Station 11: Langstrasse
Station 11: Langstrasse was a performance about the capitalisation of free-time.
It was a critical tableau about the society, showing errors with examples from Langstrasse, Zürich. It was written and performed in cooperation with Fabian Gutscher. While detecting different problematic local phenomena they interpreted how gentrification kills the spirit of working-class boroughs. The tableau is patched from theatrical scenes, which imitates the daily rhythm of a worker. All of these are brought together with sounds, noises and texts. At the beginning, IPek sings the anthem of the former Soviet Union. Later, she paints mechanically the German word Arbeiten (‘to work’). She destroys a sushi-dinner, reads the prices of sexworkers and writes Arbeiten with a lipstick for the end.