Changes features a collection of key texts and ideas by artists, intellectuals and curators who have rethought and redefined the way a cultural institution should work. Alongside these documents, five essays establish guidelines for describing the institution's experimental and vastly innovative conceptual approach over the last ten years: the new meaning of format (as distinct from artistic work), the issue of sustainability in cultural institutions, identity politics, immersion and digital culture. A reader on the positioning of a pioneering German cultural institution that invites us to take a look at what has shaped the profile of its innovative programme. With texts and contributions by Frédérique Aït-Touati, Ed Atkins, Sivan Ben Yishai, Jens Bisky, Emanuele Coccia, Brian Eno, Naika Foroutan, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Donna Haraway, Susanne Kennedy, William Kentridge, Signa Köstler, Bruno Latour, Robert Maharajh, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Thomas Oberender, David OReilly, Diana Palm, Philippe Parreno, Nancy Pettinicchio, Alex Ross, Stephanie Rosenthal, Rebecca Saunders, Frank Schirrmacher, Stephan Schwingeler, Tino Sehgal, Markus Selg, Gabriele Stötzer, Lucien Strauch.

Thomas Oberender has been Director of the Berliner Festspiele since 2012 and Artistic Director of the Immersion programme that he created since 2016.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes von Thomas Oberender / Seite 7 New FormatsFormats of the New von Thomas Oberender / Seite 17 Formats 20122021 / Seite 28 The Sonic Extremes of the MaerzMusik Festival von Alex Ross / Seite 43 36 Points on Creating Our Work Through Excess von Signa Köstler / Seite 46 William Kentridge in Conversation with Christiane Peitz von William Kentridge und Christiane Peitz / Seite 49 Emanuele Coccia and Philippe Parreno in Conversation with Thomas Oberender von Thomas Oberender, Emanuele Coccia und Philippe Parreno / Seite 54 When You Mix Something, It's Good to Know Your Ingredients von Dorothea von Hantelmann / Seite 60 Architecture That Blurs Boundaries von Thomas Oberender / Seite 64 Digital Culture von Thomas Oberender / Seite 81 Invisible Forces: Machinery, People, Utopia von Frank Schirrmacher / Seite 85 Exorcism von Susanne Kennedy / Seite 91 The System of Everything von Stephan Schwingeler / Seite 96 The Art of Realtime von David OReilly / Seite 99 Voices of Dissent. von Thomas Oberender / Seite 105 Decolonizing Time von Donna Haraway / Seite 113 Home is Not Always the Answer von Naika Foroutan / Seite 115 Gabriele Stötzer in Conversation with Thomas Oberender von Thomas Oberender und Gabriele Stötzer / Seite 118 The Mess of Self-Revolting von Sivan Ben Yishai / Seite 128 Sonic Compasses in Dire Times! von Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung / Seite 131 To Not Be a Single Being: Otobong Nkanga and Theaster Gates von Robert Maharajh / Seite 138 Making Kin von Stephanie Rosenthal / Seite 143 Arrival in No-Man's-Land von Jens Bisky / Seite 146 "Every Message Was Meant for Me" von Lucien Strauch / Seite 151 Thomas Oberender in Conversation with Nancy Pettinicchio von Thomas Oberender und Nancy Pettinicchio / Seite 157 Mind in the Cave von Markus Selg / Seite 166 Ed Atkins and Rebecca Saunders in Conversation with Bastian Zimmermann von Bastian Zimmermann, Rebecca Saunders und Ed Atkins / Seite 170 Brian Eno in Conversation with Thomas Oberender von Thomas Oberender und Brian Eno / Seite 176 Measures for Our "Fellow World" von Diana Palm / Seite 185 Pioneers of Change von Thomas Oberender / Seite 190 A Conversation with Tino Sehgal von Tino Sehgal, Christiane Fricke, Susanne Schreiber, Petra Schwarz und Bernd Ziesemer/ Seite 200 Frédérique Aït-Touati and Bruno Latour in Conversation with Thomas Oberender Staging Gaia. Theatre, Climate and a Shift in Awareness von Thomas Oberender, Bruno Latour und Frédérique Aït-Touati / Seite 205 Berliner Festspiele Publications / 20122021