Lecture Dr. Michael Haerdter

MODERNISM AND MOBILITY/
NOMADISM AND THE ARTS

A lecture by Dr. Michael Haerdter, Berlin

21 March, 4- 6pm
Jones Room, Woodruff Library, Emory University

From the backdrop of political and cultural history, Dr. Haerdter will discuss nomadism in the arts and raise fundamental issues of forming creative transnational communities capable of responding to and interacting with our rapidly changing world and its multiple challenges. This all-embracing process, which strongly influences contemporary art and artists, gave rise to the creation of artists' communities. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and the network of artist-in-residence centers, Res Artis, will be presented as remarkable models of a global movement. To consider the international and local potential of these models, a roundtable discussion will follow with the audience and

Sam Cherribi, Center for the Study of Public Scholarship, Emory University
Del Hamilton, Artistic Director of 7 Stages, Atlanta
Stacey Klein, Artistic Director of Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, Massachusetts
Tim Habeger,Artistic Director Push Push Theater, Decatur
Lois Overbeck, Editor, The Letters of Samuel Beckett, GSAS, Emory University
Bill Nigut, President,Metropolitan Atlanta Arts and Culture Coalition
Roland Schatz, President of Media Tenor, Ltd. and Political Analyst,
who will sum up the discussion and offer an update of the first 100 days of the
new German Chancellor in the context of the arts

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A program in the Year of Beckett 2006/ Atlanta.

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Dr. Michael Haerdter is a dramaturg, curator, writer, as well as Founder and Director of Berlin's center for performance and visual arts, Künstlerhaus Bethanien (1974-1999), and Founder and President (1993-2000) of Res Artis - International Association of Residential Arts Centers, a network of eminent artist-in-residence centers and programs with over 300 members in more than 40 countries world-wide. He served as assistant to Samuel Beckett for his production of Endspiel (Endgame) in the Berlin Schiller Theater in 1967 and edited the Rehearsal Diary for this production.

Dr. HaerdterÕs Residency at Emory University and in Atlanta, is supported by the Office of International Affairs The Halle Institute, The Correspondence of Samuel Becket of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The Center for Public Scholarship, Theater Studies, Push Push Theater, the Goethe Institut in Atlanta, and The Sycamore House, Decatur