Programme

To see the Supporting Programme of the Festival, click here.

 

Daily from 18:00 - 23:00: festival lounge

 

Friday, 05/01/09

15:00

Opening day
opening of the temporary structure /
opening of "Modernity Retired" (video installation) / temporary structure

 

15:00 - 19:00

Raumapparate - platform for young scenography: Elektrische Freunde (electric friends) /  presentation / main stage (inside) /
Machines, apparatuses and installations to play with. The stage is turned into a playground! 12 emerging artists were invited to develop interactive toys and events for the opening.
Florence von der Weth, Ying Zhang, Jörg Brinkmann, Wolf Groß, Marc Illing, Björn Jung, Hannes Kahl, Christoph Kilian, Ralph Kistler, Jan Sieber, Chung-Gwon Park, Moritz Wehrmann, Daniel Wessolek

21:00

The Art of On#nO Objekt / a sound performance by Ralf Krause / main stage (inside) /
As part of the art collective Showcase Beat le Mot the sound designer Ralf Krause designed a beautiful poetic installation. Membranes, brought into motion through mechanical and electrical stimuli, produce sounds that is interconnecting the assemblage of objects installed on stage, of which one of them is floating ..

ca. 21:30

HUMAN DOLLZ / a live appearance / temporary structure /
Human Dollz
are an art - and design product. Are they a band? A ballet? Icons? A Bauhaus satire? Whatever they will be performing at the opening of the CRASH!BOOM!BAU! Festival.

Saturday, 05/02/09

20:00

Mausoleum Buffo / theatre performance / andcompany&co (D) / main stage (inside) /
The mausoleum is haunted, ghosts which never were are continually hunting each other: MAUSOLEUM BUFFO is about the politics of mourning and about the cult of the dead which began with Lenin's burial and didn't end with Stalin's. MAUSOLEUM BUFFO is a spinning brass band, the song of the never arriving Red Army, an endless round dance of dead revolutionaries.

 

Sunday, 05/03/09

20:00

Mausoleum Buffo / theatre performance / andcompany&co (D) / main stage (inside) /

 

Monday, 05/04/09

19:30

Raumapparate - platform for young scenography:
STURMapparate / presentation / young scenographers from the HfG Karlsruhe / main stage (inside) /
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" is the point of departure. Every scenographer chose one specific scene or interaction of the characters from it and designed either an own theatrical apparatus or a moving sequence around it. Space, object, movement, light and sound are the key means to compose a dramaturgical sequence. Only no-go: appearance of human actors.
artists: Sandra Dennigmann, Elmar Farchmin, Charlotte Hoechsmann, Nina Hofmann, Anja Kerschkewicz, Manuel Kolip, Johanna Lenz, Nina Malotta, Susanne Paret, Nicolas Rauch, Karolina Serafin, Dieter Nicka
direction
: Penelope Wehrli, Uta Kollmann


21:00

Raumapparate - platform for young scenography:
Versammlung der Szenografen I (gathering of the scenographers I) / panel discussion, host: Sabrina Zwach / temporary structure /

Tuesday, 05/05/09

20:00

Bleak House / a performance - installation / Heiko Kalmbach (D). / main stage + temporary structure /
In "Bleak House" (1852/53) Charles Dickens let one of his narrative figures come to death through 'spontaneous human combustion'. Heiko Kalmbach's performance deals with utopia, dogma and failure. Can we catch up with the ongoing developments? Or do we all need to be afraid of suddenly igniting and burning to death. New York based stage designer and photographer Marsha Ginsberg designs a house inside a house, that will serve as the surface for a four sided video projection.
Marsha Ginsberg
(USA), Charlotte Brathwaite (CDN), Frank S. Blumm (D), Sasha Matteucci (AUS), Sakia Taeger (D), Julian Hackenberg (D), Frank Domhan (D), Parastoo Anoushehpour (IR), Adam N. Furman (GB)

 

21:15

Bleak House / a performance installation / 

22:30

People watching people watching / a video installation / Adam N. Furman (GB) / main stage and temporary structure /

Wednesday, 05/06/09

19:00

Chronicle Perception / a collaborative performance improvisation / Emma W. Howes (CDN) and Takako Hasegawa (JP) / temporary structure + the public square in front of the theatre /


20:00

Bleak House / a performance installation / Heiko Kalmbach (D), Marsha Ginsberg (USA), Charlotte Brathwaite (CDN), Frank S. Blumm (D), Sasha Matteucci (AUS), Sakia Taeger (D), Julian Hackenberg (D), Frank Domhan (D), Parastoo Anoushehpour (IR), Adam N. Furman (GB) /  main stage + temporary structure /

