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My Imaginary Cities

In My Imaginary Cities, the predominantly visual approach to the city is questioned. Narratives from blind and visually impaired individuals from Beirut and Frankfurt am Main form the basis of an auditory city tour, where the architecture and history of both cities are intertwined and the audience must reorient themselves.

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The access of the narrator to public space becomes a template for direction, speed, and rhythm. This is how we orient ourselves when we have lost our orientation. Different city maps are overlaid - those of Beirut and Frankfurt am Main - in an attempt to make the history of these cities experienceable in a different way. In My Imaginary Cities, individual stories and historical retellings by protagonists in Beirut and FFM are mixed together. This allows visitors to perceive their own city differently and gain access to a foreign city.

Through the underlying narrative of people with limited vision, an orientation in the city is conveyed that is not otherwise accessible to those who can see. Thus, the predominantly visual approach to perception in the urban space is questioned in terms of self-understanding.

Assad Masnoun Mitwirkende
Walid Sadek Mitwirkende
George Arbid Mitwirkende
Bakatscha Bour Mitwirkende
Ani Mitwirkende
Ghabi Khalil Mitwirkende
Hossein Zalzadeh Mitwirkende
Siegfried Saerberg Mitwirkende
Ömer Coskun Mitwirkende
Volkert Naumann Mitwirkende
Fred Philip Lohr Mitwirkende
Mirvat Kortam Mitwirkende
Angelica Battilocchi Mitwirkende
Amer Makarem Mitwirkende
Nasser Ballout Mitwirkende
Michael Haddat Mitwirkende
Joumana Abaki Mitwirkende

My Imaginary Cities is a co-production between Hessische Theaterakademie und Mousonturm and is funded by Fonds Soziokultur, Kulturamt Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Goethe Institut und Kulturmut - eine Crowdfounding Initiative der Aventis Foundation und der Frankfurter Stiftung für Blinde und Sehbehinderte. All content is, unless otherwise noted, the property of Peira GbR.

Performance / Theatre

Audio

Urbanity

International

Published

2015, Frankfurt, Beirut

Dates

28.03.15

Audiowalk

TBA

27.03.15

Audiowalk

TBA

14.03.15

Audiowalk

Mousonturm

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