The Playpublik festival, curated by the artists’ collective Invisible Playground, took place over several days in Berlin in summer 2012. Artists, architects and (game) designers transformed the Computerspielemuseum Berlin and the surrounding urban space into a large playground for adults. Visitors were able to question the rules of the city in digital and analogue games. The …
Initiated by Goethe-Institut Krakau as part of the project SPIELTRIEB! and curated by Invisible Playground, this second edition of Playpublik featured the work of more than 50 artists & designers from 15 countries, celebrating, exploring, questioning – in public, through play – what it means to live together in our shared world. “From October 3-5 2014, …
From 2015 to 2017, the project “Program Coordination for Urban Culture and Networking” was implemented, in which current urban developments and the existing cultural and artistic potential of the Mitte district were addressed. The role and significance of cultural connections were explored and the cooperation of cultural actors was initiated. It was also important to …
CIRCLES is a large-scale composition of voice, movement and colour that illuminates the power of collective intelligence – analogue and digital. In an immersive live symphony, CIRCLES brings together choirs and individual singers in a multi-dimensional production: an audio-visual ritual of music choreography, visual art and live bird’s-eye video projection, composed into a chaotic, eruptive …
CANTIO was premiered as a commissioned work of the Munich Music Biennale in 2004. During the development of the work, the focus was accordingly on the question of today’s definition of musical theater. Away from the conventional classifications of music and text, CANTIO wanted to answer the basic theoretical questions in a new way. The …
With the education project Debüt-direkt, we encourage teachers and students to leave the traditional classroom setting, be it at school, on the Internet or in the form of visits to music libraries, the studios of Deutschlandfunk Kultur or the Berlin Philharmonic. In this way, we want to open up a new world of listening that …
Since 2009, various stakeholders from District Region 1 have been working to create a joint education network for the area Südliche Friedrichstadt (Friedrichshain – Kreuzberg). The base for this is the common vision of ensuring equal opportunities and social participation for all people living in Berlin. New strategies are thought out and tested in steering …
Within the projects QuerKlang, NACHHALL and QuerKlang goes Europe, school students deal with contemporary musical material. Musicians and music students guide school classes to develop and present their own composition. The aim is not only to broaden the students’ understanding of music, but also to give them a basic understanding of the process of composing. …