Views on the city by Markus Stein (idea, camera, text) and Christoph M. Gosepath (concept) in a first series of ctp 5.3 “how we experience disease and the city”.
The episodes deal with normality, peculiarities, distortions or illusions in subjective views which reveal the range of possible perceptions. To which extent you can draw conclusions to the illness of the observer is something we won’t like to answer here! Please refer to your doctor or pharmacist for that …
by and with Maryna Demb and Mykhailo and Valeriia a produktion of ctp, Berlin Christoph M. Gosepath und Markus Stein (in cooperation with Lisa Eichhorn)
War
Music heals wounds and mends abysses. But no one can rise again. War is not like poetry. War is like a sound that shrinks you to a point. War has filled all the organs and stopped the will to live. Get out of my body. Get out of my life. I am stronger than you. My heart is stronger than yours. Even if you yourself have no heart. You possess nothing but the orders of your superior. Away! Go back to the lava of which you are made! Ukraine is none of your business! Ukraine is a holy land where the Virgin Mary herself walks … Blessed Virgin! Our dear Lady! I beseech Thee, place a holy veil over my warrior. Protect him with the dome of our prayers. Protect him from the bullets of the enemy. And make him resistant to the fire of the dragon with a sword of the Archangel in his hand, with his shield … I could do much for Ukraine, but I hold your hand, my son. I could weave a web, paint a picture. But I hold your hand, my son. I could have delivered food, I could have backed them up. I could have enlisted in the military. I could have … I could have… Because I feel guilty for being helpless. I could have done that, but I’m holding your hand, my son. Oh my God! If people knew how hard it is for this world to give birth to new men, they wouldn’t start wars! I am only a woman. I am only a woman. Five letters in a word, can it be simpler? I am tender, I am loved, I am yours. I am the most loved in the world. In pain I give life. With clenched teeth I let you go to war. I stand at the window and look in disbelief I am simply a woman. And this simplicity knows no end.
text by Maryna Demb Lita Akhmetova Tetyana Valigurska Sofiia Krymovska
In ctp 5.2 “How We Listen to Disease and the City” we present the web-based project “Listening to the City as a Form of Writing” by sound artist ->Julián Galay, which he developed for ctp together with programmer ->Federico Isasti. It is an interactive page that asks visitors to the site to shoot a video of any city walk with their smartphone and upload the video footage. A little later, it will reappear on the website – and the sounds recorded in the video will be used for a reflection on the “sound of the city” through a text inserted in the video by Julián: ->listeningtothecity
Talk between Julián Galay and Christoph M. Gosepath about the development of ctp 5.2
Christoph: How did you get the impulse for the project „listening to the city“?
Julián: The first version of the work was commissioned by Satellit, a place that works as a satellite of Haus der Statistics with a critical approach to the city and architecture in general. The invitation came from Erik Goengrich and Peter Schmidt, who are developing a cycle of walks, always starting from the same point to the other, in which they invite different guests from multiple disciplines to develop a theme and talk about that.
They proposed to me to do a “soundwalk”, which at this point is almost a genre in itself, these are walks, which generally take place in … ->more
What it means to be “sick” is a cultural question, even if “I feel sick” at first seems to mean only the individual suffering of a person.
To someone who is ill, something general happens to: the illness. You can name and describe it – and you think to know what causes it. What is the name of the disease? What is changed and does not work?
The illness exists also independently of an ill individual: Others suffer from this illness or have suffered from it. A symptom is triggered when this or that happens in the organism, we know that from experience – even if it is not currently happening.
And then: What are the effects of the disease? Not only individuals suffer from an illness, but also their environment: suffering awakens neediness towards others, your own possibilities are limited. You need something from others and can give nothing to them.
Finally, what or who is to blame?
A society’s culture influences how individual suffering is experienced, how suffering is described, how the connection between suffering and cause is viewed, and how suffering is dealt with. There are considerable intercultural differences in the conception of what it means to be ill and very different reactions to it.
Considering illness as a cultural phenomenon, in the ctp 5.0 project club tipping point would like to address the question of whether living in a city has a particular influence here. Many diseases, somatic as well as psychological, seem to accumulate in urban contexts; circumstances of living in cities seem to be unhealthy at first sight. So we ask: “Does city life make you sick?”. We try to trace this question in different dimensions.
club tipping point is pursuing a second question in this project, based on last year’s painful experience that theatrical forms of elaboration and presentation can make people sick because of too much closeness and thus risking an infection – and that we therefore had to think about low-touch forms such as “theatre in the digital web”: Does this lead to a sustainable gain and an expansion of theatrical forms of expression? Or are we simply happy to be able to return to what we’ve had, to what we know – to a “business as usual”?
