Akira Takayama/Port B
(Tokio)
A School of Hip Hop – Day 2
Mousonturm Saal
ALL IN/Lecture/Workshop/Concert
- 30.11.2019, 4–5.15 p.m.Aktive Teilnahme am Workshop nur für WAGNER CREW, Publikum erwünscht, Freestyle Rap Workshop mit Los Monteroz
- 30.11.2019, 5.45–7 p.m.Aktive Teilnahme am Workshop nur für WAGNER CREW, Publikum erwünscht, Filmische Lesung „Vom Gastarbeiter zum Gangsta-Rapper?“ mit Murat Güngör & Hannes Loh
- 30.11.2019, 7.30–9.15 p.m.Admission free, Dance Battle with Fresh Fruits Movement Part 1
- 30.11.2019, 9.15–10.30 p.m.Admission free, Live Acts: Los Monteroz with Tobeé Tom
- 30.11.2019, 10.30–11.30 p.m.Admission free, Dance Battle with Fresh Fruits Movement Part 2
16–17.15 Uhr Freestyle Rap Workshop mit Los Monteroz
17.45–19 Uhr Filmische Lesung „Vom Gastarbeiter zum Gangsta-Rapper?“ mit Murat Güngör & Hannes Loh
19:30–21:15 Uhr Dance Battle mit Fresh Fruits Movement Part 1
21:15–22:30 Uhr Live Act Los Monteroz with Tobeé Tom
22:30–23:30 Uhr Dance Battle mit Fresh Fruits Movement Part 2
Intercultural with global connections – the music of Nikolas and Riccardo Montero aka Los Monteroz is totally on par with the times. Their mix of atmospheric trap sounds, Latin influences and German-Spanish lyrics prove that these guys from Frankfurt know how to use their Spanish-Nigerian roots to conquer new creative ground in Germany. After their freestyle workshop, you can catch Los Monteroz live, supported by Tobeé Tom.
But before that, stay sharp for a woke lecture by Murat Güngör and Hannes Loh (authors of “Fear Of A Kanak Planet – Hip Hop between World Culture and Nazi Rap”): from youth centre to the middle of society, gangsta rap has become accepted both by high art and the yellow press magazines. Yet many still tend to purely see it aesthetic, thereby ignoring its social context in order to make it more consumable. Nevertheless, there have and always will be ways of tricking and undermining such processes. This cinematic reading focuses on such disruptions of the story, as well as on the relationship between rap and migration.
Fresh Fruits Movement (FFM) ends the day with a dance battle that is open to all. Initiated by Edwin (aka Batalla CL) and Joe (aka Moses Joses) in 2015, FFM is a platform for people, who want to actively promote movement and support a positive exchange of energy between hip hop and house culture.
Aktive Teilnahme am Workshop nur für WAGNER CREW, Publikum erwünscht
Language: German
Cast & Credits
„WAGNER PROJECT – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ ist eine Produktion von Künstlerhaus Mousonturm und Port B. Gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes, die Japan Foundation und die Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft. Präsentiert von FRIZZ.
Biography
Akira Takayama
Akira Takayama (born 1969) founded Port B in 2002. He develops projects together with this collective that break the existing theatrical framework and interact collaboratively with other media. His work aspires to a contemporary form of the so-called “architecture of the theatre” in which he extends the practice of the theatre and the audience into society and the urban space. Takayama’s audience-focussed works are an attempt to experience a theatre that transcends the physical theatre space to establish itself as a new platform with an altered function in society. In recent years he has developed works in diverse genres including tourism, urban planning, art, literature, fashion and mass media. In these, he uses theatrical ideas to open up new potential across a broad spectrum of media and disciplines.
Akira Takayama created his first theatrical works as a stage director – these included the Japanese premieres of several pieces by Elfriede Jelinek. The projects that he develops in collaboration with the collective PortB are usually devised in close collaboration with prestigious cultural institutions around the world, such as the recent large-scale participatory project ‘Our Songs’ for the Biennale of Sydney in 2018 and the ongoing research project ‘Heterotopia’ for the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens and the Sharjah Biennial in Beirut.
In 2014 Akira Takayama / Port B developed the project ‘EVACUATE FRANKFURT’ together with the Mousonturm, in which 30 S- and U-Bahn stations across the entire Rhine-Main region became starting points for individual evacuation tours of a range of social communities and theatrical ready-mades. www.evakuieren.de
In 2017 Takayama, once again working in close co-operation with the Mousonturm to develop and produce a work over a long period, was able to realise his vision of a ‘McDonald’s Radio University’: people who had come to Germany as refugees shortly beforehand acted as “professors”, presenting a comprehensive programme of lectures lasting several weeks based on their highly diverse educational backgrounds, working and life experiences. www.mru.global
Then in 2019 in the ‘WAGNER PROJECT – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’ Takayama brought one of Richard Wagner’s most famous operas to the Mousonturm stage: ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’. Based on the fictional narrative of Wagner’s opera and its historical references – a competition between singers during the time of the Reformation – Takayama founded a School of Hip-Hop.
Akira Takayama has been Associate Artist at the Mousonturm since 2014.