Zwei Städte, Ein Körper

Walking in Berlin, on the other hand, is a comfort; a sterile space where no one looks at you, where freedom is paid for with taxes and taken for granted. But what happens when these two cities collide within a single body?

Two Cities, One Body is a site-specific walk performance that whisks the audience away from the Ballhaus Prinzenallee in the heart of Wedding and, through the voices emanating from headphones, catapults them directly into the eerie, warm, and defiant streets of Istanbul’s Taksim.

This walk looks through the eyes of a migrant waiting in the club lines with a certificate of fiction, gazing from the inside out and filled with rage at the “cool” and prefabricated queer comfort promised by Berlin. It is the story of those who carry their geography with them in a suitcase, who can’t breathe in this shiny pink bubble, and who freeze with loneliness in the very place where they found their freedom.

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• By: Egemen Kalyon
• Text / Concept / Direction: Egemen Kalyon
• Dramaturgy: Nesrin Karadağ
• Sound Design: Yiğit Tanel Kaçkaya

A site-specific audio walk starting at: Ballhaus Prinzenallee, Wedding.

Event language: German