Humbolting! Tauben, Erdbeeren, Zwickmühlen. Eine spielerische Audiotour

In the organizer's words:

A look behind the scenes at the Humboldt Forum - as part of "Humboldting! Schüler*innen forschen", young adults have investigated the day-to-day work of employees and provide astonishing insights into the small dramas of everyday life in a large cultural center in an audio tour.

The Humboldt Forum is a place where you can see exhibitions, attend a performance or take a look at the cake counter in the café with your great-aunt. It is also a place where many people work every day to ensure a warm welcome, accessibility, cleanliness and security. Who are the people who make exciting visits possible day after day and what do they experience in their service? What funny, intimate, strange moments do they experience and observe in contact with the visitors?

In collaboration with the Taiwanese artists' collective Prototype Paradise, pupils from the "Humboldting" project at the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium in Berlin-Reinickendorf spoke to the staff and discovered exciting stories. In a playful audio tour, the pupils guide visitors through the Humboldt Forum and narrate their conversations with audio recordings. They talk about lost and found children, about controlling the pigeon population, about the feelings when eating strawberry cake and also about shared memories of this special place, where the Palace of the Republic once stood and before that the Berlin Palace.

An entertaining audio tour that shows the Humboldt Forum from an unusual perspective!

Audio tour with recordings of service and security staff at the Humboldt Forum, led by pupils from the Thomas-Mann-Gymnasium. Artistically compiled by the Taiwanese artist collective Prototype Paradise.

"Pigeons, Strawberries, Dilemmas" is funded by the National Culture and Arts Foundation Taiwan and takes place as part of Humbolding! Schüler*innen forschen, a long-term project of the Humboldt Forum Foundation at the Berlin Palace at the interface of education and art. Artistic direction: Alice Fleming and Darren O'Donnell.

PARTICIPANTS

Yu-Ying (Yoyo) Kung

Yoyo Kung is the founder of Prototype Paradise (PP), a project-based theater collective in Taiwan. Everyday scenarios are usually the starting point for PP's performance projects. People who do not have an artistic background are invited as creative collaborators/performers and/or as participating spectators. With the aim of creating new insights and new connections between people in the neighborhood, PP often presents its performances in public spaces, e.g. at markets, in scooter workshops, in streets where the garbage collectors pick up household waste, etc.

Kung designs and initiates projects for PP. She also works as an independent curator and manager with arts organizations in Taiwan to encourage theater makers to involve new publics and new communities in the creative process. She holds an MA from the University of the Arts in Utrecht.

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Cheng-Ting Chen

Cheng-Ting Chen is a theater designer and performer from Taiwan. After ten years of dance training, she studied theater design at the Taipei National University of the Arts and stage design/scenic space at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2007 to 2010, she worked as a theater designer for various theaters in Taipei and was the technical director of Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre. Her stage designs were nominated for the World Stage Design (WSD) competition in 2009 and 2017. Chen has been living and working in Berlin since 2010 and has mainly realized her works in Germany and Taiwan. She has also toured with projects for the independent scene in Europe and Asia. Her main focus is on multidisciplinary spatial experiments, visual art and performance art in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural context. She is currently a co-artist of the Polymer DMT team.

Yi-Chun (Betty) Chen

Betty Chen is a dramaturge and translator based in Taipei and Munich. Since 2012, she has been working intensively with the Taipei Arts Festival on international co-productions and the festival's new commissions. Since 2023 she has been working as a co-curator at Spielart Theater Festival. As a freelance dramaturg, she has collaborated with artists and curators from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Germany. A constant focus of her work is the friction between individual and collective narratives. She writes about contemporary theater practices in relation to their socio-political contexts and has translated a dozen books and plays from German/English into Chinese. She has also led several workshops and lectures on documentary theater practices and dramaturgy.

Yu-Chin (Corinne) Hsiao

Yu-Chin Hsiao has been working with Prototype Paradise since 2014. She is also the founder and artistic director of Think Feel Move. Her main focus is on exploring social issues with participants and audiences through theater workshops and participatory performances. In over 160 performances, her plays have engaged Taiwanese audiences in the discussion of current issues. She has also led more than 80 themed theater workshops with schools and NGOs. She also works as a philosophical consultant.

- Meeting point: Mechanical Arena in the foyer

- Price: 00,00 EUR. Ticket required

- Language: German