NO EXPECTATION
NO JUDGEMENT
NO INTENTION
NO PLAN
NO GOAL
NO PRESSURE
NO POWER
NO MEANING
NO PAST
NO FUTURE
NO HARDNESS
JUST PLAYING
katze und krieg play in the public urban space of Mülheim an der Ruhr. The two adult women use whatever they find on site: paper cups lying around, newspapers on the sidewalk or the fountain they pass. Barefoot and open to the moment, they explore the possibilities and limits of play in the midst of our achievement- and crisis-ridden everyday lives. Thus they play hungry tigers and attack passers-by on the sidewalk, they play delivery service and ring doorbells of strangers or they play bus drivers by transporting passers-by on a found chair on an escalator. Audiences are invited to join katze und krieg via radio and headphones as they play in urban space.
Performances
On August 14, 2020, katze und krieg showed an interim version of playing around as part of the Strizzi exchange project at the vernissage of the exhibition of diverse performance documentations at artspace Köttinspektionen in Uppsala, Sweden.
On September 9/10/16/17, 2020, the performance took place in Cologne in cooperation with Temporary Gallery – Center for Contemporary Art.
On June 4/5 and 6, 2025, the performance took place in Mülheim an der Ruhr as part of the exhibition project City of Play by Trans-urban.de.
Technician
Alexander Olchawa
Press
“katze und krieg wollen nur spielen” by Norbert Raffelsiefen in Kölner Stadtanzeiger on 16, September 2020
“I dag flyttar konsten ut pa stan” vin Göran Sterner in Uppsala Nya Fidning on 14, August 2020
Fotos
Jakob Engel
Support
playing around was created in cooperation with the Temporary Gallery in Cologne. Supported by the Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, the Landesbüro für freie Darstellende Künste and the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW.
