BORDER GRID – A documentary escape experience as part of the Salzburg summer scene

BORDER GRID – An Escape Experience Documentary

Shows inside the Summer scene Salzburg 2021 in ARGEkultur Salzburg

Term: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th June
Shows at 4pm, 6pm, 8pm

Limited number of participants! underlying cards argekultur.at

In English

BORDER GRID takes the escape room to the limit: the audience accompanies several people on their journey, makes decisions with them and crosses borders together; in space, time and mind. The interactive puzzle and experience space is formed from the life situations, stories and thought worlds of a number of interviewees from London, Mexico and Israel. The performance takes place in a room whose walls are made up of high definition video walls and can therefore dynamically change and transform with the story and interactions.

The title BORDER GRID, or a grid of borders, is the impetus and the artistic vision of the project: What if the borders that surround us, the conventions, the rules, the state borders, could not be dividing lines but connections?

BORDER GRID weaves such a web of life situations and stories of people that Tobias Hammerle has interviewed in the United States and Mexico, in Chile, Argentina, Great Britain and on the continent, in Israel and in Austria and Germany. From personal experiences we learn about boundaries, their artistic antitheses and how they create spaces for encounters. In this way, Border Grid also continues the documentary examination of borders, in which extra gold presents the computer games “Frontiers” and “From Darkness”, which deal with the effects of borders and wars from very different perspectives.

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Art direction, videos: Tobias Hammerle
Concept: Karl Zechenter, Sonja Prlic and Tobias Hammerle
Design and animated graphics: Reinhold Bidner
Scenery, props: Valerie Eicher
Sound and programming: Sebastian Fresco
Coding simulation: Andreas Leitner
Narration 1: Mara Vivas (TIME)
Narration 2: Atalya Komornik (ISR)

More narratives
Jack Gutmann, Len López (SCL), Esteban (MEX/USA), Charles Glaubitz (MEX), Miguel Mariano (MEX), Haydee Jimenez (MEX), Omar Pimiento (MEX/USA)

room construction: Konrad Seiler
Game Advice: George Hobmeier
Technical support: Gunther Seiser, Benedikt Gassner, Wolfgang Kahlhammer, Lukas Nemec, Markus Brandt, Sebastian Schindlauer, Andreas Leitner
Stage manager, prop: Amelie Klimmeck
Production: Anna Grienberger
Production assistance: Julia Buchwieser

Special thanks to: Angel & Cristina(SCL) Charles Glaubitz Daniel Espinosa Ernesto Jimenez Esteban from Brazil Esteban – Lodi Isaac Puig, Lean Kuiy Pao, Dominguez Maple Pedro Vargas, Tanya Gotxikoa, Fide (Sergio), Luisa Martinez, Martha Betancourt, Liz Zechenter, Andreas Menzel, Dylan Elmore, Shlomi Manger, Nisim Touitou, JRVisuals, Tom Goldstein, Gal Schuster

A co-production of gold extra, Scene Salzburg and ARGEkultur