TITLE: Call Cutta
\nAUTHOR: Rimini Protokoll
\nYEAR: 2005
\nMEDIUM: mobile phone<\/p>\n
\u201cCall Cutta\u201d by the German theatre collective Rimini Protokoll was announced, in 2005, as \u201cthe world\u2019s first Mobile Phone Theatre.
\nA call center agent in Bidhannagar, popularly called Salt Lake City, a planned satellite town in Kolkata in India is guiding a single theatregoer during about 60 minutes through the city of Berlin by the means of a mobile phone. So, as an audience in Berlin, you get a phone call at a previously fixed time from a call center agent in India, some 12 flying hours away, who has not more at his disposal than a digital script telling him how to guide the Berlin person through the town. Call center agents usually try to flatten the cultural differences involved \u2013 so that he or she seems close to you (otherwise they risk a loss of competence); in the mobile phone theatre \u201cCall Cutta\u201d in contrast topics from Indian history, but also from the individual biographies of the individual call center agents are addressed. Sometimes, in this one to one encounter it is getting unclear who is the performer and who is the recipient.
\n\u201cCall Cutta\u201d by its irritation just forces us to think about the conditions in which we inhabit the space of our world \u2013 or: it does not only make us think about, but it makes an individual experience possible.<\/p>\n
Call Cutta | Haug \/ Kaegi \/ Wetzel (English with german subtitles)<\/a> from Rimini Protokoll<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TITLE: Call Cutta AUTHOR: Rimini Protokoll YEAR: 2005 MEDIUM: mobile phone \u201cCall Cutta\u201d by the German theatre collective Rimini Protokoll was announced, in 2005, as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historicalexamples","masonry-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/remotespacin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/remotespacin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/remotespacin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/remotespacin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/remotespacin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/remotespacin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/remotespacin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/remotespacin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/remotespacin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mtr.zhdk.ch\/remotespacin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}