Temple of
materialised
Histories
Temple of
Emerging
Histories
Temple of
Appropriated
Histories
Temple of
materialised
Histories
Immersive exhibition of kinetic sculpture and sound art echoing present and historical surroundings
Temple of
Emerging
Histories
Interactive public programme of guided sensory experiences, and interdisciplinary talks on future landscapes
Temple of
Appropriated
Histories
Stage production dissecting cultural influences leading to times of catastrophe and questioning acts of catharsis
15 JUNE – 24 SEP
15 JUNE – 24 SEP
9 JULY premiere
Immersive exhibition of kinetic sculpture and sound art echoing present and historical surroundings, 15 June – 24 Sep
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Initiated by Icelandic visual artist Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Temple of Materialised Histories encompasses the theater space around and beyond the stage, opening the foyer of Staatstheater Kassel to a wider public. Focused on the literal materials used to create the theater building, it aims to create a reflective space about the lost interdependencies in the human relationship to the elements excavated and extracted from the earth. It builds on exploring material lineage and ethnography in an attempt to offer reconnections to those materials through visual and narrated stories.
Opening 15. JUNE
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, Returning Histories – Michelnauer Tuff (2022).
Interactive public programme of guided sensory experiences, and interdisciplinary talks on future landscapes, ongoing March – Sep
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As in times when the theater was also the meeting place of society, Temple of Emerging Histories aims to encourage gatherings of the common spirit. Communality trumps separation in a call for inclusive spaces for reflection. Taking inspiration from the fifth chapter of Greek tragedy, the space for catharsis, as well as the final chapter of the Poetic Edda (a chapter that Wagner did not appropriate) where a seerer foretells the emerging of a new world, lush and wild, with only remnants of former knowledge systems found overgrown, Temple of Emerging Histories emphasises potentiality and calls attention to the environments and architectures that may shape or allow for creative unfoldings.
How do we pose questions to bring to the oracles of our time?
How we question also often determines what ‘answers’ may follow. The programming includes a series of events made in collaboration with the University of Kassel and Scientists for Future (S4F)—ZUKUNFTSDIALOGE (Future Dialogues)—where interested visitors and citizens of Kassel come together with artists and scientists to create an assembly of thinkers exchanging viewpoints and modes of questioning. In a three-part series of citizen dialogues held in March 2022, questions posed by the audience ranged from: What impact should we as humans have on our planet? How do we learn to think and work together after decades of learned competition? to How can we work together to address lingering effects of trauma?
ProgramME
opening programme pdf here
Wednesday 15 JUNE 2022
All events are held in English. Free admission.
12:00–20:00
REGISTERANNA RÚN TRYGGVADÓTTIR
Sculptural and audio installation
Opera Foyer
The artistic installation Temple of Materialised Histories by artist Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir features new kinetic sculptures directly derived from the materials used to build the theater’s surrounding architecture. The audio work, Reflecting Materials, offers visitors a path to contemplate these elements through a prism of “factual” storytelling.
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin

© Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir. Photo: Saga Sig
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in in Reykjavík and Berlin. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.
10:00–18:00
REGISTERLUNDAHL & SEITL
Interactive artwork
Opera Foyer + plaza
Symphony of a Missing Room – Echoes of Alternative Histories
Responding to Staatstheater Kassel and the context of Temple of Alternative Histories, visitors are welcomed to experience an artwork by Lundahl & Seitl—a choreography of movements, and technological experiments. It is a mutating, site-sensitive work, and composite of over a decade of learnings from earlier environments. Adapting to the locality of Kassel, the work emerges from internal exercise on how to become a river-shaping and being shaped by different topographies, letting the visitor become the artwork and the artwork become a visitor. Symphony is a testimony to the understanding of virtual reality as an ability rather than as a form of technology. Immersive methods of spatial sound and bodily illusions, led by an unseen performer, trigger a process where the visitor perceives a present in negotiation between senses and reason.
Register online or on-site at the ticket office for a time slot to experience the guided artwork. Limited to 5 visitors every 30 minutes.
Pre-registration is not required—all are welcome!
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin
© Lundahl & Seitl
Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com
12:00–13:00
REGISTERSTUDIO B SEVERIN
Participatory performance
Opera Foyer+ plaza
Un-Commonplace: Cleaning as Awareness Practice
Our thoughts influence our actions, while our actions influence our thoughts. Mind and matter mutually create each other. Experiencing this connectivity holds the key to an embodied awareness of a holistic worldview, which is a discovery the designer duo made during their study of cleaning and its system of values in Japan. As a participatory performance, studio b severin will create a space of relationships through cleaning—an act of caring for the environment, others, and yourself.
Register online for attendance at this free event or on-site at the ticket office. Pre-registration is not required—all are welcome!
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin
studio b severin is a Berlin-based design studio, run by the German-French duo Birgit Severin and Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. By re-designing processes and the material world, they explore the psychological dimension of our environment to create visions for a more socially just and sustainable society. Severin recently worked to support the CoSocial Project of the Max Planck Institut with Prof. Tania Singer, exploring the effect of mindfulness-based mental training programs to reduce emotional stress caused by the pandemic.
www.studiobseverin.com
14:00–14:30
REGISTERRHEA DALL
Talk
Opera Foyer
Vernix
"I recently wrote about a friend’s artwork slipping into the world as if still partly covered in vernix (vernix caseosa, the beautifully named, fat and milky protective layer often observed on a newborn’s skin). Threading from this reproductive veneer—the vernix—to motions of making, convening, curating, this talk will touch on odd, volcanic visions, my recent work with art institutions, and inherent problems of curatorial care." – Rhea Dall
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin

© Rhea Dall. Photo: Anne Valeur
Rhea Dall, Ph.D., is a Danish curator and the Director of O—Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. From 2017 to 2020 she headed the Oslo institution UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society). She co-founded and ran PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2013-2015) with Kristine Siegel and co-curated the international triennale Bergen Assembly 2016.
14:30–15:00
REGISTERCAMALO GASKIN
Talk and guided intervention
Opera Foyer
Moving What Matters: Cohabiting Our Senses
Moving What Matters: Cohabiting Our Senses
In this opening procession, Camalo Gaskin will return us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. We will be guided to startle our senses out of habitual ways of perception, making the "inanimate” spell we place on our surroundings visible to us. In this procession we may catalyze an empathy between the porous containers of our own bodies and that of the spaces we inhabit and cohabit.
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin

© Camalo Gaskin. Photographer: Jasmin Schuler
Camalo Gaskin is an experienced doula, a lecturer, ritual guide, Intimacy Coach, and Human Connection Consultant for partners, organizations, and institutions. Gaskin created Guardians of Intimacy and the Center for Doula Pathways to train doulas internationally. The force behind her work carries us into themes of intimacy, transcendence, perception, presence, collective trauma, birth and end of life. In 2015, she created the film and conference series How We Birth with legendary thinker, surgeon, and obstetrician Dr. Michel Odent. She co-authored the allegory and intersectional feminist children’s book on self-actualization and financial literacy, Entrepreneur Finds Her Way (2018).
15:00–16:00
REGISTERRHEA DALL / CAMALO GASKIN / CASSANDRA EDLEFSEN LASCH & ANNA RÚN TRYGGVADÓTTIR
Panel discussion
Opera Foyer
Spaces Of Unfolding
Within the context of the installation Temple of Materialised Histories, curator Rhea Dall will speak to her broad experience working with artist-run spaces and institutions that mould their programming to artistic practice. Birth doula, Camalo Gaskin will speak to means of interpreting space and formulating ways of witnessing that assess and access capacity within dynamic spaces–not only with the unfolding of a birth, but also what this can mean to relationships of harboured intimacy amidst humans and our environments.
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin

© Rhea Dall. Photo: Anne Valeur
Rhea Dall, Ph.D., is a Danish curator and the Director of O—Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. From 2017 to 2020 she headed the Oslo institution UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund / Young Artists’ Society). She co-founded and ran PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2013-2015) with Kristine Siegel and co-curated the international triennale Bergen Assembly 2016.

