Rimini Protokoll

Remote X

Stefan Kaegi

Hordes of people who have never met in the real world swarm out on virtual treasure hunts when playing online games. In "Remote X" we're a horde of people wearing radio headphones, swarming out into the real city. A synthetic voice in our headphones (of the kind familiar from GPS navigators or airport announcements) directs the movements of our swarm. Binaural recordings and film scores turn the cityscape into a personal film; artificial Intelligence explores unknown territories, mustering human activity from a remote...

Home Visit Europe

Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel

Hausbesuch Europa (Home Visit Europe) is a performance you can put in your hand luggage - big ideas are rarely presented so intimately. What is Europe actually? Is it a geographic border, a cultural identity, a coalition of states? It is said over and over that Europe is an ever changing idea - too theoretical, as the individual can tell from their own experience. Rimini Protokoll contrasts this abstract idea of Europe with the individuality of a private apartment. 15 people become part of a performance in a living room that interweaves...

Situation Rooms

- A multiplayer video piece
Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

May 2011, a photo flashes onto screens around the world. It shows 13 people in a room. The expressions on their faces speak volumes: triumph, fascination, scorn, horror, scepticism, preoccupation. The photo from the White House “Situation Room” documents the end of a manhunt that was pursued with all possible weapons. ‘Situation Rooms’ gathers together from various continents 20 people whose biographies have been shaped by weapons in a film set that recreates the globalised world of pistols and...

Truck Tracks Ruhr

Haug / Begrich / Kaegi / Karrenbauer

The centerpiece of Truck Tracks Ruhr is a truck that changes our view of the Ruhr Region. The truck has been turned into a mobile audience room. One side is outfitted with a huge window that frames the view outside. 49 artists identify 49 locations and focus the gaze of the spectator on striking, unknown, animated, or remote points of the Ruhr region. From April 2016 to March 2017, the truck will be on the road in seven cities of the Ruhr Region. In each city, seven places will be targeted, compiled as an album. Every seven weeks a...

50 kilometres of files

- A walk-in Stasi radio play
Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

In German language only. Rimini Protokoll haul the Stasi files out of the archives and into the city’s present: About a hundred people in Berlin’s Mitte district are surveyed and for the microphone recollect or reconstruct observations of the sites where the misdeeds were perpetrated. A strange picture-puzzle is created for the users, who have the everyday life familiar to us now in view and original recordings from that time in their ears. Using GPS phones, the visitors on foot become "insiders", entering...

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...

Nachlass

Pièces sans personnes
Kaegi / Huber

What remains after we are dead? How can memories be staged? Over the past century, life expectancy in Switzerland has increased by almost 40 years. Highly specialised medicine makes it possible to postpone the end of one’s days further and further while legislation offers the right to decide the time and circumstances of one’s own death. Meanwhile disputes are raging about solidarity and inheritance tax. The German word “Nachlass” corresponds to the whole of the material and immaterial goods left by a...

Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 & 2

Helgard Kim Haug, Daniel Wetzel

Rimini Protokoll sets out on the trail of Adolf Hitler’s inflammatory writings and attempts to fathom an explanation for the enduring myth of “Mein Kampf”.  Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”) was first published in 1925/26, and by the end of WWII millions of copies were in circulation. For decades, the propagandistic writings have been hulled in the aura of “a forbidden book”, and thus continue to fascinate today. The book’s copyright, held by the State of...

brain projects

Haug / Wetzel

What happens when I say “I”? What occurs in the brain? The speaker and the spoken-to tacitly agree that the speaker is referring to herself. But what transpires in the hundreds of thousands of kilometers of nerve tracts that connect the millions of neurons that are linked by billions of synapses? Human research is currently having another go at creating models and reconstructions of the workings of the human brain. The two major projects at the moment – one North American and one European – focus primarily on a...

Top Secret International (State 1)

Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

State 1-4 With their series State 1–4, Rimini Protokoll set out to explore fields outside of what can be organized and controlled by the nation-state today. Rimini Protokoll look back at the essence of the powers whose separation was once intended to form the essential mechanism for monitoring state structures. To what extent are these powers still able to regulate the decisive impetuses for change faced by societies? Top Secret International (State 1) What do states keep secret? What secrets do...

Remote X

13.05.2016 - 30.10.2016
Moscow. Impresario Feodor Elutine

12.06.2016 - 16.10.2016
Helsinki. Quest Arts / Alexander Weinstein

01.08.2016 - 20.10.2016
London. Theatre of Europe

29.08.2016 - 20.10.2016
Berlin Mitte. Maxim Gorki Theater

29.09.2016 - 18.11.2016
Houston. Alley Theatre (Lead Producer)

Home Visit Europe

11.09.2016 - 09.10.2016
Bonn. Beethovenfest Bonn

28.09.2016 - 09.10.2016
Wien. Brut

12.10.2016 - 20.10.2016
Moskau. TERRITORY Festival

01.12.2016 - 04.12.2016
Antwerp. deSingel

08.02.2017 - 19.02.2017
Amsterdam. Stadsschouwburg

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Remote X

Stefan Kaegi

Home Visit Europe

Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel

Situation Rooms

- A multiplayer video pieceHaug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Truck Tracks Ruhr

Haug / Begrich / Kaegi / Karrenbauer

50 kilometres of files

- A walk-in Stasi radio playHaug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Bodenprobe Kasachstan (Soil Sample Kazakhstan)

Stefan Kaegi

Nachlass

Pièces sans personnesKaegi / Huber

Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, Vol. 1 & 2

Helgard Kim Haug, Daniel Wetzel

brain projects

Haug / Wetzel

Top Secret International (State 1)

Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

- A multiplayer video piece
Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

- A walk-in Stasi radio play
Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel

Pièces sans personnes
Kaegi / Huber