– a seven-hour performative conference

– a performative conference produced by the Weltkulturen Museum, the Städelschule and Frankfurt LAB (in English)
Currencies and Collectives inquires about where and how new assignations and currencies might develop, forming a kind of prototype that promotes the continuity and community of the actors involved, above and beyond disorganized individual trade in goods and ideas? The multimedia installation designed by artist Mike Bouchet becomes a market place for ideas and an expanded parliament that brings together artists, scientists, designers, authors and architects with the aim of spurring a debate on the significance of urbanity, of cultural centres, and on the role of the citizen in the city. A social choreography for about 30 performers directed by Richard Siegal guides the audience through the performative conference.

CHOREOGRAPHY Richard Siegal
SPACE Mike Bouchet
COSTUMES P.A.M.
MUSIC Hubert Machnik 
CURATOR Christine Peter

CONTRIBUTORY Cassette Playa (Art Director, London),Teddy Cruz (architect, San Diego), Stephen Duncombe (sociologist, New York), Keller Easterling (architect, New York), Patricia Falguières (art historian, Paris), Maria Lind (curator, Stockholm), Thomas Meinecke (author and musician, Munich), Peter Osborne (philosopher, London), Mark von Schlegell (author, Cologne), Richard Sennett (sociologist, London and New York), & Axel Honneth (Professor of Philosophy, Frankfurt am Main and New York)

PERFORMANCES AT FRANKFURT LAB
Saturday 26th, January 2013
Currencies and Collectives
Saturday 26th, January 2013
party, on the turntables: Misha Hollenbach / P.A.M., Melbourne
 

An event of Frankfurter Positionen
Theme: Frankfurter Positionen, Performance