About 700 participants, more than 400 presenters from more than 40 countries: Yet, for Hamburg, »PSi#23« is no »OverFlow«. »OverFlow« simply belongs to the DNA of our city. For centuries, we have been managing streams of water, merchandize, traffic… We are delighted to be your host for the coming four days! We are very proud that the international science and arts association »Performance Studies international« has chosen Hamburg as a location for its annual conference in 2017. This underlines the international reputation of Performance Studies at Universität Hamburg, of Kulturfabrik Kampnagel and of the Theatre Festival »Theater der Welt«. There is so much »OverFlow« worldwide: constant news, messages, advertising — how does this affect us as humans? How does it affect individuals and societies? Thank you for seeking an answer, both in scientific and artistic ways! Enjoy a great celebration of international, interdisciplinary, scientific, and artistic performance research!

Katharina Fegebank

07.06.2017, Kampnagel Vorhalle,
18.30 – 20.00 + 21.00 – 22.30
in English and German language

A scenic essay including Nana Adusei-Poku, Hartmut Böhme, Vaginal Davis, Vinciane Despret, Petra Gehring, Karin Harrasser, Thomas Meinecke, Susanne Sachsse, Christina Sharpe and others.

In 2011, the Mobile Academy Berlin hosted the congress The Undead – Life Sciences & Pulp Fiction at Kampnagel in Hamburg. Now they are back with a scenic essay on the ocean as a transit space between life and death. The Future Us (the dead) meet the Former Them (the living) in a mechanical arena. In a card game on the future of the seabed, the history of logistics and the presence of the Black Atlantic, facts and fiction collide. A philosopher demands a more livable milieu for the dead. A radio channel plays a DJ set for water babies. Welcome to the Waiting Room. Brisk radio communication is going on here. The audience can switch between the various scenes of the installation via headphones.

http://www.theaterderwelt.de/en/artists/artist/artist-5876.html

For those whose arrival is scheduled on Wednesday June 7th, we will open an Early Bird Registration from 5.00 p. – 8.00 pm in the entrance hall of Kampnagel. Kampnagel, Jarrestr. 20, 22303 Hamburg.

http://www.kampnagel.de/en/home/

Contact details: PSi Future Advisory Board (FAB); psifuturists@gmail.com

Structure and schedule: A pre-conference outing in Hamburg (7th; Wed) and a 2-hour workshop per conference day for three days (8th-10th; Thu-Sat)

The PSi Future Advisory Board calls for applications to an inaugural summer school to coincide with PSi #23 in Hamburg. PSi Summer School #0.5 will bring together scholars, artists, and activists over the course of four days and in an intensive series of activities directed at thinking through, working with, and creating anew pressing issues and rising trends in performance studies. We propose the interval ‘0.5’ in the title as a gesture to the temporality in which the summer school happens, in between conferences, but also, and perhaps more centrally, to the fertility of the unfinished, the incomplete, and the “not-yet here” (Muñoz 2009).

https://psi-futurists.org/

Deadline application: March 31st, 2017 – closed

The local organizing committee PSi#23 OverFlow is happy to announce:
– 10 Performance Studies Hamburg travel grants (up to 1.500 Euro per person)
– 15 Performance Studies Hamburg production grants (200 Euro per application)

Requirements: Completed registration for the conference and submission of brief application materials as indicated below

Application instructions (submit up to 400 words): name, surname, city, institution, country; title of contribution and (for travel grant) amount of traveling cost (as stated on invoice).

Please send your application between February 27 and March 10 (final deadline) to psi2017@uni-hamburg.de (with the title: grant application and please specify in which of the two categories you wish to be considered).

We are looking forward to seeing you all in Hamburg.

We are very pleased to inform you that Katharina Fegebank – Second Mayor and Minister for Science, Research and Equalities of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg – will be the official conference patron of the PSi#23 “OverFlow“-Conference in Hamburg.