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Places change, so do people. There are places where different pasts exist in layers on top of each other and people have left behind their mark. And there are traces that are suddenly lost. Is there a logic to this? How do you know what it was like before? Or what it will be like in future? HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY is walk and a story. With your own smartphone, earphones and an app, you will follow a route through Dresden, following a plan and yet moving individually, through the city and at the same time through a story.
The Hungarian collective MeetLab is an interdisciplinary platform for and by artists who experiment with digital technologies and their uses. Their work often takes place in public and uses everyday technologies to extend or play with the real situation. Writer and dramaturge Ambrus Ivanyos (*1991) is one of the founders of MeetLab. He develops scenarios for different formats for theatre, film, installation and live games. HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY is his first piece as a writer and a director.

Bálint Tóth (*1989) is an architect and also one of the founders of MeetLab. For him, art in public space is “soft tool” for architecture and urban development. Ivanyos and Tóth developed the Dresden version during two workshops in close collaboration with their co-authors from Dresden.

You will need the following to participate:

– a fully charged smartphone with GPS function, Internet connection for downloading the app and audio files, 160 MB free disk space, headphones
– Download the izi.TRAVEL app from the app store on your smartphone (https://izi.travel/en). We would like to point out that with izi.TRAVEL you are using an external provider under its own terms of use: The Staatsschauspiel Dresden is not responsible for its content and terms of use. The izi.TRAVEL app works via the GPS of your smartphone. We recommend that you only grant permission to access your location data while using the app. The app can also ask you for permission to share your data with Google Analytics. We recommend that you choose the option not to do this.
– Book a ticket for 10,00 € via the Webshop
– Scan the QR code with the app's QR code reader or enter the code under Settings / Security Code. When the menu has opened, you can choose between German and English from the 3 items in the upper right corner. Now download the audio files using the Download butSound Design.
– After downloading the app and audio files you can deactivate the internet connection of your device. The audiowalk will work without internet connection as soon as the content is downloaded.
– You can do the audiowalk till 30th November 2021 whenever you want. You start with No. 1, the test station in front of the service centre at the Schauspielhaus, Theaterstraße 2. The app reacts to your GPS data and automatically triggers the audio files when you reach a certain location. Within the app you can see a map on which different locations are marked. You don't have to go to all locations, but can select any one you like: as long as you walk from the beginning at Augustusbrücke to the end in the Alaunpark, you will get a complete story. You also don't have to follow the numbering as it appears on the screen. You are completely free to choose your route.

Concept & Direction Ambrus Ivanyos, Bálint Tóth

Production Office Fanni Nánay / Co-Authors of the Dresden version Kilian Bühling, Caroline Heinz, Mirjam Hoff, Matthias Kern, Andrea Künemund, Till Seigfried, Melissa Stock, Jenny Trautmann / Speaker of the English version Ambrus Ivanyos / Speaker of the German version Hans-Werner Leupelt / Translation of the English version into German Carolin Seidl / Photos Attila Balogh, Matthias Kern

The performance has received a creation aid by the IN SITU ACT, which has been funded with the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
The adaptation in Dresden takes place with kind support of Collegium Hungaricum Berlin.