ROMEO CASTELLUCCI (IT)
STEALTH.UNLIMITED (NL/RS)
BERLIN (BE)

IDEA
For the fifth time in succession, the transdisciplinary symposium IMPACT09 invites artists, practitioners, theorists and advanced students in the fields of dance, theatre, visual arts, new media and architecture to take part in a critical discussion of artistic strategies and working methods presented by prominent guest artists. imPACT encourages its participants to test the premises introduced by these artists in action and examine them in relation to their own backgrounds.

By inviting Romeo Castellucci (IT), artistic director of the theatre company Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, architects Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen / STEALTH.unlimited (NL/RS) as well as the group Berlin (BE), IMPACT09 has selected artists, who in their work dissect today’s reality from the perspective of their respective disciplines. All have come to the conclusion that the world of theatre, media and construction must itself be questioned and rethought. As a result, they create images revealing the multiple relationships between mankind, society and culture which are magical as well as disturbing, intimate as well as universal.
In the spaces that lie between visual arts and theatre, narration and documentation, concept and implementation, these three artistic positions expose the unfathomable depths of human nature, social evil and crippling ironic paradoxies, but not without also redefining these as starting points for promising new beginnings.

PRACTICE
IMPACT09 offers a concentrated and motivating space for exchange, action and reflection beyond one’s own genre and perspectives. Each day's agenda is devised and led by the invited guests and informed by all the participants.

The working language at the symposium is English.

Before the symposium begins, STEALTH.unlimited will give a lecture presentation ›Out of Context‹ and Romeo Castellucci will moderate the film screening of ›Tragedia Endogonidia’s film cycle‹ at PACT Zollverein on Thursday, 12. November. On Saturday, 14. November Berlin will present ›Bonanza‹.

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PUBLIC PROGRAMME

Thursday, 12. November 2009, 18:00 h
Lecture Presentation
STEALTH.UNLIMITED (NL/RS)
›Out of Context‹

Thursday, 12. November 2009, 20:00 h
Filmscreening
SOCÌETAS RAFFAELLO SANZIO / ROMEO CASTELLUCCI (IT)
›Tragedia Endogonidia’s film cycle‹

Saturday, 14. November 2009, 20:00 h
Documentatin for five screens
BERLIN (BE)
›Bonanza‹