Stefan Kaegi & Jörg Karrenbauer - Rimini Protokoll

Since they were students together at the avant-garde German theatre of Giessen, in their projects Stefan Kaegi, Helga Haug and Daniel Wetzel, the three acolytes of the Rimini Protokoll collective, seek the thin line that separates fiction and reality. Their atypical theatre with its high documentary content is always based on stories and testimonies presented by so-called ‘experts in everyday reality’. The makers place this material in a dramaturgical framework and then take the step towards theatre. Sometimes they operate together, often separately. In ‘Remote Antwerp’, Stefan Kaegi and co-director Jörg Bauer Karr invite the audience to step outside the walls of the theatre and go on an excursion into the city. This is not a tourist walk through Antwerp, but a discovery of lesser known corners in less frequented areas. Armed with an audio guide, and like the other forty-nine group members, you allow yourself to be guided by a mysterious voice. You will experience a unique performance which you watch with detachment: using technology, Stefan Kaegi influences your perception and allows you to experience an isolated way of being together. Even though you are a group, you become one other’s spectators...