BG Summer Festival | Lecture Performance by Gernot Wieland with Carla Åhlander and Konstantin von Sichart As part of the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
“Monologue of a sock or What would we have told the children?” is a lecture performance born from the ashes of a doomed production for children and adults.
Image gallery
Fotografie: Farbnegativ, das eine Person in Uniform auf einem von Blumenbeeten gesäumten Weg zeigt. Der Kopf der Person und die ganze obere Hälfte der Fotografie sind dunkel angelaufen und dadurch verdeckt.
Somewhere between memory and make-believe, three voices lead the audience through stories of animals and childhood, hierarchies and homes, and the quiet comedy of trying and failing.
With a mixture of storytelling, moving image, and the occasional threadbare puppet, this performance is not quite theatre, not quite a lecture. Absurd, touching, and gently anarchic, this is a piece about what remains when plans unravel, and the unexpected stories that then might emerge – and for the sock puppet left behind.
A fox jumps into the Spree.
A human thinks he has to save him.
What do we pass on - in language, in images, in gestures?
What would we tell the children?
Maybe everything.
Maybe just: That we don't know either?
What happens when a puppet show collapses before it ever takes the stage? What remains when the cast walks out—except, perhaps, a sock puppet too stubborn to quit?
In English
Co-commissioned and co-produced by Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur
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Dates
July 2025
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