Projects—Master PPS Performing Public Space

Jun 23

Jun 23 FUTOURISMUS – Marburg 2031

CLASS 2020/21

The project researches how different uses and meanings of neglected urban spaces can be imagined beyond common commercial narratives. The project invites locals of Marburg to explore four spaces in the city through an audio-walk which leads them through the fictional future events of the year 2031.

Each story relates to one currently prevailing public space issue of the city and experiments with science-fiction, utopian and dystopian narratives as well as magical elements to exaggerate, solve or contradict the respective issue.

The medium of the audio-walk is explored as a format of experiential and imaginary walking by working with participatory scores as well as a sound-design which alienates field recordings to trigger the listeners´ own imagination.

FUTOURISMUS investigates into Michel de Certeau´s notion “What the map cuts up, the story cuts across.” on two levels: On a micro-level, the borders posed by the urban design of each neglected space are transcended by the listeners when they follow its new use. On a macro-level, the story-line connects the four geographically distant spaces. A new walking route is created that aims to shift perception of public space in Marburg by deviating from the common sight-seeing tours.

Special thanks goes to Christian Simon and Tom Faber.

Anne Decker

Anne Decker, born 1989 in the GDR, studied German and English culture, literature, and language. She worked as a high school teacher in Germany, and has lived, learned, and taught in England, Italy, and Vietnam. Since 2017, she has worked in different theatres as dramaturg and director´s assistant and became a freelancing artist in 2020. She has created performances in botanical gardens, schools, and in a refugee camp in Berlin. Her research focuses on the histories archived in public space, in its living stories, and its possible future narratives. Since 2021, she is part of the collective SINT and urge_collective.