Germany is on the streets, Germany is protesting. The choir is multi-voiced. It is no longer just the regular Monday demonstrations that shape the cityscape: while universities demonstrate, tractor horns sound at the same time, the “last generation” silently blocks roads and people fight loudly for a liberated Palestine. What at first glance seems like a large protest movement is, upon closer inspection, a confusing puzzle made up of 1500 individual pieces, 1500 opinions that don't really fit together. A cacophony of dissonance? Who else understands anything here? Who actually listens to each other anymore?
After a semester of research, discussions and artistic interventions, the students of “Finishing the Puzzles” invited visitors to an interactive audio exhibition. At the Kulturschaufenster, Friedensstraße 2, Weimar, visitors were able to do a puzzle together, listen to radio and audio pieces and jam with audio fragments themselves.
The exhibition was based on two previous interventions. A radio broadcast at Galerie Eigenheim in Weimarhallenpark, in which students spoke to their neighbors, along with Thuringia hits and conversations with activism experts. And a sound guerrilla intervention in which the students played a lunch table they had designed at the Weimarer Tafel back into the local supermarkets.
The semester's actions initiate points of contact between “us” and this elusive, heterogeneous counterpart “Thuringia”, between Bauhaus-Universität and the region in which it is located, they tell of the political realities that surround us and of small encounters and stories that perhaps give hope. The listeners themselves become co-puzzlers, keeping their ear to the questions, the cracks, the tipping points.
In addition to the open installation, there were also live broadcasts with an expert discussion between Martin Debes, Dominik Intelmann and the Antifascist and Antiracist Council of Thuringia.
Participants: Paulette Breuhahn, Mira Musawwira Emmerling, Malte Gunst, Lukas Matthias Holfeld, Paul Schilling, Henriette Fridoline Schmidt, Marc André Schmidt, Nadja Josephine Sühnel, Maximilian Weiß
With: Visitors and employees of Weimarer Tafel , Holger Bauer, Bauhof NGS, Max Reschke, Katrin Richter, Linda Klemp, Jula Vollmuth, Annika Janzen, Dr. Nils Altner, Catalina Giraldo Vélez, Ana Maria Vallejo Cuartas, Martin Debes, Dominik Intelmann, Antifaschistischer und Antirassistischer Ratschlag Thüringen
