With 9T Antiope & Rainer Kohlberger, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Bendik Giske, Bhakti Prasetyo, Cheryl Ong, Colin Self, Dasha Rush with Valentin Tzin and Stanislav Glatzov, Erwan Keravec, Jerusalem In My Heart, Khyam Allami, Kok Siew-Wai, Linn da Quebrada, Lucy Railton, Maya S. K. Ratkje & Katarina Barruk, Pedro Oliveira, Rabih Beaini & Pouja Pour-Amin Ensemble, Ramberto Agozalie, Rully Shabara, Sarana, Stefan Fraunberger, Stefan Fraunberger, Nguyễn + Transitory (Nguyễn Baly & Tara Transitory), Tarawangsawelas & Rabih Beaini, Thomas Ankersmit, Yuen Chee Wai, and more …
CTM will celebrate 20 years in 2019! The festival has always strived to provide a forum that facilitates exchange and networking between different creative communities, while simultaneously fostering open spaces of possibility. It aims to allow those with different backgrounds and interests to explore new cultural interstices. Constant exploration, open-ended experimentation, a never-ending curiosity, radical pluralisation, the joy of living intense experiences, and steadfastly refusing to simplify complexity are all part of what CTM is all about.
Through a series of concerts, club nights, an exhibition, talks, and other formats, CTM 2019 will invite both longtime and new artistic collaborators and partners to collectively consider the struggles that come with balancing continuity and changeability. Considering today’s polarized political climate, the increasing attacks against critical cultural practice from the Right, and the pervasive coopting of subcultures for marketing, the title Persistence is more than a fitting allegory for its 20th birthday, but also describes an attempt to consider what is worth being persistent about, and how. Can music and art provide us with methods to move towards new societal horizons? Can we maintain a productive, idealistic kind of perseverance – a persistence of the transitory?
For full concert, exhibition, workshop and discourse programme check www.ctm-festival.de.
