Court - Berlin
DONE! CHECK:
if it respects escape routes
DONE! CHECK
if it respects escape routes
DONE! CHECK
if it respects escape routes
NOTE
remove door
NOTE
keep dust frame on the wall
MEMO
remuve door
SOLVE
fan in the corner spring door closer floor catch to lock the door net on the fans
SOLVE
possibility of putting two sensors to activate fans in the room as people approach in that direction
SOLVE
possibility of putting two sensors to activate fans in the room as people approach in that direction
Die Komödie! / 0.00 Büro
Court Registry, 2025 Fans, paper Dimensions variableRed sheets fly around the room and a packet of red light sheets are on the windowsill. The sheets are printed in black with a few sentences from the text of Karl Liebkneckt's trial. If people agree with Liebknecht's accusations, recognising them as completely relevant, they can slip the red sheet into the slot, joining the sheet to the others that fly.
Die Komödie! / 0.00 Büro
Court Registry, 2025 Fans, paper Dimensions variableDisclaimer warning that it is possible to enter the room with the red paper storm, opening the door the minimum necessary.
Die Komödie! / 0.00.5 Flur
The Keys of the Archive, 2025 Metal strips Dimensions variable
Die Komödie! / 0.14 Büro
Clearing House, 2025 Video / Duration variableA platform on the mapping of initiatives and needs in common, independent, bottom-up, aggregating. Videos of a platform activating a participatory performance in the city are shown on the monitors, where everyone is invited: people are invited to be part of the artistic performance and to be proponents and participants of cultural initiatives, protests, solidarity purchasing, and so on; and thus to be builders of a map of initiatives and representing where desires, needs and requests are shared by several people, with whom to open, if desired, any proactive groups. But it is an artistic performance. With the guarantee of data protection and no cookies.
Die Komödie! / 0.15 Büro
Exequatur, 2025 Maps, miniature figures / Dimensions variableDumb maps of multinational market areas, nurtured by armies of consumers and savers, created by financial investments in the unwitting purchase of nuclear weapons, herbicides that poison the earth, the usury of banks and insurance companies, the all-powerful media, food preservatives, making the market areas of financial nations, created not by political vote but by speculative criteria that ignore the human being and the welfare state.
Die Komödie! / 0.16 Büro
KL’s Evidence Room, 2025 Metal supports, various objects / Dimensions variableShaped metal supports in the shape of the objects they hold: a rose, a folded red flag, goggles, a nib and a penal code. The objects characterise the figure of Karl Liebknecht. The rose is renewed every day. 13 August marks the day of his birth.
Die Komödie! / -1.09 Archiv
Archive, 2025 "The World will know what you want to hide in the dark!" K.L. Video, audio / Duration variableThere are holes in the red floor, the same size as the holes in the metal strips. Out of two holes comes a male automated voice in German reproducing the text of K L's trial and two from where you can see images warped by a curved lens revealing the 360° space of the archive downstairs, where you can't enter, and showing educational slides from the DDR on K L. As he wrote ‘The World will know what you want to hide in the dark!’
Die Komödie! / Kleiner Hof
Courtyard, 2025 Communio pro indiviso [Co-ownership in undivided shares] Neon / 110 x 716 x 5 cm In the courtyard K.L. was walking for air and people were looking at him from outside the courtyard, in the courtyard a red neon is undivided property of which many different owners are ‘communists’.
Die Komödie! / Kleiner Hof
Courtyard, 2025 Communio pro indiviso [Co-ownership in undivided shares] Neon 110 x 716 x 5 cm
Die Komödie! / Kleiner Hof
Courtyard, 2025 Communio pro indiviso [Co-ownership in undivided shares] Neon 110 x 716 x 5 cm
MEMO
repair shutters and both shutters raised
MEMO
4 current lights on ceiling removed
MEMO
one fan (4) in each corner on rotating platform (4) platforms rotate in 90° angle and will be activated the whole day; they are synchronized with each other Fans running on level 2
SOLVE
, net or box in front of fans to avoid paper flying in fans (e.g. elastic net > test necessary) Net also in front of heating > tests necessary
OK ANNOTATED SOLVE
Cables shouldn’t be visible
NEW NOTE
Where are the electrical outlets?
