special events

DOM- → Neuperlach

Artist Talk & Participatory Intervention on Saturday, 9 July, with Arianna Lodeserto and Valerio Sirna (Kollektiv DOM-), from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., in English.
Starting point = DER FAHRENDE RAUM

Entwurf meiner Stadt

Workshop with Markus Zimmermann
on Saturday, 23 July, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
DER FAHRENDE RAUM

Reconstruction

From 18 June to 28 June 2022, the Fahrende Raum was closed to rebuild for the 2nd Aktionsraum.
During this time, we also took part in the "Neuperlacher Spiele" from 24 - 26 June 2022.

Calendar

Explanations

23 Programme at the Fahrende Raum
24 no Programme / we are closed
25 Celebrations at the Fahrende Raum

May 2022

June 2022

July 2022

Aktionsraum 2

BOUNCERS - Protektorprotest

with Tanja Hamester und Tita Tummillo
from 29 June to 28. July

In the Aktionsraum "Protector Protest" we work with foam, a soft cushioning material. We design hiding places, portable caves, mobile shelters in which we can crawl away.
We also build costume-like protectors, or "Schützer", and use them to extend our body parts. In some situations we need protectors, e.g. knee pads for sports, so that we don't hurt ourselves when we fall. We think of completely new protectors for all possible and impossible situations. Together with the Italian artist Tita Tummillo, we activate our sculptures with exercises from the theatre. In this way, our foam structures become a stage set in which we can move as actors.

Protektorprotest - Reappropriating Protection

The Aktionsraum "Protector Protest" deals with the question of how the action spectrum of protection can open up and expand spaces of experience.
Protection is a word that is mostly used in the context of so-called security policy and is often associated with restrictive measures. We would like to define protection not as a restriction but as an extension.
There are situations that can only be carried out with the help of protective equipment, a protector. A fall or an impaction is cushioned by the protector. A dangerous situation becomes an adventure. Protectors expand the possibilities of experience, create accessibility to the inaccessible. With the help of the protectors, which the participants can take off and put on actively and self-determinedly, new accessibilities to previously inaccessible things are created and can be used, as they become a support in (everyday) situations. However, protection is not meant to restrict or limit. Rather, there is an emancipatory moment in the design, construction, production and subsequent wearing of a protector, so-called empowerment. We transform protecting ourselves from something passive, from being needy, weak or a victim into something active, which empowers us. With our protectors we create new spaces of possibility. With the help of theatrical means, we want to performatively animate and make public the actions that are changed and strengthened by the protectors.

Transversal staging (Querendes Inszenieren) - Artist in Residence Tita Tummillo

This year's residency programme focuses on the one hand on questions of staging. Methods and strategies from the theatre context are to expand and enrich the work in the Aktionsraum. On the other hand, it will be about anti-discriminatory, anti-classist and queer pedagogical and theatrical practices. Nanna Lüth's and Carmen Mörsch's "Queering Art Education" 1 will provide guidance in "breaking open" traditional notions of heteronormativity and in questioning and deconstructing orders of belonging. The term "transversal" refers to this irritating movement, which Bernadett Settele describes as follows: "The incomprehensible, the inconceivable represents an invitation to appropriate the world differently and to bring its ambivalences to light." 2 With the help of performative methods, this reformation of perception is to be expressed.

Tita Tummillo, Artist in Residence of Fahrende Raum 2022, is moving her work focus from Bari to Munich for a month to breathe life into the protectors. With the help of exercises and techniques from the theatre context, the protectors are given performance. They are animated, brought to life, put into use and staged. The theatrical animation of the sculptures makes it possible to try out new spaces of possibility and play. We ask ourselves the questions: What actions does a protector enable me to perform that I could not do without it? What places can I enter with a protector that I would avoid without it? We experiment and exchange our experiences, combine several protectors into larger ones (protector collages) and explore new spectrums of action in closed and public spaces.
Our joint performative practice begins in the "safe space" of the Aktionsraum area and is carried into the urban space in several stages. In doing so, we use strategies of art-practical city walking, as proposed by contemporary artist collectives such as DOM and ATIsuffix. We stroll, parade, sneak and strut through the district with the protectors and performatively appropriate the public space. Do I move differently with a protector as an add-on/prosthesis? Do I feel more protected in public with a protector?

Protektoren als Schutzraum (“Shell Protectors”)

The first phase of the Aktionsraum is dedicated to the production of so-called "Shell Protectors". We build refuges out of foam, soft architectures that can become safe places of shelter. The participants design and construct cave-like structures (hiding places) in a self-determined way, into which they can retreat in order to be undisturbed. The starting point is snail shells and mussel shells, mobile, portable places to stay that can be put on and taken off as needed. The result is a self-determined space, a place of refuge that can be decided whether to share it with others or not. Among others, the Bodyshells by the artist Heidi Bucher function as a conceptual starting point for our sculptural production. The "Shell Protectors" will finally become the stage set for an action at the artists' festival (28 July 22).

