Late in the evening, the audience gathers in the festival bar. They find themselves next to projections of their neighbours in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw and Zurich, while in the course of the evening a party atmosphere takes over. Small groups go up to the roof in order to look back over the stages and the events of the day. What kind of day was that? What did we see?

On summer nights roofs become living spaces. Halfway between the distant street noise and the thick, urban-glow above, the audience meets somebody who spent his day in the city without seeing. Blind people orient themselves with the help of smells, the sounds of cars and the pavement's edge. What the audience has seen during the festival is reviewed and mapped onto the acoustic image of an invisible city. What remains in your memory?

Stefan Kaegi, Berlín

Stefan Kaegi (1972) produces with different collaborators documentary theatre, radio plays, and productions in urban spaces. Often featuring “experts in reality” rather than actors, the pieces are distilled from the original context in the course of research, casting and intervention. Kaegi’s model railway world “Mnemopark” was produced at a scale of 1:87 as a live film set at Theater Basel, and shown in over thirty cities between Tokyo and Montreal. Since 2006 Kaegi has been touring with two Bulgarian drivers and a truck, converted into a mobile auditorium (“Cargo Sofia”). In 2009, he put 10,000 locusts on the stage of the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, and, for “Radio Muezzin” worked with four Egyptian muezzins.
Together with Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel, Stefan Kaegi works under the label “Rimini Protokoll”. The group is artist-in-residence at HAU, Berlin, since 2004, and received the “New Realities in Theatre” prize in 2008. With Helgard Haug, Kaegi most recently produced “Best Before”, a videogame for a theatre audience of 200 players. All three members of the group presented “100% Wien” with 100 representatives of their city at Wiener Festwochen.
Kaegi’s collaboration with Lola Arias began in 2006; most recent joint productions were “SOKO São Paulo” involving Brazilian police officers, and “Airport Kids” featuring global nomads aged between 7 and 13.
Kaegi received the Routes Award of the European Cultural Foundation in 2010.

www.rimini-protokoll.de