Promoting art and the latest technologies in international cooperation is on the agenda of the Academy for Theater and Digitality in collaboration with the Goethe Institutes from South America. Guests from Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil and Colombia will visit the Academy for Theater and Digitality from May 22 to 27 as part of the large-scale exchange program "ARTEscénicas + digitalidad" and get to know Dortmund and North Rhine-Westphalia as a cultural location.
To kick off the international encounter, the Goethe-Instituts and the Academy will present the work of their current residency programs. Here, the focus is on the visibility of climate change, contemporary dance, virtual reality and artistic perspectives in the regional as well as the international space. Because it doesn't always have to be Berlin. North Rhine-Westphalia also has a lot to offer. The guests will visit the Dortmund Concert Hall, the PACT Zollverein in Essen, the Folkwang University, the MIREVI in Düsseldorf and the Coproduction Lab as well as the current exhibition "We grow, grow and grow, we're gonna be alright and this is our show" by Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten. They get to know the Ruhr region as an artistic center in the midst of industrial culture and use the intercultural exchange for joint research on their projects.
"ARTEscénicas + digitalidad" is an educational, mentoring, research and production program in the fields of performing and performing arts and in new media. It aims to promote experimentation, creation and programming among art and theater professionals through collaborative and equal work, and to establish connections between young talents from Europe and South America. The program is led by the Goethe-Instituts in Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil and Colombia and is carried out in close collaboration with "Espacio Checoeslovaquia" and "NAVE" in Chile, the "Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas" in Uruguay and the "Akademie für Theater und Digitalität" in Dortmund. It is supported by the Wilo Foundation.