Julian Warner | Der Soldat - ein Übergangsritual

The black artist as soldier: provocative questioning of the theater business after Frantz Fanon - with drums and accordion.

A black artist realizes that he has become a soldier: as an art worker he enters the stage - in the battle for representation and resources he is given a weapon. But is cultural struggle war? Few have written as clearly about violence in a fragmented world as the anti-colonial mastermind Frantz Fanon, who is still received and controversially discussed in left-wing discourses around the world today. In "The Soldier", curator and artist Julian Warner combines the insights of the psychiatrist and Marxist from Martinique with the world of theater and confronts the audience with their own relationship to violence and their defense against it in a rousing concert performance.

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A Black artist realizes that he's become a soldier. He takes to the stage as an art worker - in the fight for representation and resources he is given a weapon. But is cultural struggle war? In 'Der Soldat' artist and curator Julian Warner links the world of theatre with the insights of the anti-colonial thought leader Frantz Fanon from Martinique, confronting the audience with their own relationship to violence and its defence in a rousing concert performance.