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)