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Of All The People In All The World: Switzerland and the U.K. |
India Forum, Reitschule, Bern, Switzerland
14 - 30 January, 2010
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Chris DuGrenier, Jake Oldershaw, Craig Stephens, Jack Trow
With Annina, Anna, Nick and Pad
We were brought to Bern by the CESCI (The Centre for Socio-Cultural Interaction)
which is based in Tamil Nadu in India with a support association in Switzerland as part of their India Forum. Alongside us there were
talks, films and performances looking at themes of hunger, land rights and non violent protest.
We were based in the great hall of The Reitschule once, as the name suggests, a riding school, but now
a vibrant, left leaning cultural and community centre which hosts bands, theatre, films and exhibitions. The hall provided a very atmospheric
setting for the show but a cold one ... so cold that it made @AE Harris seem positively barmy, so cold that even the printer refused to work.
To get over this we had to reside for much of the time in a small office/cupboard which could be heated, print out sheets and then
scurry out into the cold place to lay out new piles. Once the show opened we were furnished with a pub style patio heater and warm sweet cups of
chai tea.
The context of the show (India, Switzerland and the UK) threw up some interesting research and juxtapositions of statistics.
For example, the same number of people were born in Switzerland last year as are born in India each day and both countries have the
same number of daily McDonalds customers.
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