Design Documentary: State-Theatre # 1-6 @ Bengaluru ByDesign 2018

The last screening in a series of four films, that revolve around architecture and design is:

State-Theatre # 1-6 Lagos, Tehran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut, Mönchengladbach
Director: Daniel Kötter, Constanze Fischbeck, colour, 239 min., 2009-2014

state-theatre is a modular art project of Berlin theater and filmmaker Daniel Kötter and Constanze Fischbeck on the urban conditions of the performative in the six cities: Lagos, Tehran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut and Mönchengladbach. The DVD edition gathered for the first time all six experimental films that incurred in the context of the state-theatre project.

The word ‚theatre‘ (theatron in greek) refers fi rst and foremost to the place and architecture of a performance, rather than to what is being performed. Even after centuries, a theatre’s architecture represents the visual order from which it emerged: the possibilities for artistic production are historically conditioned. The geometrical space of architecture is pitted against the anthropological space of its use. state-theatre departs from places that have shed their apparent societal functions: deserted areas, construction sites, unused or reinterpreted buildings – empty spaces in the urban fabric, places that were originally meant as allegoric gathering places: theaters.