© Anja Beutler, Emmanuel Tometin Tognidaho, Katoulati, POOL
XO’DO ALLÔKAN-NÙ TALKBACK RADIO
A Multimedia Live Performance | 60min | Bénin, Germany | 2017
SYNOPSIS
For XO‘DO-ALLÔKAN-NÙ, the artist collective Pool team up with Katoulati, a group from Cotonou, who are deeply concerned with the rich and lively practice of storytelling in Bénin. In a call shop setting, Pool and Katoulati stage a live radio play with speakers from both cities, which takes place in Cotonou and Hamburg simultaneously and in which the Hamburg audience can participate via telephone in a retail space in Hamburg St. Georg. In this way, XO‘DO ALLÔKAN-NÙ, unlike a classic guest performance in theater, creates a divided acoustic space across the spatial distance in which personal, political and commercial narratives merge into a multilog in three languages. Storytellers in Bénin are important protagonists of the cultural scene. They pass on the fairy tales and stories, orally in a performative practice in front of listeners, constantly rewriting and modernizing them.
CREDITS
with HARMONIE BILL CATARYA, MÉLAINE DOUKLOUI, CHARELLE HOUNVOU, SOULÉMAN E. LALY, ISSIAKA MOUSSA, MARCEL CODJO NOUBOUKE, NINA SOPHIE SCHWABE, ANNIKA SCHARM, PRECIOUS WIESNER, PRISCA ESTELLE TCHEKI GOUDOU alias SADKY
team POOL (EYLIEN KÖNIG, MARTINA MAHLKNECHT, LISA SPERLING, DORIS MARGARETE SCHMIDT) & KATOULATI, TONAKPON PATRICE TONTON
joker FABRICE ADÉBAYO HOUNSOUN, FLORENCE SCHREIBER
space YANNIKC AMOUSSOU, MAHOUSSI
costumes SADKY GOUDOU
electrical engineering INNOCENT ANIWANOU, RAINER KORSEN
dramaturgical advice FABRICE ADÉBAYO HOUNSOUN, MABLE PREACH
SHOWS
> Pool and Katoulati at the Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel 2017
world premiere 11th of august at 6pm
shows on 12th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 24th | 25th | 26th | 27th of August 6pm
CALLSHOP IN COTONOU, ZOGBOHOUÉ, DERRIÈRE LE STADE
CALLSHOP IN HAMBURG, REPSOLDHAUS, MÜNZVIERTEL
> AUDIO TRAILER
> FALTBLATT
