Prof. Dr. David Roesner at the 2-day workshop "Critical institutional practices: global perspectives across the visual arts and music theatre“ in Berne

This workshop is part of the series Musiktheater – Macht – Gesellschaft and consists of a series of discussions around the work of curator Gabi Ngcobo (currently director of Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and composer, musician & installation artist Neo Muyanga (currently: impresario at The Centre for the Less Good Idea, South Africa) two key thinkers and practitioners from South Africa working in/with European cultural institutions. It addresses critical institutional practices in the visual arts and field of music theater with a focus on Europe as a site of active transformation in relation to global discourses. It investigates how artists, curators, directors engage with, subvert, and reconfigure institutional frameworks—museums, opera houses, biennales, festivals—through strategies that destabilize entrenched hierarchies of knowledge, authorship, and cultural authority. The conference is organised by Prof. Dr. Lena van der Hoven, professor for Music Theatre at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Bern, and Prof. Dr. Elize Mazadiego, professor for World Art History at the Institute of Art History at the University of Bern.