Format: Collaborative Performance with Sonja Hornung

Year: 2013

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With the aim of interrogating the gap between the staged spectacle of mediated experience and the lived space of the everyday, the performance begins with the premise that every theatre will one day soon collapse. The sounds of a building imploding in an intimate audio tour built out of a combination of live and prepared sound elements will be generated. All sounds are to be created using objects from the space itself, so that the building generates its own destruction.

The work is presented as a one-on-one tour of the emergency exits, back corridors, and hidden spaces of the building. The participants are selected by the artists from the public, present and led to the tune of a tightly timed pace through the building. Since it is impossible for the participant to differentiate between the soundtrack and the sounds created live in the space, the tour becomes a heightened hyper-spectacle- experience that compresses live performance with past recordings and the imminent destruction that will occur in the future.

The tour is to end on the roof, the freest space in the building, where we pull the plug on the microphones of the participant so they hear only the wind.

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The work was designed for the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, at the “Moderne Proben” exhibition in 2013, DE

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