Temple of Alternative Histories

„Walking on Marble“, the text written and read by Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir for Temple of Materialized Histories was published in „Bodies of Extraction-Underneath the Ground of Islands“ by Kyklada Press. You can find it in your next well sorted book shop!

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Don’t miss out on these amazing events happening tomorrow evening Free entry, all welcome!

Today we are going to have a look at the body as a temple, - an architecture, into possibilities to convict concrete at court. We will look at Magma as the evolutionary source of life and algae and it’s microbial components. Come and get some shots for the guts and probiotic treatments! Looking forward to see you.



14:00-15:30
Riina Hannula, Microbial Flow, Lecture and Workshop (Bring your yogamats)

15:30-17:30
CoLab The Community Lab, Algae -nutrient and nuisance, Interactive Laboratory

16:00-16:30
Kasia Fudakowski & Philipp Modersohn, Convicting Concrete, Artist Talk

16:30-17:00
Egill Saebjoernsson,
From Magma To Mankind, Lecture Performance (Screening)

18:00-19:30
Probiotic Apero in collaboration with Fermentier.bar Kassel

19:30-21:30
Science Slam
Organised by University Kassel

Images: Riina Hannula, g.o.a.t (film still), 2022. Kasia Fudakowski and Philipp Modersohn, Convicting Concrete (film still), 2021. Egill Saebjoernsson, From Magma to Mankind, Lecture Performance (film still), 2020. Colab Kassel, Workshop. Fermentier.bar Kassel

Curated by Carola Uehlken


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Today’s programme at Staatstheater Kassel!

In the context of Temple of Alternative Histories artist talks, lectures performances and screenings will contextualise the architectures and ecosystems surrounding us, the impact they have on our archives, histories and futures.

14:00-15:00
„Rotating Actions“ Artist Talk by Ann Duk Hee Jordan and Susanne Kriemann

15:30-16:30
„Dreaming, Witches, Oracles And a Pile of Trash“ Lecture Performance and „Walls have Feelings“ Filmscreening by Eli Cortinas

16:30-17:30
„Shine on, you pretty Pyramid“ Lecture Performance by Lola Göller and The Friendly Sultan

Curated by Carola Uehlken

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TAH was initiated by the Anna Rùn Tryggvadòttir, Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson and Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch

Images: Eli Cortinas, Walls have Feelings (film stills), 13:10 min, 2019. Lola Göller & The Friendly Sultan, Shine on, you pretty Pyramid, Lecture Performance, since 2014 ongoing. Anne Duk Hee Jordan and Pauline Doutreluingne, Brakfesten - La Grande Bouffe, living sculpture and film, 2022. Susanne Kriemann: field research in the former uranium mining field near Ronneburg, Thuringia, Germany;
Photo: Aleksander Komarov, 2019. Canopy, Canopy, 2018, Heliogravures, framed, silks in variable dimensions, plant-based dyes, bone-powder casts, lights and solar panels, cartons boxes with inkjet prints, autoradiographs. Photo: Johnna Arnold.
Courtesy the artists.

Introducing: Kathrin Hahner
“Weaving the Water”
Participatory Performance
Thursday, 22.09.2022, 18:30 - 19:00 Uhr
In English

Water flows through human and non-human bodies, through and over minerals, turns from ocean to steam to rain to snow, sinks into the soil again, to decompose and all of this yet to rise again. In Kathrin Hahner's a participatory live session the audience is asked to bring a small glass jar full of water, from a river, from their tap, from a lake. „when in doubt, go to water“

Katrin Hahner works in the fields of music, visual art and performance. She is a member of the research groups „A_Collective_I“ and „Quest“. Her projects and collaborations have been presented or co-funded by Pact Zollverein, Mondriaan Funds, Initiative Musik, Goethe Institut, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin, Musikfonds, Tanzpakt and Musicboard.





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“This is a volcanic rock called Michelnauer Tuff. A red basalt rock that came from the Michelnauer Quarry in Vogelsberg, the largest continual Volcano in Central Europe active 15 million years ago".
Excerpt from the audio work: 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗥ú𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝘆𝗴𝗴𝘃𝗮𝗱ó𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗿, 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 – 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘶𝘧𝘧 (2022)

Autumn is here and the day has begun to shorten. This bright red stone looks almost black at the end of the day!

Introducing: Lydia Goehr & Dehlia Hannah, TAH artistic directors
Staging the Futurity of Art and Nature - Talk
Thursday, 22.09.2022, 19:00 - 20:30 Uhr
The talk will be held in English

The philosophers Lydia Goehr and Dehlia Hannah will discuss the activation of the theater’s architecture, materiality, and environmental context in relation to the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Together with theater director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson and visual artist Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, the dialogue will elaborate the possibilities for theater as the show-place of more-than-human spirits.

