Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

Traditional forms of surveillance clearly carry theatrical traits. They imply an audience and transform the subject that is being monitored into a performer, often without his or her knowledge. At the same time, the long history of surveillance, as motivated by security and power politics, also left its mark on theatre and drama. The two-day symposium at Mousonturm reflects current practices and developments in the growing expanding field of surveillance and ubiquitous data storage. International artists and theorists will question our understanding of public space, the political separation of powers, of privacy, freedom of expression or constitution of the subject. They will present examples in which theatre and performance take critical opposing positions to the newest surveillance dispositifs.
In English and German.

Organized by the Theatre Studies Department of the Goethe University in cooperation with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Hessian Theatre Academy * Funded by the DAAD with financial resources of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).