claudia bosse / theatercombinat

fragment 1 the contract (with myself)

fragment 2 the ruderal or toxic dreams

fragment 3 concrete utopias

fragment 4 the structure of the space

fragment 5 prologue of a cartography

fragment 6 ruins, a defeat

fragment 7 the not yet solved accessibility

fragment 8 "we should learn to live more in stairwells, but how?" george perec

fragment 9 the dead rabbit or how one never escapes beuys

fragment 10 soil disturbance

fragment 11 the entry of the symbolic into an open terrain

fragment 12 memories of stones

fragment 13 pioneers

fragment 14 temporary ZONEs

fragment 15 the missing horse or the eternity by the stars 1

fragment 16 becoming plant

fragment 17 barricades

fragment 18 self-organization

fragment 19 transfiguration of the paris commune

fragment 20 eternety in the stars

fragment 21 the hole or deep bore

fragment 22 the boy who is sacrificed

fragment 23 model(habitat)

fragment 24 rebellion of the stomachs

fragment 25 ghosts, wilderness

fragment 26 communication with spaces

fragment 27 because we were educated by the beauty of the ruins 1

fragment 28 conquering the territory

fragment 29 bones of the commune

fragment 30 because we were educated by the beauty of the ruins 2

fragment 31 because we were educated by the beauty of the ruins 3

fragment 32 bones plants. future!

fragment 33 mythology nova

fragment 34 what is space in this work

fragment 35 paris, place vendome

fragment 36 rebellion of the stomachs 2

fragment 38 place blanche, barricade des femmes

fragment 40 talking to the dead

fragment 41 acoustic texture of spaces

fragment 42 because we were educated by the beauty of the ruins 4

fragment 43 because we were educated by the beauty of the ruins 5

fragment 44 smashing the terrain

fragment 45 on the edge

fragment 46 odor of the sediments

fragment 47 into the inner

fragment 48 chimera/s

fragment 49 walk through the premise, in the ground

fragment 50 fraction, listening

fragment 51 falling into earth

fragment 52 there then she dwelt and tasted the earth

fragment 53

fragment 54 assembly of different thoughts

fragment 55 constellation of the stones

fragment 56 constellations bones woods landscapes

fragment 59 request

fragment 66 les choses sanglantes

the paris commune of 1871 is regarded as a turning point in history which heralded the central questions of the 20th century of how to change and improve the social order. the uprising against the french government by a revolutionary parisian city essembly aimed to reshape paris in line with socialist ideology. in the years that followed, the commune served as a role model for direct democracy and the communist ideal of a “dictatorship of the proletariat”. the paris commune has fascinated generations of artists of all genres ever since.

now 150 years since its establishment, the forum freies theater (FFT) in düsseldorf interprets the paris commune as an experiment for new forms of urban democracy. in a multidisciplinary project, in which artistic forms and media, e.g. photography, performances, and music are combined with urbanism and activism in a laboratory, the organisers plan to revisit the lessons of the paris commune to shed light on the current malaise in such cities as beirut, caracas, barcelona and others. according to the premise of place internationale, the unrest in these cities is often the result of unfulfilled promises of self-determination, municipalism and the “right to the city”, as was the case long ago in paris.

in 2021 the FFT düsseldorf will move into its new premises at the former general post office, which together with the central library and the theatre museum, will become a major cultural centre located close to the main train station. place internationale sees the move as an opportunity to question the future role of these institutions for urban democracy. to this end, a group of some 30 international artists, theorists and activists will test various artistic-social practices of self-determination and self-empowerment (commoning) with an shared artistic space of knowledge and a workshop atmosphere. the doors will be open to the public at no cost. the aim is to jointly present a possible model of an urban cultural organisation which projects the ideas of the paris commune onto current social circumstances and sustainably alters cultural institutions by means of a radical democratisation.

commune 1-73 is part of the urban laboratory place international - 73 tage der commune oder der lange wellenschlag der revolution by FFT düsseldorf supported by the federal cultural foundation.