IMPLANT

It's September and the concrete in the city no longer glows. In some places it breaks open and small cracks become visible.

From September 1 to 30, the site-specific performance festival Implantieren 2018 occupies the city.

In the third edition of the festival, ID_Frankfurt presents ten premieres by dance and performance artists from Frankfurt's independent scene who explore, use and reinterpret urban space. Walks, concerts, interventions, performances, late-night shows and public dance workshops will take place on the streets and squares, in the suburban trains, dunes, museums and cinemas between Frankfurt, Offenbach and Hanau.

The collective dasda.hinter opens the festival centre at different locations every weekend and invites the audience and local residents to drinks and debates.

The DJ duo from Wunderbaren Waschsalon transplants queer beats into Rebstockpark for the opening (September 1) and five weeks later, for finale, spreads picnic blankets and ghetto blaster in Holzhausenpark from (30.9.).

The urban researchers Katharina Böttger and Lene Benz will discuss with artists, scientists, activists and residents about questions of urban planning (7.9.), heteronormative imparting of knowledge (14.9.) and the possibilities of urban protest culture (22.9.).

For two weeks, the artist collective Mobile Albania is implanting an alternative bus line into the Rhine-Main area and asking passers-by to get lost - spatially and mentally.

im-plan-tie-ren means to plant or insert something. What do we have to put in? And what to leave out? Sit down and stay a while. Turn your heads and see the skyscrapers laid down. Implant yourself..

Artistic direction, organisation, press and public relations:
Eleonora Herder, Hanna Knell

Production management, ticketing, accounting: Florian Richard

Technical director: Hendrik Borowski

Concept: festival centre: dasda.hinter

Concept dance workshops: Hannah Dewor/ DAS PLATEAU

Concept discourse program: Katharina Böttger, Lene Benz

Graphics: Anna Sukhova

Artistic contributions: Mobile Albania, Red Park, dasda.hinter, THE PLATEAU, Susanne Zaun, Judith Altmeyer, Stephan Dorn, Maria Isabel Hagen, Leander Ripchinsky, The Kill Joys, Julia Krause, Friederike Thielmann, Jacob Bussmann, Miriam Coretta Schulte, Elena von Liebenstein, Isabelle Pietsch, Anne Kapsner, Viviane Niebling, Florian Richard, Andreas Radek, Anna Shevelev and Wonderful Laundromat

Organizer: ID_Frankfurt_InDependent Dance and Performance eV 

11 performances, 5 public discussions, 3 installations, 2 workshops, 2 parties

Presentations in total: 57

Artists, cultural workers and theorists: about 60

Locations: 29

Genres: Performances, audiowalks, concerts, busline, guided tours, installations, workshops, symposia, discussions, lectures, parties

Number of spectators: 1.519

Sponsors: Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Kulturfonds FrankfurtRheinMain, Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, Naspa Foundation, Women's Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main, City of Hanau, Foundation of the Sparkasse Hanau

Cooperation partners: DAM German Museum of Architecture, Mal Seh'n Cinema, Open House of Cultures, afip - academy for interdisciplinary processes, laPROF Hessen e.V., Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Begegnungsstätte Freigericht Hanau, basis e.V., Museum of Local History Schwanheim, Senckenberg Museum of Nature

"The goal is similar (to the Wiesbaden Biennale): to stimulate discourse, ideally not only among the participating actors. Yet the young local artists of IMPLANTIEREN see themselves as explorers of their own environment, or as quiet disruptors of the cityscape. They sit for weeks next to regular customers at water bars or create art on the S-Bahn. This is intended to draw attention to what we could have seen long ago... Does art in public space have to make a splash? Or should it sneak up on us gently?" Eva-Maria Magel, "Magel streunt"

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 30, 2018

"The artistic directors and organizers of the festival, Hanna Knell and Eleonora Herder, are concerned with making the independent scene visible outside of established institutions. "There is such a large independent scene in Frankfurt and the surrounding area," says Hanna Knell. "And only a very small part of it finds space in established institutions, such as the Mousonturm," she says. Structurally, they are dealing with alternative production methods. In terms of content, the two organizers are concerned with the local scene and with questions of urbanity: How can we live together in these metropolitan areas? What discourses are there? The two want Implant establish itself as a biennial festival for the independent scene. "There are such festivals for the independent scene in almost every German city. Except in Frankfurt," says Hanna Knell.

Tamara Marszalkowski, “Implanting Art,” Journal Frankfurt, September 2018

Using one's own city as a stage: IMPLANTIEREN 2018 aims to give performing artists greater visibility beyond established venues, forge new alliances, and facilitate encounters. "Vibrant urbanity only emerges where different ways of living, feeling, perceiving, and thinking intersect, and where these encounters and experiences of difference shape and transform both the individual and the city," say the organizers of ID_Frankfurt eV, founded in 2009.

Focus.de, August 23, 2018