hannsjana:
Anstattführung
Anstattführung
The audio walk starts in the courtyard of Sophiensæle and ends at U-Bhf Gesundbrunnen. In approx. 1.5 hours a 5-6 km long, slightly ascending path has to be covered.
In a performative audio walk, hannsjana explore the East-West dialogue in Berlin as a pack of bears. Bears barely live to be 30 years of age and have as little memory of the German division as millennials like hannsjana have. So the artists slip into their bear costumes and get to the bottom of the prejudices and privileges that have seeped into their respective West and East German socialization. While walking with the audience along the formerly divided Brunnenstraße, they look for affiliations that can no longer be located accurately. While they are singing and dancing their critical westness and eastern rage off their souls, around 30 years after the reunification, there is a surprising new turn of events.
BY AND WITH Laura Besch, Alice Escher, Jule Gorke, Katharina Siemann, Lotte Schüßler und Marie Weich
A production by hannsjana in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Capital City Fund within the framework of the festival Das Ost-West-Ding 2019. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung
As the artist collective HANNSJANA, Laura Besch, Alice Escher, Jule Gorke, Lotte Schüßler, Katharina Siemann and Marie Weich have been working together on performances, audio tours and video works since 2011. In doing so, they break with existing presuppositions and humorously, poetically, musically, and scientifically take on the examination of places and topics in order to make them experienceable and explainable to themselves and others. In their works, the audience encounters human-animal beings that open up additional levels of meaning and discourse; they hear songs about economics or ornithology, are secretly incited to eat in the museum, have art-historical excursions explained to them through aerobic exercises, or are given the opportunity to become shareholders in a performance.
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© Johanna Heyne