Theater der Welten and beyond?
Festival closing talk
With Carolina Bianchi, Carole Karemera, Meiro Koizumi, Chiaki Soma

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Theater der Welten and beyond?
Festival closing talk
With Carolina Bianchi, Carole Karemera, Meiro Koizumi, Chiaki Soma
Theater der Welt 2023 was conceived as Theater der Welten (theater of worlds), acknowledging a plurality of experiences. In what ways have the invited artistic works questioned binary ways of thinking between female and male, human and animal, West and East, or real and virtual? How has the curatorial framing of “incubationism,” which may be understood as a positive attitude toward uncertainties and unpredictabilities, played out in the audience’s experience? And, vice versa, what does the audience teach us for thinking further about this concept? In this final talk session, program director Chiaki Soma and participants of the festival come together to look back on festival activities and the artistic experiences of the past 18 days, and to reflect, against the backdrop of various impressions, on what lies beyond Theater der Welten…
With:Carolina Bianchi, Carole Karemera, Meiro Koizumi, Chiaki Soma
Moderation: Kyoko Iwaki