#ResidencyInsights Nancy Awori

»During the residency program I got an opportunity to work on a short production, which I call ›Shades of Resilience‹. Introducing Fahe Kerubo, a remarkable black queer woman living in Kenya, this episode delves into her personal life, exploring her relationships, struggles with mental health, and the supportive networks she has built. Fahe's journey is a testament to resilience, showcasing her role as a trailblazer who inspires future generations.«

Essen Dance Week 2024

From 7 to 13 October 2024 the cultural office of Essen, together with the Essen-based dance scene, is organising a week of dance across the whole city. The aim was to strengthen dance in Essen and, in a myriad of ways, make it visible. The programme comprises a series of activities such as open studios, performances, networking opportunities, urban dance battles and much more organised around this year’s bestowal of the German Dance Award at the Aalto-Theater on 12 October 2024, and the Kultursalon at PACT the evening before.

#ResidencyInsights Salamata Kobre

Die Residenz bei PACT war für Salamata Kobre und ihre Compagnie die letzte Etappe in der Entwicklung des Stücks ›Mangeuses d'âmes‹, das direkt im Anschluss im Juni 2024 seine Premiere am Théâtre Paris-Villette feierte.

Recap - songscapes and other narratives

The ›songscapes and other narratives‹ festival explores voices, stories and melodies that connect the past with the present. The individual works invite you to listen to forgotten, found and imagined stories and to trace the contradictory nature of human feelings of belonging and community, different motivations and forms of relationships.

Recap - life.like

What spheres exist beyond the dividing lines of the living and non-living? What relationships and spaces of possibility emerge between technologies and artistic practices? In a transdisciplinary program of lectures, talks, installations and performances, 'life.like' questioned the boundaries between machines, objects and biological systems.

SOUND ON Vol. 2 Aftermovie

Bei ›SOUND ON Vol. 2‹ kamen über 30 junge Musikhungrige zusammen und haben aus zwei Workshoptagen praktische Skills, Selbstbewusstsein und Kraft für eigene Schritte in der Musik- und Medienwelt geschöpft. Was war los? Das Team von BeatBasteln führte ins Thema ›Producing‹ ein, der erfahrene Raffi Balboa (OK Kid) coachte in ›Producing für Fortgeschrittene‹ und Gîn Bali gab Einblick in ihre Philosophie beim Auflegen und zeigte ihren Workflow an den CDJs, während Ella O’Brien-Coker handfeste Tipps für das (Self-)Management in der Musikbranche teilte. Rapper Horst Wegener aka Jesué feilte mit den Teilnehmer:innen an Songs und bei Joël-Joâo ging es beim Songwriting in die Tiefe. Dazu teilten Benjamin und Anna von Figur Lemur wertvolles Know-How zu Musikvideos und Live-Sound.

Retrospect – Kids Days

During PACT's ›KIDS DAYS‹ the whole house transformed into a swirling playground for our youngest visitors and their families: Rotating circles, colorful lights, music, and juggling combined to create a diverse program that evoked both intense emotions and moments of serenity.

#ResidencyInsights bacilli

»bacilli (Shotaro Yoshino, Yoshitaka Nanjo & James Jack; based in the archipelago of Japan) listen closely to the energy of microorganisms inside the soil in Zollverein—what do these bacteria inside of land say to us? In this residency we layered geological research on coal memories, oral histories with residents in Ruhr on what gives them energy today and connecting power circuits with imaginative thinking.«

#ResidencyInsights Kukily Colectivo

»Our residency at PACT was an exciting and intense period of work on our new project XTRÆNCESTRAL, set to premiere at the Lagos Biennial in February 2024. It was also a time to come together and work on our body-based performance practice, after several years of long-distance artistic processes.«

Retrospektive: Residency Café Plants & Memories

Changing memories of weather phenomena or plants as sources of food and reservoirs of knowledge: the open Residency Café ›Plants & Memories‹ offered insights into the work of resident artists Razcel Jan Salvarita and aniara rodado.

Retrospective: Peer to Peer – A Month of Media Art in NRW

Marco Donnarumma on ›I Am Your Body‹

»Since being diagnosed, ten years ago, with a degenerative condition that is making me increasingly deaf, I've been reflecting intensively on the inescapable multiplicity of one's perception, embodiment, identity. I pondered, of course, also about how my artistic work could respond to such a earthly, factual matter as a drastic bodily change and the inevitability of everything that comes with it.«