VISION
At the end of summer 2026, La Fuchsia Kollektiva e.V. will host an interdisciplinary performance in Travertinpark. A preparatory phase will take place in 2025, culminating in the design of a performative format for the park. In this first year of the project, we will get to know the location and network with various individuals and institutions in Hallschlag. We will conduct theoretical and
practical research on the geological, paleontological, anthropological, industrial, and social aspects of the site. We will interview various people who have memories of the time when travertine stone was still being quarried on this site, as well as people who can tell us about travertine stone from a scientific perspective or about animals that lived here thousands of years ago.
In September, a participatory, interdisciplinary, performative laboratory with various artists will take place. In collaboration with documentary filmmaker Paola Tamayo, a short film about the process in 2025 will be produced and shown in the winter of 2025-2026. We communicate about the project through various media and platforms, and in particular through the information sheet in_TЯAVERT_in.
LABORATORY
From September 8 to 12, the team of artists from La Fuchsia Kollektiva and other invited Stuttgart artists will explore the question: Which performative formats are suitable for Travertinpark? In doing so, they will engage with the location, its actors, and its history.
Travertinpark inspires them to engage in deep human reflection on our present and our use of natural resources.
As part of the lab, visitors are invited to meet and exchange ideas with the artists:
PREHISTORY IN THE PRESENT, Art Theater with Anja Abele: We take a closer look at the rocks in Travertine Park. We research what we discover and could discover in the rock in terms of animal and plant remains. All our creativity is called upon to imagine the creatures that could be at home in this rock—we use pencils to make these creatures visible and, who knows, perhaps even audible? In any case, at the end we make our discoveries visible and tangible for others in a presentation.
LIVING MACHINE, Interdisciplinary Art (Theater, Music) with Catalina Cadavid: We will explore machines—discovering the body as a machine and medium. Using our bodies, we will bring various machines to life, imitating and inventing their movements and sounds.
EXCAVATING STORIES, Storytelling with Dahab Paulos: In the first step, we will look at the landscape and listen to the history of travertine. What discoveries will we make? Will we find clues to past times? What do the many layers of stone tell us? What animals may have lived here, and can we bring them back to life? What did they look like? With a lot of imagination, we will continue the story and reenact it so that we can later tell it to others as a continuation of the history of Travertine Park. In the second step, we will set the collected stories to music.
COLORS OF THE EARTH, Textile Art / Costume with Johana Gómez: A two-part journey into textile dyeing and light printing techniques inspired by travertine. Discover the secrets of textile dyeing. Learn how to dye fabrics in earthy tones that reflect the soft yet powerful colors of travertine. Immerse yourself in the world of historical printing techniques and experiment with light and shadow by collecting traces and materials from the park and printing them onto textiles.
CREATIVE POWER OF A GROUP, contemporary dance with Lisa Kistenmacher: We will experiment with various principles (including flow, gravity, suppleness) of contemporary dance and develop a dynamic choreography that takes place on different levels (floor and standing). We want to fill the space of the location with power and vitality. Animal remains have been found in Travertinpark, some of which we will depict in motion and incorporate into the dance.
VOICE COLORS AS A RESPONSE TO SOUNDS/NOISES, singing/voice with Sandra Hartmann: No knowledge of vocal techniques is required to participate. Creativity and the courage to try out your voice and get involved are what is needed. Singing/voice sound is created in many ways. We let ourselves drift to different places in Travertinpark, listen, and enter into the collective sound. Individual ideas, joint experimentation, finding acoustics, guiding sounds.
KANN-WERK-STATT, Music / Making wind instruments with Sophie Pope: Make personalized, colorful wind instruments out of (watering) cans and play music together with trombones. Discover and play with the different soundscapes of Travertinpark.
SOUND FOSSILS, sound experiment with Tom Goemare: A sound experiment will take place in Travertine Park, searching for fossils and living things through sound. Thanks to its rich archaeological history, the park is full of traces of the past that we must interpret and bring back to life. The game will consist of imagining these sounds of the past using sound objects collected on site.
The meeting place will be announced after registration:
projekt.lafuchsiakollektiva@gmail.com
We also invite you to an evening discussion with the project team on September 2 from 6 to 8 p.m. at nachbar | Kneipe & Kultur, Am Römerkastell 73, 70376 Stuttgart. Do you have memories of the time when travertine stone was quarried in Hallschlag? Come by and tell us about it!!!
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