tumbletalks

Ruhrtriennale artists in conversation

  • © Ulrich von Born
    (c) Ulrich von Born

Conversations are based on cooperation between subjects. tumbletalks begin just where a talk show would run out of steam: at the zero point of communication. Developing a good conversation about art means entering a forum and act in a pleasurably negative way. Without a subject, without a goal, without rehearsed questions and answers, without interpretation, without recording, without a net. The only rule is as old as the history of the theater itself: the unity of location, time, and plot. The tumbletalks are a closed (mini) drama and public thought in the same moment. On first glance, they might seem anachronistic (two people deep in conversation), yet on second glance they deal very much with the here and now (at issue are new art forms in a globalized world). Theoretically, anything is allowed that is spontaneous and unplugged. Intellectual jazz, silence before the audience, artists in action. Practically speaking, video meets audio, media art meets industrial space, a set of twins meets a string quartet, Hans Christian Andersen meets Gudrun Ensslin and the audience Stifters Dinge.

William Forsythe, Boris Charmatz
24. August 2013: 2.00 PM
Ryoji Ikeda, Rimini Protokoll, Robert Wilson, Dan Perjovschi, Mischa Kuball
25. August 2013: 12.00 PM
Adam Curtis
1. September 2013: 12.00 PM
Tim Etchells, Tarek Atoui
8. September 2013: 12.00 PM
Helmut Lachenmann
15. September 2013: 12.00 PM
Quay Brothers
22. September 2013: 12.00 PM
Robert Lepage
29. September 2013: 2.30 PM
Heiner Goebbels
6. October 2013: 12.00 PM