© Camalo Gaskin. Photo: Jasmin Schuler
Camalo Gaskin is an experienced doula, a lecturer, ritual guide, Intimacy Coach, and Human Connection Consultant for partners, organizations, and institutions. Gaskin created Guardians of Intimacy and the Center for Doula Pathways to train doulas internationally. The force behind her work carries us into themes of intimacy, transcendence, perception, presence, collective trauma, birth and end of life.

© Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch. Photo: Ofri Lapid
Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch (USA) is a curator, editor, and writer based in Berlin, focused on the role of the editorial—processes of rereading—within artistic practice at large and at length. A major thread of investigation focuses on collaborative thought and how this is manifest in the process of making artist publications and materialising artwork in direct relation to context.

© Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir. Photo: Saga Sig
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in Reykjavík, Iceland and Berlin, Germany. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.
16:30–17:30
REGISTERJONATAN HABIB ENGQVIST / LUNDAHL & SEITL
Talk
Opera Foyer
The Missing Room
The immersive art of Lundahl & Seitl continuously inquires the question of how we perceive reality and negotiate its various forms. It often comprises a choreography of movements between static, peculiar devices, and technological experiments. Their artworks are a testimony to the understanding of virtual reality as an ability rather than a form of technology. Following the increasing complexity of their artworks, a conversation with curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist will attempt to describe the evolution of an artistic practice of embodied world-building.
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin
© Lundahl & Seitl
Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com

© Jonatan Habib Engqvist
Jonatan Habib Engqvist is an internationally active curator and author, and occasional teacher, with a background in Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory. He is the co-editor of the journal Ord&Bild, founding director of the curatorial residency, CRIS, and editor in mischief of tsnoK.se.
18:00–19:30
REGISTERTHORLEIFUR ÖRN ARNARSSON / JOHANNA LEINIUS / FLORIAN LUTZ / MI YOU
Panel discussion
Opera Foyer
In Production: Temple of Appropriated Histories
Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson will speak with the artistic director of Staatstheater Kassel, Florian Lutz, social scientist Johanna Leinius, and professor of art and economies Mi You about the stage work Temple of Appropriated Histories in its current state of development and the integral collaborations and architectures that influence and shape processual work.
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin

© Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson
Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson is an Icelandic theater director and an author. Arnarsson is a leading voice within the European theater scene, with a reputation of dissecting canonical literature in a highly collective method along with his collaborators. He is the former chief of the theater department at the Volksbühne, Berlin and is currently a part of the leadership group at the National Theater of Iceland in Reykjavik.

© Johanna Leinius
Johanna Leinius, Ph.D., is a social scientist and scientific manager of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's and Gender Studies of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, focusing on postcolonial-feminist theory, political ontology, gender relations in socio-environmental transformations, and social movements. Previously, she worked at the Department of Sociological Theory and the graduate programme Ecologies of Social Cohesion at the University of Kassel and at the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders,” at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

© Florian Lutz. Photo: Marina Sturm
Florian Lutz is artistic director of Staatstheater Kassel since 2021. He has worked as a freelance theater and opera director since 2003, also authoring publications on music and opera history. Under his artistic direction (2016–2020), the Oper House Halle “developed into one of the most innovative places of contemporary music theater” (Die Deutsche Bühne). In the focus of regional and nationwide experts, it was honoured with numerous accolades including the German Theater Prize DER FAUST.

