Personal messages have ever since been submitted as well in times of uproar and war. During the First World War, the army postal service delivered approx. 28.7 billions of letters and postcards. Nowadays, the distribution of messages related to actual wars, uprisings and revolutions (f.e. Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Turkey) are far easier, faster and more direct. They are distributed via social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Blogs.
What‘s the story of these messages? In what ways differs the content - i.e. the personal needs, wishes and fears - from the ones 100 years ago? What are the parallels and what are the differences?
In the workshop, we will develop an artistic (audio)- collage compiled of personal messages, reporting different events in history, differing in content but telling the same story. The overlapping of the messages relates events in history that have long passed to current political events and inspires new thinking.
During the workshop, we will compile the relating historic context together with historians, didacts and media practitioners. Furthermore, you will choose army postal service letters and researching blog posts, tweets, Facebook posts and YouTube videos. All of these will hence be put into place and in relation to each other.
The messages will be recorded and dubbed at a sound studio. Historic background information will hence be edited and presented e.g. on DIN A1 charts. This ‘duet’ and the related charts will be presented at the end of the workshop at the Maxim Gorki theatre in Berlin, and will also be aired on different radio stations, also live (if applicable).
Experience in video editing is appreciated, but not a prerequisite for participating in the workshop. You should have, however, an affinity to social media.
Workshop speakers:
Miriam Menzel, Kooperative Berlin, Externer Link: www.kooperative-berlin.de
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