How do the decentralized neurons of an octopus perform on a theatre stage? Why can hundreds of spectators facing a giant mirror simulate a human brain? And what do geology and the human intestines have in common? Stefan Kaegi has been collaborating with neuroscientists to develop immersive documentary performances. At MACRO, he will present and discuss short videos from recent productions by his theatre collective Rimini Protokoll, and talk about a museum project he is currently developing at the German Academy Villa Massimo in collaboration with French curator Caroline Barneaud.

Stefan Kaegi / Rimini Protokoll is currently a fellow at the Accademia Tedesca di Roma Villa Massimo.

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The event will take place in the auditorium.
Free admission until capacity is reached.

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Stefan Kaegi co-produces works with Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel, under the label “Rimini Protokoll”. Using research, public auditions and conceptual processes, they give voice to ‘experts’ who are not necessarily trained actors. Recent works include the multi-player-video-piece Situation Rooms or 100% Hong Kong with 100 local citizens on stage. Their Conference of the Absent is touring on stages in dozens of languages. More and more they also create works for museums: The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) recently showed their eco-installation win < > win as well as their immersive walkable movie Urban Nature. Stefan Kaegi is based in the Swiss mountains as well as in Berlin. He produces documentary theatre plays and works in public space in a diverse variety of collaborative partnerships. Kaegi has adapted Remote X, an audio tour for 50 headphones to dozens of cities from Taipei to Santiago de Chile and will create Remote Roma this July as part of his residency in the Villa Massimo. In Rome he has also shown his interactive installation Nachlass that portrays people who have not left much time to live and Uncanny Valley, a monologue for a humanoid robot. With Caroline Barneaud he conceived and curated Shared Landscapes, a day in nature with performative Land-Art.


Spiegelneuronen by Stefan Kaegi / Rimini Protokoll with the dancers
of Sasha Waltz & Guests. Ph. Bernd Uhlig