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Theater der Dinge 2025 SPOTSHOTBEUYS Silke Grabinger, SILK Fluegge
Event by: DOCK 11
Location: Kastanienallee 79, Kastanienallee 79, Berlin - Bezirk Pankow
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In SPOTSHOTBEUYS, the artist Silke Grabinger is on stage with the robot dog “Spot”. Against the background of Joseph Beuys' performance "I like America and America likes me", the work illuminates the current relationship between people and technology: the dog is no longer the symbol of original nature, as in Beuys, but rather the result of the currently most advanced culture - but our relationship to it is similar.
After the premiere at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and guest performances in Austria and Germany, the work can now be seen in Berlin. Based on the three days and three nights in which Beuys let himself be locked in a New York gallery with a coyote, the performance questions dogs and humans in their independence and their roles: Who is in danger, who controls whom and who can/must be tamed by whom?
Concept, choreography, performance: Silke Grabinger
Rehearsal management, production management: Gergely Dudás-Simó
Dramaturgy, Ludwig Fehlhofer, Silke Grabinger
Costume design: Bianca Fladerer
Lighting design: Max Windisch-Spoerk
Outside eye: Michael Eickhoff, Michael Stolhofer
Production team: Marie Scholze
Marketing, PR: Julia Lehner
Company management: Marlene Lentner
Video: Karol Kensy
Genre: Performance with robot dog
Duration: 120 minutes
Language: without spoken language
Information on accessibility: Information on the structural accessibility of the venue can be found here. The performance includes theatrical fog, strobe lighting effects, nudity and loud music. Chairs, bean bags and seat cushions are available. The audience can change seats during the performance and leave the hall at any time for individual breaks. The theater bar in the foyer is open throughout the evening.
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A cooperation between Silke Grabinger, Circus of Knowledge and the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Supported by: City of Linz, State of Upper Austria, BMKOES
With the kind support of the Samaritan Association Linz.
The guest performance is supported by the tour cost funding of the Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, culture, media and sport Austria supported.
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AS PART OF:
Theater der Dinge 2025
Autonomous Objects
October 31st - November 5th, 2025
International Festival of Contemporary Figure and Object Theater
For a long time, autonomy was reserved for humans: only those who have consciousness and can make decisions independently can, was considered self-determined and autonomous. After initially granting autonomy to individual animal species, the term has also been applied to objects in recent years: digital transformation has created things and systems that have a certain degree of self-management and flexibility. They complete tasks and make choices, they learn and develop. Of course, this is not a question of real ability to act: human programming decisions continue to be central influencing factors.
In its 2025 edition, Theater der Dinge asks how people and their social systems locate themselves in a world in which things increasingly appear to act autonomously. Starting from a wide variety of forms of theater with puppets, robots and objects, the artists involved develop a variety of content approaches and playfully invite you to enter the field of digital autonomy with 18 productions, installations, tryouts and workshops.
Accessibility
Information on the accessibility of the individual events can be found in the respective productions. We offer a guided tour with audio description through the installation “What Humanity Taught Us” on two dates.
Supported by
Capital Culture Fund
Supported by
Flanders State of the Art / Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, Culture, Media, Sport (BMWKS) / Institut Francais + French Ministry of Culture / Support Association of the Schaubude Berlin
Cooperation partners
TATWERK / DOCK ART / Heinrich Böll Library / Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts / Game & Object/ KompleXX
Media partners
Berliner Fenster / Radioeins / taz / The Berliner / tipBerlin
Ticket partner
Reservix
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In SPOTSHOTBEUYS, the artist Silke Grabinger shares the stage with robot dog “Spot”. With the performance by Joseph Beuys “I Like America and America Likes Me”, this artistic work questions the current relationship between human beings and technology. The dog is no longer, as it was for Beuys, a symbol of primal nature, but rather the result of the most advanced culture to date—yet our relationship with it is similar.
After its premiere at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and guest performances in Austria and Germany, this work can now be seen in Berlin. Inspired by the three days and three nights that Beuys was locked up with a coyote in a New York gallery, the performance questions dog and human being in their independence and in their roles: who poses a risk, who controls whom and who can or must be tamed by whom?