MEMO
Ca. 150-200 sheets Color: red Thickness paper: 30-40g
NEW NOTE
Apply a door-closing spring and a ground stop (?= Works with automatic closer to prevent the paper from flying out ?)
MEMO
Sign outside on door, kind of disclaimer Usually, the door will be closed >
MEMO
Can be pushed through the opening in the window
SOLVE
Design & Printing: Anna will design (kind of bureaucratic format), printing in Berlin Lawyer will check quality of the form (especially re privacy..)
MEMO
Plastic box (next to windows) on wall shall stay
SOLVE
everything else shall be covered
NEW NOTE
TEST platform!
MEMO
Plug beside door needs to be removed
MEMO
Position: on left side of the wall, when you enter the room from the hallway 6 monitors, no touch screen Alignment of monitors: Monitors hang next to each other at the same height on the wall; Height: Monitors have a hanging system on back side
DONE. MEMO
The Keys of the Archive, 2025 Position: If possible, AS prefers to have them in the hallway 0.005 (niche); if that’s not possible, sculptures would be positioned in room 0.16 Number of pieces 4
SOLVE
Anna to produce the metal objects, diameters of holes correspond to the holes in the floor
MEMO
current lights on ceiling removed
SOLVE
+ 1 video matrix (box with cables + media player > should be hidden, e.g. under/beside window); 6 remote controls, just 1 necessary to turn on all videos; videos without sound
SOLVE
The bottom edge of the monitors corresponds to the bottom edge of the windows (ca. 92cm); top monitor edge ca. 205cm; Distance right monitor edge to window tbc (options: 1. same distance like length of reveal, 2. Centered on wall)
SOLVE
Videos: need to be synchronized, no bluetooth, hide cables, maybe necessary to use an extension cable
new Tag
Anna will order figures (in different colors) Positioned in different rooms on floor, window sill and power line box (underneath the window): 0.15, 0.003, 0.005
MEMO
small figure
MEMO
Small figures
MEMO
Small figures 1/2
MEMO
Small figures 1 / 2
MEMO
4 holes will be used here, Slide show: video of slides, fast rhythm; bright light for slides necessary
new Tag
5 maps, printed Position: When you enter the room from hallway 0.003: 3 maps on left wall, 2 maps on right wall
SOLVE
Shouldn’t be installed with visible hanging system on top (like school maps); AS will think about alternative hanging
SOLVE
Anna will provide info for label
OK ANNOTATED NEW NOTE
Do not touch marks and holes in the walls
MEMO
current lights on ceiling removed
MEMO
current lights on ceiling removed
MEMO
Door directed to hallway shall stay, open all the time
MEMO
Door directed to hallway shall stay, open all the time
SOLVE
cellar > will be presented on framed screen that can be removed from hole (to change batteries); maybe magnets can be used
MEMO
Audio (both): parts of trial; probably spoken by “male” voice, spoken German, not a realistic, but automatically created voice
MEMO
Audio (both): parts of trial; probably spoken by “male” voice, spoken German, not a realistic, but automatically created voice
SOLVE
audios will be synchronized, connected with bluetooth (Christian) orientation of works in holes:
SOLVE
Anna will send test to BB
NEW NOTE
Prepare a map of holes and shaped bases to try during the next test
NEW NOTE
find the supplier of roses
SOLVE
AS will produce stands; they will have the same cut outs on bottom + top; will be fixed in floor (with drills)
SOLVE
AS researches and organizes missing objects from flee market / ebay
MEMO
Position: Neon sign centered on lower/right part of the wall; highest point of neon starting after
SOLVE
4 brick lines (counted from the top)
DONE! CHECK
if it respects escape routes
Proximity sensor
Need to be connnected with a standard usb power adapter (low energy consumptions)