A project of plastique fantastique
Sound Design: Marco Barotti



26. June - 28. June 2015, Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, Germany
48 Stunden Neukölln

26. September 2015, Scheveningse Pier in The Hague, The Netherlands
TodaysArt. NL 2015

LIVEBOAT - Chapter 5 addresses the ongoing refugee tragedy in front of our borders and offers space for communication and discourses. After a long odyssey, an oversized lifeboat runs ashore on Tempelhof Airport. Inside the boat, multilingual extracts from Homer's Odyssey as well as fragments of refugee experiences are intertwined to a sound carpet.

Taking his trident in both hands,
Poseidon stirs the sea into a fury
and lashes up rain and squall.
Mast and sail are torn away,
Odysseus is thrown overboard
and buried under a wall of water.
When he emerges gasping and sputtering,
he somehow manages to clamber back aboard.
A goddess, Leucothea, appears to him in the form of a bird.
She counsels him to swim for it.
“Take my veil, tie it around your waist as a charm against drowning.
When you reach shore, be sure to throw it back into the sea.”

Homer, Odyssey, Chapter Five

Credits:
Concept: Marco Canevacci / Plastique Fantastique
Sound Design: Marco Barotti
Design: Yena Young
Coordination: Steffi Goldmann
Interviews: Hadmut Bittiger

Team: Mirjam Dorsch, Stephanie Grönnert, Hugo Luque, Simone Serlenga, Gabriel Spera
Kindly supported by: Aktionsfonds Quartiersmanagement Schillerpromenade, Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e.V., Bezirksamt Neukölln Fachbereich Kultur, Stiftung Umverteilen! AG dritte welt ­ Hier!, Grün Berlin GmbH,
Photos: Goetz Arntzen, Serlenga, Canevacci
Thanks to: Martin Steffens, Franz Höfner, Markus Wüste, Andrea Klahold, Herr Gessner, Homer