21 Songs in a Public Surrounding

Hannes Seidl & Mara Genschel

Artwork, in rot-gelber Farbe mit quadratischem Farbverlauf.
Zwei Hände in roten Handschuhen berühren die Tastatur eines Klaviers.
Ein Artwork, das ein dreidimensionales rechteckiges rotes Objekt auf gelben Untergrund zeigt.
Ein Musiker mit grünem Gazetuch über dem Kopf spielt auf seiner Geige.

21 Songs in a Public Surrounding

Hannes Seidl & Mara Genschel

Brightly coloured, loud and with anarchic joy, musicians from the Berlin ensemble MAM and poet and performer Mara Genschel move into the B-level of the Hauptwache. For three days, they disrupt the busy day-to-day life beneath the city and invite you to open up to the place and its sounds, smells and people – with the freedom to perceive everything in a completely different way. They call on us to celebrate ourselves and the moment together for a brief instant, despite and because of all that is unaccomplished, unfinished, impossible, possibly embarrassing that penetrates below the city’s surface. It is a strange collective that this group has created with their songs, a wild mix of energetic music, confessions and normally well-protected insecurities, which they track down by intervening in public space across Europe's underground passages: Who are these beings? Their names sound like passwords, they always distance themselves from “the people” with inverted commas. Apparently they travel through time. Are they post-human? Aliens? Or simply social workers in disguise? Visitors moreover have the chance to be transported to underground passages across Europe in short audio pieces every thirty minutes in the sound room of the Dialogue Museum and to learn more from the reports of this strange group.

Infos

In the Dialog Museum and B-level of the Hauptwache Frankfurt

Presentation in the sound room of the Dialog Museum every 30 minutes

Language: German

 

Sponsors and Supporters

Hannes Seidl: Artistic direction, composition
Mara Genschel: Text
MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik: music, performance
Martin Müller: Costumes
formfellows: Visual design
ehrliche arbeit - freies kulturbüro: production management

"21 Songs" is a production by Hannes Seidl & Briefkastenfirma GbR in cooperation with Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, basis Frankfurt e.V. and DIALOGMUSEUM Frankfurt. Supported by the Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main and the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR. Parts of the work were made possible by the "Karl Sczuka Research Grant", which is awarded annually in cooperation with SWR and the Goethe-Institut.