Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON
Dates:
Venue:
PACT Zollverein
Bullmannaue 20A
45327 Essen
Deutschland
Tickets
Admission to all events as part of Shifting Grounds is free, with the exception of the performances of ›Magec / the Desert‹ by Radouan Mriziga / A7LA5.
Tickets for ›Magec / the Desert‹ by Radouan Mriziga / A7LA5 are available in our ticket shop. When purchasing tickets, you have the option to choose between four different price categories (minimum price, reduced price, regular price, supporter price) based on your own assessment.
Furthermore, we offer a number of free tickets so that everyone can participate, regardless of their income. Simply contact us or send us an email to service@pact-zollverein.de.
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With the summer festival ›Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON‹, PACT invites you to spend three days on the slag heap of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex. Between the vast sky, barren soil, and wild vegetation, a program of performances, rituals, sound works, workshops, encounters, and collaborative events takes shape.
The slag heap is an artificial landscape, piled up from mining waste. A unique form of industrial nature has taken root on its nutrient-poor soil – robust, resilient, and surprisingly diverse. Paths, clearings, and visual connections transform the site into a space for experience where questions of community, responsibility, and the future take on new meaning.
›Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON‹ explores practices and ideas of the common: How can spaces be shared, relationships perceived, and forms of attention toward one another and the environment tested? The festival invites you to explore these questions through walking, listening, lingering, and coming together.
Dates:
Venue:
PACT Zollverein
Bullmannaue 20A
45327 Essen
Deutschland
Tickets
Admission to all events as part of Shifting Grounds is free, with the exception of the performances of ›Magec / the Desert‹ by Radouan Mriziga / A7LA5.
Tickets for ›Magec / the Desert‹ by Radouan Mriziga / A7LA5 are available in our ticket shop. When purchasing tickets, you have the option to choose between four different price categories (minimum price, reduced price, regular price, supporter price) based on your own assessment.
Furthermore, we offer a number of free tickets so that everyone can participate, regardless of their income. Simply contact us or send us an email to service@pact-zollverein.de.
PROGRAMME
FRI 03.07.
TRACES – The Ecology of Togetherness
To kick off the summer festival ›Shifting Grounds – IN COMMON‹, there will be a performative tour across the slag heap. The works explore the landscape from various perspectives: through dance, voice, sound, and choreographic arrangements that connect bodies and the environment.
With performances by Annamaria Ajmone, caner teker, Alma Söderberg, Jan St. Werner & Madison Greenstone
SAT 04.07.
ISLANDS – Practices of the Common
On Saturday, the slag heap will serve as an open space for exploration and a festival venue throughout the day. Scattered across the grounds, individual “islands” will emerge, and together with workshops, a coffee ceremony, poetry and literary readings, and a concert, they will form the unifying framework of the day. Visitors can go their own way, linger, and experience the site at their own pace. In addition, the slag heap will also come alive through performance and sound. On the PACT stage, Radouan Mriziga will explore deserts as geographies of wisdom. In his work ›Magec / the Desert‹, rhythms, text, movement, and sound combine to form a polyphony of perspectives on humanity, nature, and knowledge.
With Clarisse Akouala, Orli Yomi, Nadzeya Karakulka, Jan St. Werner & Michael Akstaller, BRACHE, SPRK, local dancing, Deva Schubert, Hood Cuisine und Radouan Mriziga / A7LA5
SUN 05.07.
VOICES – Resonance and Polyphony
On Sunday, the focus shifts to voices, community, and resonance. Through a singing workshop, a listening session, an artistic presentation, and a talk, community is understood not as harmony but as a polyphonic space that allows for closeness, difference, and friction. The festival concludes with a grand closing concert by the Berlin choir project A Song For You on the PACT terrace.
With Noah Slee, Cute Community, Kukily, Amanda Piña und A Song For You
ONGOING ON THE SLAG HEAP
Mascha Fehse – ›Recreational Successions‹
Installation
Funded by Kunststiftung NRW.
Funded by Kunststiftung NRW.