The digital staged archive RENDEZVOUS2018 deals with the topic of contemporary story-telling and is furthermore asking for new ways of building up or reconstructing narratives. This multimedia-based pool of narrative elements was created by the two artists themselves and is continuously growing. It is dedicated to the fundamental questions about contemporary storytelling and its multilayered implications and contradictions within. Nations were founded on myths of origin, that often mask ideologies and although the time of the big narratives is seemingly over, we are confronted with an infinite variety of interpretations. So how do we tell these stories today? Who tells what kind of story and what is the intention behind it?
Narratives are no longer able to legitimize the pursuit of knowledge, economic growth or social and moral emancipation. They only work as expressions of a point of view or of specific interests. Those points of view can only become paramount by being convincing or not. The computer database as a virtual space has become a cultural form that is used to represent human experience, the world and human existence in this world.
RENDEZVOUS2018 searches for „fragments of memory“ which are collected, dissolved, analyzed and transformed. This „material“ is then being inter-linked via changing classification systems to generate new narratives that can vary every time. The current version of the online-platform is being used as a storage-container for sedimenting this material and is also serving as a basis for the lecture performance, as it expands the staged setting into the digital space.
These performances are guided tours through this narrative-database by the artists themselves and thus generate a different and unique experience every-time.