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KATJA HEITMANN

Role:
INTERVENTIONIST
Phenomenon:
CHANGE OF SCENE, REPRESENTATION
Strategy:
surrender

surrender

location:
Karlova
medium:
text

date:
25.06.15
time:
8:44

After two days of research we discovered this isn’t Mallorca. But they sell the same bags.

What really distinguishes Prague? The image that keeps popping up in our minds is the Thai Massage parlours. The sharks and the samurai costumes, the fishtanks with tired tourist feet…

Do tourists emphasize the industry of costumes, movements, the always-the-same position and gestures of the beggars? Or does this totally staged world draw in tourists like ‘sirens’ – onto the rocks of blissful predictability?

Today we are focussing on the image that every tourist will remember: the Thai Massage parlours. What happens there? Is there a protagonist? Tonight on the Charles Bridge we will give a preview of what everybody can expect to encounter while walking the ‘path’.

On Wednessday night June 24th you can see:NOW ago: an attempt to capture the moment by Katja Heitman