Concept, choreography, performance: Silke Grabinger
Rehearsal direction, production management: Gergely Dudás-Simó
Dramaturgy: Ludwig Fehlhofer, Silke Grabinger
Costume design: Bianca Fladerer
Light design: Max Windisch-Spoerk
Outside Eye: Michael Eickhoff, Michael Stolhofer
Production team: Marie Scholze
Marketing, PR: Julia Lehner
Company Management: Marlene Lentner
Video: Karol Kensy
Genre: Performance with a robot dog
Duration: 120 minutes
Language: Non-spoken
Information About Accessibility: You can find information about the physical accessibility of the performance venue here. The performance contains theatrical haze, stroboscopic lighting effects, nudity and loud music. Chairs, beanbag chairs and cushions are available for seating. The audience can change their seats during the performance and can leave the auditorium at any time in order to take a break. The theater’s bar in the lobby will be open during the entire course of the evening.
A collaboration between Silke Grabinger, Zirkus des Wissen and Johannes Kepler University of Linz.
Funded by: City of Linz, State of Upper Austria, BMKOES
With the kind support of the Samariterbund Linz
The festival performance is funded by the tour subsidy program of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media, and Sport.
//
IN FRAME OF:
Theater der Dinge 2025
Autonomous Objects
October 31st - November 5th, 2025
International Festival of Contemporary Puppet and Object Theater
Autonomy was reserved for human beings for a very long time: only someone who had a consciousness and could independently make decisions was deemed to be self-determined and autonomous. After some species of animals were first initially determined to have autonomy, the term has now also been expanded to objects in recent years: the digital transformation has created things and systems that demonstrate a certain degree of self-management and flexibility. They fulfill tasks and make a choice, they learn and develop themselves. In doing so, of course, is not a matter of actual agency: human programming decisions continue to be central factors of influence. In its 2025 edition, Theater der Dinge questions where human beings and their social systems are located in a world where things increasingly seem to be able to act autonomously. Proceeding from very diverse forms of theater with puppets, robots and objects, the participating artists develop a wide variety of points of access in their contents. 18 productions, installations, tryouts and workshops invite the audience to playfully give themselves over to the exciting field of digital autonomy.
Accessibility.
Information regarding the accessibility of the individual events can be found in the information for the respective production. We are offering two guided tours with audio description of the installation “What Humanity Taught Us.”
Funded by
Capital Culture Fund
Supported by
Flanders State of the Art / Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, Culture, Media, Sport (BMWKS) / Institut Francais + French Ministry of Culture / Support Association of the Schaubude Berlin
collaborative partners
TATWERK / DOCK ART / Heinrich Böll Library / Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts / Game & Object/ KompleXX
media partners
Berliner Fenster / Radioeins / taz / The Berliner / tipBerlin
ticket partners
Reservix
After the premiere at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and guest performances in Austria and Germany, the work can now be seen in Berlin. Based on the three days and three nights in which Beuys let himself be locked in a New York gallery with a coyote, the performance questions dogs and humans in their independence and their roles: Who is in danger, who controls whom and who can/must be tamed by whom?
Concept, choreography, performance: Silke Grabinger
Rehearsal management, production management: Gergely Dudás-Simó
Dramaturgy, Ludwig Fehlhofer, Silke Grabinger
Costume design: Bianca Fladerer
Lighting design: Max Windisch-Spoerk
Outside eye: Michael Eickhoff, Michael Stolhofer
Production team: Marie Scholze
Marketing, PR: Julia Lehner
Company management: Marlene Lentner
Video: Karol Kensy
Genre: Performance with robot dog
Duration: 120 minutes
Language: without spoken language
Information on accessibility: Information on the structural accessibility of the venue can be found here. The performance includes theatrical fog, strobe lighting effects, nudity and loud music. Chairs, bean bags and seat cushions are available. The audience can change seats during the performance and leave the hall at any time for individual breaks. The theater bar in the foyer is open throughout the evening.
More silk.at
A cooperation between Silke Grabinger, Circus of Knowledge and the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Supported by: City of Linz, State of Upper Austria, BMKOES
With the kind support of the Samaritan Association Linz.
The guest performance is supported by the tour cost funding of the Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, culture, media and sport Austria supported.
//
AS PART OF:
Theater der Dinge 2025
Autonomous Objects
October 31st - November 5th, 2025
International Festival of Contemporary Figure and Object Theater
For a long time, autonomy was reserved for humans: only those who have consciousness and can make decisions independently can, was considered self-determined and autonomous. After initially granting autonomy to individual animal species, the term has also been applied to objects in recent years: digital transformation has created things and systems that have a certain degree of self-management and flexibility. They complete tasks and make choices, they learn and develop. Of course, this is not a question of real ability to act: human programming decisions continue to be central influencing factors.
