Same But Different – März Equinox | 20.03.2022
20.03.2022 | 16:00
Neptunplatz | 50823 Köln-Ehrenfeld
Organizer: Marita Bullmann, Thomas Reul
mit: Annika Leese, Anja Hild, Carlotta Oppermann, Christiane (Akal Kiret) Obermayr, Eduardo Amato, Evamaria Schaller, Ira Kharlamova, Irmgard Himstedt, Ivan Stoyanov, Joseph Ravens, Klaut, Marita Bullmann, Rolf Hinterecker, selina bonelli, Susanne Helmes, Thomas Reul
Fotos: Yves Itzek
Same But Different (Equinox)
Is an international day for public actions for freedom for all people.
Each year on the Equinoxes, (~20.03. and 22.09.) the duration of day and night is approximately equal around the globe. In this spirit of cosmic equality, the event serves as a global connection for people performing together in public spaces.
This sharing of time and space brings us closer together as a temporary (global) community by encouraging non-violent expressions for locally specific conditions through performance art.
Everyone is welcome to participate with openness and in solidarity, embracing and embodying diversity whilst acknowledging each other’s individual circumstances, difficulties, and conflicts.
For this purpose, everyone is welcome to join and/or organise a group performance. The following conditions should be fulfilled if there are no external restrictions:
– The event should take place as close as possible to the dates of the Equinox(es)
– The event encourages performative group work with at least two people performing together
– The event should take place in public space.
– The event is open so offers the possibility for everyone interested to get involved
History:
This idea of exploring the interconnected role of the performative collaboration and the citizen in shaping and transforming public space has been a fundamental endeavor of Same but Different (Equinox) and its artists worldwide since a symposium hosted by Bbeyond in Belfast in 2017. During this event, Chumpon Apisuk proposed a day of public action as a follow-up to Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox (September 2016), where 283 artists from around the world (45 locations in 29 countries) worked together in public spaces.
This idea of exploring the interconnected role of the performative collaboration and the citizen in shaping and transforming public space has been a fundamental endeavor of Same but Different (Equinox) and its artists worldwide since a symposium hosted by Bbeyond in Belfast in 2017. During this event, Chumpon Apisuk proposed a day of public action as a follow-up to Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox (September 2016), where 283 artists from around the world (45 locations in 29 countries) worked together in public spaces.
„It is the day that all states must recognise and allow actions from the people which are ‘peaceful’ and ‘non-violent’. This day of action can be with or without context, but for the recognition of all people’s rights to share the public space together, in solidarity with each other, in respect of each other’s rights to share the same public space, as well as the time.”
More and more countries are experiencing social unrest due to the rise of governmental restrictions on basic human rights. Every continent is experiencing some form of repression of civil liberties, be it individual, social, economic, political, religious, cultural, or environmental. These rights are at the forefront of what makes us human and shape civil society.
The global discourse initiated by Same but Different (Equinox) is based on an openness to talk about public space as a social and political sphere. The pandemic has increasingly shown us that public space is essential for community life. It is a place of physical creation that is repeatedly claimed and interpreted by a variety of groups and movements.
