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“.

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Ports, 2016

Performance on MS Stubnitz, Premiere 9. November 2017.

Travelogues from journeys exploring the possibility of a different port: As Hamburg Port Hydrarchy (HPH), secret agency set out to conceptualize and initiate port development beyond container trade and cruise ship romanticism. Access to the sea is monopolized and taken away from the citizens in many port cities across the Western world. HPH explores alternative practices of using the port around the world: engaging in refugee-organised seatrade between Hamburg and Lagos, reporting from the civil resistance against the cruise ship industry in Venice, participating in the Battle of Mau Mau Island, a yearly regatta of the radical seafarers of New York City, and visiting ghost ships in the South China Sea.

In Kooperation mit Kampnagel und der MS Stubnitz. Produktionsleitung: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
Gefördert von der Kulturbehörde Hamburg und Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V.

Materials

You are not welcome (MP3)