Florian Malzacher
Florian Malzacher is a curator, dramaturg and writer. 2013 - 2017 he was artistic director of Impulse Theater Festival (Cologne, Dusseldorf and Mulheim/Ruhr), and 2006-2012 co-programmer of the multidisciplinary arts festival steirischer herbst (Graz). He (co-)curated e.g. the 4th and 5th International Summer Academy (Mousonturm Frankfurt, 2002 and 2004), “Dictionary of War” (2006/07), “Truth is concrete” (Graz, 2012), “Artist Organisations International” (HAU Berlin, 2015), “Appropriations” (Ethnological Museum Berlin, 2014), “Sense of Possibility” on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the revolution (St. Petersburg, 2017), “Training for the Future” (Ruhrtriennale 2018/19 with Jonas Staal), “After Supervising the Machinery” (2020). As a dramaturge he worked with artists like Rimini Protokoll (DE), Lola Arias (ARG), Mariano Pensotti (ARG), and Nature Theater of Oklahoma (USA). Florian Malzacher has edited and written numerous essays and books on theatre and performance and on the relationship between art and politics. His latest publications include Gesellschaftsspiele. Politisches Theater heute im Alexander Verlag Berlin.
Further informations & material: art-of-assembly.net
Works at brut
- Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly XXII (February 2023, with Núria Güell & Renzo Marten)
- Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly XXI (December 2022, with Phil Collins, Anne Hahn & Reyhan Şahin aka Lady Bitch Ray)
- Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly XX Nous Accusons! People’s Tribunals between Politics, Activism & Art (November 2022, with Lisa Ito-Tapang / Concerned Artists of the Philippines, Wolfgang Kaleck / ECCHR & Madlyn Sauer)
- Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly XIX SAFE VS. BRAVE? ART BETWEEN SANCTUARY AND CONFRONTATION (October 2022, with Miriam Ibrahim, Edit Kaldor and Ingo Niermann / Army of Love)
- Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly XVIII. BODY NEXT TO BODY: GATHERING MASSES IN SPORT EVENTS (July 2022, with Z. Blace, Caitlin Davis Fisher & Michael Gabriel)
- Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly XVII in cooperation with Uniarts Theatre Academy Helsinki – ASSEMBLING KNOWLEDGE (May 2022, with Satu Herrala, Ahmet Öğüt & Lotte van den Berg)
- Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly XVI – SHIFTING POWER: WHEN GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS WIN ELECTIONS (May 2022, with Teodor Celakoski, Athena Athanasiou (Zoom), Marcelo Expósito)
- Gesellschaftsspiele: The Art of Assembly XV. PARLIAMENTS OF THINGS AND BEINGS (April 2022, with Alexander Karschnia (andcompany&Co.) & Eva von Redecker )
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly XIV. In cooperation with Goethe Institut New York. Audience as Allies, Witnesses, and Enemies (März 2022, with Claire Bishop, Tania Bruguera & Ann Liv Young)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly XIII. In cooperation with Münchner Kammerspiele and Goethe Institut: Performing Architecture. Designing Politics. Architectures of Deliberation and Decision-Making (March 2022, with Gabu Heindl, Markus Miessen & David Mulder van der Vegt)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly XIII. In cooperation with Theater Neumarkt Zürich (February 2022, with Edit Kaldor & Julian Warner)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly XII. In cooperation with NT Gent / School of Activism. PITFALLS OF REPRESENTATION: ASSEMBLIES IN THEATRE (January 2022, with Milo Rau, School of Resistance & The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly XI. In cooperation with Goethe-Institut / Performing Architecture. ARCHITECTURES OF ASSEMBLY (November 2021, with Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius / raumlabor)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly X. In cooperation with Goethe-Institut / Performing Architecture. THE POLITICS OF MULTITUDE: ASSEMBLY AS STRATEGY (November 2021, with Anna Clara Basilicò / Rise Up For Climate Justice & Antonio Negri)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly IX. In cooperation with BIT Teatergarasjen Bergen/Norway. REASSEMBLING INSTITUTIONS (October 2021, with Ahmed Al-Nawas, Nora Sternfeld & Sarah Waterfeld / Staub zu Glitzer)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly VIII. In cooperation with Volksbühne Berlin am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. 10 YEARS OCCUPY WALL STREET (September 2021 with Judith Butler and Max Haiven)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly VII. As part of Wiener Festwochen. AGONISTIC GATHERINGS (September 2021, with Didier Eribon and Chantal Mouffe)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly VI. ASSEMBLING MORE THAN HUMANS (June 2021, with Radha D‘Souza and Sibylle Peters)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly V on the Day of Action of Die Vielen (May 2021, with Eduard Freudmann, Gin Müller, Heidrun Primas and Philine Rinnert)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly IV. Choirs of Precarity and Power (April 2021, with Claudia Bosse, Alia Mossallam and The Church of Stop Shopping)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly III (imagetanz 2021, with Jodi Dean and Jonas Staal)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly II (February 2021, with Oliver Ressler and Julia Ramírez-Blanco)
- Gesellschaftsspiele. The Art of Assembly I (January 2021, with Oliver Marchart and Dana Yahalomi)
- Gesellschaftsspiele (2020, with Nora Sternfeld and Gerhild Steinbuch)
