City as Stage
100% City
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City as Stage
By Haug / Kaegi / Wetzel
100% City is a large-scale, immersive video installation that vibrantly tackles issues of statistics, challenging traditional spatial, cultural, and political divides that inform how populations of people are represented and understood. The videos feature documentation from different performances that have happened around the globe, in which 100 everyday citizens of a particular city perform alternative demographies on stage, telling their stories and expressing their views on a broad range of topics, including aging, warfare, migration, and relationships. Each performance presents, as Rimini Protokoll describes, “a gathering that is a city, a group just beginning to experience itself, a choir that has never practiced, an impossible entity with many faces, assembled into ever-changing new group pictures...Who is missing? Who thinks they might give answers on stage that are different from the ones they’d give in response to a telephone survey or in the voting booth?
And what have the statistics failed to record? Who thinks that this city is different because they are a part of it?” 100% City raises a number of compelling questions about how we perceive and perform notions of identity and community in a globalized world, while revealing intricate complexities of city populations, and of ourselves, that are often seemingly invisible or overlooked until people come together and make them known.
Seoul: #Art #Commons #NamJunePaik
Concept / Script / Direction: Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel
Video concept/design: Marc Jungreithmeier
Santa Barbara: MCASB
Curator: Brooke Kellaway (MCASB)
Concept / Script / Direction: Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel
Video concept/design: Marc Jungreithmeier
Technician: Eric Chirnside (MCASB)