SPACE HAS BECOME A CROWDED PLACE - eine multimediale Auseinandersetzung über verlorene Verbindungen

Flying satellites. Transmitting masts. Horns call. This evening opens a transcultural dialog between Namibia and Germany - about stories of telecommunications

. Radio links. Invocation.
"And if we don't take care to preserve these narratives, we won't know what happened. We won't have recordings of her voice to tell us about it. What times were like in colonial Namibia, in apartheid Namibia. When they die, they go with their stories, with their narratives." (Tuli Mekondjo)

Satellites fly. Transmitting masts. Horns calling. This evening opens a transcultural dialog between Namibia and Germany - about stories of telecommunication. The stories deal with techniques of musical invocation of the distant and the involvement of major German companies in the genocide in Namibia in 1904-1908. Connections are drawn through music, stories on stage and walking together in the urban space: Between this time in 1904, today's developments in satellite technology (2024), and the pre-colonial telecommunication techniques through horns that were used for thousands of years to communicate with the Faraway. What if the development of electrical communication infrastructures was only possible on this basis?

internet infrastructure will be used for the mutual transmission of the two performances in Namibia and Germany. As well as radio technology for the audio walk, which is based on radio technology. SPACE HAS BECOME A CROWDED PLACE not only creates an (interrupted) connection between the two locations Windhoek and Stuttgart, but also a - sometimes functioning, sometimes non-functioning - connection across points in time. Let's get moving. From Windhoek (Namibia) to Stuttgart (Germany) and back.

Concept & direction: Frederike Moormann, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja and Angelika WaniekCooperation partners

: Theater RAMPE (Stuttgart) and The Project Room Namibia (Windhoek), Linden Museum StuttgartPerformance

, concert and audio walk, approx. 70 minutes Double premiere
12. April 2024, 19:00, Theater RAMPE (Stuttgart) and The Project Room Namibia (Windhoek)
Performances 13 + 14 April each 19:00 and 15 April tba, student performance15

. April - October 15, 2024
The audio walk can be experienced in the city via a QR code. The QR code is located at the Marienplatz stop at the entrance to the cog railroad.
The start and end point of the audio walk is line 10 (cog railroad), Marienplatz stop.