Das Theater der Unterdrückten. Zur Theorie eines befreienden Theaters nach Augusto Boal. Vortrag und Diskurs von und mit Bernd Ruping

In the organizer's words:

At the center of the exhibition Olho da Rua [Out Loud] is the film of the same name by Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade. For this film, de Andrade portrayed a temporary community of homeless people living in the city center of Recife. He invited them to take part in a series of exercises inspired by the Theater of the Oppressed, which was developed in the 1970s by the Brazilian theorist and activist Augusto Boal. The Theater of the Oppressed focuses on the political potential of the participants and on reshaping and changing their lives through active observation, collective brainstorming and unwritten expression.

Following on from de Andrade's artistic work, theater scholar Bernd Ruping will give a deeper insight into the aesthetic-performative format of the work in a lecture followed by a discourse as part of the exhibition Olho da Rua [Out Loud]. As Professor of Performing Communication and Theater Pedagogy at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences in Lingen, Ruping has been an expert on the theater of the oppressed for over 30 years. In his practice, he is also concerned with establishing a form of teaching and learning that does not spectacularize the complexity of reality, but rather develops forms of design from encounters with local people, regardless of age or background.