Protektoren als Körpererweiterung (Protektor Prothesen)

As the Aktionsraum progresses, we design costume-like sculptures, add-ons that are meant to be prostheses. In this way, we expand our bodies with artefacts that recreate them and open up new spaces of experience. Starting points are knee and elbow pads, protective helmets, back protectors, but also body extensions from the beauty industry (for example, TikTok trends like the booty-scrunch leggings). We ask ourselves the following questions: How and for what reasons do we want to expand our bodies? What forms of extension does the idea of the protector offer us?
The performative activation of the add-ons draws on contemporary performance and theatre practices from the context of posthumanism and prosthetics research. We can put on the protectors like a piece of clothing with the help of Velcro fastenings, use them as tools or use them as (protective) equipment for sporting activities. In this way, we also define our bodies in relation to other bodies and our environment.
1 http://whtsnxt.net/238
2 https://whtsnxt.net/272

Tanja Hamester completed her studies in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with a Master's degree in Art and Mediation and the First State Examination. She also holds an M.A. in German Studies from the LMU Munich with a focus on medieval literature and iconography. As a contemporary feminist artist and researcher, Tanja Hamester works research-based and explores the possibilities of an anachronic approach to history. Material and medium develop from intensive philosophical and political research before and during her projects. Location-specific questions play a major role for her, so she often engages with public space and the settings that surround it. She understands her artistic practice in terms of an overarching constellation and acts in a transdisciplinary manner. The uncovering, de- and reconstructing of power structures as well as the concept of (re)learning are important for her work. In her performative practice, she deals with the right of representation of her body as a performer. As a member of several international artist collectives such as Room to Bloom, a feminist platform for ecological and postcolonial narratives about Europe, she is particularly interested in collective working and thinking processes.

Tita Tummillo's artistic practice moves between theatre and photography. She attended Massimo Lanzetta's Scuola del Teatro dei Sassi and later worked as an actress in this company. She has worked with César Brie, Armando Punzo, Chiara Guidi, Cathy Marchand, Jean Paul Denizon, David Brackett, Mariangela Gualtieri, Teatro del Carretto, Silvia Calderoni and Ilenia Caleo, among others. She founded the group MagmaFotografiaContemporanea and works as an actress and photographer with the ensemble Spettaculant, with whom she performs in Italy, Portugal and Belgium. She is a finalist in the Premio ArteIngenua 2008 International Competition of Painting, Sculpture and Photography for Young Artists "IMPATTO_ARTE: luogo + relazioni" and is invited to exhibit in the Group Verde curated by Daniela Corbascio. Her photographic works have been exhibited in Coimbra, Brussels, Palermo, Catania and Rome. Furthermore, Tita Tummillo works as a dramaturg and performance coach of Collettivo Instabile ONOIONO, a venue-specific gallery performance project with young people. She is co-director of BIG Bari International Gender Festival, a performance festival on identity and gender that expands the relevance of diversity issues beyond the human by overcoming the privileged Western white supremacist perspective and addressing the urgency of decolonising history, geography and knowledge to look at the whole biodiversity (human/animal/environment) with an ecological, intersectional, anti-colonial and anti-speciesist horizon. Tita Tummillo is also co-director of the queer performance production centre BIG Factory. She collaborates with BiArch - Festival of Architecture as dramaturg for the performance "Follow me" by and with Miki Gorizia.

Archiv & Flugschriften

Here you can browse through the archives of our past programmes:
2015 - 2019
2020 - 2021

Every year, the Fahrende Raum releases a publication in addition to the programme.
You can view past Flugschriften here:
Archiv "Flugschrift online"

The Flugschrift No 7 is available on request. Please send an email to info@fahrender-raum.de

DER FAHRENDE RAUM

For children, youths and adults
Participation as of 8 years

The Fahrende Raum (Kultur & Spielraum e.V.) is an art project for art mediation and artistic action in an urban context. In a programme consisting of changing Aktionsräumen, the Fahrende Raum plays together with children, young people and adults, as well as alternately invited artists, in one city district per year, from 2017 - 2020 Freimann and 2021 and 2022 Neuperlach.

In a mobile artistic architecture (play object) created by the artists Maximiliane Baumgartner (Munich) and Jochen Weber (Hamburg), art educators, artists and art mediators - from Munich and beyond - create spaces and occasions for collaborative artistic research and action together with the participants on site.
Since this year, the artistic director is Sophia Köhler.

The following artists are participating: Ludwig Bader, Leonie Brehorst, Vera Brosch, Eva Burkhardt, Lea Geerkens, Jonathan Göhler and Nils Peisker.

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Facade display 2022
by Antonia Schlenk & Marlon Bellet

This year's facade design is the work of the Munich artists Marlon Bellet and Antonia Schlenk. In terms of content, the works of both take up everyday phenomena, objects and realities, which are then translated and commented on in different ways and in different media. Schlenk's ceramics are sometimes ironic and uncompromising, often expanding the boundaries of the material.
Bellet's large-format charcoal drawings, paintings and sculptures take up pop-cultural aspects, among others, and result in a narrative ensemble of their own. On the one hand, the history of Neuperlach is incorporated into the facade of the Fahrende Raum, and on the other, a contemporary is illustrated, which in turn opens up the possibility of a feedback into the district.

Aktionsraum 1
Bitte Danke Bitte Danke (Der Tausch)

with Annabell Lachner
from 18 May to 19 June 2022

We want to trade! But what can you actually trade? And what exactly happens during an exchange? What happens between you and me at the moment of exchange? How does an object of exchange connect you and me? And what role does my body play in an exchange?
Exchange is like a social glue that connects and holds many things together. Yet exchange often takes place with a time lag. Then we give something and perhaps get something completely different back much later (or vice versa).
What can I as a person, but also we as a group, give to the world out there, what can we offer, demand, but also refuse?

From May to June, we want to explore different kinds of exchange. To do this, we will collect, develop and change objects, ideas and skills that we exchange, lend or give away.

We build and test temporary exchange spaces and make our own rules for them. We develop posters, write letters, take up space in public as a group and much more.

Annabell Lachner works as a visual artist and lives in Munich. Before studying free art at the AdBK Munich in the class of Olaf Nicolai and Stephan Huber, she completed an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor. Parallel to her art studies, she studied philosophy and sociology at the LMU Munich. In spring 2022, she will take part in the research series "What is the City" at the Kammerspiele München in collaboration with Lena Grossman, Yurika Yamamoto and Estefania Alvarez Ramirez.