flic flac in amazonia

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Flic Flac in Amazonien – über Warenfetisch, Lagerlogistik und Träume des 21. Jahrhunderts

Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll) / Aljoscha Begrich / Jean Peters (Peng! Kollektiv) • Symposium • Roter Salon

Why does it seem easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Amazon? How many tonnes of goods actually travel around the world every day? What is a data lake? Just what makes a web shop transform into a vampire? What does the circus and e-commerce have in common? Why do tables dance in Marx’s first volume of The Capital? And were there really living mannequins to be seen on Friedrichstraße in the 1920s? What is a “fulfilment centre” and what does this “fulfilment” consist of? How did the musicians on Warschauer Straße experience the construction of the new “Amazon Tower”? Who actually works in an Amazon warehouse and what do these people think about their work?

On 1 June, 2023, at 7 pm, twelve real-life experts will make all these relations, questions and many more (about commodity fetish, efficiency and warehouse logistics) dance in order to shed light on our 21st-century dreams. For the first time after years of informal exchange, members of the Peng! Collective and Rimini Protokoll will officially be working on a joint project. The symposium Flic Flac in Amazonia at Roter Salon Volksbühne is a kick-off event for the piece LA DANSE DʼAMAZON (working title), the premiere of which will be on 23 November 2023, at Circus Cabuwazi in Berlin-Marzahn.

Co-funded by the European Union. Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Funded by the Schöpflin-Stiftung.

LA DANSE DʼAMAZON (AT) is part of ULYSSES European Odyssey (UEO) as “Berlin: Act II, Chapter VII”. ULYSSES European Odyssey (UEO) is an epic project from 2022-2024 across 18 cities in 16 countries, producing artistic responses in public spaces to social and cultural themes identified in the 18 episodes of James Joyce’s Ulysses. At the same time, a cycle of 18 public symposia will be held in each city to produce 309 questions (Ulysses, Ep. 17) towards creating a new arts and society manifesto for Europe. The project also has 30 artist residencies which will contribute to a new book, Europe-Ulysses, alongside 18 new writing commissions, one writer from each city.For further information contact:

Claudia Woolgar: [email protected]

Sean Doran: [email protected]