secret agency

The Bank of Burning Money, the Alibi Agency, the Casino of Tricks, the Assembly of Real and Other Pirates, the Black Bank, Women of the Seven Seas – secret agency produces situations and institutions that appear to be fictional but then nonetheless withstand the test of reality. The performances of secret agency create another reality rather than confirming the old world in critical gestures. They open escape routes from austerity and take you on a trip with the improbability drive. secret agency creates forums for unheard voices and explores the pleasures of future togetherness. secret agency is working anonymously, transdisciplinarily and internationally. It was founded to use artistic means and resources beyond the accumulation of individual fame. secret agency is an independent label, an open collective and a practical exercise in the „art of being many“.

Ein Kreuzfahrtterminal, 2015

Welcome to the port, welcome to the other side, welcome to where it all begins, where shore leave and seafaring combine into new forms of existence and mobility, welcome to the terminal. 

In June 2015, the Hamburg Senate opened the city's third cruise ship terminal. Poltics and business were happy. Other ways of acting on the world's oceans were not considered. 

More and more travellers sail the seas in ever-growing ships, which hide the realities of the seas in landscapes of wellness and consumption. How can we cross the logic of the cruise? How can we claim our right to the sea in the port city of Hamburg? 

From August 14th to August 23rd 2015, secret agency opened its own alternative cruise ship terminal at the site of the former Oelkerswerft: without a ship, but with the aim of developing and testing visions for a different cruise industry and a different port together.

Materials

geheimagentur, Knarf Rellöm, Ronnie Henseler & the Seafarers at the Duckdalben: International Shore Connection (MP3) Statement of the crew of the alternative cruise ship terminal