Rimini Protokoll

LAGOS BUSINESS ANGELS

Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

According to Goldman Sachs, Nigeria will have overtaken France, South Korea und Canada on the list of the most important national economies by 2050 and will be 10th to 11th on that list, just behind Japan, Germany and Great Britain. Lagos is one of the world’s fastest-growing cities. Crude oil and other abundant raw materials guarantee a flow of currency into the country. And yet European investors still hesitate. They are far more cautious than their Chinese competitors in approaching a country where the power supply regularly breaks...

Ciudades Paralelas - Parallel Cities

A project curated by Lola Arias und Stefan Kaegi
Arias / Kaegi

Hotel rooms, shopping centres, factories... these are functional places, not usually thought of as interesting to the outside eye. But without them life in the city would be uninhabitable. Their ubiquitous, parallel existences the world over mean these places are instantly recognisable, each modelled on similar rules but displaying a local face. For “Ciudades Paralelas”, Lola Arias and Stefan Kaegi have invited several artists to devise interventions into these kind of spaces. Eight artists have each chosen a location in the...

Mr. Dağacar and the Golden Tectonics of Trash

Haug / Wetzel

Mr. Dağacar says: "Istanbul's soil is paved with gold" and takes off to scratch a bit of that gold in his cart: every night, countless young men stream through the streets of Istanbul and gather from the ground and from the front of the stores the things that have become a burden to others and exchange this for little money for themselves and their families in eastern Anatolia. Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel followed them on their routes through the city and shared their microscopic view on the garbage, whose value is linked...

Offending Peymann - radio play

Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

An acoustic protocol of the researches on files and anecdotes by Claus Peymann and others on the “dental donations affair” and the TV Stammheim (Stammheim Sports Club). »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Radio play by Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel The „brave dentist Dr Maurer“ had performed...

Prometheus in Athens (Lecture Performance)

Haug / Wetzel

"We are Athens. We were selected because we represent the population statistically We are no actors. We are one protagonist with 103 heads. Our city is our stage. Our living rooms are our dressing rooms. We are looking at the city from 103 perspectives" "Promethevs Bound": What do Athenians know, what do they think about the myth and the play today? "Prometheus in Athens" is pursuing this question with 103 citizens of Athens, who were found regarding two relationships: On the one hand...

Karl Marx: Capital, Volume One - radio play

Haug / Wetzel

A radio piece about the stage play of the same name using recordings from the research process, from rehearsals, performances, backstage, sound check, and the kitchens and offices of Berlin: Karl Marx’s great analysis has a prominent place in the canon of those books that everyone knows and nobody has read. For the directors it’s not about a swan song and not about grey theory. The Seven Seals of this book can only be opened with the help of those who have lived with it. It’s not so much about what’s in the book, but...

Bodenprobe Kasachstan (Soil Sample Kazakhstan)

Stefan Kaegi

In the 20th century people were shipped between the continents like barrels of oil. The documentary-theatre piece “Bodenprobe Kasachstan” (Soil Sample Kazakhstan) sets out in search of oil with a cast of individuals able to talk about the resource in terms of personal history. Stefan Kaegi and his team began casting in March 2010; the biographies brought together on the stage trace the route of the pipelines from Germany back to Kazakhstan then below the ground. The oil trail is pursued by: a retired Russian-German tank-truck...

Akcje Azjatyckie / Asian Investments

Malta Festival Poznan
curated by Stefan Kaegi

“About Lithuania, needless to say, I know less than about China.” Adam Mickiewicz, Dziady, Part III Over two thirds of the world population is Asian. At first glance, this is not so obvious in Poznań which is the formal place of residence of eighty-eight Chinese and six Vietnamese persons. You may also encounter a small group of Syrian and Jordanian students, in addition to several coaches of Japanese tourists and about twice as many people without any formal documents. Not a lot in...

Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band

Helgard Haug / Daniel Wetzel

There are 751 pages between the first and the last sentence – between: "The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ?an immense accumulation of commodities,? its unit being a single commodity." – and: "The only thing that interests us is the secret discovered in the new world by the Political Economy of the old world, and proclaimed on the housetops: that the capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for...