Structural Stream: Panel | Keynote Speech | Dialogue – NORMALITY

The questions and demands regarding structural solutions and radical systematic changes are getting louder and louder. At the same time, a desire for rules and regulations persists, as well as the utopian belief in bureaucracy. But how do we, in fact, achieve a fluid, diverse and socially just society with established, fixed rules? We will stream our discourse programming from Acker Stadt Palast every day from October 25 to October 28 as a primary programming focus, using it to thoroughly examine this apparent paradox both in terms of cultural policy as well as conceptually. It will begin every day with a cultural policy panel discussion that will be followed by a keynote speech at lunchtime and close at the end of the afternoon with a dialogue focusing on specific daily topics.

Normality

So where is it, this much-touted and so-called “new normal”? At the moment it seems to have shifted terribly out of place and fallen into the wrong hands. Rules shape the ways in which we live together, work together and are connected to us each other. This is reason enough to dedicate ourselves to the supposed norm during our investigation and examine it.

11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Panel discussion with, amongst others, Yvonne Büdenhölzer (direction Theatertreffen Berliner Festspiele), Annett Gröschner (author), Pauline Püschel (Senate Department for Culture and Europe), moderated by Tessa Hartig (culture maker)

1:00 to 1:20 pm
Lunchtime keynote speech by Max Czollek (publicist)

2:30 to 4:00 pm
Dialogue between Hannah Müller (vt corp.) and Bastian Trost (Gob Squad)