IN SHORT ⟶ Rimini Protokoll invites you to take an acoustic walk that presents the city as if it were a theatre stage. You download an app to your phone, and following an introduction by Stefan Kaegi, an audio track guides you, place by place, in an immersive sound experience that starts from specific parts of Rome and transforms them into somewhere else.
The Walks is an application that contains a collection of acoustic trajectories conceived by the Rimini Protokoll theatre company. Each route is a site-specific sound experience that covers precise places in your city, inviting you to rediscover the environment and interact with it.
With the pandemic, walking in a public space has taken on a whole new meaning. An ancient and worldly ritual has become an integral part of a new normal: people meet, walk, take a tour of the neighbourhood, play with the landscape and perceive something new with every step. The Walks considers walking as a theatrical scenario: in every city, voices, sounds and music transform familiar places into attractions, and landscapes into stages.
Stefan Kaegi leads each 20-minute itinerary. You can leave whenever you want and decide how many to do and in what order. The stories and soundscapes encased in these short sonic experiences are global in scope. Walks connect people around the world in a local experience, through the fundamental act of walking. The subtitle of each walk indicates where or how to do it.
Rimini Protokoll will also be present at Short Theatre 2024 with the show Uncanny Valley by Stefan Kaegi.
Rimini Protokoll is a theatre group founded by Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel in 2000. Piece by piece, they have expanded the abilities of theatre to create new perspectives on reality, often creating theatrical performances, interventions, stage installations and radio programs with industry experts who have themselves acquired their knowledge and skills outside of theatre. They love transposing spaces or social realities into theatrical formats. Many of their works are characterised by interactivity and a playful approach to technology. The plays All right. Goodnight. (2022), Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas (2020), Situation Rooms (2014), as well as Wallenstein (2006) and Deadline (2004) were invited to the prestigious Theatertreffen festival in Berlin. Furthermore, Rimini Protokoll received the Mülheim Dramaturgy Prize for the work Karl Marx’s Capital: first volume, the Faust theatre prize, the theatre Grand Prix from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the European Theatre Prize, the Leone d’Argento at the Venice Biennale Teatro and the German Radio Play Prize as well as the War Blinded Audio Play Prize. Rimini Protokoll’s production office has been located in Berlin since 2003.
script and direction Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, Daniel Wetzel
idea and dramaturgy Cornelius Puschke
app development Steffen Klaue, Alexander Morosow
artistic coordination and audio editing Vlaicu Golcea
sound design and mastering Frank Böhle
music and composition Frank Böhle et al.
graphic design Ilona Marti
voice recordings Rimini Protokoll, studio lärm, Lorenz Rollhäuser e Vlaicu Golcea
production manager Maitén Arns
production assistant Steven Sander
app development assistant Gaétan Langlois-Meurinne
Italian translation Panthea (Erica Grossi, Lorenzo de Sabbata)
experts and contributions Erdem Gündüz, Stephanie Haug, Katja Otto, Martin Schmitz, Antonio Tagliarini
Italian voices Noa Eleodori, Silvia Sassetti, Daniela Lucato, Simonetta Solder, Antonio Tagliarini, Paolo Eleodori, Rosario Bona, Agnese Grieco
a production by Rimini Apparat
in coproduction with creart / Teatrelli, BorderLight – International Theatre + Fringe Festival Cleveland, European Forum Alpbach, Fondazione Armonie d’Arte, HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Hellerau – European Centre for the Arts, International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Zona K, Festival PERSPECTIVES
with the support of Fonds Darstellende Künste
funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe
supported by Ambasciata della Repubblica Federale di Germania
presented at Short Theatre 2024 within the project Eco:frequenze funded by Next Generation EU
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