Lydia Goehr, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is the author of The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (1992); The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy [essays on Richard Wagner] (1998); Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory (2008), and co-editor of The Don Giovanni Moment. Essays on the legacy of an Opera (2006) and Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread. A Philosophical Detective Story (2021). Her research focuses on German aesthetic theory and the relationship between philosophy, politics, history, and music.

Dehlia Hannah, Ph.D., is a curator and philosopher of nature and currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, where her project Rewilding the Museum (2021–2025) examines the art museum’s status within the fragile ecologies of the Anthropocene. She is the editor of A Year Without a Winter (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), a transdisciplinary investigation of contemporary imaginaries of climate change, Julius von Bismarck—Talking to Thunder (2019), Julian Charrière—Toward No Earthly Pole (2020), and the Routledge Handbook of Art and Science and Technology Studies (2021). www.dehliahannah.com

Introducing copper: “If you move to the central window on the second floor of the foyer and peek through the curtains you will see a copper lined overhang that protects the entrance from rain and sun. Copper is a soft metal easy to manipulate and can be hammered and bent into shape.”

installation and audio work is open until the 24th of September in the foyer of the , Monday-Saturday from 12:00-18:00. Everyone is welcome!

Introducing: CoLab Community Labor e.V. Kassel
Algae - nuisance and nutrient
Interactive Laboratory
Sunday, 18.09.2022 15:30 - 17:30 Uhr

We encounter algae repeatedly in everyday life. Especially in the summer, the bathing lakes are often closed when algae multiply and entire ecosystems topple over. But they also serve as a valuable food source. The secrets that spirulina, for example, holds can be explored for yourself under the microscope. The Community Laboratory will test with and in front of visitors that algae are also colourful and tasty in foods.

The CoLab Community Labor e.V. was founded in Kassel in 2020. With their association, they want to advance science communication in which citizens and scientists enter into a dialogue. Their innovative and playful formats range from scivival kits on the topic of plastics or algae to the organisation of science quizzes and interactive workshops to direct communication with expert scientists. www.colab-germany.de/pop-up-labor

📸Scivival Kit and CoLab in action. Courtesy CoLab.






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Did you know that beautiful black marble covers more than 700m2 of the ground floor of the ?

installation and audio-work is open Monday-Saturday 12:00-18:00 at the Staatstheater Kassel. Free entry.
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The programme has been going through microbial updates! Please find the new version here! Looking forward to see you in Kassel!

The TAH programme continues in its final week on 17, 18 and 22 September 2022 in the foyer of the Staatstheater Kassel. As in times when the theatre was also a meeting place for society, this aspect of the project is intended to encourage people to come together. In a series of events organised in collaboration with the University of Kassel and Scientists for Future, interested visitors and citizens of Kassel will come together with artists and scientists.

How have narratives inscribed themselves into architectures, archives and our languages? Do myths and culture have an influence on physical processes, on biochemistry? Invited by the curator Carola Uehlken the visual artists Eli Cortinas, Susanne Kriemann, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Lola Göller, Riina Hannula, Egill Saebjörnsson, Kasia Fudakowski and Philipp Modersohn address the absurdities of the administration of life and the temples of our time. The Community Labor e.V. Kassel will offer us microscopic insights into the future of the food industry, while probiotic drinks will be served to stimulate the brain-gut axis of the visitors inside. The programme will end with the Science Slam organised by the University of Kassel in the frame of the Science Year 2022.

On 22 September 2022 Lydia Goehr, Dehlia Hannah and the TAH artistic directors will debate transdisciplinary practices. You are cordially invited to join the program and the Finissage of theProject Temple of Alternative Histories at Staatstheater Kassel.

All events take place in the Opera Foyer of Staatstheater Kassel.

The admission is free.

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Looking forward to this!!!
Posted • Unterhaltsam, verständlich und fundiert: Kassels Zukunftsfragen beim Science Slam!

Wissenschaftler:innen präsentieren ihre Forschung in kurzweiligen Vorträgen. Wem der Balanceakt am besten gelingt, entscheidet das Publikum. Die Themen der Vorträge sind angeregt durch Fragen der Kasseler Bürger:innen, die während der ZUKUNFTSDIALOGE im März 2022 (im Rahmen vom ) gesammelt wurden.

Im Anschluss an das Bühnenprogramm bleibt ausreichend Zeit, um mit den Wissenschaftler:innen persönlich ins Gespräch zu kommen.

, Staatstheater Kassel und .kassel laden alle Interessierten ein - vor Ort oder im Livestream!

