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Cover your tracks!


stroll in Berlin.
this country, you must have, otherwise you may not.
Here one does not go out, but where.

Franz Hessel
Under radio tracking. A mobile radio drama project.

9.-12. September 2010

Cover your tracks! questioned the urban area based on its responsibilities in the age of digital recording. How can the own tracks blur even when phones are not only the place of residence , But to constantly communicate communicate with the environment and leave many traces? This is the question the audience in the disputed territory to between Alexanderplatz and Humboldt Forum. Participants will be wandering strollers on the condition that their deviant behavior, including the exercise of disinterested criticism of the status quo of the technology used is actually excluded. You can receive at specific locations Hörminiaturen to them tell stories of the city, make proposals for action and ask whether the time has come Flanerie really the end.

walking in the city
The history of the bourgeois city is a story of their monitoring. With the domination of the bourgeoisie articulated to the end of the 18th Century the need of the city from a raised vantage point to overlook. The mobile technologies, GPS and digital penetration of urban space marks a new quality with which the movement will change significantly in it. Could facing Michel de Certeau in the seventies the panoptic view the "rhetoric of walking ', which is beyond the control and write own stories, so now even going to produce quantifiable data. The stories are transformed into probabilities, the possibilities of space, in de Certeau still reported as a utopian potential to become a statistical variation.


The Flaneur
stood the figure of the flaneur meet the need of control. By Edgar Allen Poe as "charged simply described the objectives of this mass of human goals remain impenetrable, a sinister fellow who has no purpose. Charles Baudelaire was mediated by this character to the Paris of Surrealist Louis Aragon rediscovered and politicized as deviants of the state of the company is ahead enough to see through the idleness and its mechanism and rejected. Walter Benjamin's theory of history, this pointed to: the flâneur saves in remembrance of debris accumulating history. In the practice of the dérive, the dérive, the Situationist International strolling updated as revolutionary practice by which a city can be imagined beyond the commodity society.



Stroll in Berlin
Although ETA Hoffmann in his cousin's story corner window when looking at the Gendarmenmarkt stands no flaneur, is formed in Berlin in the twenties of the 20th Century with Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, Franz Hessel, a discourse and especially out of a long time interrupted, often invoked, but in its actuality was never verified in practice. Historically over-determined, such as Berlin's center, he seems the perfect patch for "memorizing the Stroll" (Benjamin), in which it is to discover the future. This work will focus on the area between the Alexanderplatz and the future focus Humboldt-Forum, for the various designs are currently being discussed for redevelopment. The area is one of the oldest in the city without the traces of his checkered history would be seen - and that in its present form will be gone in a few years ago. Hessel sees in his essay-band walks in Berlin walking as reading, in which the production of their own subjectivity brought out by the text of the city from her unconsciousness and is readable - these functions take our radio plays.



The data dandy

Although many art works of recent decades to build on these traditional lines of the dérive must be asked whether the always melancholic figure of the flaneur has not come to the end of their days. The controlled public space, the Post make digital traces of suspicious movements in detail and understand the futility of statistical variable which is included in order for them still put together a range of goods. At each He does not step explores the unknown and unexpected, but he is over his current position as well informed as to the surrounding areas and their goods. to disappear in the crowd and get lost - - The original urban experience has thus become impossible. Cover your tracks! was the imperative of the flaneur, who is now little more respect - and it remains doubtful whether the urban area is as clear as it appears between 0 and 1. Only in the reading of his own tracks, so the argument is, created the conditions to escape into a digital city verschriftlichten the collection and to return the stroller. What new moves be possible to explore the remains.
The ambivalence of the rooms

Cover your tracks!
tries to salvage the experience of Flanerie. In it, the room remains ambiguous and unclear, "In the Flanerie is perceived simultaneously, all of which is potentially only happen in this space. The space winks at the flâneur: Well, what may have happened in my well "(Benjamin) We invite you to trust this ambiguity and dubious, the simultaneity, the potentiality of the area to study in Berlin Mitte?. Appears as transparent on the urban area today, listening to him with regard to open its historical traces. The roar of the "hidden city" (Bernard von Brentano) can be heard at the same time and so experienced, what is published in the course of centuries and have long since gone, but not without some minimum and to leave only to be discovered traces. GPS is used for the usually precise localization of the position and thus an effort to arrest people in the here and now seeks to make,
Cover your tracks!
the possibilities of technology, the location of the constellation to determine out: From his associations with other places, from its complex past, which he hergibt not the eye, but the ears. From his unwritten future He finally seems strange in "new sewing and Far" (Hessel). The apparatus of the exact localization is transformed into a means of over-determination, which can appear anywhere as the vanishing point so many tracks and resolves its uniqueness.

The traces of the city


testifies frequently the most obvious, architecture, monuments, or vacant lots, of social conflicts that have long since been forgotten, but this is noticeable. Sometimes nothing is more visible and must first be acoustically evoked. Each item is a trace of a complex social Relationship that can be followed. Cover your tracks! will give an acoustic miniatures at very different places. Many of these places will not be worth seeing.

The miniatures tell stories, do radio shows and sound bites heard again, referring to the respective places, and make the invisible voices that question the track in the urban area. What traces can be left, reminiscent of Disappearance? How can blur one's tracks? How can we find a movement in space that does not follow the orientation of the visible? What is beyond the statistics? The call miniatures to answer these questions in actions and movements. Strategies must be developed, various times and locations combined, the space will be stripped to its fullest. In conclusion, the participants meet at the World Clock in Alexanderplatz to a common action. They put together the instructions they have collected along the way - and decide how the blurring of the traces is an unlikely space opens.


Deutsches Theater

Germany Radio
radio tracking
Radio aporee


Dates
09th September 2010, 19.00 clock, price 6 €
10th September 2010, 19.00 clock, price 6 €
11th September 2010, 15.00 clock , price 6 €


11th September 2010, 20.30 clock, price 6 €
12th September 2010, 19.00 clock, price 6 €

start in the foyer of the Deutsches Theater Press Taz announcement, by Esther Slevogt
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