copyright: Robert Schittko
for those who do not belong –
Movements along the incomprehensible
PiratixUtopia (Audiowalk)
Production House Naxos, Frankfurt am Main, 2024
Premiere September 19, 2024
An audio walk about pirate ventures, vagabond detours, anarchist adventures and queer utopias.
What if we were to withdraw from the world's grasp? What if we learned to outsmart the capitalist order, to disappear into its loopholes? And yet still know how to navigate this managed world? Could we change the world without seizing power? Pirate-like?
Der Audiowalk lädt dazu ein, sich am Main entlang zu bewegen, auf der Kippe zwischen Land und Wasser entlang der Geschichten von ersten Seeräuberinnen, Anarchist*innen, piratischen Radiosendern, aber auch Gender Pirates und Vagabund*innen unserer Tage.
Far from the systems of order, alliances proliferate among those without recognizable identities, those without contours, those who remain disobedient. They send pirate radio messages, share knowledge of clandestine plans, secret hormone transfers, traces and gaps in the system; of vagrancy and of repeated adventures.
Rigged in the rigging. Climb aboard and disappear.
And they still don't know who we are.
An audio walk by andpartnersincrime
Idea and pirate knowledge: Inga Bendukat
Direction, concept and text: Fanti Baum & Inga Bendukat
Sound design & composition: Julia Mihaly
Audio voice: Alice Nogueira
Original sounds: Trailor Sparks, Tal, Inga Bendukat and Heide Platen
“Interlude Radio Libertatia” with material from Radio Corax.
Piratix on land and at sea: Alice Nogueira, Caterina Namuth, Christina Chatzopoulou, Fanti Baum, Inga Bendukat, Ira, Marah Frech, Max Stützle, Maya, Nadine Wagner, Sando Eismann, Sophia Bohnacker, Viktor Much & Yulia.
Accordion player: Lioba Brändle
Scenic space: Valeria Castaño Moreno
Costume: Nadine Wagner
Card design: Sophia Bohnacker
Audiovisual documentation: Esra Klein & Robert Schittko – MARS project room
Dramaturgical advice: Tim Schuster
Production: honest work – free cultural office
Production collaboration: Benjamin Bay
Public relations: Eleonora Lela Herder
Childcare: Pia Maurer
In complicity with: Trailor Sparks, Tal, Loki Loki Loksen Lol and Orlando.
Inga Bendukat is a theater scholar, freelance theater artist, and activist. Inga Bendukat has been a member of andpartnersincrime since 2023. Bendukat has taught theater studies in Frankfurt am Main and Vienna, among other places. Bendukat is currently working on her dissertation, "The Search for Queertopia. On Potential, But Porous, Theater Venues." In this dissertation, Bendukat explores the dismantling of ideologies from an anarchist, queer-feminist perspective and explores a "theater of de-subjugation," of resistance, and of solidarity-based practice.
Fanti Baum lives and works as an artist and theorist in Dortmund and Frankfurt. She operates in various constellations and develops performances, installations, dance pieces, and site-specific works. In 2020, she received the Artists' Prize of the City of Dortmund, and in 2022, together with Sebastian Klawiter, she won the Prize for Art in Public Space of the City of Munich. Together with Olivia Ebert, she directed the experimental theater, performance, and dance festival FAV18+20 in North Rhine-Westphalia, previously Frankfurt's site-specific festival. implant 2016.
Julia Mihaly is a composer working at the intersection of new music and performance art. She is part of the "Untere Reklamationsbehörde" collective and develops music-theatrical pieces for public spaces. Mihály recently composed a chamber opera for the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival, which premiered in November 2023. She is currently working on new compositions for Đàn Bầu (monochord) and live electronics for the Hanoi musician NGÔ Trà My and the Berlin-based Ensemble Mosaik.
Alice Nogueira is a director, dramaturge and performer.
Alice Nogueira's work focuses on forms of deconstructed dramaturgy and collective creative processes. In recent years, Nogueira has deepened her research on the relationship between word and movement and how this relationship can be used to transform language. queer.
Valeria Castaño Moreno is a conceptual artist and scenographer whose work explores the traces of a post-internet and post-apocalyptic reality. She creates immersive, sensory spaces at the boundaries between the digital and analogue. She is currently researching the perception of nature in digital contexts. In 2024, she exhibited the installation "plastic memories," the interim result of two years of research into the artificial reproduction of naturalness.
Sophia Bohnacker She creates illustrations and short films in search of images for autonomous, queer, and deviant lives that (must) be lived today as an alternative to capitalist reality, and understands storytelling as a political practice and way of life. Sophia is involved in self-managed social cultural spaces in Frankfurt, lives collectively, and studies at the Offenbach School of Design.
Trailor Sparks is a speaker, performer, writer, radio host, and, above all, an anarchist in all of this. Trailor lives in a queer anarchist farm collective. He is part of the Freies Sender Kombinat Hamburg, where he has produced over 130 episodes of "Quarantimes – die Nachtschau" (Quarantimes – the Night Show) and gives workshops on queerness, militancy, relationship anarchy, and identity(ies).
A production by andpartnersincrime, in collaboration with the production house Naxos, the exhibition and cultural platform MARS Frankfurt e.V., and ehrliche arbeit – Freies Kulturbüro. Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Arts and Culture, the Women's Affairs Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main, and the Performing Arts Fund in the Production Funding program with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Dates:
Thursday: September 19, 2024, 6 p.m.
Friday: 20.09.2024, 6 p.m.
Saturday: 21.09.2024, 6 p.m., with childcare
Sunday: 22.09.2024, 6 p.m., with childcare
Monday: 23.09.2024, 6 p.m.,
Location & Directions:
The performance starts at Westhafenplatz 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main
Take the U4 and U5 to Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and the tram 16, 17 and 21 to Baseler Platz
Tickets:
Reservation tickets at: www.studionaxos.de
Childcare:
During the performances on Saturday and Sunday, we offer childcare for children between the ages of 3 and 7. Please register in advance at: benjamin@andpartnersincrime.org
Access information:
The audio walk leads partially along unpaved paths and through wild vegetation, making it unfortunately not suitable for wheelchair users, strollers, or people with walking aids. Please remember to wear sturdy shoes and travel light.
The main medium is sound and spoken German without sign language translation. If you have any questions about the accessibility of the performance, please contact us: benjamin@andpartnersincrime.org
Language:
German with occasional quotations in English, Spanish and Portuguese
"'For those who do not belong' is the title of the audio walk created by Inga Bendukat and Fanti Baum for the performance collective andpartnersincrime, which takes the audience on a nearly two-hour stroll through impassable terrain. But at first, you might think you don't belong here. Not on the pier, where an armada of paper boats is just setting sail, not between the tracks in front of the thermal power plant, and certainly not on this path overgrown with butterbur and tree of heaven that the audience takes along the Main River. But a little bit of a desperado attitude is part of this piece." "Follow the Wind" by Christoph Schütte in: FAZ, September 23, 2024
"Tough love for this adventure" – Ms. Eckstein strolls, Instagram 25.09.2024
“At andpartnersincrime, it’s all about holding the flag high” – Hessenschau, 06.09.2024
