Monday, 9th March 1998:
8 pm Diedrich Diederichsen: "Alien-Smuggling" - Considerations about Science Fiction, Diaspora, Multiculturalism.
Diedrich Diederichsen was a longtime staff contributor to german music-magazines Sounds and Spex. Today he is teaching at Merz Academy, Stuttgart and in Los Angeles. Last autumn he put together the congress "Loving the Alien" at the Volksbuehne theater in Berlin.
11 pm Music, played by Thomas Meinecke
Thomas Meinecke is playing with the Munich band FSK. He works as a music journalist for Radio Zuendfunk. Also he is a poet (his last book ,"The Church of J.F. Kennedy" was published in 1997). In connection to Mr. Diederichsen's lecture, he will search his record collection for fitting material.
Tuesday, 10th March 1998
7.30 pm Regional plenary meeting of the "no one is illegal" campaign.
This campaign got its start in the summer of 1997 at Documenta X in Kassel. Since then the appeal "No one is illegal" was signed by more than 200 groups, organizations, and several thousand individuals. In all of the bigger towns of Germany, local coordination bureaus exist. They organize practical help for illegal refugees and initiate local activities: the occupation of several churches at the moment in Cologne is an example of their work, others are local coalitions against the planned extinction of social security for tolerated migrants.
Wednesday, 11th March 1998
8.00 pm Yann Moulier Boutang: "About the autonomy of migration"- lecture and discussion with the parisian migration researcher.
Moulier Boutang is editor in chief of "Future antérieur" magazine and works for the estate of Louis Althusser. Since the eighties, he has been researching about questions of migration, parttime with Toni Negri. His main field of study is the political economy of "illegal" migration.
11 pm Electronic madness (including Brainput)
Brainput is a Munich DJ collective, that plays at the wheels of steel of Radio 94,5 fm in Munich. Niel Mitra, Olaf Wirenstrand, Christian Pielmeyer and Volker Rommel spin free form electronic records. Linda Muck and Lenz Schuster show off their connections.
Thursday, 12th March 1998
8 pm Geert Lovink: "Tactical Media Manifesto" - a salon talk with the media theoretician, from Amsterdam, hosted by Mogniss H. Abdellah, filmmaker from Paris.
Geert Lovink is well known as an instrumental part of Amsterdam's ,Agentur Bilwet". Their recent book "Electronic Lonesomeness" just saw its translation into german. Mogniss H. Abdellah is a founding member of the IMedia Agency of Paris. This agency serves as a merger of filmmakers, photographers and journalists, who are working in the field of migration.
11 pm "Lion's Den Soundsystem" presents Dub and Wildstyle
Viehbank goes inna dancehall stylee. Noe Noack (author and sportsreporter) and his fellow sounddoctor Albert Poeschl will present their booming reggae soundsystem.
Friday, 13th March 1998
7 pm Presentation of "caravan for the rights of refugees and migrants" (upcoming summer 1998) by the human rights association of Bremen.
A wide coalition of refugees and migrants from many different countries will be calling for a caravan through numerous german cities right before the time of the german government elections in September of 1998. One of the initiators will present their project and report the state of the preparations.
9 pm Panel: Mogniss H. Abdellah and other guests from Paris discuss connections of social struggles of the unemployed and with those of illegal migrants.
At the moment, several new social movements seem to turn up in France at the same time. Our guests from Paris together with viewers from the "La maison des Ensembles" videoconference will be dealing with questions how the Novemberstrike of 1995, the struggles of the Sans-Papiers, the recent unemployed strike wave and their complications are brought together and need to be connected to each other.
11 pm ,Ancient to the Future". DJs Thomas Baernthaler and Julian Weber
The musicjournalist Thomas Baernthaler (Loop mag) and the musician and journalist Julian Weber (plays in the Munich band Schwermut Forest) will play great interplanetary dancemusic. There is a room in the House for everyone.
Saturday, 14th March 1998
2 pm ,How to come through"- a 45 minute Videomontage consisting of tv footage.
This documentary features unsubtitled news-broadcastings from several tv stations. The background is numerous sabotage attacks on the ISDN-telephonelines of Frankfurt International Airport. Unknown perpetrators protested thus against deportations of migrants and the so called "Airportlaws". In 1996, all of the guests of the documentary premiere in Frankfurt were arrested, which led to a policescandal without consequences and also without comparisons in the recent history of german policescandals. Though the german supreme court attested no objection against the documentary.
7 pm Panel with a member of the "autonomous lupus-group" about the history of radical antiracism in the old and new Federal Republic of Germany.
The "autonomous lupus-group" has been dealing with the field of racism since the mid-eighties in magazine articles and book essays. Titles like "History, racism and the boat" are established classics of the german left-wing political literature canon.
11 pm "Stowaways", party and slideshow by Marily Stroux, Deejaying by "Sistars" and "Sugar Chicken" from Hamburg.
The photographer Marily Stroux and nine DJs from Hamburg throw a party whose motto is "stowaways".
Sunday, 15th March 1998
1 pm "find&change/copy&paste/link&unlink"- Evaluation, Balance, Outlook, Save- and Cleaningwork.