For the 48 Hours Neukölln Festival 2020 titled „BOOM“ Hoffmann & Skakun played the entire Weserstraße; This year’s AR project 2021 with the title „NOT BERLIN AIR“ is precisely focused on Reuterplatz.

The artist collective Hoffmann & Skakun was founded in 2020.

Our „NOT BERLIN AIR” app can be downloaded and installed from the respective app store from Apple for iOS and from Google Play for Android (from the beginning of the festival).

In an era of scarcity of pure and clean air, Hoffmann & amp; Skakun create their own and let them float in oversized glass ampoules over the heads of the beholder. The ampoule of Duchamp’s ready-made „50cc air de Paris” becomes a Calder mobile in a serial multiplication. Always in motion, as if slightly bumped by an imaginary breeze, the bottle-like vessels give the appearance of a dance or the staging of a ballet piece. Their transparency and fragility, the play of inside and outside, of reality and fiction and then reality again acts as a bridge for viewers and virtual reality.

But with „NOT BERLIN AIR” should not only provide a visual experience.

Experienced via the smart devices of the festival visitors and integrated into the real world, the vibrations are transformed in a canon that is reminiscent of the well-known and title-related composition from the opera „Mrs. Luna“ reminding. However instead, this soundtrack is a counterpoint to the well-known hit song from the operetta abused by the Nazis and aims to establish a connection with the democratically minded poet and namesake of the place.

„NOT BERLIN AIR“ supported by Bezirksamt Neukölln Berlin, Fachbereich Kultur.