For seven years, the BRITNEY X Festival of Schauspiel Köln has been an important platform for performing arts in the city that deals with topics such as diversity, feminism, queerness and empowerment.
From May 24 to 26, the festival will present a variety of performances, concerts, workshops and parties – and for the first time at the Carlswerk site in Cologne-Mülheim.
https://www.schauspiel.koeln/spielplan/britney-x-festival/
The medium-term project deals with the elaboration of the concept already developed in the winter semester around “Lust & Control” and other taboo topics. In cooperation with the Schauspielhaus Köln, our project will deal with the realization of the concept for an exhibition in the foyer of Depot 1 + 2.
To complement our concept team, we are looking for KISDies who are interested in experimenting with different materials, such as natural latex, and are motivated to contribute to this special event. Ideally, you should already have previous experience in the fields of furniture construction and product design and have some manual skills.
Lust and control are seemingly irreconcilable contradictions.
The female body unites this paradox duality. For hardly anything is so repressively controlled by social conventions and at the same time so extremely stylized as an object of sexual desire. And yet both topics, lust and control, are still taboos in relation to femininity.
But how is such a cognitive dissonance experienced in a social context? The exhibition aims to break with the taboos and stigmas associated with existence in a female body. Shame-laden topics, such as the first menstruation or masturbation and other complex facets of the female experience, are brought closer through spatial installations and personal stories.
The exhibition in the Schauspielhaus invites visitors to confront taboo topics relating to femininity and at the same time offers a safe space for reflection on how to deal with them.
Meetings: Tuesdays and Thursday, 1-4 pm