Rimini Protokoll
Lives in Berlin
Rimini Protokoll is an artist collective founded in 2000 formed by Stefan Kaegi, Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel. Rimini Protokoll’s purpose is to pry apart the sense of reality and present all its facets from unusual perspectives. They often develop their stage-works, interventions, performative installations and audio plays together with experts who have gained their knowledge and skills beyond the theatre. Furthermore, they like to transpose rooms or social structures into theatrical formats. Many of their works feature interactivity and playful use of technology.
Their most controversial early stage-works feature “Deadline”, a piece with five experts on the central European way of dying, and “Sabenation”, in which they reconstructed the bankruptcy of the Belgian national airline Sabena in Brussels. Later works include “Call Cutta in a Box”, a one-to-one telephone performance that takes place live from a call centre in India, “Hauptversammlung” (“Annual General Meeting”), a parasitic intervention at Daimler’s shareholders’ meeting, the multi-player-on-stage-game “Best Before” (Vancouver 2010), the video-walk “Outdoors” (National Theatre of Wales 2011), various personalized versions of “100% City” (in Vienna, London, Melbourne and many other cities in with 100 local citizens on stage) and “Lagos Business Angels” with Nigerian business people (Berlin 2012), as well as “Weltklimakonferenz” (Hamburg 2014) – a simulation of the UN Conference on climate change.
