Make a wish! No matter what you need and what you want! This is the beginning and the magic of economy. But there is a scar in the city. It does not heal. For centuries. Where there could be something, there is a lack. Lack of what? For whom? Why does nothing grow here except loneliness and envy, violence and capitalist spectacle? Or is something growing here? Something that has no price and is therefore difficult to evaluate.
In the project Scar-City, the participants of the akademie der autodidakten, under the guidance of the multidisciplinary performance artist Ariel William Orah, deal with questions around the topics of wealth, empathy, healing, self-empowerment. Because lack is a practice of domination.
We were told that there is no limit to consumption. Yet there is hardly any distinction between need and desire. But we feel it, we know it: resources are scarce. Prioritizing white needs is racism. Living together according to economic criteria creates a lack of empathy. Social injustice produces scars. Scar-City. How do we deal with the scar, how do we care for it? Starting from these questions, the participants of the akademie der autodidakten came together. With the means of performance, video and sound, an artistic, performative narrative was developed. The result is a story of one’s own and collective fullness.