Jetzt anmelden: www.uni-kassel.de/go/scienceslam

Mit dabei:
– Prof. Dr. Björn Frank, Mikroökonomik Universität Kassel
– Janina Otto (), Humanbiologie Philipps-Universität Marburg
– Svenja Quitsch, Globalisierung und Politik, Universität Kassel
– Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Internationale und intergesellschaftliche Beziehungen Universität Kassel

Moderation:

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Introducing: Egill Sæbjörnsson
From Magma to Mankind
Lecture Performance (Screening)
Sunday, 18.09.2022 16:30 - 17:00 Uhr
In English

In his lecture performance From Magma to Mankind, Egill Sæbjörnsson illustrates his thoughts on the connection between mental and physical aspects of reality. His hypothesis is that the things that gave rise to individual cells and all life on earth came from magma. His fragmentary thought process is about the big ontological questions. Saebjörnsson's work is known for its lightness and humour, as well as its underlying seriousness and thoughtfulness.

Egill Sæbjörnsson (*1973, Reykjavik, Island) is an artist and musician with a background in painting. He is interested in the connection between mental and physical reality. Although his video installations and performance work are humorous and playful on the surface, they always also pursue deeper philosophical questions. He represented Iceland at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. His architectural installation at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin was the first permanent, self-generating video installation in an outdoor space in Germany.

www.egills.de

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Soft white marble line the entryways of the . The marble was excavated in the early 20th century, most likely in Greece. Before being excavated the marble had been contained in the Earth for millions or even billions of years.

immersive exhibition of kinetic sculptures and audio art is open in the until the 24th of September Monday-Saturday from 12:00-18:00.

We would like to welcome; Kasia Fudakowski and Philipp Modersohn in an artist talk Convicting Concrete
Sunday, 18.09.2022 16:00 - 16:30 Uhr
The talk will be held in English

“Convicting Concrete” is a film project by artists Kasia Fudakowski and Philipp Modersohn, set in the near future where ecocide is finally, legally recognised as a crime against humanity. The German company HeidelbergCement AG, the world's fourth largest concrete producer, responsible for 1.6 % of the total global CO2 emissions, becomes the first company to be charged, but rather than admitting guilt, lawyers representing the company make an unprecedented move. They sue concrete. Kasia Fudakowski und Philipp Modersohn will present the current status of the project.

Kasia Fudakowski (b. 1985, London, UK) lives and works in Berlin. Her diverse practice, which includes sculpture, film, performance, and writing, explores social riddles through material encounters, surreal logic and comic theory. Often referring to the allure and danger of binary categorization and the subsequent absurdity that it unfolds in our political and social climate, her work reveals the discrepancies amongst cultural norms. Where she employs comic mechanisms, the tragic is never far behind, so that her work often hovers between the horrific and the comic. https://www.kasiakasia.com

Philipp Modersohn was born in Bremen in 1986 and lives in Berlin. In his sculptures and films, he explores the influence of and communication with non-human and inanimate things. By confronting systems and structures of social organization with these things, he questions the division between biology and geology or life and non-life. Currently, he works on a series of filmic ‘biographies of things'. www.philippmodersohn.org

📸Courtesy the artist (Portrait) / Convicting Concrete, film still, 2021, Kasia Fudakowski and Philipp Modersohn)

We introduce pear wood. Looking up while on the second floor of the Staatstheater Kassel] foyer you will see that a part of the ceiling is dressed with a complex wooden inlay, it’s the same as the ceiling inside the opera auditorium, it is made with pear wood.

installation and audio work is accessible at the Staatstheater Kassel] from Monday-Saturday from 12:00-18:00

We would like to introduce; Riina Hannula
in a lecture and workshop Microbial Flow
Sunday, 18.09.2022 14:00 - 15:30 Uhr
The talk will be held in English

Riina Hannula presents Microbial Medi(t)ation, a knowledge platform for the human holobiont and its companion social microbes. In the subsequent Microbial Flow workshop, the participants approach their bodies and, following the instructions of an audio work, concentrate on the vagus nerve, which is known as the central signaling pathway between the gut and the brain. With this project, Riina Hannula is working on a case study that looks beyond the biological or medical definitions at the vagus nerve and microorganic communities in our bodies.

Riina Hannula is an artist and a Ph.D. student in sociology in Helsinki University with an interest in the social agency of microbes. They work with video, sound, installation, and immersive situations. Their work is based on creating a multi-species standpoint within a more-than-human world. Currently, they focus on embodiments of sciences that inform about human microbiomes. www.behance.net/riinahannula

📸Courtesy the artist (Portrait)/ Microbial Meditation, Bio Art Society Helsinki, 2022


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Introducing Steel, made from iron excavated from the earth. Inside the walls of the is a grid of steel, a skeleton which holds the weight of the entire construction as well as everyone and everything inside it.

Have a listen and get to know Steel:
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Installation and audio-work by open at the Staatstheater Kassel at 12:00-18:00 Monday-Saturday.

