Performances

Fear in Search of a Reason is a performance experiment, in collaboration with theatre director and choreographer Sommer Ulrickson, on the dissection and re-elaboration of the anxious condition in biological psychiatry and everyday life. Scientific and clinical explanations, philosophical arguments and culturally available stereotypes around anxiety will be confronted with...

“Yesterday, Tomorrow” is based on Nuruddin Farah's book, "Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora". It is a portrayal of the personal stories of people who, due to political instability in postcolonial Somalia, find themselves forced to flee their homes, cross borders and become refugees. Loss, borders and politics are at the very centre of this...

On January 7, 2005, Oury Jalloh, a man who had come to Germany seeking asylum, burned to death while shackled to the floor of a Dessau jail cell. Three years later two police officers were prosecuted on charges of wrongful death and acquitted. Outraged friends and family of the victim appealed the verdict, and, five years to the day of Jalloh’s death, the German Federal Court...

"In these fights, the winner is determined from the start. It’s not a boxing match with a surprise finish, the underdog toppling the champion. Try to make peace and you’re devoured alive; fight back and the police take you away, accusing you of starting the fight. And God knows what comes after that …"

Based on the death-in-custody...