An autobiographical experimental arrangement to remember the city. The installation builds a simple experimental arrangement: people of contemporary history try to tell their life story to a listener of their choice by means of the places and cities of their biographies. They show a public construction of their life story in four-hour format.

A for Appenzell to Z for Zurich.
Hans Ulrich Obrist narrates. Michael Diers listens.
Recording: 12/10/2005 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (In the planned 4 hours Hans Ulrich Obrist only got as far as K=Cologne, so there was another recording of 2.5 hours)

Arkansas. New York. Geneva. Cuernavaca. Brussels. Marseilles. Berlin.
Jimmie Durham narrates. Diana McCarty listens.
Recording: 12/09/2005 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Berlin.
Bruno Flierl narrates. Thomas Heise listens.
Recording: 21.04.2004 in the former cosmetic salon Babette, opposite the International Cinema, Karl Marx Allee (Bruno Flierl was involved in the planning)

Rostock. Berlin.
Nele Hertling narrates. Reinhild Hoffmann listens.
Recording: 20.08.2004 in the courtyard of the Podewil, Berlin

Amsterdam. Brussels.
Jan Ritsema narrates. Rebecca Schneider listens.
Recording: 29.08.2004 in the courtyard of the Podewil, Berlin

Berlin. Vienna.
Isolde Charim narrates. Joseph Vogl listens.
Recording: 17.03.2006 at Tanzquartier Wien

Montpelier. Montpellier. Berlin.
Xavier Le Roy narrates. Bojana Cvejic listens.
Recording: 14.08.2004 in the courtyard of the Podewil, Berlin

Istanbul. Berlin. New York. Los Angeles.
Jale Arikan narrates. Ayse Polat listens.
Recording: 26.11.2005 at the Kölnischer Kunstverein

Timisoara. Bucharest. Heidelberg. Berlin.
Andrei Ujica narrates. Eva Horn listens.
Recording: 19.11.2004 in Lichthof 3, University of Design at the ZKM, Karlsruhe

Munich. Frankfurt. Istanbul.
Hilal Sezgin and Jeanine Elif Dagyeli narrate and listen, taking turns.
Recording: 27.11.2005 at the Kölnischer Kunstverein

Salzburg. Vienna.
Erika Weinzierl narrates. Hannes Heer is listening.
Recording: 16.03.2006 at Tanzquartier Wien

CVs of the protagonists

Durham / Flierl / Obrist
Production: Tulip House (Hannah Hurtzig/Anselm Franke) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, for ErsatzStadt, an initiative project of the German Federal Cultural Foundation

Hertling / Le Roy / Ritsema
Production: Dance at the August International Dance Festival Berlin and Tulip House (Hannah Hurtzig/Anselm Franke). Tanz im August is a cooperation of Hebbel am Ufer and Tanzwerkstatt Berlin, supported by the Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund.

Charim / Weinzierl
Production: Mobile Academy Berlin (Hannah Hurtzig) and Tanzquartier Wien

Arikan / Sezgin
Production: Project Migration and Mobile Academy Berlin (Hannah Hurtzig). The Migration Project (2002-2006) was an initiative project of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
Cooperation partners: Academy of Media Arts, Cologne and Literaturhaus Köln. Thanks to: Crowne Plaza City Centre Cologne and AXA, Cologne

Ujica
Production: Tulip House (Hannah Hurtzig/Anselm Franke) for ErsatzStadt, an initiative project of the Federal Cultural Foundation
Concept/Organisation: Birgit Wiens, Gesa Mueller from Haegen c/o Symposium “MIND THE GAP. Theatre spaces/ media spaces. Research for a different scenography”. MIND THE GAP was an event organized by ZKM and HfG Karlsruhe/Fb Szenografie in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Center “Kulturen des Performativen” (FU Berlin) and the HfBK-Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Fb II: Bühnen- und Kostümbild/Theaterwissenschaft.