Bauhaus Festival 2023:
Mechanical Bodies

// Festival
1 + 2 Sep 2023
Bauhaus Building + public space
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The Mechanical Ballet by the Bauhaus student Kurt Schmidt provides the creative stimulus for the Bauhaus Festival 2023. The exploration of Kurt Schmidt’s magnum opus during the Bauhaus Festival 2023 will question the social and cultural contexts of his stage work and critically transform into the present day the utopian content of the work and the related dystopias.

This abstract (pseudo-mechanical) ballet premiered in 1923 during the “Bauhaus week” at the Theaterhaus Jena. Even more than Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet, it represented a departure from the previously expressionistic Bauhaus stage. From this point on, the new social design utopias of the Bauhaus were associated with concepts like mechanisation, automation, and standardisation.

In performative projects, spatial and art installations, and experimental discussion and communication formats, the story of the “ghost in the machine” will be told. Also, the perfect machine will be compared with the imperfect human body, its limitations and its losses of control.

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Programme

Fr, 1 Sep 2023

Fr, 7 pm
Opening
Bauhaus Building, Auditorium

Fr, 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm
Speed-Dating
Entire Bauhaus Building

Fr, 7.30 pm – 10 pm
Accessories in Motion: From Jewellery to Machine
// Costume Workshop
Bauhaus Building, design shop

Fr + Sa, 1 + 2 Sep 2023

Fr, 7.30 pm – 11.00 pm
Sa, 8 pm  – 1 am
Array
// Interactive installation, performance
Bauhaus Building, Auditorium

Fr, 9.30 pm (world premiere) + 10.30 pm
Sa, 9 pm + 10 pm + 11 pm + midnight
Mekanic
// Dance performance
Studio Building, Façade

Fr, 7.30 pm – 11 pm (world premiere)
Sa, 8 pm – 1 am
TUZUB 37
// Performance
Bauhaus Building, Glass Room

Fr, 7.30 pm – 11 pm
Sa, 8 pm – 1 am
MB bauhausHAUSVersion
// Installation
Bauhaus Building, Stairwell

Fr, 8 pm
Sa, 8 pm
Manda
// Performative project presentation
Bauhaus Building, Workshop Wing, Upper Floor

Fr, 7.30 pm – 11 pm
Sa, 8 pm – 1 am
Regenerate Response
// Audiovisual installation
Bauhaus Building, Façades of the North Wing and the North Room

Fr, 1 Sep 2023, 8.30 pm + 10.15 pm
Sa, 2 Sep 2023, 8.00 pm + 10.30 pm + 12.15 am
John Cages „Song Books“
// Music, performance
Bauhaus Building, Workshop Room 2.20

Fr, 1 Sep 2023, 7.30 pm – 11 pm
Sa, 2 Sep 2023, 8 pm – 1 am
unleashing the ghosts
// Interventions + installations
Bauhaus Building, Seminar Rooms in the North Wing

Fr, 1 Sep 2023, 7.30 pm – 11 pm
Sa, 2 Sep 2023, 8 pm – 1 am
Gl0tchbl0K
// Installation
Bauhaus Building, North Wing, Canteen in the Basement Foyer

Fr, 1 Sep 2023, 7.30 pm – 11 pm
Sa, 2 Sep 2023, 8 pm – 1 am
MR 808
// Interactive installation
Bauhaus Building, North Wing, Canteen in the Basement Foyer

Fr, 1 Sep 2023, 9 + 9.30 pm + 10 pm + 10.30 pm
Sa, 2 Sep 2023, 8.30 pm + 9 pm + 9.30 pm + 10.30 pm + 11.30 pm + midnight + 12.30 am
plexi-tape-machine
// Performance
Bauhaus Building, Room 2.30

Sa, 2 Sep 2023

Sa, 17 – 8 pm
Picnic in white
City Park

Sa, 7 pm + 8 pm
Rhythm is a dancer
// Performance
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Mies-van-der-Rohe Platz

Sa, 6.30 pm + 7.30 pm
The Herd of Mechanical Beings. Foolpool
// Installation, performance
City Park

Sa, 8.30 pm – 9.30 pm
Festival Parade
Bauhaus Museum Dessau >> Anhaltisches Theater Dessau >> Bauhaus Building

Sa, 7 pm
Anhaltisches Theater Dessau: Opening concert for the new season
Forecourt of the theatre

Sa, 8.30 pm (world premiere) + 9.30 pm + 10.30 pm
orchestra with virtual choir
// Multimedia concert
Bauhaus Building, Outdoor Bridge

Sa, 10.30 pm + 11.30 pm + 12.30 am
The Jazz Machine
// Oversized kinetic fantasy object
Bauhaus Building, Outdoor Area

Sa, 23 + midnight
The Herd of Mechanical Beings. Foolpool
// Installation, performance
Bauhaus Building, Outdoor Area

Sa, 10 pm – 10.30 pm + 11.15 pm – 12.15 am
Kommuna Lux
// Music
Bauhaus Building, Club

Sa, 8 pm – 1 am
Triadic Dance Club
// Music, Performance
Anhalt University, Building 08

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