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Open Power

Open Power board
Kennedy-Ufer 11, Köln, Deutschland
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German

Cologne

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Emmie Anne Alderson Theatre

A Pilgrimage for Sylvia is a ongoing performance and research project which focuses on Emmie's pursuit to find the remaining traces of Sylvia Plath's presence. The project so far h as taken the form...

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Aurora dos Campos

Aurora dos Campos is a set designer, artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto [FBAUP], having received a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology [FCT] for her research entitled “Fictionalising Matter ∩ Materialising Fiction: The Artistic Practice of a Set Designer”. She is a research fellow at the Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society [I2ADS]. She holds a Master’s degree in Art and Design for Public Space from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, with the dissertation “Dramaturgies of the Everyday: Speculations on the Fictional Dimension of the Real” [FBAUP | 2019] and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts with a specialisation in set design from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro [UNIRIO | 2006].

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The Lucky Trikes: Listening Pasts – Listening Futures

Storyteller Deirdre Harrison brings this storytelling chamber band that has been delighting intergenerational audiences since 2014. Dynamic, interactive readings of well-known and award-winning books are accompanied by improvised and composed music.

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Walking together alone (remote)

Since 2017 Fabian Gutscher is walking simultaneously with someone else using the app Synchronisator. Sometimes one to one, sometimes performative and sometimes with Hong Kong. The App lets you hear the stepping rhythm of an other person walking anywhere in the world. For Prespa he will walk every day with one question and with at least one other walker. Everyday. There will be schedule communicated on the website institutmovement.eu

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Cologne

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Emmie Anne Alderson Theatre

A Pilgrimage for Sylvia is a ongoing performance and research project which focuses on Emmie's pursuit to find the remaining traces of Sylvia Plath's presence. The project so far h as taken the form...

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Aurora dos Campos

Aurora dos Campos is a set designer, artist and researcher. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto [FBAUP], having received a grant from the Foundation for Science and Technology [FCT] for her research entitled “Fictionalising Matter ∩ Materialising Fiction: The Artistic Practice of a Set Designer”. She is a research fellow at the Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society [I2ADS]. She holds a Master’s degree in Art and Design for Public Space from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, with the dissertation “Dramaturgies of the Everyday: Speculations on the Fictional Dimension of the Real” [FBAUP | 2019] and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts with a specialisation in set design from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro [UNIRIO | 2006].

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The Lucky Trikes: Listening Pasts – Listening Futures

Storyteller Deirdre Harrison brings this storytelling chamber band that has been delighting intergenerational audiences since 2014. Dynamic, interactive readings of well-known and award-winning books are accompanied by improvised and composed music.

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walkingevent

Walking together alone (remote)

Since 2017 Fabian Gutscher is walking simultaneously with someone else using the app Synchronisator. Sometimes one to one, sometimes performative and sometimes with Hong Kong. The App lets you hear the stepping rhythm of an other person walking anywhere in the world. For Prespa he will walk every day with one question and with at least one other walker. Everyday. There will be schedule communicated on the website institutmovement.eu

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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.

A map of Cologne fixed with 100 locations of available, functional electrical sockets I found all over the city. I incorporated the map in an information board which was installed at the location where the very first socket was found. That happens to be in a very central and highly frequented place. The map is also available online on a website specially created for the project, where each socket is numbered, highlighted through photos and gps-coordinates.

Over the course of a year (2015-16), I searched for free, functional sockets in and around the city of Cologne. I photographed each find using GPS, making it possible to enter their exact locations onto the Google-Map. The final result was a listing of 100 230V-sockets available all over the city. Each photo was shot in the night, using a floodlight. The light was powered of course, by the very socket being photographed. Thus, each photo depicts a closed circuit comprised of a socket, illuminated by a floodlight, which is powered by the socket.

On May 5th, 2016, the OPEN POWER info board was illegally installed at the Opera ferry dock along Kennedy-Ufer (riverside) in Cologne. The board depicts the Google-map along with all 100 images of the sockets and their exact locations. This site is where the first socket, Socket #1, was discovered. The OPEN POWER info board had to be installed on top of an existing Opera ferry board, the latter of which was flipped to face the Rhine, away from public view. The OPEN POWER board was designed to suit the existing ferry board: the same size, same material, same holes for the screws to hold it in place. On May 6th, the boards were flipped over as a performance in reverse. The OPEN POWER board now faces the Rhine, it hangs on the backside of the frame where Socket #1 is housed. The Opera’s ferry board has been turned to face its original direction.

The project generated a lot of discussion over social media, and interest in the local press and television. The owners of the Opera ferry service were not supporters of this illegal action and reacted very quickly to the alterations, yet no move has been made to have the OPEN POWER board removed from the back of theirs.

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Andrey Ustinov

APA style reference

Ustinov, A. (2016). Open Power. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/open-power/

earl-footed, hurdle-footed, club-footed

As in “He’s got feet like an earl-footed turnip” (said of someone who walks with his feet turned out). from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).

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