Introducing Lola Göller feat. The Friendly Sultan
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Lecture Performance
Saturday, 17.09.2022 16:30 - 18:00 Uhr
The talk will be held in German

Lola Göller will talk about very interesting pyramid buildings.
The Friendly Sultan will play live music.
There will be popcorn.

Lola Göller (born 1983) is an artist that currently lives in Berlin. In her work she deals with bizarre excesses of social and architectural fringe phenomena. In her ongoing series of works "shine on, you pretty pyramid" (since 2014) she has been investigating contemporary pyramid-shaped buildings worldwide, their architectural features and functions, and collecting background stories about their builders, inhabitants and users. In 2021, she was selected for the e.on Foundation's artist-in-residence grant "Visit" and is currently working on a new piece related to a 22-metre-high pyramid near the Aksarayskiy gas condensate field of the energy company Gazprom in Russia. www.lolagoeller.de

📸Johanna-Maria Fritz / Pyramid Examples: Courtesy Lola Göller



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This is oak wood. Did you know that Oak trees are more likely to be struck by lightning than any other tree?!
The upper floor of the has over 700m2 of Oak flooring.

The artistic installation Temple of Materialised Histories features kinetic sculptures directly derived from the materials used to build the theatre’s surrounding architecture. Exploring material lineage and ethnography, it aimed to create a reflective space about lost interdependencies in the human relationship to elements excavated and extracted from the earth.

Open Monday to Saturday hours 12:00-18:00

We would like to welcome; Eli Cortinas
Dreaming, Witches, Oracles and a Pile of Trash (Lecture Performance) and Walls have Feelings (filmscreening)
Saturday, 17.09.2022 15:30 - 16:30 Uhr
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The talk will be held in German

How is architecture, dreams as acts of resistance, a puppet-witch and a trash heap from a children’s TV show connected with one another? What knowledge can be delivered by a mountain of discards? In this lecture we will navigate different characters from 80’s children tv shows, ableist structures, the gender data gap and dreams dreamt under oppressive regimes. This lecture-performance will end with the projections of Walls Have Feelings, a short video essay on office rooms and walls, that hide and reinforce invisible forms of power.

Eli Cortiñas (born 1979 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a video artist of Cuban descent. She shared a professorship for Spatial Concepts with Prof. Candice Breitz at the University of Art Braunschweig from 2019 till 2022. Cortiñas has recently been appointed professor for Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Her artistic practice can be located within the appropriation tradition, using already existing cinema to de- and re-construct identities as well as narratives according to new discourses. She lives and works in Berlin.
www.soycapitan.de/artists/eli-cortinas/
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You are looking out at the veiw through the glass window of .

Did you know that glass is made out of sand and that every single grain of sand has its own history written into it? The type of sand needed to make glass is a limited resource that is currently being over consumed can you imagine if we run out?

Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir’s installation and audio work is open to the public Monday-Saturday at Staatstheater Kassel 12:00-18:00.





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Posted • If you haven’t yet experienced Symphony of a Missing Room - Echoes of Alternative Histories it is available until 24 September, part of Book your time slot by asking in the entrance of the Opera Foyer at Staatstheater Kassel!

River Voice score composed together with and by Katarina Henryson Singers; 🎶

Thanks 🙏🏾 toaudur , , and for holding the space 💫

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Introducing Anne Duk Hee Jordan and Susanne Kriemann.
Save the Date for their Artist talk “Rotating Actions”
Saturday, 17.09.2022 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr
Biodiverse living environments as well as diseased landscapes and the infinite adaptability of plants, animals and micro-beings become settings and themes in the artistic works of Susanne Kriemann and Anne Duk Hee Jordan. In an associative conversation, the artists present selected works that deal with ecosystems. Between analogue and digital processes, they create new images, archives, develop alternative methods of measurement, and often immerse themselves in a symbiotic relationship with selected environments in their long-term interventions.

Anne Duk Hee Jordan (1978 born in Korea) lives and works in Berlin. Transience and transformation are the central themes in her artistic practise. Through movement and performance, Jordan gives materiality another dimension – she builds motorized sculptures and creates edible landscapes. Jordan shifts the focus away from humans towards the entire ecology. www.dukhee.de
📸Ricard Estay

Susanne Kriemann (1972 born in Erlangen, Germany) is an artist and a university professor at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Within her research-based work, Kriemann investigates the medium of photography in the context of social history and archival practice. With an extended notion of the photographic document, she has most recently reflected on the world as an analogue “recording system” for human-caused processes. This has lead to preoccupations with radioactivity and mining, but also with archaeology and landmarks. She lives and works in Karlsruhe and Berlin. www.susannekriemann.info
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