Shortly before sunrise. The yellow traffic lights are flashing. No one to be seen. We leave the shelter to go into a new present, holding a new biography. How do we know if we are still in the same Zurich after this weird night in the bunker underneath the city? What if our story was different?
Uchronic Research Society (U.R.S.) explores uchronic alternative worlds: playable variants of history that lead to new presents. The society’s members are real Zurich uchronists: the fantasy author, the extreme hobbyist, the urban planner, the migrant from Eritrea… They all write history – no matter whether real or fictitious, private or relevant to all of us. During eight days U.R.S. invites us to a special kind of walk, a hike in which the present of a different past can be experienced for a short time.
U.R.S. was initiated by the artistic collective Invisible Playground. Based on conversations, using elements of board and computer games, audio-walks and performance, gameable situations emerge at extraordinary places: spiritual bowling in a temple above the city, democracy inside the decision-laboratory, speed-dating between utility vehicles. Guided through wireless headphones and by the music of Ruedi Häusermann the audience moves through Zurich.
Start: 6:30 am, Zivilschutzanlage Hirzelstrasse (at no. 11).
For the total experience including a night at the shelter: 10pm the previous evening.
Don’t forget to bring clothes suitable for the weather and comfortable shoes!
For further information go to wirwuerdenhiersein.ch
Konzept, Game-Design, Regie Invisible Playground (Jennifer Aksu, Viktor Bedö, Daniel Boy, Josa Gerhard, Anna Hentschel, Christiane Hütter, Sebastian Quack) Musik Ruedi Häusermann Produktionsleitung Nadine Tobler Regieassistenz Julia Znoj Mitarbeit Recherche und Game-Design Maike Thies Eine Produktion von Invisible Playground in Kooperation mit Gessnerallee Zürich Gefördert durch Stadt Zürich Kultur und Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art
