Get rid of your shells! Art and protest at G20 1000 GESTALTEN
11/07/2017.
[Hamburg] Germany
metalocus, JOSÉ FABERO
metalocus, JOSÉ FABERO
The collective 1000 GESTALTEN organized the performance that we bring today. On July 15, coinciding with the G20 summit in Hamburg, the performance shows several hundred people, completely tinted gray, wandering in the streets of Hamburg until stripped of the ties of a society that has lost its feeling.
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl Screenshot
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl Screenshot
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl Screenshot
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl Screenshot
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl Screenshot
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl Screenshot
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl Screenshot
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl Screenshot
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
1000 GESTALTEN, G-20 Hamburg Summit. Photograph © Christian Angl
After months of preparation, 1000 GESTALTEN did the run-up performance sending an overwhelming image of creative protest to the world.
Hundreds of clay figures moved slowly and silently, seemingly unassailable through the streets of Hamburg. Representing people from all parts of society expressed their criticism of the G-20 summit in a two-hour choreography as an wake up call for to more humanity and self-responsibility.
With empty faces wrapped in a crusty shell of clay suits the figures are supposed to stand for a society that lost faith in solidarity, in which the individual only fights for his own advance.
Over the course of the performance they stripped off their gray costumes and emigrated symbolically from their rigid structures.
"We can not wait for change to come from the most powerful in the world, instead we must show us all politically and socially responsible ", as speakers of the collective 1000 GESTALTEN explain.
"We want to recall how identity-building compassion and common feel are to society. Our action is another sign that many people no longer want to accept the destructive effects of capitalism. What rescues us in the end, is not our account, but someone who hands us the hand ".
The collective actually succeeded in mobilizing a broad layers of civil society for the campaign: more than 1000 volunteers were involved in the process, and many of them participated for the first time in an art action. People from over 85 cities across Europe signed up as performers and helpers - Crowdfunding attracted more than 20,000 Euro donations.
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1000 GESTALTEN
The collective 1000 GESTALTEN was formed at the end of february 2017 mainly to engage in the initiative of happiness. In their performance the 1000 GESTALTEN represent a society that has lost their feeling for the fact that a different way of life is possible.
They are over a hundred people by now with backgrounds in art, crafts and communication. The host for 1000 GESTALTEN is the charitable culture association Neu am See e.V., which can already look back on several funded projects within the cultural and refugee aid context over the last few years.
The initiative of the group is backed and supported by Gängeviertel Hamburg and a growing number of Hamburg based cultural institutions
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