Akira Takayama/Port B
(Tokio)
Hölderlin Heterotopia (opening of Frankfurt’s Hölderlin Festival Week)
Hölderlin Pfad (Einstieg überall möglich)
Audiowalk
- 19.09.2020, 3 p.m. openingplease register, world premiere
The opening of Frankfurt’s Hölderlin Festival Week marks the start of an audio walk specially designed for Hölderlin’s 250th anniversary: For “Hölderlin Heterotopia,” Japanese director Akira Takayama has developed a smartphone app that transforms the 22-kilometer Hölderlin Trail between Frankfurt and Bad Homburg into a “different place”. The app guides people who are on the path on foot or by bike to various different stops, at which users can activate original audio texts, stories and poems by 14 authors – including Alexander Kluge, Elfriede Jelinek, Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Navid Kermani and Helene Hegemann. Just like the poet Friedrich Hölderlin, for whom walking was a different, creative act and place in itself, “Hölderlin Heterotopia” searches for those “other” principles and rules by which we live our lives outside the current social order, while simultaneously deeply embedded in it.
Language: German
Mousonturm-production
19.09., 3 Up.m. opening
Veranstalter: Freies Deutsches Hochstift und Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main
Meeting point: Großer Hirschgraben 15 (vor dem Frankfurter Goethe-Haus)
Admission free, Anmeldung bis 16. September erforderlich unter: 069 212 41379 oder
kulturportal@stadt-frankfurt.de
Please download the smartphone-app (link follows) in advance.
Die Veranstaltung findet unter freiem Himmel unter Einhaltung der vorgegebenen Hygiene- und Abstandsregeln statt. Sollten Sie sich unwohl fühlen oder akut krank sein, bleiben Sie bitte zuhause. Die Besucher*innen werden vor Ort auf die Hygienevorschriften hingewiesen. Die Kontaktdaten der Teilnehmer*innen werden zur Nachverfolggung von Infektionsketten erfasst.
Ab 19.09. kann der Audiowalk mittels der App täglich rund um die Uhr selbstständig begangen werden.
Cast & Credits
Idee, Konzept: Akira Takayama
Texte: Alexander Kluge, Deniz Utlu, Elfriede Jelinek, Helene Hegemann, Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Keijiro Suga, Kelly Copper, Lina Majdalanie, Marcel Beyer, Maria Stefanopoulou, Navid Kermani, Nuno Ramos u.a.
„Hölderlin Heterotopia“ ist ein App-Gestützter Audiowalk von Akira Takayama. Der Kulturfonds
Frankfurt RheinMain fördert „Hölderlin Heterotopia“ im Rahmen des von ihm initiierten
Jubiläumsprogramms Hölderlin 2020. Unterstützt durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung
für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen des Bündnisses internationaler Produktionshäuser.
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.