A city talk town in movement
In the west of Berlin, the Schlange housing estate swallows up part of the Berlin city motorway A 100. A TUNNEL over six hundred meters long leads through the residential building, in which around 4,000 people live, with sound insulation: the SNAKE. In the middle is a park-like courtyard. The motorway can only be found here if you look for it.
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Autobahnschlange
Autobahnschlange
Autobahnschlange
In April 2023, the road was closed: safety deficiencies. The hidden car culture comes to the surface: bypasses make noise, exhaust fumes and street fighting. The district administration is planning to restore the motorway.
But the local people are still divided. They are being courted by political parties: social housing, climate-neutral transport policy, car-friendly but barrier-free urban space? Political camps are facing each other. Can the rigidity of confrontation be dissolved with the liberating power of nonsense?
That is the goal of the Autobahnschlange parade.
It will start moving on September 14, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. in the inner courtyard of the snake at the summer festival of the large-scale housing development.
The heart of the parade is a mobile box from which a polyphonic town conversation about the Schlangenbad tunnel can be heard. Guests of the summer festival put the hat on themselves: one of the many made of cardboard in which visual ideas about the future of the motorway tunnels appear, which may never be built.
By repeating and rhythmizing the town conversation, they make sound what was previously words. Together they wear a huge snake costume made of gauze and concrete. The most famous building material of the motorway - concrete - feels different, mobile and brittle.
The cracks in the huge spatial costume of the motorway snake create colorful light reflections and enable new associations. They match the audio fragments from the box.
Two weeks before the parade, interested parties can gain an insight into the process that culminates in the parade. The audio installation (01.09.2024 17:30 Theater Jaro) reveals the conversation process: from taking stock of life with the highway, to speculating on possible repurposing of the highway tunnel, to playing together, and finally to Dada. It offers the opportunity to meet the interviewees of different political persuasions through listening and forms the prelude to the conversation that continues throughout the parade.
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A project by Klara Kroymann with people from the Schlange housing estate.
Participating artists
Klara Kroymann
Michaela Muchina
Eduardo da Conceição
Philipp Caspari
Leonie Ott
Fernando Perez
Philip Jürgensen
Leon Heymann/Theater Jaro
Stefanie Hintzsche
Dates
September 2024
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