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English: The Ruhr triennale 2018 focussed on perspectives from the
global south. In the 2019 edition we will examine aspects of European
self-criticism; this year artists address their own privileged European
existences in diverse ways. This raises the question: who has the right
to represent who and in which contexts? The crisis of representation
is a result of the realisation that European democracy is and has always
been a racist construct based on power and privilege. At the
same time it is an urgent necessity to defend the idea of democracy
and more than ever to stand up for a diverse and open society and for
public life that is transnational – in order to bring about a democracy
that has never yet existed in terms of equality. The time to do this is
becoming ever shorter.
In response to this current situation the artiste associé Christoph
Marthaler will devise his new music theatre creation about the decline
of democracy and its shocking practices of exclusion and nationalist
ideologies. Four other Ruhr triennale works reflect Europe’s loss of
status and influence. At the Jahrhunderthalle the Hungarian film and
theatre director Kornél Mundruczó creates a music theatre production
Evolution out of an encounter with György Ligeti’s Requiem in a
musical, scenic and visual space of fear that something will reappear
out of history: “The beast comes back” (Mundruczó). In his new world
premiere All the good at the Maschinenhalle Zweckel, Jan Lauwers
from Needcompany asks himself what legitimacy he can have as a
white artist in an inter-cultural context. In his new creation of arresting
visual and musical fragments Everything that Happened and Would
Happen Heiner Goebbels scrutinizes the European history of destruction
with the distance of an ethnologist. With Henry Purcell’s Dido and
Aeneas, remembered David Marton is engaged in an archaeological
project that seeks to unearth fragments of European culture. Many
of the artists working at the Ruhr triennale 2019, including Christiane
Jatahy, Faustin Linyekula and Ofira Henig, use very different forms to
examine the effects of centuries of European dominance on contemporary
biographies, individual experiences, desires and imaginations.
Marlene Monteiro Freitas will bring her amazing Bacchae – Prelude
to a Purge to PACT Zollverein. The much sought-after Israeli choreographer
Sharon Eyal will present the world premiere of her new work
Chapter 3 as part of the Ruhr triennale, as will the Brazilian choreographer
Bruno Beltrão.
Maschinen HausMusik. The Junge Triennale’s long term project
# nofear is also continued and extended. Third Space will be brought
back to life again by the artists’ collective raumlabor berlin with exuberant
communal rituals, and we will also host the latest round of the
festival campus for international students.
The photo series in this brochure shows public places that are subject
to processes of repurposing, destabilisation, defunctionalisation and
destruction. They are archive images from news agencies that illustrate
in-between times in spatial and architectural terms. The photographs
tell their own stories and create their own context.
I wish you and us an exciting festival season!
Stefanie Carp
Artistic Director Ruhr triennale 2018 2019 2020
PS.: I will also be happy to present the programme to you in person.
You can find information about this on page 95.
To help us get through the crisis in good spirits, visual artist Jonas
Staal will train audiences for the future. Chorwerk Ruhr’s concert
features works by Luciano Berio and Alessandro Striggio. And there
are also two major concerts to look forward to by Klangforum Wien
with the conductor Sylvain Cambreling along with a new series of
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