Bubble Jam

Greek audiences are already familiar with Athens-based Daniel Wetzel (born 1969), as founding member of the leading European company Rimini Protokoll, who propose alternative formats on stage as well as site specific works. Rimini Protokoll have been creating groundbreaking projects often not with actors, but with "experts of their own lives.”

This is the fourth time Rimini Protokoll collaborates with the Onassis Stegi, presenting their work in Athens. Daniel Wetzel’s previous show at the Onassis Stegi was "Evros Walk Water 1 & 2" , an installation based on the narrations and improvisations of unaccompanied immigrant minors. There it was already the audience that performed, instructed over headphones to perform John Cage’s composition "Water Walk".

Daniel Wetzel participated in the production "X Apartments Athens" (Fast Forward Festival 2), the peripatetic site-specific performance staged in houses in central Athens with his work “Odos Lithis 7” presenting a twin couple performing their piano play in the uncompleted apartment they had planned to live.

In other performances presented in Greece, Rimini Protokoll have brought on stage “experts" like tour guides and archaeological site guards ("Hot spots. I was here", Thiseion Theater, 2004); Indian call center operators ("Calcutta in a box", Bios, 2009); fired muezins from Cairo ("Radio Muezin", Athens Festival 2009); "103 inhabitants of Athens" ("Prometheus in Athens", Athens Festival, 2011); 20 people whose lives have been shaped by the global arms trade ("Situation Rooms", Onassis Stegi, 2014, Fast Forward Festival 1), international law and human rights specialists, a conservator of old manuscripts, a music producer blind since birth, an Israeli lawyer and a Turkish hip-hop / metalcore artist and ethnologist (Onassis Stegi, "Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, volumes I & II", 2016).

This time, again, nobody will be on stage but the audience.