The tiger’s cage is closed. A large black wall takes the numerous spectators and cameras the view of the four tigers and the arena in which refugees wanted to blame the predators to devour. A provocative art action of the Center for Political Beauty ended without bloodshed on Tuesday in Berlin.
It is a questionable voltage dramaturgy that has built up over the past two weeks, the group of artists. The highlight of Maxim Gorki Theater was prepared with a long breath and deadly serious staging. With its happening, it went to the Center for Political Beauty concretely to an EU directive, which prohibits carriers to transport persons without entry permits.
In the eyes of the artist, it is this EU directive that obliges refugees to can be transported by traffickers under perilous conditions across the border. For part one of his action the ZPS wanted to organize the first flight with 100 refugees from Turkey to Berlin the same himself.
As expected, could not be the authorities on the game of the group, the Interior Ministry adhered to the legal provisions. On Monday evening, also played Air Berlin no longer: The airline canceled the flight to Antalya, since one had been allowed, according to the airline on significant aspects in the dark
Predator feedings and panel discussions <. / p>
the goal is to bring the refugees by plane “Joachim 1″ to Germany, which made Philipp Ruch from ZPS clear on Tuesday night, was very pursued seriously. Ruch assumes that the government had against Air Berlin urged to cancel the flight. The ZPS wants to sue the federal government now.
This was followed by part two of the “refugees eat”. The performance artist had announced the policy should not abolish the law or at least give an exemption for the flight, more Syrian refugees in the middle of Berlin, would leave before the public eye tear of tigers. For days the cage was in Berlin.
public effect, the animals were fed, there were panel discussions. The Center for Political Beauty emphasized though, we wanted to establish any causality to fetch between trying refugees by plane to Germany and announcing Escaped wanted to be tear. Nevertheless counted a digital display the days, hours and minutes to the alleged human feeding. On Tuesday it was time.
About 200 people stood in front of the cage, press representatives directed tripods and cameras. But as the countdown had counted down, there was nothing to see. The Roman spectacle turned out fortunately.
A loudspeaker announcement invites the crowd before the theater, where the Syrian actress May Skaf stepped before the crowd. It is one of the fugitives, who had previously announced to go into the tiger cage. Instead, they now read a “letter of Tiger on the human population.”
“In your eyes we saw fear. Afraid of us, and perhaps also from yourselves” Skaf says representative of the Tiger, which the people now want to hold a mirror. “You have pity on us, but your sisters and brothers denied her protection?” And: “You have strayed from us to be better, but you do not act like animals we kill only to feed us…”
Have crossed too many borders
the borderline action of the center for political Beauty joins a list of happenings with which it criticizes the EU and Germany’s refugee policy hard. Fully dug graves in Berlin’s government district, a staged funeral in a Berlin cemetery, the stolen crosses in memory of the dead wall in Berlin. Refugees accuse the Tigers to be eaten – that should now be the next escalation level
The ZPS is about limits.. The borders of Europe, the border between fiction and reality, between art and activism, and not least the border of tastelessness. Especially the latter has suffered with “refugees seizure”. Will a wise speech to justify this attention production on the back of refugees? Have previously not been exceeded at many borders?
attention is at the present time a volatile commodity. The attention that has drawn with “refugees seizure” on the ZPS was very large. And the ZPS at any moment large enough. Even after Skafs speech, the center-Salon in the garden of the Maxim Gorki Theater, the interlocutors flirted even with a potential transition in the dangerous cage
From this attention in the coming weeks and months reminder. – the criticized EU directive, to the four tigers, on an announced massacre, to the fundamental criticism in the “letter of the Tiger”. And last but not least to the organizers themselves. Who or what now will be remembered the most?
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