The Real World - A Popular Academy

Theory is a crucial part of the International Summer Festival. Each week artists, theorists and the audience enter into discussions in seminar-like formats. For the opening weekend THE REAL WORLD ACADEMY will discuss languages and concepts of contemporary realisms in art, literature, politics and popular culture. The English-speaking academy is open to the public.

09.08. 11:00–12:30 A Speculative Reality Lecture by Graham Harman (philosopher, American University Cairo).

14:00–15:30 Poetics of the Real Paneldiskussion with Armen Avanessian (literary scholar, Freie Universität Berlin) und Georg Diez (author and journalist, DER SPIEGEL).

16:00–17:30 The Mode of the Documentary Paneldiskussion with Rabih Mroué (director / artist, Beirut), Margarita Tsomou (author and performer, Hamburg/Berlin) and Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat?, St. Petersburg)

10.08. 11:00–12:30 Wild Realities: The Weird, the Wild and the Undercommons Lecture by Judith Jack Halberstam (queer-theoretician, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)

14:00–15:30 TV Realness Paneldiskussion with Juan Domínguez (performer/choreographer, Madrid/Berlin) and Thomas Morsch (film scholar).

16:00–17:30 Art-Pop and Pop-Art Paneldiskussion with Kerstin Stakemeier (art historian, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München) and Jan Kedves (journalist, frieze d/e)