Built in the 1950s by “Father Timofej” and his wife Natascha as a black building from the rubble of the Second World War, the East-West Peace Church was an example of positive disobedience and encounter for decades.
After the fire at the East-West Peace Church, a gap remains – painful, empty and full of questions. “Form Follows Dysfunction” starts right there: with a performance of building, remembering and destroying. Father Timofej once decorated the ceiling of his church with the silver chocolate wrappers that the people of Munich brought him – today, service not included is calling on people to bring in leftover chocolate bars to build a monument. With this participatory call, we ask ourselves what we do with remembrance, which walls we try to tear down and yet only rebuild their rubble in a transformed form.
In this way, the site becomes a meeting place, a space for thought, a place of contention. A cycle of construction and decay, accompanied by music and conversations. What remains when places disappear? What is created when we dare to create something new together? In a city that often leaves no room for the imperfect, a stage is created here – for memory, ruptures and the right to a different space.
Marie Jaksch, born in 1987, lives and works in Munich and Lotti Oeken, born in 1993, lives and works in Leipzig. In 2017, they founded the performance collective service not included.
