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Kölns jüdische Geschichte: ein immersiver Audio-Walk

Junges Theater Köln, with MiQua and NS-DOK
2026-09-05 17:00
Köln-Altstadt-Nord, Cologne, Germany

A performative walk that uses audio, live performers, music, video, and augmented reality to layer Jewish histories onto their original locations in the contemporary city.

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Walking piece 2016

Open Power

Over the course of a year (2015-16), I searched for free, functional 230V-sockets in and around the city of Cologne. The final result was a listing of 100 locations available on an information board and online on a website.

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Andrey Ustinov

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The Tour of All T... 85

Way-Losing in Cologne: three days of getting lost

This video captures some impressions of the three days of tours that I led around Cologne getting lost in the suburbs. It was curious that on each of the three days, the three different groups all chose to head to the east side of the river so, if the ...

Bill Aitchison
The Tour of All T... 85

Way-Losing Brochure and next adventure in Cologne

Two new things to mention about Way-Losing, the guided tours of mine in which everybody gets lost. First, there are some new dates in Germany. On the 19th and 20th November I'll be leading a group somewhere around Cologne for the Globalise Cologne Fest...

Bill Aitchison

flakkari

“Icelandic culture is infused with stories of travel. When names were needed for modern machines, the technology that enables our imaginations to travel, words were chosen that centred on the quality of roaming. Thus the neologism for laptop is fartölva, formed from the verb far, meaning to migrate, and tölva – migrating computer’; its companion, the external hard drive, is a flakkari. The latter word can also mean ‘wanderer’ or ‘vagrant’. In the end it’s the wanderers we rely on.” From Nancy Campbell’s “The Library of Ice”.

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