TURN! was an event that took place on June the 2nd 2011 on the field of the main sports-stadium in Leipzig, Germany. 150 people came together to perform a mass-choreography. This event was filmed. There was no audience present in the Stadium.
The choreography that was created in collaboration with the choreographer Heike Hennig and composer Marnix Ike critically reflects the German Gymnastics- and Sport-events in the GDR and other events that took place on the ground on which the stadium in Leipzig is build. It refers to contemporary mass culture, to sports, demonstrations, pop, and contemporary western structures. We tried to find a way re-define the structures in the past and the present.
I initiated and organized TURN! in order to research the possibility in today's western society to come together physically and to create one thing together. How can this be done without force, without exclusion, without a propagandistic or commercial purpose? How can people (re-)claim a space that has been appropriated by political regimes in the past, and by commercial powers in the present? How can this be visualized?
The film that was made in collaboration with Daniel Günter Schwarz will reflect the event and the experiment in an artistic way, visualizing the social tension between mass and individual.
For broadcasts by local and national German media about TURN! in the stadium look HERE!
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