Spotlight on the work Negative Gemeinschaft by Kein schöner Archiv, which takes place on both sides of the railway station and brings together different voices and perspectives from Dortmund.

The focus is on forms of collective action that engage with social conditions and advocate for a different way of living together. At the Dietrich-Keuning-Haus, Michael Annoff and Nuray Demir will lead a discussion with İpek Gençtürk, after which KDM – Königin der Macht will deliver a performative sermon. She will then hand over to The Troubadour, performed by Riah Knight. The singer-songwriter and actress is touring the Ruhr region for a month – from Bochum to Dortmund, from Duisburg to Essen. Along the way, she writes and performs her own songs, combining them with music that Ari Benjamin Meyers composed in advance for the project. Inspired by the wandering ballad singers of the Middle Ages, this project is both a long-term performance and a social experiment. What is heard, experienced and exchanged in one place will be carried forward to the next. How is this supposedly ‘unknown traveller’ treated in every town she visits? What kind of music will her journey through the region produce?