Situation Rooms at Ashkal Alwan

The Home Workspace is pleased to invite you to “Situation Rooms”, a try-out of an in-progress project with Rimini Protokoll. “Situation Rooms” could be described as a heterotopic form of cinema or as a multi-player 3D video game for 15 users. Each spectator is given an iPod and the audience simultaneously starts to follow step by step, frame by frame, a short story that has been filmed in the very same place by someone else. As the spectators start to trace the films, a multiple story unfolds.

Home Workspace Program participants will create 15 short video-walks using a methodology developed by Rimini Protokoll at the National Theatre of Wales. Through these multiple short videos, the participants function as both actors and spectators. The prerecorded past turns into the present, unveiling an interactive cinema, which is not just seen, but is a participatory experience.

The workshop is limited to 15 participants only.

Free entrance