SEAM Festival 2026

FESTIVAL-PROGRAM

Friday, July 3

• 10:00-16:00 Symposium “Troubling Interactivity” – Spiel und Objekt Ladenlokal
• 17:30 SEAM Opening Ceremony – bat
• 18:00 Yegane Shafie: It won’t take more than a week. – bat
• 19:30 Annick Durán Kandzior: VIVERO – bat
• 20:30 Anastasia Landa – David - Prinz Klitzki – bat

Saturday, July 4

• 12:00, 12:45, 13:30, 14:15, 15:00 Szerafina Schiesser: Verfilztes Schweigen – ( ( NYT ) )
• 13:00 Paolo Artisi und Marla Gaiser / anseranser: Generalprobe eines Widerstands – bat
• 14:00 Annick Durán Kandzior: VIVERO – bat
• 15:00 Artist Conversation: Yegane Shafie & Frederik Britzlmair – bat
• 16:00 Anastasia Landa – David - Prinz Klitzki – bat
• 17:00 Annick Durán Kandzior: VIVERO – bat
• 18:00 Artist Conversation: Szerafina Schiesser, Marla Gaiser, Paolo Artisi – bat
• 19:00 Yegane Shafie: It won’t take more than a week. – bat
• 19:00 Annick Durán Kandzior: VIVERO – bat
• 21:00 SEAM Festival Party

Sunday, July 5

• 12:00, 12:45, 13:30, 14:15 Szerafina Schiesser: Verfilztes Schweigen – ( ( NYT ) )
• 12:00 Paolo Artisi und Marla Gaiser / anseranser: Generalprobe eines Widerstands – bat
• 13:00 Annick Durán Kandzior: VIVERO – bat
• 14:00 Artist Conversation: Annick Durán Kandzior & Anastasia Landa – bat
• 16:00 Frederik Britzlmair & Co-Respondents Group: soft corps – Zitadelle Spandau
• 21:00 SEAM Festival Closing – Zitadelle Spandau

VENUES

• Spiel und Objekt Raum Vorne, Zinnowitzer Straße 7, 10115 Berlin
• bat-Studiotheater, bat-Studiotheater, Belforter Str. 15, 10405 Berlin
• Zitadelle Spandau, Am Juliusturm 64, 13599 Berlin
• ( ( NYT ) ) Art Space, Philippistraße 7, 14059 Berlin

SEAM Festival: July 3-5 2026

The new festival of experimental play and interactive performance invites you to an adventurous programme of intense, multi-sensory encounters.

Every two years, SEAM explores the tenuous links between theatre, games and installation, between materiality and digitality, between fight, flight and freeze, between identity and public space, between reality and the seemingly true.

At the heart of SEAM 2026 are six final productions by graduates of the MA Spiel und Objekt / Experimental Play at the Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts Berlin: Paolo Federico Artisi, Frederik Maximilian Britzlmair, Annick Durán Kandzior, Marla Gaiser, Anastasia Landa, Szerafina Schiesser and Yeganeh Shafie – each with their own interdisciplinary teams. The festival is curated by Hannah Perner-Wilson and Sebastian Quack.

The accompanying discursive programme includes artist talks and a symposium dedicated to the pedagogies of play, art and technology, under the theme “Troubling Interactivity”.

SEAM takes place in and around the festival centre at bat-Studiotheater in Prenzlauer Berg, as well as at two satellite venues: Zitadelle Spandau and the independent sound art space ((nyt)) on the A100 in Charlottenburg.