Stefan Kaegi I Rimini Protokoll I Germany


An audio stroll through the city
An artificial voice takes the lead. Individuals transform into a group that makes its way onto an exploratory tour through Hanover. The voice in the headphones guides the group through back courtyards, in and out of buildings; an unusual route through the city. The participants become accomplices, begin to behave like a swarm and gang up against the nonmembers from the real world. The urban space becomes a stage, passers-by become performers observed by the group members who are privy to the plot. The boundaries of reality and fiction are blurred. Time and again this raises the question of who is the performer and who is the audience?
Inspired by virtual online multiplayer games, Stefan Kaegi is searching for the operational software of the human being. Machines are given names and say "I", human beings follow guide-systems and optimisation scenarios: Who is speaking? Is this artificial something forming an opinion about us? Remote-controlled, the throng makes its way through Hanover; to outsiders it might resemble an extra-terrestrial swarm.

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Concept and Script/Direction Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) Sound Design Nikolas Neecke Co-Director Jörg Karrenbauer Dramaturgy Juliane Männel, Aljoscha Begrich Production Management Juliane Männel Production Rimini Apparat Coproduction HAU Berlin, Maria Matos Teatro Municipal and Goethe-Institut Portugal, Festival Theaterformen Hannover/Braunschweig, Festival d’Avignon, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Kaserne Basel, House on fire

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