Mouth shut? Practice in times of noisy rhetoric.
Discourse in the Green Saloon / Volksbühne Berlin mit Susanne Burmester, Holger Friese, Kathrin Jentjens, Gerrit Gohlke und Karola Matschke.
Alexander Koch (Neue Auftraggeber, KOW) in conversation with:
- Alice Creischer (artist, author)
- Dorothea von Hantelmann (art historian, curator)
- Maria Kleinschmidt (activist, Extinction Rebellion)
- Zoë Claire Miller (artist, speaker bbk berlin, co-founder Berlin Art Prize)
It can get loud with everyone screaming and shouting. Sometimes it’s healthy but overdoing it can poison the social climate. Meanwhile we might miss something much quieter, yet incomparably more powerful: action. Precisely when we act, without too many words, is when we can accomplish something powerful. This evening's Diskurs is about action and how it transforms. How can we take action against our problems, and conflicts, instead of only talking about them? How can action be used to change society? Does art, especially, contain within it a promise of transformation? While screaming mouths fight for dominance, perhaps the ground is already being dug up around them.
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes. With the kind support of Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa and Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.