Guest Performances

Photo: Eleonora Herder

THE LIBRARY
Tiago Rodrigues / Portugal

  • 26/08 - 04/09
  • 3 pm - 6 pm
  • German and English
  • 5 € / red. 3 €

Leave the market square behind you. Walk through the huge wrought-iron gate. Cross the courtyard. Open the little door of the red-brick warehouse. Go up the creaky wooden stairs. Open the door to the loft. Wait … — Portuguese artist Tiago Rodrigues invites you to his library without books. Two empty rooms, eight performers. Stored in their minds: literary fragments, books and documents. Knowledge they want to share with you, give you to read and pass on to you. Word for word, sentence by sentence. A growing hoard of stored knowledge, safe from wiretaps, traceless. Passed on from one person to another. — In the city of data, where the NSA, the German Credit Check Agency, the German Office of Criminal Investigation and the German Office of Statistics are all located, Tiago Rodrigues creates a secret library of poetic resistance.

Library is a production of Wiesbaden Biennale in coproduction with Teatro Nacional D. Maria II.