For the workshop weekend "Demontage des Puppenheims" in February 2023, which dealt with the racism-critical use of puppets in theater and museums, the artists Sarah Bergh, Claude Jansen and Fabrice Mazliah developed a performance that, loosely based on Marina Abramovic's "The artist is present", enables a 1-to-1 encounter with figures from the Puppentheater collection. Equipped with thoughtful, funny and poetic messages, the puppets challenge visitors to question stereotypes and the subject-object status.

Sarah Bergh studied education, psychology and theater studies. Since 2002, she has been working independently with her office "Bergh Kunst- und Kulturprojekte" on the conception and implementation of art and cultural projects. Her work focuses on migration and diversity education, human rights, discrimination, racism, decolonization and empowerment. She also works in the Department of Civic Education at the Munich Pedagogical Institute.

Claude Jansen, born in Dorsten, lives in Hamburg; from 2012 to 2020 also temporarily in Cape Town (South Africa), currently in Windhoek (Namibia). With a degree in Applied Theater Studies at Justus Liebig University / Giessen, she is a founding member of the women's performance collective "She She Pop" (1993-2000). As part of the artistic direction, she spent the following 12 years with the transnational performance network Hajusom. In 2012, she resumed her personal research, which she had already passionately pursued during her studies in Giessen: the relationship between (African) ritual practices and Richard Schechner's performance theory. She has deepened her knowledge with concentrated studies in various African countries - accompanied by inspiring academic exchanges with Prof. Dr. Malidoma Somé, Prof. Dr. Harry Garuba and Prof. Dr. Achille Mbembe. Her work as a freelance dramaturge and curator, as well as her teaching and lecturing activities, have since focused on transnational (artistic) mediation and decolonization practices and are located in current debates on: Animism / Posthumanism / Feminism, as well as ritual and performance practices. In 2019 she started her program: "Female Decolonisation - The Re-Enactement of Things" and founded together with Bisrat Negassi the transnational queer/feminist artist studio: COME IN TENT, which is dedicated to artistic collaboration with so-called "looted art objects" and is currently curating a 3-year artistic research production in collaboration with artists from Germany and Namibia (funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Hamburg, the Goethe Institute and the German Federal Cultural Foundation; TURN2).

Fabrice Mazliah is a choreographer and performer. Mazliah was born in Geneva and lives in Frankfurt. He studied dance in his hometown, at the National School of Dance in Athens and then at the Atelier Rudra Béjart in Lausanne. He is interested in renegotiating the relationship between our environment, its objects and our bodies. In his work, he often combines movement with language to develop new narrative and poetic forms. In 1997 he joined the Frankfurt Ballet and subsequently the Forsythe Company, both under the direction of William Forsythe.

Hin und weg - as part of the farewell program of the Münchner Stadtmuseum, admission is free.

Period: 2-4 p.m.
For adults / admission and participation free / location: in the hall of the Münchner Stadtmuseum
Registration for a timeslot required at kontakt(at)figurentheater-gfp.de