The performance group Boys* in Sync is researching the communal area of Tårnbyparken, which was established in the 1950s to provide green and affordable housing, inspired by the Athens Charter. 

200 years earlier Heinrich von Kleist wrote “The Earthquake in Chile”, a short novel about a young couple whose love is socially forbidden. Only through the catastrophe of an earthquake are they able to escape execution and find shelter in a community of survivors outside the ruins of the destroyed city. Kleist’s novel can be read as a study of community and societal trauma - eventually law is reinstalled and the two lovers are killed by the newly established community that they had put their trust in. 

In the 40 min performative walk through the landscape of Tårnbyparken, Boys* in Sync explore its socio-political topography, stepping in and out of theatricality, using the architecture as well as Kleist’s novel to raise the questions: “What does it need to build a community? What do we learn from a crisis?”