December 11th 2023

performance intervention at KaDeWe Berlin

MITSPIELEN (PLAY ALONG) – Performance Intervention in the public space infront of KaDeWE Berlin

Unannounced intervention in public space. Christmas jazz, sometimes pop, trickles from the loudspeakers above the shop windows of KaDeWe in Berlin Schöneberg. DETOX played along quietly. Maja with the trumpet, Anton with a blackboard on which he writes everything that we as participants in Western consumer societies are involved in: ever more oil drilling in the Amazon region, violence at Europe’s external borders, thousands of deaths in Gaza, the rise of right-wing radicalism. We have no solution either. We play along. 98% desperation, 2% humour.

Photo: Clio van Aerde

Abuse of power / Populism / Global inequality / Slavery / Colonialism / 2 degrees Celsius / 700 people in a boat / Modern slavery / Gaza / Rwanda deal / Jin Jiyan Azadî / CO2 / Afghanistan / Lampedusa / “Green Tech” – cobalt from the Democratic Republic of the Congo / 25% AfD / Corruption / LGBT in Russia / Oil drilling in the Amazon / Right-wing world / Arms industry / Moria / Data theft / Lobbyism / Rheinmetall / Fossil fuels / things we don’t even know / Heckler & Koch / Exploitation / TAKING PART / BEING ENTANGLED