Be There, Do This - walk scores - Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin

Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Nov 2016

Be there, do this – visitor scores
(new title "Figures of Walking Together")

2,5 km duct tape around the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin and a 60x40cm dipond board with score and text from a high viewing point (the conference room of the museum)

presented during "Die Schule der Distanz" for Immersion Festival by Berlinerfestpiele, 18.–20.11.2016

program note:

“Be there, do this” is a choreographic installation series for the public space by the Brussels-based artist David Helbich. He calls his scores “self-performative” arrangements and sequences. They invite us to see physical co-presence in rooms as an active mode: Do something (if you want to)! Sharing a space always means acting with each other in a choreographic way. But: How do rules emerge? What is the relationship between playing and discipline? And to what extent do rooms predetermine our actions? Helbich renders explicit what usually stays hidden.

"Be there, do this" was realized on various occasions, each with it's own score and set-up and since 2019 under the new title "Figures of Walking Together", at: