A bank is one of the most obvi­ous insti­tu­tions in one’s life. Nev­er­the­less eco­nomic struc­tures, their inter­nal logic and the way in which they are insti­tu­tion­al­ized into what is “bank” today - exist often as an imag­i­nary con­cept. The tour will happen during work­ing hours par­al­lel to work being per­formed. You will be able to visit offices, gold sector, bank art col­lec­tions and dif­fer­ent ser­vices, you will meet bank man­agers and employ­ees. The public will be guided by Mr. Wolf­gang Grupp, one of the direc­tors of BW Bank. The tour uses the con­cept of inac­ces­si­ble real­ity as a stage and raises ques­tions whether and to which extent a bank and eco­nom­ics are a contemporary form of par­tic­i­pa­tion per­for­mance.

Friday 13 July 2007, 2 p.m., Kleiner Schloss­platz 11, 70 173 Stuttgart