Rimini Protokoll
(Berlin, DE)
The Walks
Instructions: The Walks is an app for smartphones, downloadable from the App Store or Google Play. Once you purchase a ticket on PICA’s website for The Walks, you will receive an activation code within 24 hours of your purchase. This will be a separate email from your receipt.
To ensure the app runs smoothly, you will need a current operating system (version 5 or later for Android or version 13 or later for iOS) and 100 MB of storage space.
The Walks is an invitation to walk at varying speeds and intensities. More detailed information about each walk is available in the app.
DESCRIPTION
Walking in public took on new meaning during the pandemic. An ancient and everyday ritual became an integral part of the new normality. Today, people continue to meet, walk, stroll through districts, play in landscapes, and perceive their environment anew with every stride.The Walks is an app with a collection of audio walks by Rimini Protokoll. Each walk is a short, 20-minute audio experience that covers the stories and soundscapes from specific locations in your city and invites you to rediscover and interact with your environment. Connecting people around the world through a local experience, The Walks grasps walking as a theatrical scenario. In every city, voices, sounds, and music turn familiar places into sites and landscapes into stages. This happens step by step through storytelling, dialogical situations, choreographed discoveries, or musical and rhythmic variations on walking.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel founded the theatre label Rimini Protokoll in 2000 and have since worked in different constellations under this name. Work by work, they have expanded the means of the theatre to create new perspectives on reality.
Rimini Protokoll often develops their stage works, interventions, performative installations, and audio plays together with experts who have gained their knowledge and skills beyond the theatre. Furthermore, they like to transpose rooms or social structures into theatrical formats. Many of their works feature interactivity and a playful use of technology.
Hence, Rimini Protokoll declared the “General Assembly” of Daimler stockholders a theatre play, or, with “Call Cutta” and “Call Cutta in a Box,” they set up a transatlantic conversation between a worker in an Indian call center and each audience member.
With “100% City,” they have created a worldwide, ever-newly contextualizing work in which 100 statistically selected inhabitants of the city gather on a theatre stage. Their production “World Climate Conference” mirrors the drama of diplomatic efforts to protect the Earth's atmosphere at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg. For the multiplayer video walk “Situation Rooms,” they built a hyperrealistic set in which the 20 audience members follow the tracks of people whose biographies have been shaped by weapons.
In “Utopolis,” the audience is guided through the city by 48 portable speakers that set a course for shared or contradicting utopias.
Recently, more immersive and interactive works have been created for museums, such as “win><win“ and “Urban Nature.”
The pieces "All right. Good night." (2022), “Chinchilla Arsehole, eyeye” (2020), “Situation Rooms” (2014), “Wallenstein” (2006), and “Deadline” (2004) have been invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen. On top of that, Rimini Protokoll received the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis for “Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band,” the German theatre award Faust, the Grand Prix Theatre from the Swiss Federal Office for Culture, the European Theatre Award, the Silver Lion at the Theatre Biennale in Venice, as well as the German Audio Play Award and the War Blinded Audio Play Prize.Since
2003, the production office of Rimini Protokoll has been in Berlin.
CREDITS
Script, Direction: Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel
Idea, Dramaturgy: Cornelius Puschke
App Development: Steffen Klaue, Alexander Morosow
Artistic Coordination/Audio Editing (RO): Vlaicu Golcea
Sound design/Mastering: Frank Böhle
Music/Composition: Frank Böhle et al. (see individual walks)
Graphic Design: Ilona Marti
Voice Recordings: Rimini Protokoll, studio lärm, Lorenz Rollhäuser and Vlaicu Golcea
Production Management: Maitén Arns
Production Assistant: Steven Sander
App Development Assistant: Gaétan Langlois-Meurinne
Translation: Panthea (EN/FR/IT: Naomi Boyce, Aurélien Foster, Anna Galt, Erica Grossi, Vivian Ia, Adrien Leroux, Lianna Mark, Samuel Petit, Yanik Riedo, Lorenzo de Sabbata), Ondine Cristina Dascălița & Adina Olaru (RO), Alexander Schmiedel (ES)
Experts/Contributors: Erdem Gündüz, Stephanie Haug, Katja Otto, Martin Schmitz, Antonio Tagliarini
Speakers: Dido Antonia Aquilanti, Maitén Charlotte Arns, Cătălina Bălălău, Maria Bărbulescu, Bente Bausum, Melanie Baxter-Jones, Vlad Bîrzanu, Coca Bloos, Rosario Bona, Liliana Bong-Schmidt, Lena Bruun Bondeson, Wera Bunge, Lène Calvez, Nicholas Cațianis, Maïmouna Coulibaly, Luisa Devins, Paul Dunca/Paula Dunker, Noa Eleodori, Paolo Eleodori, María García Beato, Carmen Ghiurco, Margot Gödrös, María Magdalena González Atao, Agnese Grieco, Melissa Holroyd, Christiane Hommelsheim, Stéphane Hugel, Timur Isik, Mmakgosi Kgabi, Lara Körte, Koffi Kra, Eva-Maria Kurz, Alexandra Lauck, Max Lechat, Nicoleta Lefter, Joshua Lerner, Daniela Lucato, Georgia Măciuceanu, Steve Mekoudja, Conrad Mericoffer, Mela Mihai, Lara-Sophie Milagro, Gabriela Pîrlițeanu, Alina Rotaru, Juan Sáenz de Tejada Urruzola, Silvia Sassetti, Ausencio Serrano Garcia, Simonetta Solder, Kamran Sorusch, Antonio Tagliarini, Rosa Antonia Uribe de Hass, Lucie Zelger, Monika Zimmering
Documentation/Trailer: Expander Film (Stefan Korsinsky, Lilli Kuschel)
Thank Yous: Barcelona Cicle de l’Aigua, Milagro Alvarez, Ignasi Batalle Barber, Aljoscha Begrich, Peter Breitenbach, Evangelische Friedhofsverband Berlin Stadtmitte, Andreas Fischbach, Jannis Grimm (Institute for the Study of Protest and Social Movements), Ant Hampton, Lilli Kuschel, Dima Levytskyi, Jan Meuel, Barbara Morgenstern, Niki Neecke (Jardin Sonore), Ricardo Sarmiento, Hilla Steinert, Enric Tello, Valentin Wetzel, Zoï Wetzel, Gustavo Ramon Wilhelmi
SUPPORT
A production by Rimini Apparat
In co-production with CreArt Teatrelli, BorderLight Theatre Festival, European Forum Alpbach, Fondazione Armonie d’Arte, Hebbel am Ufer, Hellerau – European Centre for the Arts, International Summer Festival, Zona K, Festival PERSPECTIVES.
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.