GAESTE HAUS 52
Schonhauser Allee
Prenzlauerberg
U-bahn Eberswalder Str.
BERLIN















an experiment in temporarily transforming a private apartment (l'invention du quotidien) into a public dérive/situation/interzone for 4 days of performance/clandestine participation/conspiracy/poetic sabotage comprising:











an 'Office for the Renunciation of National Identity' (DIENSTELLE FUR FERZICHTLEITSTUNG DER NATIONALITAETEN)



















where 'applicants' were given a questionnaire, interviewed and finally stamped with a sign of their new state of non-belonging;


















a multi-speaker sound installation of national anthems, mixed and manipulated in real time, accompanied by a "human-speaker" equipped with a melodic/cacophonic suitcase or MOT-VALISE











and subject to occasional interference from electric guitar and laptop;














ambulant indoor performance poetry/outdoor advertising of Haus 52 on similar and crazier themes/desires/lines of flight














accompanied and amplified by above-mentioned "human-speaker";















and a looped projection of the cinétract "Wolkengestalt" in a small upper room just tall enough for the screen but full of sliced mirrors to fragment and delay the cloud images....















"...Passez d'abord par l'office de renonciation de nationalités pour aller de la forme des nuages jusqu'au cabaret des peuples..."















Berlin, 31 Oktober - 4 November 2007





























"Wolkengestalt" is a terminal beach production

::: merci à plugincircus :::