Campus #7 Workshops

BODY PRESENCE
Workshop director: Patti Shaughnessy
Friday 11 November 2022
4-7 pm, Habibi Kiosk, Münchner Kammerspiele

This will be a 3 hour workshop focusing on movement, awareness and active empathy. Participants should wear comfy clothing and be prepared to move. Beginning with introductions, Patti will lead a physical warm up and guide participants through her working process in Indigenous Theatre and farther afield. Her extensive work with Makka Kleist and Charles Koroneho intertwined with her own unique process brings participants closer to discovering their own way of working physically with themselves and each other in a natural day to day manner. An approach that allows those with and without movement experience to participate.

Ms. Shaughnessy will share not only her in theatre/studio approach but her process for working in and with communities.

“Cultural Resistance in Brazil: Indigenous Knowledge and Audiovisual Practice”
Workshop director: Priscilla Brasil, Patrik Thomas and Mathias Reitz Zausinger
Saturday 12 November 2022
10am-3pm, Habibi Kiosk, Münchner Kammerspiele

Patrik Thomas and Mathias Reitz Zausinger document cultural resistance in Brazil in their documentary debut “BOÂLANDIA”. A central focus is on the resistance of the Indigenous Peoples against the current Brazilian government, which poses an existential threat to the precarious situation of the Indigenous communities. Since Bolsonaro took office in 2019, attacks on Indigenous Peoples have multiplied. An important part of the resistance that Indigenous communities are putting up lies in the appropriation of audiovisual means of production and distribution channels, creating a political public sphere. As with other marginalized groups, camera and visibility are weapons in the struggle against exploitation and injustice, as well as a means to reclaim their own historiography.

As European filmmakers, we have to ask ourselves by whom the images in the Amazon are produced and how they are evaluated. In this context, the production of images in indigenous contexts is indispensably linked to the cultural-historical and politically charged question of the representation of an alternative way of life to the western-capitalist norm. The question of the origin of our conception of Indigenous ways of life will be explicitly posed in light of a critique of the colonialism of images. Priscilla Brasil will speak about the difficulties and opportunities associated with image production within this context, as well as about the distribution of these films at festivals and the structural discrimination by (Brazilian) film funding agencies.

In various film excerpts we will dive into the filmmaking of different Indigenous as well as non-Indigenous filmmakers and learn about the politics of cultural resistance and the specific aesthetic diversity of these films.

„Coming together“
Workshop direction: Melmun Bajarchuu
Saturday 12 November 2022
4–7 pm, Glasspitz, Münchner Kammerspiele

The language of art is universal, but the view is not. How do we situate our knowledge regarding theater and artistic expression as specifically German or German-speaking? And what other tools and perspectives do we need for informed and appreciative looking and encountering?

This workshop is a joint exercise in decolonizing one’s own western gaze. The workshop leader sees her own post*migrant experience in Germany as well as her artistic research on resistance practices of minority cultural practitioners as a possible bridge to a more intensive encounter with the work of Indigenous artists in the context of “Water, Earth and I”.