On April 5 at 6:30pm in the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre at UHM, Helgard Haug will present several projects by the artist collective Rimini Protokoll with a focus on their more immersive work.
Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel compose the Swiss-German theater company Rimini Protokoll. Since 2000, Rimini Protokoll has developed pieces for the stage and for urban environments that open up new perspectives on our globalized world. The director trio mimicked, for example, an entire session of the German Parliament with 200 residents of Bonn in Deutschland 2; reenacted the World Climate Conference with audience members performing the role of national delegates; and staged 100% City with 100 statistically representative residents of cities like Berlin, Zurich, London, Melbourne, Tokyo, and Philadelphia. They invited audiences to a parasitic intervention into the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of the Daimler Group as well as to Home Visit, which gathers small audiences at private homes where a game is played that turns the spectators into performers exchanging ideas on such issues as cultural identity, values, and borders.
Rimini Protokoll has received many national and international awards, including the Excellence Award of the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival (2013) for Situation Rooms, the Europe Theatre Prize in Thessaloniki (2011), and the Silver Lion at the 41st Theatre Biennale in Venice (2011). Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel were also awarded the Mülheim Drama Award for their piece Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Volume I in 2007. The group has also received numerous awards for their radio plays.
Haug will discuss their work in a free lecture, which is open to the public:
Date: Thursday, April 5
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Earle Ernst Lab Theatre at UH Manoa