Black Market, by Mobile Academy/Hanna Hurtzig

A room full of whispers, a restless and at the same time disconcerting installation, when viewed from the outside. And a strange sense of seclusion, closeness, concentration, when you are right in the middle of it. “Blackmarket” is both intimate and public; an insightful, often very private dialogue and a theatrical posit.

At fifty separate tables lighting up out of the dark, experts sit opposite one guest, changing every half hour – admission is free, the ticket for a discussion costs 1 Euro. From a safe outside position, visitors can listen in on individual conversations through headphones, suddenly up close without being noticed. In the middle of a display and production space, in which narrative formats of conveying knowledge are tested and presented.

The result is a hallucinatory adult education centre in which knowledge, life/survival strategies change hands in a non-institutional manner. During this evening, knowledge transfer as a communicative and performative act becomes a collectively whispered knowledge narrative focused on the subject of gifts.