A Discourse Programme In Seven Parts

During the European festival for theater and performance transeuropa2012, we conducted a series of talks, presentations and experimental set-ups. Artists, activists and scientists from various fields of society met up with the private expertise of the international festival community to produce common knowledge.

about transeuropa2012
Something has changed. Instead of large constants we organize ourselves in flexible networks from which our temporary relations evolve. We leave the big utopias behind and replace eternal loyalty by sequential monogamy.

We are the independent inventors of our authentic personality which becomes a staged trademark in the working sphere. Always on- and offline at the same time one cultivates its relations treasure and weaves its network. Nothing lasts forever and that’s the way we like it.

We shape a civil society, which takes the world by its roots. Our favored work models are as much influenced by the idea of self organization and hierarchy skepticism as our political commitment. People’s parties are inflexible giants and the European union is missing citizen participation. We want to dare more transparency. As responsible citizens we take the initiative for realistic goals, particular projects and local communities. Participation instead of sceptical observation.

The urge of the isolated ones to meet again turns public events into places of temporary collectivization. We long for the feeling of being connected to a greater whole; but without obligations, please! We prefer to stay independent.

In theatre we also demand to dissolve the gap between spectator rows and the stage for a tiny moment of fusion. In the theatre, which we will show, rituals of community are reactivated, reinvented and playfully experimented with. The postmodern individual is being seduced to join a community for a given time and to question its own behaviour. After all, to be secluded but together can be done most beautifully in theatre. Or in Europe.

In the crisis of the monetary union it becomes apparent that Europe is a federation of states without citizens and with a ruined image. A European public sphere with transnational discourses and media, where we could communicate about common dreams, is missing. Who actually lives in the states, which do not belong to core Europe?