A live-sound-expedition to Stammheim
Stammheim Schleife is a live-sound-expedition that describes the landscape of Stammheim through the eyes and ears of a young girl and a teenager, as recalled by the 30 year old artist leading the tour. What does a memory, building, body or border sound like? What does the prison, as an urban landscape, mean to...
A choreography for the eyes
A spectator and performer go for a walk. The spectator closes their eyes and the performer guides them through the city. During their walk, the performer selects locations and focal points for a series of ‚snapshots’. Aiming the spectator’s body the performer asks the spectator to „open“ their eyes. The opening time of the eyes...
Discover the sounds of the city
Sitehearing in Stuttgart provides an opportunity to discover the sounds of the city. Eight locations of acoustic interest have been selected, inviting tourists and local residents to experience a parcour of discovery, collecting sonic impressions, while documenting this experience in the form of a manuscript.
An intimate journey of past and present inhabitants
A selection of old postcards is bought at the flea market, addressed to people who once lived in Stuttgart. These addresses are then used to create a route through the city, connecting one postal address to the next and transforming seemingly everyday buildings into a destination with a history and a memory.
Instant memories for everybody!
Greetings from Anywhere: Wish You Were Here invites people in Stuttgart to write postcards – but not from Stuttgart. Wish You Were Here is an exercise in the art of not being there. It offers the imagination of an ideal holiday instead of the futility of the tourist's attempt to escape: instant memories for everybody!...
Ein exklusives pop-up soundsystem
Send us your favourite song! Our artists will listen intensively to your song and search for a location in Stuttgart that they believe is the perfect match. You will then travel to this location where a sound system will be waiting for you. Your song will be played once, for you alone; A familiar song...
Help local residents with the Kehrwoche and they will reward you with cake!
We offer visitors to Stuttgart the opportunity to take part in this weekly routine, resulting in a personal and intimate portrait of a foreign city. Tourists are provided with a map, guiding them to residents in Stuttgart who are next in line to do the Kehrwoche. Here they meet their thankful hosts who provide instructions...
A virtual tour of London and Stuttgar
At an agreed time Amy Sharrocks in London calls you on your mobile telephone number. Together you take each other on a 30-minute tour of your respective locations. You collaborate to choose which way to go, describing the places and people you encounter and the surroundings you find yourselves in. Guiding each other’s footsteps, the...
A guided tour of the guided tours!
The tour of all tours is a humourous parasitic tour that follows existing routes and texts, and covers the most visited locations in the city. Whenever the tour encounters another tour, participants will be placed in the confusing and self-referential state of actually being the thing that is being described.
A journey through time and space
Expedition to Arcadia is a guided tour that links locations in Stuttgart that suggest or fictionalise popular tourist destinations, a showcase of displaced foreign cultures and exotic environments. The city of Stuttgart will be viewed as a form of contemporary landscape gardening, a journey through time and space that lasts no longer than an afternoon...
A test drive in the slowest Porsche in the world!
FERDINAND GT3 RS is a tandem bicycle mounted inside a replica carousel of the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. For the first time FERDINAND comes to Stuttgart, a city that is often defined as THE ‘car-city’. FERDINAND is coming home. An exclusive test-drive in FERDINAND, accompanied by the artist and engineer Johannes Langeder, will take approximately...
Sound astronauts in Stuttgart!
ARTTOURS invite you to take one of Mirja Wellmann’s ‚hearing helmets’ for a walk through Stuttgart, slowly inverting the focus of your sonic attention, until the body and city become one.
Following the traces of the institution
‚The Play’ weaves together the experience of reading, watching and listening to conjure up and document an imaginary institution. Equipped with a publication and an mp3 player participants submerge into the everyday life of a public space in Stuttgart, piecing together reality with fiction, while following the traces of a make-believe society.
As local as it gets!
Aus der Region is a scavenger hunt, led by a group of experts and enthusiasts, in which participants gather free seasonal produce that can be found growing in and around Stuttgart. These local treasures are then prepared, cooked, consumed, pickled or arranged.
A search for dragons in disappearing territories
Here be dragons is a journey to the holes and cracks that quietly form along the folds of a well used map, escaping into spaces that in this particular context have ceased to exist, and documenting the permanence and impermanence that can be found there.
A workshop about 'Historical Tourism'
The POI workshop will ask participants (citizens of Stuttgart) to create new historical attractions in every-day spaces, located in suburbs that are rarely visited by tourists coming to Stuttgart. From archaeological sites to houses of contemporary rock-stars, fictional histories will be carefully constructed, based on events that may or may not have happened, or people...
An audio walk for local residents constructed from the presence of tourists
In exchange for a nominal fee of 1 euro, tourists will be invited to have their voices recorded. The tourists will respond to a series of playful questions about themselves, based on the language used by the regional tourist board to describe Stuttgart and attract visitors to the city – sophisticated, enticing, inventive and relaxing....
A musical tour of illuminations
Night Light is a subversive form of architectural lighting, a nighttime tour through Stuttgart that reveals some of the hidden, unnoticed and provocative features of the many historic buildings in the city. The tour is accompanied by live music composed by Matt Marks.
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