Video-lecture by Stefan Kaegi / Rimini Protokoll

Anyone who wants to know what Stefan Kaegi and the strangely named “Rimini Protokoll” trio are doing has to rethink the meaning of the terms “reality” and “fiction.” Rimini Protokoll draws its themes from the very essence of reality. The projects are constructed based on exhaustive research on existing situations in their actual locations. For its productions, the group always works with amateurs called “experts” encountered during the research phase.

Transplanted experts and tele-guided spectators

What do Indian Call Centres know about Berlin? How will artificial intelligence lead a horde of spectators through Avignon and New York? Where can we watch Parliamentary Europe from our living rooms? Why can the global arms trade be made real to us via digital tablets in a studio? Stefan Kaegi shows and comments on the videos of his interactive theatre and his interventions in the public space.

Language - French

Entry to the parallel events is free.
Reservations are required: billetterie du Théâtre de Carouge - Atelier de Genève

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  Biography

  Born in 1972 in Solothurn, Stefan Kaegi studied art at the “F+F” in Zurich and applied theatre sciences in Giessen, where he met Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel. The trio have been working as a team of author-directors since 2000. From 2002 on, all their works have been produced under the label of the German-speaking Swiss theatre collective based in Berlin, Rimini Protokoll. Stefan Kaegi has won numerous awards, including in 2007 the special German Theatre Prize DER FAUST, in 2008 a European theatre prize in the New Realities category in Thessaloniki, in 2011 the Silver Lion at the 41st Venice Theatre Biennale for the ensemble of his work, in 2013 the Excellence Award at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival for the video installation Situation Rooms and in 2015 the Swiss Grand Award for Theatre / Hans Reinhart Ring.

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