PERFORMING CITIZENSHIP BODIES, AGENCIES, LIMITATIONS EDITED BY Paula Hildebrandt, Kerstin Evert, Sibylle Peters, Mirjam Schaub, Kathrin Wildner AND Gesa Ziemer Performance Philosophy Series Editors Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca University of Surrey Guildford, UK Alice Lagaay Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, Germany Will Daddario Independent Scholar Asheville, NC, USA Performance Philosophy is an interdisciplinary and international field of thought, creative practice and scholarship. The Performance Philosophy book series comprises monographs and essay collections addressing the relationship between performance and philosophy within a broad range of philosophical traditions and performance practices, including drama, the- atre, performance arts, dance, art and music. It also includes studies of the performative aspects of life and, indeed, philosophy itself. As such, the series addresses the philosophy of performance as well as performance-as-­ philosophy and philosophy-as-performance. Series Advisory Board: Emmanuel Alloa, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Lydia Goehr, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA James R. Hamilton, Professor of Philosophy, Kansas State University, USA Bojana Kunst, Professor of Choreography and Performance, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Professor of Theatre Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Martin Puchner, Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA Alan Read, Professor of Theatre, King’s College London, UK Freddie Rokem, Professor (Emeritus) of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University, Israel http://www.performancephilosophy.org/books/ More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14558 Paula Hildebrandt • Kerstin Evert Sibylle Peters • Mirjam Schaub Kathrin Wildner • Gesa Ziemer Editors Performing Citizenship Bodies, Agencies, Limitations Editors Paula Hildebrandt Kerstin Evert Berlin, Germany Tanzplan Hamburg K3 - Zentrum für Choreographie Sibylle Peters Hamburg, Germany FUNDUS Theater Hamburg, Germany Mirjam Schaub University of Art and Design Kathrin Wildner Burg Giebichenstein HafenCity University Hamburg Halle a.d. 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Cover illustration: BÜRGERiNNENBÜRO by Paula Hildebrandt, Hamburg 2017, released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland PREFACE New forms of citizenship are developing in the cities of the twenty-first century: self-organized and often independent from the state, they ­negotiate and shape how we live together. The graduate programme Performing Citizenship explored new articu- lations of citizenship, starting from the gap between traditional institu- tions and a self-confident new citizenry. It combined cultural studies from various disciplinary backgrounds with art-based methodologies and hands-on experimentation in public space. Performing Citizenship—Bodies, Agencies, Limitations provides insights into our research projects complemented by contributions from an international conference hosted by (the organizers of the programme and) editors of this book in November 2016 in Hamburg. The contribut- ing chapters cover a wide range of academic disciplines, from urban plan- ning, postcolonial studies, philosophy, cultural anthropology, to pedagogy and media studies. Based on a conceptual and methodological framework, they discuss conflicts, tensions and potentialities of doing things with rights. Addressing all kinds of cultural, social and political phenomena— body optimization, corruption, gentrification, global logistics, migration and ‘welcome culture’—we claim that a performative take on citizenship offers a fresh and productive look at questions of identity and belonging, rights and responsibilities. The book as well as the three-year research programme would not have been possible without the generous funding of the Landesforschungsförderung Hamburg, the people working behind the scene, namely the HafenCity University Hamburg, the K3—Centre for v vi PREFACE Dance and Choreography, the Hamburg School of Applied Science and the Fundus Theatre Hamburg. Last but not least, we would like to thank Alice Lagaay for her enthusiasm in considering this volume for the Performance Philosophy Series and, most notably, Jules Bradbury for her careful and diligent editorial work. Berlin, Germany Paula Hildebrandt Hamburg, Germany Kerstin Evert Hamburg, Germany Sibylle Peters Halle a.d. Saale, Germany Mirjam Schaub Hamburg, Germany Kathrin Wildner Hamburg, Germany Gesa Ziemer 14.06.2018 CONTENTS Introduction 1 Paula Hildebrandt and Sibylle Peters Part I Bodies of Citizenship 15 Yet Another Effort, Citizens, If You Want to Learn How to React! 17 Kai van Eikels An Elephant in the Room / On the Balcony: Performing the ‘Welcome City’ Hamburg 29 Paula Hildebrandt Doing Rights with Things: The Art of Becoming Citizens 45 Engin Isin Performing Citizenship: Gathering (in the) Movement 57 Liz Rech On Bodies and the Need to Appropriate Them 77 Antje Velsinger vii viii Contents Part II Citizenship and (Urban) Space 91 Silence, Motifs and Echoes: Acts of Listening in Postcolonial Hamburg 93 Katharina Kellermann Claims for the Future: Indigenous Rights, Housing Rights, Land Rights, Women’s Rights 111 Elke Krasny Spaces of Citizenship 127 Sergio Tamayo Urban Citizenship: Spaces for Enacting Rights 147 Kathrin Wildner A Space of Performing Citizenship: The Gängeviertel in Hamburg 161 Michael Ziehl Part III Citizenship and (Non-)Performance: Premises/ Critique/Speculations 175 Performance as Delegation: Citizenship in ‘Lloyd’s Assemblage’ 177 Moritz Frischkorn (Re)Labelling: Mimicry, Between Identification and Subjectivation 191 Thari Jungen Paralogistics: On People, Things and Oceans 209 geheimagentur and Sibylle Peters Contents ix Phyto-Performance and the Lost Gardens of Riga 229 Alan Read Of Mice and Masks: How Performing Citizenship Worked for a Thousand Years in the Venetian Republic and Why the Age of Enlightenment Brought it to an Abrupt End 243 Mirjam Schaub Part IV Emerging Agencies 261 Perform, Citizen! On the Resource of Visibility in Performative Practice Between Invitation and Imperative 263 Maike Gunsilius Practices of Politicizing Listening (to Migration) 279 Nanna Heidenreich Childish Citizenship 289 Darren O’Donnell I Do. From Instruction to Agency: Designing of Vocational Orientation Through Artistic Practice 295 Constanze Schmidt Index 315 LIST OF FIGURES An Elephant in the Room / On the Balcony: Performing the ‘Welcome City’ Hamburg Fig. 1 Elephant on the balcony © Paula Hildebrandt 35 Spaces of Citizenship Fig. 1 Vision and hierarchy of citizen rights and strategy changes during the 1968–1988 period in Mexico, according to social actors. (Source: Tamayo 1999) 132 Urban Citizenship: Spaces for Enacting Rights Fig. 1 This work by Eric Göngrich comments on the diverse claims of a cosmo-­political city and the right to public space, interpreting the everyday practices of refugees as political protest. (metroZones school for urban action, November 2015) 149 Figs. 2 Erik Göngrich visualizes public space as a fragmented space of and 3 negotiation, art in public space is seen as a box composed of practices, places, activities, situations, and stories. (metroZones school for urban action, November 2015) 151 Fig. 4 Eric Göngrich depicts urban intervention as a rehearsal