In its 2025 edition, Theater der Dinge asks how people and their social systems locate themselves in a world in which things increasingly appear to act autonomously. Starting from a wide variety of forms of theater with puppets, robots and objects, the artists involved develop a variety of content approaches and playfully invite you to enter the field of digital autonomy with 18 productions, installations, tryouts and workshops.
Accessibility
Information on the accessibility of the individual events can be found in the respective productions. We offer a guided tour with audio description through the installation “What Humanity Taught Us” on two dates.
Supported by
Capital Culture Fund
Supported by
Flanders State of the Art / Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, Culture, Media, Sport (BMWKS) / Institut Francais + French Ministry of Culture / Support Association of the Schaubude Berlin
Cooperation partners
TATWERK / DOCK ART / Heinrich Böll Library / Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts / Game & Object/ KompleXX
Media partners
Berliner Fenster / Radioeins / taz / The Berliner / tipBerlin
Ticket partner
Reservix
––––––––––––––––––––––
In SPOTSHOTBEUYS, the artist Silke Grabinger shares the stage with robot dog “Spot”. With the performance by Joseph Beuys “I Like America and America Likes Me”, this artistic work questions the current relationship between human beings and technology. The dog is no longer, as it was for Beuys, a symbol of primal nature, but rather the result of the most advanced culture to date—yet our relationship with it is similar.
After its premiere at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and guest performances in Austria and Germany, this work can now be seen in Berlin. Inspired by the three days and three nights that Beuys was locked up with a coyote in a New York gallery, the performance questions dog and human being in their independence and in their roles: who poses a risk, who controls whom and who can or must be tamed by whom?
Concept, choreography, performance: Silke Grabinger
Rehearsal direction, production management: Gergely Dudás-Simó
Dramaturgy: Ludwig Fehlhofer, Silke Grabinger
Costume design: Bianca Fladerer
Light design: Max Windisch-Spoerk
Outside Eye: Michael Eickhoff, Michael Stolhofer
Production team: Marie Scholze
Marketing, PR: Julia Lehner
Company Management: Marlene Lentner
Video: Karol Kensy
Genre: Performance with a robot dog
Duration: 120 minutes
Language: Non-spoken
Information About Accessibility: You can find information about the physical accessibility of the performance venue here. The performance contains theatrical haze, stroboscopic lighting effects, nudity and loud music. Chairs, beanbag chairs and cushions are available for seating. The audience can change their seats during the performance and can leave the auditorium at any time in order to take a break. The theater’s bar in the lobby will be open during the entire course of the evening.
A collaboration between Silke Grabinger, Zirkus des Wissen and Johannes Kepler University of Linz.
Funded by: City of Linz, State of Upper Austria, BMKOES
With the kind support of the Samariterbund Linz
The festival performance is funded by the tour subsidy program of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media, and Sport.
//
IN FRAME OF:
Theater der Dinge 2025
Autonomous Objects
October 31st - November 5th, 2025
International Festival of Contemporary Puppet and Object Theater
Autonomy was reserved for human beings for a very long time: only someone who had a consciousness and could independently make decisions was deemed to be self-determined and autonomous. After some species of animals were first initially determined to have autonomy, the term has now also been expanded to objects in recent years: the digital transformation has created things and systems that demonstrate a certain degree of self-management and flexibility. They fulfill tasks and make a choice, they learn and develop themselves. In doing so, of course, is not a matter of actual agency: human programming decisions continue to be central factors of influence. In its 2025 edition, Theater der Dinge questions where human beings and their social systems are located in a world where things increasingly seem to be able to act autonomously. Proceeding from very diverse forms of theater with puppets, robots and objects, the participating artists develop a wide variety of points of access in their contents. 18 productions, installations, tryouts and workshops invite the audience to playfully give themselves over to the exciting field of digital autonomy.
Accessibility.
Information regarding the accessibility of the individual events can be found in the information for the respective production. We are offering two guided tours with audio description of the installation “What Humanity Taught Us.”
Funded by
Capital Culture Fund
Supported by
Flanders State of the Art / Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, Culture, Media, Sport (BMWKS) / Institut Francais + French Ministry of Culture / Support Association of the Schaubude Berlin
collaborative partners
TATWERK / DOCK ART / Heinrich Böll Library / Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts / Game & Object/ KompleXX
media partners
Berliner Fenster / Radioeins / taz / The Berliner / tipBerlin
ticket partners
Reservix