At the end of the 19th century, Johan Adrian Jacobsen was commissioned by the Berliner Museum für Völkerkunde to travel to the Pacific Northwest Coast and to Alaska, where he acquired numerous objects for the museum’s collection. He described his sojourn in an extensive travelogue. In their unique interpretation, the puppet theater Das Helmi and the artists’ group gold extra employ new narrative forms with which they address the origin of the collection, the role that Jacobsen played and the way in which the unknown is dealt with. In the computer adventure game developed by gold extra, visitors slip into the role of Jacobsen during his stay with the Haida in Canada. By means of a tablet, the objects of the collection turn into storytellers. Das Helmi produced a film with their foam puppets that sheds light on the figure of Jacobsen and translates the travelogue into the anarchical, improvising Helmi aesthetics. The project is directed by Viola König, Monika Zessnik and Andrea Rostásy.

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The computer game "Totem's Sound" by gold extra can be downloaded from the internet site www.totems-sound.com