Salon TrickSTAR: On the subversive potential of arts in times of a carnivalesque present

Tricksters are figures who can skilfully disrupt a given order. We encounter tricksters in mythology, literature, theatre and also in areas of the medialised public sphere such as politics. They walk between worlds, provoke, break rules. It is often impossible to clearly determine who is good and who is evil.

In the "Salon TrickSTAR", hosted by the Cluster of Excellence "Imaginamics" and the Professorship for the History of Science at the University of Erfurt in cooperation with local actors from the performing arts, various trickster figures will appear and historians and artists will discuss the subversive potential of Arts in times of a carnivalesque present together with the audience. How do political spaces and their analysis and critique change when actors in positions of power adopt subversive strategies? And how can Arts react to a situation where reality often seems like satire?

The "Salon TrickSTAR" is intended to be an experimental free space in which scientific analysis of the present and artistic positions meet.