26. June - 28. June 2015, Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin, Germany 48 Stunden Neukölln
26.September 2015, Scheveningse Pier in The Hague, The Netherlands TodaysArt. NL 2015
LIVEBOAT - Chapter 5
Taking his trident in both hands, Poseidon stirs the sea into a fury and lashes up rain and squall. Mast and sail are torn away, Odysseus is thrown overboard and buried under a wall of water. When he emerges gasping and sputtering, he somehow manages to clamber back aboard. A goddess, Leucothea, appears to him in the form of a bird. She counsels him to swim for it. “Take my veil, tie it around your waist as a charm against drowning. When you reach shore, be sure to throw it back into the sea.”
Homer, Odyssey, Chapter Five
LIVEBOAT - Chapter 5 addresses the ongoing refugee tragedy in front of our borders and offers space for communication and discourses. After a long odyssey, an oversized lifeboat runs ashore on Tempelhof Airport. Inside the boat, multilingual extracts from Homer's Odyssey as well as fragments of refugee experiences are intertwined to a sound carpet.
Thanks to: Martin Steffens, Franz Höfner, Markus Wüste, Andrea Klahold, Herr Gessner, Homer Kindly supported by (for 48 Stunden Neukölln festival): Aktionsfonds Quartiersmanagement Schillerpromenade Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e.V. Bezirksamt Neukölln Fachbereich Kultur Stiftung Umverteilen! AG dritte welt Hier! Grün Berlin GmbH
