An archaeology of the future
a co-production of LIGNA and studiobühneköln

Production: LIGNA (Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners, Torsten Michaelsen)
With the voices of: Robert Oschatz, Svenja Wasser and Oleg Zhukov
Soundtrack: By Spar

What should the city of the future look like?

The LIGNA group invites you to play a game that reimagines Cologne's inner city
city center for its utopian qualities. The closed
of the current urban space does not seem to envision anything beyond
conceivable beyond investment, renovation or new construction.
In search of the lost urban fantasy, the audience performatively recalls the
audience performatively recalls the largely forgotten happening Ci-
tyrama by Wolf Vostell from 1961, perhaps the first ever happening in Germany.
happening in Germany at all, it took place at a time of transition
of transition: the ruins of the war were only just disappearing
the concrete self-evidence of a new everyday life.
everyday life. Cityrama took its audience on a journey - into an urban space
an urban space interspersed with ruins and wasteland - and thus
and thus places of undefined possibilities, whose obstinacy was
controversial actions explored.

In order to discover the future of the city, we must revisit the uncertainty
uncertainty of this transition, to remember the ruins in which
which open up scope for situations beyond the everyday.
open up. Cityrama 3 proposes to explore the ruins as the unconscious
of Cologne, also along the lines of Benjamin Patterson's scores
or the urban choreographies of Mary Bauermeister, Karlheinz Stockhausen
Stockhausen and Carlheinz Caspari: What else could have been possible here?
have been possible here? What else will be possible here
be possible?