Böse Häuser

Turbo Pascal’s “Böse Häuser (Evil Houses)” is an immersive thought experiment: Equipped with headphones, the spectators are invited to enter more or less appealing thought constructions: sometimes in athletic movement, sometimes lying down in meditation, sometimes in frontal aggression, but always following the beat. In this process, they are elegantly guided up to thresholds leading into their own “evil houses”. How far can I go along with an allegedly alien thought when it is implanted directly into my head? What do I find more attractive, a society of singularities or a practised collective? Do we want to talk to right-wingers – or are we ourselves in fact the problem? Finally, “Böse Häuser” deals with the big question of the possibility and contingency of language in the attempt to treat others and ourselves with empathy – and thus, with the utopia of transforming our thinking.
Christina Zintl

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