Installation (2022)
As a collective occupation of space in the former Weimar prison, the group Extra Unruhig, consisting of 9 students under the direction of Elena Zieser and Schorsch Kamerun, artistically poses fundamental questions about participation and empathy - also as a response to marginalising simplification in currently increasingly fragile co-determination efficiencies, increasing social division and fear-fuelled opinion-making. Is thinking, being and doing differently really a fundamental common right? Which voice, which song hangs whom up - or which one even hangs up? Can art effectively pose questions that are otherwise not dared, experiment freely, disturb, be random and (extra) restless - in order to keep boundaries necessarily fluid?
The project was supported by the Studierendenwerk Thüringen, the Chair of Experimental Radio and the Student Convention
of the Bauhaus University Weimar and took place in cooperation with the Freiraum Kollektiv Weimar and the Kollektiv Raumstation from 22 March to 23 March in the former prison in Weimar.
In this project, the old dial telephone functions as a key interactive element that creates connections between the spaces and can therefore also be used for performative purposes.
The projects of the various group members are thus linked together. There will also be a room in which short-format sound compositions and audio contributions that have already been produced as part of the project module can be controlled using a dial telephone located on site. Visitors to the exhibition use the telephone as a music player with the help of numbers. The analogue telephone was chosen as an artistic object because it creates participation, whether active or passive, desired or undesired, within the exhibition.