SummerSumUp

Podcast Series

SummerSumUp is a Podcast we made on behalf of the Mousonturm Frankfurt in which we talk to artists about their work that they are presenting at the This Is Not Lebanon Festival and Sommerbau. For the first episodes we will talk to artists from the This Is Not Lebanon Festival, those episodes are in English. The other episodes will be featuring artists who show their work at Sommerbau and those episodes are in German.

EPISODE 1 with Marwa Arsanios

Our first guest is Marwa Arsanios. She is an artist and filmmaker. Her work “Who is Afraid of Ideology?” is part of an ongoing series and deals with questions around the possibility of a reconnection with nature as well as different ways of feminist practices and communities.
Part 3 – Micro Resistencias – and 4 – A Letter Inside a Letter – are being shown during the first week of the festival (08/26/ – 09/02/21).

EPISODE 2 with Rabih Mroué

Our second guest is Rabih Mroué. He is not only one of the co-curators of the This Is Not Lebanon Festival but is also going to show his lecture performance “Before Falling Seek the Assistance of Your Crane” at the big open air stage Sommerbau. He is a is a Lebanese stage and film actor, playwright, and visual artist. Rooted in theater, his work includes videos and installation art; the latter sometimes incorporates photography, text and sculpture.

EPISODE 3 with Ghada Sayegh

In this episode we talk to Ghada Sayegh. After doing her Ph.D. in Film Studies at Paris Nanterre University, she is now working at the Institute of Scenic, Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies at Saint Joseph University, Beirut. During the This Is Not Lebanon Festival she held a workshop for the PERFORMING SOLIDARITY Academy and participated in a panel of the public Discourse Program together with artist Lamia Joreige. Withing this panel, she read a series of fragmentary poems titled “The End of the World has Already Occurred” that she started writing after the explosion in Beirut in August 2020.

EPISODE 4 with Florian Weber & Rabih Lahoud

In this episode we have two guests: Florian Weber and Rabih Lahoud. Both will be playing together with members of the Ensemble Modern in a concert that will be closing the This Is Not Lebanon Festival. Florian Weber is a pianist and jazz-composer. He already worked twice with the Ensemble Modern. It is the first time for Rabih Lahoud to play with the Ensemble Modern. The Lebanese singer lives in Germany for several years and is a member of the band Mazaa, which combines contemporary jazz, world music and Arabic sounds and poetry.

EPISODE 5 with Leon Joskowitz

In this episode we talked to the philosopher, ethics teacher and gardener Leon Joskowitz. He is the host of the so called Philosophischer Salon (philosophic salon) by the Jewish community Frankfurt and established the series Philosophisch Dinieren (dining philosophically) in which thinking and eating are being connected with each other. Within the Frankfurt Dionysia he realised the Bevölkerungsversammlung (gathering of the local population) at Sommerbau. Over the course of four dates the inhabitants of Frankfurt and Offenbach were invited to discuss how they want to live together. The fourth and last Bevölkerungsversammlung will take part on 26th of September and has the parliamentary election as a topic.

EPISODE 6 with Patrik Bishay

In this episode we were able to visit Patrik Bishay in his studio. He works as a composer and arranger. During his approaches towards audio play and music, his production „Hollywood fort he Ears – The Dunwich Horror“ formed. Based on the story by H. P. Lovecraft, the live audio play is spoken by three speakers and complimented by a piano quartet. What results in, as Bishay expresses it, „a spoken Opera“.

EPISODE 7 with Kornelius Eich

In this episode we talked to the stage director Kornelius Eich. In his work he often deals with the topic of death. His staging of the monodrama „Alles ist groß” by Zsuzsa Bánk is part of the format „Stimmen einer Stadt” in which writers are asked to meet people from the city of Frankfurt and write about this encounter. „Alles ist groß” tells the story of a gravedigger. Kornelius Eich’s staging is part of the October-programme of the Sommerbau.

EPISODE 8 with Gregor Praml

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