(c) Mi You. Photo: Dorfmeyster/Can Wagener.
Mi You, Ph.D., is Professor of Art and Economies at University of Kassel / documenta Institute. Trained in media theory and science and technology studies, she was a research associate at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2014–2021), and has held lecturer positions in Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Aalto University (2019–2020), in the Roaming Academy of the Dutch Art Institute (2018–2019), and in Media Art at the University of the Arts Bremen (2016–2017).
Friday 17 June 2022
All events are held in English. Free admission.
10:00–18:00
REGISTERANNA RÚN TRYGGVADÓTTIR
Sculptural and audio installation
Opera Foyer
The artistic installation Temple of Materialised Histories by artist Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir features new kinetic sculptures directly derived from the materials used to build the theater’s surrounding architecture along with a meditative audio work that guides visitors through real and fictionalised stories of these various elements.
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl

© Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir. Photo: Saga Sig
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in Reykjavík, Iceland and Berlin, Germany. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.
12:00–20:00
REGISTERLUNDAHL & SEITL
Interactive artwork
Opera Foyer + plaza
Accessible during opening hours,
15 June - 24 Sept.
Symphony of a Missing Room – Echoes of Alternative Histories
Responding to Staatstheater Kassel and the context of Temple of Alternative Histories, visitors are welcomed to experience an artwork by Lundahl & Seitl—a choreography of movements, and technological experiments. It is a mutating, site-sensitive work, and composite of over a decade of learnings from earlier environments. Adapting to the locality of Kassel, the work emerges from internal exercise on how to become a river—shaping and being shaped by different topographies, letting the visitor become the artwork and the artwork become a visitor. Symphony is a testimony to the understanding of virtual reality as an ability rather than as a form of technology. Immersive methods of spatial sound and bodily illusions, led by an unseen performer, trigger a process where the visitor perceives a present in negotiation between senses and reason.
Register online or on-site at the ticket office for a time slot to experience the guided artwork. Limited to 5 visitors every 30 minutes.
Pre-registration is not required—all are welcome!
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com
Saturday 18 June 2022
All events are held in English. Free admission.
10:00–18:00
REGISTERThe artistic installation Temple of Materialised Histories by artist Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir features new kinetic sculptures directly derived from the materials used to build the theater’s surrounding architecture along with a meditative audio work that guides visitors through real and fictionalised stories of these various elements.
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin

© Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir. Photo: Saga Sig
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in Reykjavík, Iceland and Berlin, Germany. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.
10:00–18:00
REGISTERLUNDAHL & SEITL
Interactive artwork
Opera Foyer + plaza
Symphony of a Missing Room – Echoes of Alternative Histories
Responding to Staatstheater Kassel and the context of Temple of Alternative Histories, visitors are welcomed to experience an artwork by Lundahl & Seitl—a choreography of movements, and technological experiments. It is a mutating, site-sensitive work, and composite of over a decade of learnings from earlier environments. Adapting to the locality of Kassel, the work emerges from internal exercise on how to become a river—shaping and being shaped by different topographies, letting the visitor become the artwork and the artwork become a visitor. Symphony is a testimony to the understanding of virtual reality as an ability rather than as a form of technology. Immersive methods of spatial sound and bodily illusions, led by an unseen performer, trigger a process where the visitor perceives a present in negotiation between senses and reason.
Register online or on-site at the ticket office for a time slot to experience the guided artwork. Limited to 5 visitors every 30 minutes.
Pre-registration is not required—all are welcome!
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin
© Lundahl & Seitl
Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com
10:00–11:00
REGISTERSTUDIO B SEVERIN
Participatory performance
Opera Foyer+ plaza
Un-Commonplace: Cleaning as Awareness Practice
Our thoughts influence our actions, while our actions influence our thoughts. Mind and matter mutually create each other. Experiencing this connectivity holds the key to an embodied awareness of a holistic worldview, which is a discovery the designer duo made during their study of cleaning and its system of values in Japan. As a participatory performance, studio b severin will create a space of relationships through cleaning—an act of caring for the environment, others, and yourself.
Register online for attendance at this free event or on-site at the ticket office. Pre-registration is not required—all are welcome!
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin
studio b severin is a Berlin-based design studio, run by the German-French duo Birgit Severin and Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. By re-designing processes and our material world, they explore the psychological dimension of our environment to create visions for a more socially just and sustainable society. Severin recently worked to support the CoSocial Project of the Max Planck Institut with Prof. Tania Singer, exploring the effect of mindfulness-based mental training programs to reduce emotional stress caused by the pandemic.
www.studiobseverin.com
11:30–13:00
REGISTERLYDIA GOEHR / DEHLIA HANNAH / TAH ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
Talk
Opera Foyer
Staging the Futurity of Art and Nature
As part of Temple of Emerging Histories, philosophers Lydia Goehr and Dehlia Hannah will discuss the activation of the theater’s architecture, materiality, and environmental context in relation to the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Together with theater director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson and visual artist Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir, the dialogue will elaborate the possibilities for theater as the show-place of more-than-human spirits.
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin

