Many thanks to the KioSK Festival and all participating performers and experts: Milo Juráni, Lars Blum, Adam Samuel Marko, Jožko Ďuroška, Martin Bolo and Marian Gogola from M-ulica !
Review of the play by Richard Pettifer at theaterstück pieces of berlin + europe
Trailer coming soon!
From Sonic Highway to Sonic Highway Motorest / from Bochum to Žilina :
Since 2020, MFK Bochum has been moving along the edges of highways and formulating (dis)harmonious responses to the noise of roads. After the site visit and performance Sonic Highway at Bochum's Westkreuz, in the middle of the largest and loudest conurbation in Germany, the artistic research led us further towards the European road E50, which connects the west with the east and whose part is the Slovakian highway D1. The 11 km long section Lietavská Lúčka - Dubná skala has been under construction for many years and is still not in operation. It is quiet, no noise from cars echoes in bodies or the surroundings. Here, where the beeping of excavators, the bleating of sheep and the sound of material transports can be heard, mingling with the radio sound of workers from India, the final, so-called cosmetic adjustments are being made for the imminent commissioning of the line. The silent highway can still be experienced for a few more months, then everything will probably be different.
MFK Bochum invites visitors to the KioSK Festival to visit the highway construction site. Maybe eat a good rest stop sandwich, maybe drink a soda, enjoy the landscape and experience a highway that has not yet fulfilled its potential to become capital as a stream of different bodies and things. Enjoy the silence!
Credits
Concept / Performance / Costume : MFK Bochum
Dramaturgy, Performance: Milo Juráni
Set design, performance, bar: Lars Blum
Performance and vocals: Adam Samuel Marko
Performance, accordion and vocals: Jožko Ďuroška
Interview on the bus: Marian Gogola, Martin Bolo
Poduction: Katarína Juráni Marková
Funding
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Culture Moves Europe, Stanica Žilina Záriečie, Festival KioSK
Show
July 27, 2024 / 5 - 8 pm