At five in the afternoon we are in the wagon. We go out from the train at twelve. We invite a mathematician and we speak about the perception of time inside these wagons. One artist make a game with the passengers about The Little Prince. We have seen the Hertha BSC fans going to the match, some of them opening bottles with their mouths, and we have seen the same fans at the end taking the Ring home: they were the losers today and we felt it in their faces.
We want to start at the point we left off the last session: six in the morning. We travel nine hours. The waking up of a big city and the beginning of one more day. One little German girl going to the school is counting to twenty in Italian in front of her mother. One invited artist –today is his birthday-offers cake to the passengers.
After a work day inside the Ring we want to now spend a long Friday night partying here. We complete the normal week in this way. We begin at ten and we finish the next morning at six. During the night we speak with two cops out of service –one retired- they met in a cops' event that night. We see a fire from the window of the wagon and we can appreciate the evolution of fireman's work. Everything is fine at the beginning: make up ready, clean shoes, good dress, laughs and happy faces. Very different landscape at four in the morning. We make our own pub: vodka, friends and video.
i Ring is a mobile laboratory operating since 2009 in Berlin's circular train line, S41. Conceived as a practice-based research project it is concentrated on the investigation of people's mobility and the articulation of this experience in contemporary society.
Alex Barnils, Daniela Allocca, Celine Andreoli, Betiana Bellofatto, Natalia Blanco, Steve Braun,Kristina Burgstaller, Lidia Cangiano, Patrick Faurot, Judith Feige, Jan Fischer, Mirella Galbiatti, Marcelo Gauchat, Arne Gödeke, Alexandra Höhne, Maik Kerner, Tatjana Kononenko, María León Barquero, Lune Léoty, Irene Martínez, Arturo Martínez Steele, Emma Moreno, Estefanía Montero Moreno, Natalia Möller Gonzales, José Munoz, Jana Pessoa, Marc Philipps, Ibon Quintano, Katherina Rohde, Eva Maria Solana Navarro, Rafael Suárez, Diana Toledo, Katerina Valdivia Bruch,
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