Dance & Uprising
Artistic Keynote Lecture
Eva von Redecker: Movements for life
The starting point for Eva von Redecker’s lecture is the machinery of contemporary capitalism, which is hostile to all life forms. Redecker highlights the fatal effects of property and exploitation, sovereignty and competition and how human relations and ecological cycles are defined, dominated, separated and stifled. The catastrophe that is climate change has already taken place in the mind of those beings and objects who have suffered under the capitalist system. Still, Western society’s so-called Loss of World in Modernity may be the dominant but not the only contemporary way of life. Gestures and attitudes from different social movements can be read as alternatives. Saving lives, regenerative work, sharing and maintaining goods – these are some trends that have joined the fight against the ongoing destruction of life. This movement may still be in its infancy, only nurtured in nests of solidarity while it faces rising fascist tendencies, but it is also virtuous and diverse. An evening of critical theory – and of the changing face of resistance.
Panel discussion
Panelists
Sorour Darabi (Choreographer and performer)
Rabea Grand (Coordination artistic programme Gessnerallee, Zurich)
Lau Lukkarila (Choreographer and performer)
Amanda Piña (Choreographer, dancer and cultural worker)
Christa Spatt (Performance Programmer, TQW)
Moderation
Katalin Erdödi (Freelance dramaturg, curator and author)
Q&A after the panel
is a philosopher and writer. She currently holds a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship at the University of Verona with her research on phantom property and authoritarianism. She was a research assistant at Humboldt University Berlin for many years; she was a guest lecturer at the New School for Social Research in New York in late 2015.
Eva von Redecker’s writing consists both of academic and literary texts about property, radical change, life and death. Her most recent book Revolution for Life (S. Fischer Verlag, 2020) has been translated into many languages and has been widely discussed. In this book, Redecker analyses the destructive and life-threatening forces of capitalism, but she also finds hope in contemporary protest movements.
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In English