In the ctp 5.0 project, we want to use digital media in particular to explore this question.
“There is no need to leave your home. Remain at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait and hold on. Don’t even wait, but be completely quiet and remain alone. The world will present itself to you to be unfolded, it has to – enchanted, it will squirm before you.”
Franz Kafka, „Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande“ (->Projekt Gutenberg) (translation by ctp)
Performance Lecture by/with Robert Schmidt and Christoph M. Gosepath dramaturgy: Caro Thum special appearance: Lisa M. Janke und Vera Schrankl video/sound: Veronika Kühner stage machinery: Jan Klein documentation: Wiebke Bergermann
lecture followed by a discussion, in the context of the new series ->ctp x.0 reflections
box office opening: 7.30 pm | 8/5 Euro reservations: karten@viertewelt.de or phone 01578-8440941 VIERTE WELT | Kottbusser Tor in the center of Kreuzberg | gallery 1st floor, access via exterior stair in Adalbertstraße 96 | 10999 Berlin | www.viertewelt.de | persons in wheelchairs are kindly requested to announce their visit a day before the event at: karten@viertewelt.de
In times of devastating political changes all over the world, of intensified injustice and ruthlessness as well as increased struggles for conditions and means of productions, club tipping point is looking for self-assessments: which are the nets in which we try to gasp the air we have to breathe, the air we want to articulate with … want to articulate? Articulate what? What do we have to see? Why? Why, do we think, we have to see this? Can we simply “say” this? A little night about the confusion of two theater-makers in our times.
performance lecture | Fr 28 June 2019 | 8pm – 9.30 pm by/with Robert Schmidt and Christoph M. Gosepath special appearance: Lisa M. Janke video/sound: Veronika Kühner production assistant: Vera Schrankl documentation: Wiebke Bergermann
lecture followed by a discussion, in the context of the new series ->ctp x.0 reflections
box office opening: 7.30 pm | 8/5 Euro reservations: karten@viertewelt.de or phone 01578-8440941 VIERTE WELT | Kottbusser Tor in the center of Kreuzberg | gallery 1st floor, access via exterior stair in Adalbertstraße 96 | 10999 Berlin | www.viertewelt.de | persons in wheelchairs are kindly requested to announce their visit a day before the event at: karten@viertewelt.de
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In times of devastating political changes all over the world, of intensified injustice and ruthlessness as well as increased struggles for conditions and means of productions, club tipping point is looking for self-assessments: which are the nets in which we try to gasp the air we have to breathe, the air we want to articulate with … want to articulate? Articulate what? What do we have to see? Why? Why, do we think, we have to see this? Can we simply “say” this? A little night about the confusion of two theater-makers in our times.
by Christoph M. Gosepath and Robert Schmidt | performance: Nkwabi Nghangasamala, Lisa Marie Janke, Bornice Biomndo | special guest: Almut Zilcher | script: Robert Schmidt and Christoph M. Gosepath | dramaturgy: Martina Neu | graphic design: Jeroen de Boer – TheOlifant | outfit: Primavera/Maas | sound: Matthias Meppelink | technics: Sebastian König | production: Clara Becker | assistance: Emanuele Vassallo
premiere: September 19, 2018, 8.00 pm
further performances: September 21., 22. and 24. September, 8.00 pm
tickets: 11,- Euro | 7,- Euro | 3,- Euro
ticket reserveration at karten@viertewelt.de
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VIERTE WELT | Kottbusser Tor
in the center of Kreuzberg | Galerie 1. OG | access via external stairs at Adalbertstraße 96 | 10999 Berlin | mit@viertewelt.de | www.viertewelt.de
For access with a wheelchair, please tell us a day before about your visit at karten@viertewelt.de
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A production of club tipping point, sponsored by Hauptstadtkulturfonds
Lisa M. Janke und Bornice Biomndo; picture: Tipping Point e.V.
When is a human mentally ill? When do you become a psychiatric patient (against your own will)? What do diagnosis and treatment tell us about a society?
Based on a research trip to Tanzania, the Berlin theater group “club tipping point” developed a theater project together with the Tanzanian actor Nkwabi Ng‘hangasamala, the German actress Lisa Marie Janke and the Kenian expert for public health, Bornice Biomndo. It combines fictitious elements with theoretical knowledge about psychiatric treatments in today’s societies here and there.
The theatrical approach to culturally different views on psychosis starts in the transit area of an emergency room, where a German doctor meets an African patient. She finds it difficult to treat him – and this not only because he reminds her of an episode of her own life, when she got into contact with mental illness and traditional ways of healing in East Africa herself …
The play is performed in German, Swahili and English.
Snapshots:
CTP 4.2 Notaufnahme – Hospitali from ctp on Vimeo.
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