• Sat 22 10 2022 / 5 pm •
CHEAP & Xiu Xiu With Jonathan Berger and Special Guests A Worn-Out Concert
Sleep Disorder

with JONATHAN BERGER, SENIA CADE, VAGINAL DAVIS, CHRISTIAN FRITZENWANKER, RICHARD GABRIEL GERSCH, DANIEL HENDRICKSON, JURRIEN KAMPINGA, JEAN KIM, CHRIS KORTE, LIGIA LEWIS, NONA POYDRAS, NELE RUCKELHAUSEN, SUSANNE SACHSSE, MARC SIEGEL, ANGELA SEO, MARTIN SIEMANN, POLA SIEVERDING, XIU XIU

10 years Academy of the Arts of the World, we want to celebrate with you - in the presence of the academy members, with guests from politics and culture as well as with a glamorous but sleep-disturbed concert including an aftershow party!

The Academy of the Arts of the World (Akademie der Künste der Welt, ADKDW) celebrates its 10th year of existence with an anniversary program on 21 and 22 10 2022, centered around the performance A Worn-Out Concert. Sleep Disorder by the artist collective CHEAP.

CHEAP has always used innovations from the history of the avant-garde and queer subcultures to produce a variety of sophisticated performance events that combine theory and pleasure, politics and frivolity, aesthetics and conviviality. In collaboration with the drag artist Vaginal Davis, issues of gender, sexuality, and race are often addressed in non-didactic ways and with great humor. Following Judith Butler, the performative aspects of gender - its structure as imitation without original and as stylized repetition of actions that always strive for an ideal and yet fail at it - are integral to CHEAP's aesthetics of self-representation.

Part of the CHEAP collective are academy member Marc Siegel and actress Susanne Sachsse. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the ADKDW, they are curating a Worn-Out Concert in collaboration with the musicians of the band Xiu Xiu, addressing the themes of the body, production, division of labor and global networking. Conceived as a "durational experience", a multidisciplinary presentation is created that includes performance, films, lectures, theater, dance, drinking, discussions and live film recordings.

22 10 22 / 17:00 – open end
Altes Pfandhaus, Kartäuserwall 20, 50678 Köln
Admission free of charge