Performative bike tour along the Neckar to the City Archive
The interdisciplinary performance Lärm der Exot*innen is dedicated to a “secret” of Bad Cannstatt: the yellow-headed parrots. The artists of La Fuchsia Kollektiva present this phenomenon as a metaphor for a migration story with a strong resilience. In doing so, they expose what the presence of these exotic birds reveals about the desire for “the other”, the desire to have the exotic here in this territory.
The group of parrots sets out, together with their audience, on a journey of discovery along the Neckar on bicycles, they tell their own story, they look for traces of products and raw materials that, like them, were transported here from other continents. They dig into history and manage to decipher some of the findings.
The interdisciplinary performance Lärm der Exotinnen is dedicated to a “secret” of Bad Cannstatt: the yellow-headed amazons. The artists of La Fuchsia Kollektiva present this event as a metaphor of a migration story with strong resilience. They thereby expose what the presence of these exotic birds reveals about the desire for “the other” and the desire to have the exotic with us. Four parrots search for a missing parrot on the site of the former Strauss Cie. bed feather factory.
The search continues along the Neckar at the Neckarine playground, to a square with many plane trees, past the old town of Cannstatt, to the river promenade opposite the Wilhelma, into the Hall of Fame, along the Neckar embankment around the Wasen area, to the city archive at Bellinweg 21. The yellow-headed amazons tell their own story and the story of their new home on the Neckar, where they repeatedly find traces of goods and raw materials that, like themselves, were transported here from other continents.
*Hidden Places – Stuttgart neu erzählt! Artistic and cultural projects at places of cultural memory in public space” is a cooperation between the Coordination Center for the Culture of Memory and the Department for Art in Public Spaces of the Department for Cultural Promotion of the City of Stuttgart. Places and themes from Stuttgart’s history that are hitherto little known or unknown will be presented through various art and cultural projects in public spaces and thus made tangible. In this way, they become a visible part of a living memory culture.
Supporters
Dahab Paulos, Roman Fabig, Gunnar Julius, Paola Tamayo,
Guadalupe Agudelo Gutiérrez, Maya Witte, Jhonatan Umana Ríos und Ateliergemeinschaft Bahnhofstrasse e.V.
Videodocumentation
Program
Photos
© Guadalupe Agudelo
Performances
14.09.2024 – 17:00, Bad Cannstatt, (DE)
15.09.2024 – 17:00, Bad Cannstatt, (DE)
21.09.2024 – 17:00, Bad Cannstatt, (DE)
22.09.2024 – 17:00, Bad Cannstatt, (DE)
29.09.2024 – 12:30, Esslingen, (DE)
29.09.2024 – 15:00, Esslingen, (DE)
Press
That’s what it’s all about: telling colonial history and making it visible in urban space. The project came about on a tender from the city’s cultural office, more precisely the coordination center for culture of remembrance and the funding department for art in public space. “Hidden Places”: Under this title, adventure city tours are offered in different cities. “Stuttgart neu erzählt!” is the subtitle, it is about ” places of remembrance in public space that are not immediately perceptible as such and stand for previously unlit topics and perspectives”.
“Die Exot:innen von Bad Cannstatt”>KONTEXT:Wochenzeitung< Dietrich Heißenbüttel, 18.09.2024, link:19:14, 22.09.2024, unofficial translation
© Guadalupe Agudelo