Episode 172 “Wochnik’s weekend”: Want for relaxation or inventive activism

Anybody who has spent any size of time in London or New York – and never solely there – may have skilled them: people speaking loudly, amplified with megaphones or just screaming on the prime of their lungs, expressing their political opinions, fears, non secular beliefs and trumpet extra into the group, generally in a sober get-up, generally artistically staged, usually downright eloquent. One would possibly properly be reminded somewhat of the Athenian bourgeoisie of antiquity, who, standing on stones within the agora, tried to apply democracy in an analogous means.

In quiet Berlin, then again, there are hardly any. Basically, folks don’t wish to be disturbed right here, they don’t wish to be spoken to and questioned as quickly as they enter a store, they don’t wish to be given slips of paper and pamphlets. Maybe this want for quiet additionally causes a sure reluctance to disturb the peace of others.

Thomas Wochnik writes about artwork, music and the unbiased scene. His column “Wochnik’s weekend” with private Berlin highlights seems each Saturday.

The composer and sound artist Peter Ablinger is doing the other this weekend, and: as an alternative of standing there alone and chanting, he lets two volunteer choirs stroll from the Academy of Arts on Hanseatenweg to Ottopark on the finish of the “Time To Pay attention” competition. The texts, which they recite loudly and to the beat, come from Ablinger himself and are purported to be associated to the local weather disaster, however not essentially make sense within the typical means, however are additionally nonsensical, political to surreal, affected to satirical. An indication parade with a rating, composed activism. Sunday at 2 p.m.

Alternatively, in case you have the sensation that you’re in a world filled with – presumably too many – messages anyway, look within the mechanical backyard of Ignaz Schick its heart: Within the 50-minute composition for motor-driven sound objects, a seven-piece ensemble performs digital and acoustic devices, not softly, however with out voices. This isn’t freed from intention both, however it must be simpler to cover it. Morphine Room, Saturday, 8 p.m.