Crossing Culture Quiosque (CCQ)

What does a city sound like? What does the desire for visibility look like? Two artistic projects address, in very different ways, the question of how people can express themselves in their environment, be perceived, and even become part of a public, creative discourse.

The focus is not on perfect mastery, but on courageous experimentation, improvisation, and the personal – in a setting that is both intimate and public.

Whether through a lip-sync performance behind a semi-transparent shop window or through participation in a live radio broadcast in the heart of an often stigmatized urban neighborhood: both formats create temporary stages for voices, bodies, and attitudes. They make the invisible visible and the unheard audible. They consciously avoid complex technology or elitist requirements – the focus is on accessibility, spontaneity, and trust in the creative potential of each individual. These artistic settings open up spaces of possibility: For expression despite (or perhaps because of) a lack of means, for encounters beyond preconceived roles, for a collective experience of the city as a transformative, improvised stage. They address questions of representation, participation, and visibility – through the means of performance, sound, and the situational use of space. Two proposals for shaping a public sphere that does not exclude, but rather invites.

The Frankfurt Sport und Kunst Kasino (initiator: Annette Gloser, invites artists to new Exhibition Formats) here in cooperation with the Bahnhofsviertel Coordination Office (Angela Freiberg)

Live Radio Show: Gabi Schaffner (Radio- Sound- and Performance artist) & Ernst Markus Stein (DJ SchluchT/ Radio presenter) / Lip-Sync-Performance mit Talkshow: Melina Hepp (Talkmaster & Performance artist)