The World is Not Fair

Toshiki Okada, "Unable to see" , 2012.

The architecture collective raumlaborberlin in cooperation with the theatre venue Hebbel am Ufer presents The World is Not Fair:

"These pavilions are not to be understood as state agents for national branding, but instead as places of highly subjective artistic and political reflection. Beyond the boundaries of cultural disciplines, architects, theater artists, performers, and visual artists will seek to examine ideas, systems, and phenomena by which even the most outlying cultures are now globally connected with each other. What will be exhibited is not the world as it is or should be, but how we perceive, understand, and interpret it. Can it still be represented and negotiated as a totality at all? "

One of the proposals:

"In an architectural structure reminiscent of the damaged reactor blocks in Fukushima, the director Toshiki Okada, who comes from Yokohama, together with his theater troupe chelfitsch, will examine the abstraction and immeasurability of the catastrophic events in a language of reduced gestures and limited words. "

More on Raumlaborberlin:

"Raumlaborberlin has been working at the boundaries of architecture, art, and urbanism since 1999. Strategies for urban restructuring are examined in interdisciplinary working teams. As opposed to a city of inclusion and exclusion, Raumlabor is on the lookout for a city of possibilities. In terms of its practice, architecture is a labor for experimental, collaborative, passionate action in urban space. Construction is thus not so much to be understood as working on an object, but as developing a narrative that becomes part of a place. "