21:15

Bleak House / a performance installation /

22:30

People watching people watching / a video installation / Adam N. Furman (GB) / main stage and temporary structure /

Friday, 05/08/09

Crash Boom Bauen / a varieté / stupid green, copy&waste, Monstertruck, Raumarbeiter, Benedikt Braun, Anna Gierster,  Zoe Hutmacher, Vera von Gunten, Kai Meyer, members of the youth theatre club Jena, Vincet Hammel, aside others / complete venue + temporary structure /
curator: Dunja Funke (D)
stage design: Sebastian Hannak (D)

Saturday, 05/09/09

20:00

Crash Boom Bauen / a varieté / stupid green, copy&waste, Monstertruck, Raumarbeiter, Benedikt Braun, Anna Gierster,  Zoe Hutmacher, Vera von Gunten, Kai Meyer, members of the youth theatre club Jena, Vincet Hammel, aside others / complete venue + temporary structure /
curated by Dunja Funke (D)
stage design: Sebastian Hannak (D)

Monday, 05/11/09

21:00

Raumapparate - platform for young scenography:
Versammlung der Szenografen II (gathering of the scenographers II) / panel discussion, host: Sabrina Zwach / temporary structure /

Tuesday, 05/12/09

18:00

Schlemmerplatte / art installation / Lina Antje Gühne (D) / beneath the revolving stage - engine room /


20:0

We are very Sorry, but we have to postpone this production for health reasons!

Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa / a spatial machine / Janek Müller, Olaf Helbing (D) aside others / main stage (inside)
The concert movie "Stop Making Sense" from Jonathan Demme created a furore in 1983. The critics interpreted this concert movie from the Talking Heads (David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz) as a dadaistic, bauhaus-like theatre play, exemplifying that "the tools you need for rock 'n' roll spectacle are simpler than you'd ever imagined -- you can even find them in your own house" (Stephanie Zacharek). The spatial machine designed by Janek Müller and Olaf Helbing does exactly that, it brings the Talking Head's concert 'home'. But what happens when the house takes on a life of its own.

 

21:00

Moholy-Nagy reflections / presentation and exhibition of the Budapest bauhaus lab / project curator Éva Kozma (Hu) / festival lounge /

22:00

Light as kind of rhythm / film screening by art historian Alena Williams (USA) / beneath the revolving stage - engine room /

Thursday, 05/14/09

21:00

The Circle is Red / a live sound, light and word performance /
/ Ulrike Haage (D), Simon Donger (F/GB), Matt Jakob dal Pozzo (I/GB), Jan Brüggemeier (D) / main stage (inside)
On stage the Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer brought the painting in motion. His costume designs and space compositions taught the abstract form language of painting to jump and run. The diarist Schlemmer is a witty and seismographic observer of a nervous epoch between the world wars aside from propaganda and party lines. He reveals his uncertainness, his doubts as modern protagonist at the breaking point of tradition and innovation. 'The Circle is Red' is an interactive light and sound installation. The music and the light design are being live performed in Jena. The pre-recorded voices from the diaries were performed by Leslie Malton and Gerd Wameling.

 

Friday, 05/15/09

21:00

The Circle is Red / a live sound, light and word performance /
/ Ulrike Haage (D), Simon Donger (F/GB), Matt Jakob dal Pozzo (I/GB), Jan Brüggemeier (D) / main stage (inside)

 

Saturday, 05/16/09

20:00

Books We Should be Friends / a performance workshop project by Lucy Cash, Bryan Saner (GB/USA) together with artists and citizens from Jena / main stage (inside) /
In retrospective how successfully was the ideal of the Bauhaus implemented to due mass production have high quality design available for everyone? A ideal the Bauhaus movement started with 90 years ago. The place of production, the workshop, is in the focus. Lucy Cash and Bryan Saner design an artistic work process to enter a dialogue about building new models for a lived environment. What do we produce today? Where and when do we start to produce something on our own?

 

21:30

I Miss The Bauhaus Chair / dj lounge / The performance artist and musician Popmechanic shows how the Bauhaus turned into Pop.

 

Sunday, 05/17/09

20:00

Books We Should be Friends / a performance workshop / Lucy Cash, Bryan Saner (GB/USA) / main stage (inside) /

 

22:00

after show party