The drive to Tahiti
The trip to Tahiti is a social experiment by Lucius Burckhardt . The experiment led to important results in promenadology . The aim is to answer the question of what explorers discover and how to convey an exotic place. The experiment was carried out during documenta 8 .
History and task
The trip to Tahiti is a reconstruction of the trip to Tahiti made by James Cook and Georg Forster in 1773 . The question to be answered is what explorers discover and how do you convey Tahiti.
First execution in the Dönche
The trip to Tahiti was carried out in 1987 on a former military training area in the Dönche near Kassel . At various stages of the walk, actors read texts by Georg Forster , who was in Tahiti with James Cook in 1773. The group members saw the kebabs and heard Tahiti. The descriptions of a paradise island were just as true as the dönche near Kassel. Modeled breadfruit trees and exotic potted plants from a nearby nursery were part of the staging.
Second performance in Milan
The trip to Tahiti was repeated in 1988 in Bovisa , a northern district of Milan with a mixture of industrial wasteland , disused tracks and railway ruins, southern colored flora and remains of cascines and noble villas. With a camera ( souvenir ) labeled “Bovisola”, ten stations could be viewed during the walk. Modeled breadfruit trees and exotic potted plants were also part of the staging here.
literature
- Lucius Burckhardt: Why is landscape beautiful? The walk science. 4th edition. Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-927795-42-9 .
- Lucius Burckhardt: Landscape theoretical watercolors and walk science. Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-927795-75-4 .