The Blackmarket atelier is an open working space for all friends keen to embark on an extensive search for worthwhile themes. Here experts, minute-takers and viewers tested various themes as to their suitability for future Blackmarkets. It was an atelier, but one in which sentences, texts and language were created and shaped, and not anything pictorial or visual. An atelier in which the pondering together on a theme was searching for the intrinsic form of its staging.
The Dresdner Ateliers of the Blackmarkets
- Staatsschauspiel Dresden
- Blackmarket
The Blackmarket atelier is not for adepts and insiders, salon and club members, or the governors of discourse, but rather a working space for simultaneous speculative thinking at a brisk change of pace and open for everyone who wishes to take part.
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Atelier 1: Melancholy, Depression and other Forms of Refusal to Work (November 2010)
The societies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries readily describe the melancholic and depressive as failures, cowards and parasites, even though the melancholic poses a simple but ingenious question: why is action more justified than not doing anything at all? The sounding out of a concept between pathology, defiance and Dürer.
Prof. em. Dr. med. Werner Felber, specialist consultant for psychiatry and psychotherapy, Dresden
Guillaume Paoli, philosopher, cofounder of the “Happily Unemployed”, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Müller, professor for art history at the TU Dresden
Atelier 2: Beyond the Facades and Visages (February 2011)
It seems that all the discontent, eluding formulation, about contemporary architecture and one’s own biography gets accumulated in the concept of identity. But during the course of this evening we pose the question again: wherein does the idea of a house or a person actually reside, and how do we construct them for ourselves? With philosophical interventions by Winnie-the-Pooh and Vito Acconci.
Prof. Dr. Niels-Christian Fritsche, professor for architectural delineation (presentation) at the architecture faculty of the TU Dresden
Dr. Tom Schoper teaches at the architecture faculty of the TU Dresden
Prof. Dr. Christiane Voss, professor for media philosophy at the Bauhaus University Weimar
Atelier 3: Age. What is it? (April 2011)
The evening focuses on radicalized experiences of time, the unrepeatability and irreversibility of life as a thought model, and the existential shock triggered by an unguarded look in the mirror.
Petra Gehring is professor for philosophy at the TU Darmstadt
Dr. phil. habil. Thomas Rentsch, professor for practical philosophy / ethics at the TU Dresden
Lore Stefanek is an actress and director with the ensemble of the State Playhouse Dresden
Atelier 4: The Serendipity Principle, or: How Silicon was Discovered in Dresden (June 2011)
In the 1930s at Radebeul, Richard Müller researched a fog that was to envelop German cities should war break out, making them invisible for enemy attacks. Although the project failed, a byproduct of his failed fog research was the discovery of silicon in 1940, whereby he chemistry history with the Müller-Rochow synthesis. But what has since happened with the military fog research?
Dr. Wladimir Reschetilowski, professor for industrial chemistry and director of the Institute for Industrial Chemistry, TU Dresden
Dr. Otto Klemm, professor for climatology at the Institute for Landscape Ecology, University of Westphalia, Münster
Julianne Capo, Heidi Eckstein, Peter Krüger, Johanna Schwab and Benjamin Thomas – artists in the specialist class, ‘Comprehensive artistic practice’ at the Dresden University of Fine Arts
Credits
A project of the Mobile Academy in cooperation with the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.
Photos: Daniel Koch