Out of the Ring

Out of the Ring takes the audience on a journey through their city and invites them to look at Berlin through the diversity of intercultural stories. Participants will be given headphones and a map to fill out along the way. The tour combines performance, film, music and urbanism. The group will walk to three stations: Past, Present and Future of the city.

Wolf, Lara and Maria. Three different stories that intersect in the Mühlenkiez neighbourhood and defy concepts such as ‘borders’.

My voice will guide you on your way.
At each stop, you will be asked a question,
which you should answer immediately on your map.
You choose how you answer.

This tour was conceived in the winter of 2020-2021. Do you remember the COVID-19 pandemic? Cities and maps changed rapidly. The maps spoke of colour codes, high-risk zones, percentages of virus transmission. Maps and statistics of death. Some predicted a return to (new?) normality, others eternal torment.
The hell of the living is not something that is yet to come. If there is one, it is the one that is already here, the hell we live in every day, which we create through our togetherness. There are two ways not to suffer from it. The first comes easily to many: to accept hell and become so much a part of it that you no longer see it. The second is risky and requires constant attention and a willingness to learn: to seek and learn to recognise who and what in the midst of hell is not hell, and to give it permanence and space.

I am ready. Are you ready?