accompanying programme receive support from Fonds Darstellende Künste, with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. You and A.I. is funded by the NRW KULTURsekretariat and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
