"STATIONEN" by Thomas Lehmen (2003)
"Station 1, Berlin" Premiere 3. Oktober 2003, Podewil, Berlin (D)
concept, author, choreography: Thomas Lehmen
project manager: Sven-Thore Kramm
assistance: Cécile Buclin, Annette Fricker, Inge von Hehn
artistic advise: Petra Roggel (production), Katrin Schoof (visual design)
production: Thomas Lehmen
co-production: Podewil/TanzWerkstatt Berlin (D), Kaaitheater Brüssel, Vooruit Gent.
Supported by Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin.
participants in "Station1, Berlin": Jana Bulgurcu, Harry Brill, Anke
Eckardt, Gabriele Elmendorf, Knut Ernst, Ulrich Herzfeld, Dieter
Klöpfel, Vera Knolle, Arno Kölker, Felix Marchand, Irina Müller, Martin
Nachbar, Franz Pfeiffer, Marc Rees, Jochen Roller, Bernd Saremba, Ronny
Scharnke, Silvia Scharnke, Christin Skorning, Bernd Tackmann.
My work from this year is built around the theme, "systems". Niklas
Luhmann describes, for example, a social system as an auto-poetic,
self-referential system, a system grounded upon sense, which
differentiates itself from an environment, and which operates through
and is ultimately elementary of communications. These communications are
the topic of concern. Of equal interest is the development of a
"universal" discourse which excludes nothing and no one. In an
increasingly virtual and exclusively media-distributed world, art is the
window through which one can contemplate the intersections between
different parts of this world.