"The theatre was built in 1907 by Oskar Kaufmann and is a beautiful, intimate,
old-fashioned
place, with a maze of staircases and backrooms that normally a theater audience wouldn’t be able to
access. We
decided to do a
video walk using these
spaces. One of the main elements of the story involved taking the participant up winding stairs and encountering a
room covered in
plastic as a parallel to
a woman’s journey to visit
a man in an apartment. As in most of the
walks, the
narrative is not clear but there are
hints that the man is hiding in the theater attic. In one scene, he gets arrested by
police in historical costumes. The final scene is on the stage where, when you turn and see a whole
audience watching, you realize that all along you have been part of a
play."
Janet Cardiff & Georges Bures Miller,
Ghost Machine, Video walk, 27 minutes, Curated by Matthias Lilienthal. Hebbel Theater, Berlin, Germany, 2005