© Dehlia Hannah and Lydia Goehr
Dehlia Hannah, Ph.D., is a curator and philosopher of nature and currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, where her project Rewilding the Museum (2021-2025) examines the art museum’s status within the fragile ecologies of the Anthropocene. She is the editor of A Year Without a Winter (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), a transdisciplinary investigation of contemporary imaginaries of climate change, Julius von Bismarck —Talking to Thunder (2019), Julian Charrière—Toward No Earthly Pole (2020), and the Routledge Handbook of Art and Science and Technology Studies (2021).
Lydia Goehr, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is the author of The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (1992); The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy [essays on Richard Wagner] (1998); Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory (2008), and co-editor of The Don Giovanni Moment. Essays on the legacy of an Opera (2006) and Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread. A Philosophical Detective Story (2021). Her research focuses on German aesthetic theory and the relationship between philosophy, politics, history, and music.
13:00–14:00
REGISTERJONATAN HABIB ENGQVIST / AINO IHANAINEN & ALEXANDER WEIBEL WEIBEL
Participatory performance and talk
Opera Foyer + plaza
Unravelling the Cord
To build a world takes many strands, complex movements, tangling, and untangling. Founders of the contemporary circus company Weibel Weibel Co., Aino Ihanainen & Alexander Weibel Weibel create visual poems. On this occasion, they will experiment with something more personal: weaving a new history as a family. Together with curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist, they invite the audience to enter a knitting circle, where the impossible becomes possible, faith becomes truth, and many individual threads weave together to become something powerful.
© Lundahl & Seitl
Birgit Severin & Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo. © studio b severin

© Jonatan Habib Engqvist
Jonatan Habib Engqvist is an internationally active curator and author, and occasional teacher, with a background in Philosophy and Aesthetic Theory. He is the co-editor of the journal Ord&Bild, founding director of the curatorial residency, CRIS, and editor in mischief of tsnoK.se.

© Aino Ihanainen & Alexander Weibel Weibel. Photo: Karolina Henke
Aino Ihanainen is a circus and installation artist from Finland. Starting her training at the age of ten, she has worked independently and with companies including Circus Xanti, Circo Aereo, and Cirkus Cirkör. Ihanainen combines the dynamic environment of the circus with slow and meditative practices of textile art and knitting, bringing circus to venues like museums and public space. Alongside her Cirkus Cirkör show Knitting Peace, touring with Weibel Weibel Co., and multidisciplinary performances with Arachne Project, she currently focuses on the balance of motherhood.
Alexander Weibel Weibel is a Spanish circus artist and musician. He abandoned an engineering focus to study in the National Circus School of Moscow and the University of Circus in Stockholm. Specialised in balance, whether on a slack rope, unicycle, or tight wire, Weibel Weibel has worked around the world with companies like Cirkus Cirkör, 7 Fingers, and Circus Oz, and won prizes at festivals like Cirque de Demain. In his own shows and within concept design and innovation at Cirkus Cirkör, he focuses on finding new methods or ways to interact with the audience.
DURING REGULAR OPENING HOURS
REGISTERThe artistic installation Temple of Materialised Histories by artist Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir features new kinetic sculptures directly derived from the materials used to build the theater’s surrounding architecture. The audio work, Reflecting Materials, offers visitors a path to contemplate these elements through a prism of “factual” storytelling.
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl

© Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir. Photo: Saga Sig
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in in Reykjavík and Berlin. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.
DURING REGULAR OPENING HOURS
REGISTERLUNDAHL & SEITL
Interactive artwork
Opera Foyer + plaza
Symphony of a Missing Room – Echoes of Alternative Histories
Responding to Staatstheater Kassel and the context of Temple of Alternative Histories, visitors are welcomed to experience an artwork by Lundahl & Seitl—a choreography of movements, and technological experiments. It is a mutating, site-sensitive work, and composite of over a decade of learnings from earlier environments. Adapting to the locality of Kassel, the work emerges from internal exercise on how to become a river-shaping and being shaped by different topographies, letting the visitor become the artwork and the artwork become a visitor. Symphony is a testimony to the understanding of virtual reality as an ability rather than as a form of technology. Immersive methods of spatial sound and bodily illusions, led by an unseen performer, trigger a process where the visitor perceives a present in negotiation between senses and reason.
Pre-registration is not required—all are welcome!
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com
TUESDAY 05 July 2022
19:00–23:00
REGISTERSNEAK IN: TEMPLE OF APPROPRIATED HISTORIES
Stage performance
Opera house
more information coming soon
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
SATURDAY 09 July 2022
SATURDAY 16 July 2022
19:00–23:00
REGISTERTEMPLE OF APPROPRIATED HISTORIES
Stage performance
Opera house
more information coming soon
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
SUNDAY 17 July 2022
19:00–23:00
REGISTERTEMPLE OF APPROPRIATED HISTORIES
Stage performance
Opera house
more information coming soon
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
TUESDAY 19 July 2022
19:00–23:00
REGISTERTEMPLE OF APPROPRIATED HISTORIES
Stage performance
Opera house
more information coming soon
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
THURSDAY 21 July 2022
19:00–23:00
REGISTERTEMPLE OF APPROPRIATED HISTORIES
Stage performance
Opera house
more information coming soon
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
SATURDAY 23 July 2022
19:00–23:00
REGISTERTEMPLE OF APPROPRIATED HISTORIES
Stage performance
Opera house
more information coming soon
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
SUNDAY 24 July 2022
19:00–23:00
REGISTERTEMPLE OF APPROPRIATED HISTORIES
Stage performance
Opera house
more information coming soon
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
DURING REGULAR OPENING HOURS
REGISTERANNA RÚN TRYGGVADÓTTIR
Sculptural and audio installation
Opera Foyer
The artistic installation Temple of Materialised Histories by artist Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir features new kinetic sculptures directly derived from the materials used to build the theater’s surrounding architecture. The audio work, Reflecting Materials, offers visitors a path to contemplate these elements through a prism of “factual” storytelling.
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl

© Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir. Photo: Saga Sig
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in in Reykjavík and Berlin. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.
DURING REGULAR OPENING HOURS
REGISTERLUNDAHL & SEITL
Interactive artwork
Opera Foyer + plaza
Symphony of a Missing Room – Echoes of Alternative Histories
Responding to Staatstheater Kassel and the context of Temple of Alternative Histories, visitors are welcomed to experience an artwork by Lundahl & Seitl—a choreography of movements, and technological experiments. It is a mutating, site-sensitive work, and composite of over a decade of learnings from earlier environments. Adapting to the locality of Kassel, the work emerges from internal exercise on how to become a river-shaping and being shaped by different topographies, letting the visitor become the artwork and the artwork become a visitor. Symphony is a testimony to the understanding of virtual reality as an ability rather than as a form of technology. Immersive methods of spatial sound and bodily illusions, led by an unseen performer, trigger a process where the visitor perceives a present in negotiation between senses and reason.
Pre-registration is not required—all are welcome!
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com
All events are held in English. Free admission.
DURING REGULAR OPENING HOURS
REGISTERANNA RÚN TRYGGVADÓTTIR
Sculptural and audio installation
Opera Foyer
The artistic installation Temple of Materialised Histories by artist Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir features new kinetic sculptures directly derived from the materials used to build the theater’s surrounding architecture. The audio work, Reflecting Materials, offers visitors a path to contemplate these elements through a prism of “factual” storytelling.
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl

© Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir. Photo: Saga Sig
Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir is a visual artist working in in Reykjavík and Berlin. In her continued work with material performances she devises technologically driven systems that facilitate and explore kinetic and cyclical behaviour of natural elements.
DURING REGULAR OPENING HOURS
REGISTERLUNDAHL & SEITL
Interactive artwork
Opera Foyer + plaza
Symphony of a Missing Room – Echoes of Alternative Histories
Responding to Staatstheater Kassel and the context of Temple of Alternative Histories, visitors are welcomed to experience an artwork by Lundahl & Seitl—a choreography of movements, and technological experiments. It is a mutating, site-sensitive work, and composite of over a decade of learnings from earlier environments. Adapting to the locality of Kassel, the work emerges from internal exercise on how to become a river-shaping and being shaped by different topographies, letting the visitor become the artwork and the artwork become a visitor. Symphony is a testimony to the understanding of virtual reality as an ability rather than as a form of technology. Immersive methods of spatial sound and bodily illusions, led by an unseen performer, trigger a process where the visitor perceives a present in negotiation between senses and reason.
Register online or on-site at the ticket office for a time slot to experience the guided artwork. Limited to 5 visitors every 30 minutes.
Pre-registration is not required—all are welcome!
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
Lundahl & Seitl are pioneers of a new immersive anti-disciplinary practice within contemporary art and performance. Through a heuristic relationship to process, and created in collaboration between disciplines, the duo have developed an art form and method containing staging, choreographed movement, instructions, sculpture, spatial-sound, augmented and virtual reality.
www.lundahl-seitl.com
SUNDAY 18 September 2022
20:15–22:15
REGISTERSCIENCE SLAM
TiF Theater im Fridericianum Foyer
Eintritt frei (mit Anmeldung)
Eine Veranstaltungsreihe zur Zukunft des Mensch-Natur-Verhältnisses von UniKasselTransfer, Scientists for Future Kassel und dem Staatstheater Kassel
Wissenschaft und Unterhaltung – Beim Science Slam ziehen sich diese Gegensätze an. Wissenschaftler:innen präsentieren ihre Forschung in kurzweiligen Vorträgen. Wem der Balanceakt am besten gelingt, entscheidet das Publikum. Die Themen der Vorträge sind angeregt durch Fragen der Kasseler Bürger:innen, die während der ZUKUNFTSDIALOGE im März 2022 gesammelt wurden und im Anschluss an das Bühnenprogramm bleibt noch ausreichend Zeit, um mit den Wissenschaftler:innen persönlich ins Gespräch zu kommen.
© Lundahl & Seitl
© Lundahl & Seitl
Stage production dissecting cultural influences leading to times of catastrophe and questioning acts of catharsis, premiering 9 July
Staatstheater Kassel
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Written and directed by Icelandic theater artist Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, Temple of Appropriated Histories activates Staatstheater Kassel’s collective of actors, dancers, opera singers, musicians. Building a story arc from the beginning of the scientific revolution and the enlightenment to the industrial revolution, the work extends to the modern world and aims to chronicle massive contradictions in European history.
Two central works of European history are interwoven in this story structure: the Poetic Edda, a creation and downfall story of the world based in Norse mythology; and Richard Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelungen”, an opera which aimed to transcend the arts into a sphere of the gods, creating a “Gesamtkunstwerk”. The connections between these two historical works exposes the appropriation and extraction as well as the flow of knowledge through the veins of Europe’s cultural history.
“Temple” references Wagner’s wish to build a temple around his creation and then burn both the manuscript as well as the building after its premiere. Today, these kinds of “temples” stand in cities across Europe and the world, but do they still function as interactive ritualistic social gathering places with transformative powers?