22.6. 21:00

where will you now have been

Aran Kleebaur

sweaty asphalt, fire emojis, microphone feedback and forwarded posts – used up data, blurring pixels and the anger and outrage they are supposed to expose

It is one week after the so-called "Krawallnacht" of the 18th July 2020, where according to outraged yet vague media reports a large group of young people, racially labelled by said media as migrants, had rioted and confronted the police on and around the Opernplatz, a popular place in Frankfurt for young people to hang out. One week later, shortly after midnight, Frankfurt's mayor Peter Feldmann will give a PR appearance on this now curfewed square, while activists in the immediate vicinity document the racist police checks that have only further intensified since then, using these images to call for resistance in real time. 

Recounting this day from the perspective of a passive activist who wasn't there, Kleebaur's minimalist performance revolves around questions on political activism in times of ubiquitous social media – how the drama of these days and nights tends to unfold as much on our screens and feeds as on the streets; and how these forms of physical and interfaced coming-togethers both drove and stalled, ignited and quenched the anti-racist and anti-police movements of that summer.

Performance duration approx. 40 minutes. Doors open at 9pm. CN: police brutality, racist violence