HERZBERGE STORIESAudio-Video-Walk


Launch: 12.09.2021
Funded by: Bezirksamt Lichtenberg, Kiezfonds, FAN-Fonds
Location: Landschaftspark Herzberge, Berlin-Lichtenberg



Written, directed and produced by Lucas Lacerda and Daniel Weyand

APP AND WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Programming: Patrick Dengler 
Design: Juan Pablo Garcia Sossa

SOUND
Sound Design and Composition: Samaquias Lorta
Audio Engineers: Alonso Boniche and OIIA

AUDIOVISUAL
Set Production: Gisele Maués
Cinematography: Ker Cher
Editing: Daniel Weyand
Costume Design: Joaquim Bezerra
Face Painting: Ivan Provisoire

CAST
German narrator and actress: Juliane Meyerhoff
English narrator: Daniel Weyand
Performer (trickster): Lucas Lacerda
Performer (accordion): Paola Pilnik
Performer (dance): Sara Richter
Voice actor (trickster): Ivan Provisoire
Voice actress (nurse): Sara Richter
Voice actor (doctor): Mario Klischies

PRESS: Jakob Kibala

HERZBERGE STORIES is an interactive audio-video-walk which reframes age-old mysteries in a contemporary way.  Via smart devices and headphones visitors move through the grounds of the Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge and the adjacent park area in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Documentary and poetic videos and sounds become a part of the historic setting. Little by little, visitors are drawn into a parallel world between the actual hospital, nature itself and a digital interface .

How does an organism develop from a single cell? 
Where does the psyche end and the body begin?

Art, religion, science: mankind articulates its ideas in many different ways. But the existential questions remain always the same, no matter how we phrase them.

Po:era collaborated with a diverse team of artists in the production of this work. In collaboration with the sound artist Samaquias Lorta, the authors recorded over 30 hours of sounds on site produced by the human and non-human inhabitants of Herzberge. The combination of binaural field recordings and scripted narrative in conjunction with sound/music composition was an enduring process. The artists sought for the integrity of the overall emotional impact and the creation of a new sense of aural exploration.