THEATRE OF THE LONG NOW
111 trees for the Rosenstein
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THEATRE OF THE LONG NOW
111 TREES FOR THE ROSENSTEIN
Imagine planting a tree with an expected lifespan of around 100 years - ambitious, as the average life expectancy of street trees in cities is often much shorter than a human life. On the stem of this tree we attach a small capsule containing a work of art created especially for this location.
Now imagine how this tree grows over its entire lifetime until it finally ages, becomes increasingly unstable and only its deadwood structure remains. Every year we are going to plant a tree as such, along a straight line, over a period of 100 years. In this way, a row of trees is created piece by piece, making it possible to experience in about 100 years the entire life cycle of an urban tree in time and space - while the surrounding district, the Rosenstein quarter, is constantly changing and ageing with the trees.
Hidden in the trunks of these 100 trees will be 100 small capsules containing artworks by 100 different artists. These works of art will be retrieved over time as the trees gradually die.
Over the entire development period, neither humans nor animals will experience the entire performance themselves. But the row of trees will set the pace for the new Rosenstein quarter and at least a century of the city's history will pass by - it will become an archive and a journey through time.
THEATRE OF THE LONG NOW
The Theatre of the Long Now is the promise to stage a performance lasting at least 100 years on a wasteland in Stuttgart. Growth processes, construction processes, social, political and performative processes are part of this performance. By means of botanical and performative interventions, the artists Alice Ferl and Stine Hertel, together with the architects of Bureau Baubotanik, react to the development of the wasteland and actively intervene in its growth process. The wasteland as a supposed empty space in the urban context thus becomes a space for action and a place of cultural negotiation.
In the Theatre of The Long Now, there are countless participants who influence and thus co-determine the development process of the wasteland. These include the soil, plants and insects, stones and minerals, technical equipment made of metal and a turtle, which embody the long-term nature of time. The usual cost pressure, lack of solidarity and sometimes incomprehensible political developments are juxtaposed with a wide variety of exciting weather events, forms of staging, surprising offers of cooperation and newly acquired knowledge. This field of tension is just as decisive for the course of the performance as the stamina of various institutions that give this performance a structure. The further course of the performance is not yet foreseeable, as some participants have not yet taken their place or have not yet been discovered. But there is still some time for that ...
PROGRAM BOOKLET 2014 - 2024
Main performance 2024 – Winter festival
On 16.11.2024, the Theatre of the Long Now celebrates its 10th anniversary. We plant the first pair of trees and send the first intergrowing capsule on its journey through time into the next century.
100 capsules - 100 works of art
Each artistic contribution to the capsule consists of two elements: An unknown encapsulated artwork that begins its long journey through time - accompanied by a contemporary published commentary by the artists.
ADVISORY BOARD
Since June 24, 2019, the THEATRE OF THE LONG NOW has had an a advisory board of 14 transdisciplinary institutional members. This advisory board speaks for many direct and indirect stakeholders and specialist areas that affect the brownfield site of THEATRE OF THE LONG NOW. The advisory board represents the multitude of individual participants in the ensemble and is therefore never complete. Vacancies are therefore a welcome part of the composition of the advisory board.
CONTACT
Gesellschaft für Baubotanik e.V.
Hannes Schwertfeger und Oliver Storz
www.bureau-baubotanik.de
mail@bureau-baubotanik.de
0711 46059750
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COOPERATION PARTNERSHIPS AND FUNDING
The Theatre of the Long Now is a project by Bureau Baubotanik and Ferl+Hertel in cooperation with Theater Rampe e.V. and Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V..
The Theatre of the Long Now is continuously supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Stuttgart and the Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart (FTTS) with funds from the Cultural Department of the City of Stuttgart. The installation of the infrastructure was supported by the Urban Green funding program of the Office for Urban Planning and Housing of the City of Stuttgart.
The initial development of individual performance formats was funded by the Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg (LaFT BW) with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg (MWK BW), as well as the Innovationsfonds Kunst of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg as project funding.
The online presence of the Theatre of the Long Now is designed and supported by alisch berlec hönow
IMPRESSUM
Gesellschaft für Baubotanik e.V.
Pfaffenweg 53
70180 Stuttgart
Präsidium:
Christian von Wissel, Sebastian Becker, Oliver Storz
Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart
Registernummer: VR 723776
Redaktion:
Hannes Schwertfeger (V.i.S.d.P.)
Tel.: 0049 (0) 711 - 460 59 75 - 0
Mail: schwe@gmx.de
