Process & research for “~ 4E8A∞ ~”
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04-06-2025, 11:17 PM, 15°C, foggy outside, foggy inside. Behind the optional counter of the traditional Bar Café Weiß: gesture simulating cigarette smoking, as it might appear during a four-hour durational performance on July 4th, 2025, Friday evening. Then (not visible in the photo): meeting with bar owner Harry Nisson.
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05-06-2025, 10:49 AM, around 19°C, cloudy with intermittent sun. Site visit to Versöhnungskirche (Church of Reconciliation) in Degerloch: preliminary light tests + which stops should be pulled? Evening of the performance: July 26th, 2025, 7 PM with composer and organist Eva-Maria Houben.
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05-06-2025, 2:54 PM, 23.2°C, clouds moving in. Site visit to “Abfallwirtschaft Stuttgart” (waste management facility): two people beneath the salt silo (optional: a car could be placed here), no one at the gas station, BUT gas station is working. Estimated audience on June 27th, 2025: 45 people.
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07-06-2025, 2:44 PM, 24°C, overcast. On location: 15 meters to go until a traffic jam on B14, Cannstatter Straße, en route from “Abfallwirtschaft Stuttgart” (waste management facility) to the “Hustenburg” (Coughing Castle) = remote work. Stop at the Copyshop
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06-06-2025, 4:56 PM, 23°C, overcast, light rain, east wind. On site of the “Coughing Castle” / Ziegelklinge in Heslach, inside of a resident’s house: visit of the terrace for the tuberculosis patient with view onto “Erbschleicherexpress” (the “inheritance hunter’s express train”) + document from the city archive Stuttgart, StaS 201/1 - 1095.
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08-06-2025, 10:00 AM, 26°C outside, sunny, 21°C inside. Archive of the city of Stuttgart, documents about the Ziegelklinge public housing project 201/1 - 1097.
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06-06-2025, 9:16 PM, 19,5°C, shortly after the rain. Late-evening visit of AWS (waste management facility): testing the poster in front of RAL-orange vacuuming car, part of AWS infrastructure.
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06-06-2025, 9:19 PM, 19,5°C, shortly after a rain shower, blue hour, “Abfallwirtschaft Stuttgart” (waste management facility): inspection of pick-up-truck / testing the cleaning devices (large and small).
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07-06-2025, 12:00 AM, 18°C, sun breaks through the clouds, 29 days before the performative walk: rehearsal on stairs in Sperlingstraße / test speech + test sitting/ standing.
Photo Credits:
© Johanna Ackva, Cécile Kobel, Judith Milz
Document from the Stuttgart City Archive © StaS 201/1–1095
Documents from the Ziegelklinge collection © StaS 201/1–1097
