Queer as German Folk. 1969­2019 – 50 Years Stonewall Riots

Con­trary to the clas­sic def­i­n­i­tion of scenog­ra­phy – design­ing spaces as con­tain­ers for exhibits – the respec­tive exhi­bi­tion spaces of the eight Goethe Insti­tutes in North Amer­i­ca are designed on demand by the par­tic­i­pants or exhibitors them­selves. For this pur­pose, the chezweitz team designed expres­sive print media that can be print­ed and adapt­ed to the desired loca­tion or exhi­bi­tion archi­tec­ture, while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly being sup­ple­ment­ed with region­al exhibits. True to the mot­to ​“Every­one builds every­thing them­selves,” this sceno­graph­ic approach under­scores the social char­ac­ter of the queer revolt and the protest against the con­ven­tion­al and traditional.

The scenog­ra­phy sets the cre­ative tone. How abstract, artis­tic, clas­si­cal, or order­ly the exhi­bi­tion ulti­mate­ly appears is left to each team involved in the project. Thus, each exhi­bi­tion is reshaped, just as the idea of​Stonewall must be con­tin­u­al­ly rein­vent­ed to main­tain its relevance.

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