May 28, 2006
This video was one of many pieces that made up The Commons_Berlin, a performance documentary presented at the Volksbuehne Theater in Berlin for the Rollende Road-Schau festival. The Commons describes the space where private spheres intersect - where the relationship of the one to the many, the individual to the collective, is negotiated. In The Commons_Berlin, each short documentary fragment was an answer to the question what is common? Through these brief examinations of public space, intellectual property, the language of political consensus, models of collective living, globalization, and the collective unconscious among other subjects, this inquiry attempted to paint the broadest picture of the myths and realities of what we share today. Music in "Roehre" was composed by Simon Fink and the pictures are by Jesse Shapins.
