Art and Collaborations
How spiritual experience can be articulated through performative structures — and how contemporary rituals enable collective sensing, thinking and transformation.
University of Art Linz
Since 2025 I teach “Somatics and Performance” at the University of Art Linz, within the course Plastik and Environment. Over four modules in one academic year, students move from individual somatic experience to working as an ensemble in space and in the environment. We follow the body systems — water and the nervous system, bones, muscles — through experiential anatomy, Body-Mind Centering, Authentic Movement, improvisation scores such as Swarm, Deep Listening, voice, writing and touch. Listening, receiving and giving an impulse are practised together, in the studio and outdoors by the river, and grow into shared performance scores.
Waves of Becoming
A multimedia research project between somatic work, choreography and video art, accompanied by a short film premiering in autumn 2026. Against a backdrop of increasing isolation and capitalist modes of thinking, it approaches collective ritual as a shared space for care and intimacy beyond private relationships. Improvisational practices soften the boundaries of individuality and let experiences of selflessness surface through collective movement. Water runs through the work as a central image — transformation, vitality, unity.
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Selected works
Echo sagt Bodensatz – Tohubassbuuh
An installation and performance with oversized heads and objects, reflecting on the built environment as a city’s memory and the repressed, collective structures of meaning that persist in its half-light.
Stauung im Steinbruch
A performative foray amid a problematic group of figures from German history in the provisions magazine of Zitadelle Spandau — persistent transmitters of forgotten history.
Neophyt – Wanderungen
Living, organically growing garments and an installative sound performance imagining “dialogical design” as a posthuman utopia — garments made as a communal act, ritual and ceremony.
Als Nonne und als Verletzter
My solo debut, first shown at Ballhaus Ost in 2017: a hybrid of concert, diary-like recitation, poems by Western mystics and video installation. From a feminist perspective it asks what it means to cultivate a spiritual life within postmodern civilization: how necessary is solitude for change, how contemporary is this longing, and how fulfilling can it be today? Part 2 is a labyrinthine miniature between concert, installation and performance, where contemplative perceptions of nature meet cyborg aesthetics.
dung dung (decomposition)
On the late-19th-century utopians and communards who founded settlements around Berlin — and the substances left over from these mostly-failed models.
- 2020
- Save me (not) — Performance · Frauen und Fiktion. With humour, the work confronts the myth that women are naturally the weaker sex — the damsel in distress becomes the final boss. Music: Lina Krüger, Jonas Mahari. Theater Oberhausen.
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- Care 3.0 — Performance · Frauen und Fiktion. A glamorous care contest where caring figures beyond fixed gender roles compete in acts of nourishment, comfort, saying no, listening and patience. Performance incl. Lina Krüger. Photos: Flavio Karrer. Theater Roxy Basel, Treibstoff Festival.
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- YOU ARE A WEAPON! — Performance · Frauen und Fiktion. Female attackers in a physically demanding confrontation based on biographical interviews — the stage turns from battlefield into protected training space. Music: Lina Krüger. Photos: Brygida Kowalska. Theaterdiscounter Berlin.
- 2016
- SEX — Performance · Talking Straight. A simulated pick-up event of the global Seduction Community, where re-enactment is turned into a ritual of exorcism. Talking Straight — Alicia Agustín, Daniel Cremer, Lina Krüger, houaïda, Antje Prust. Münchner Kammerspiele.
- 2016
- Entertainment — Performance · Talking Straight. A life-simulation game and an exhilarating lesson in capitalism, played entirely in an invented foreign language. By and with Alicia Agustín, Daniel Cremer, houaïda, Lina Krüger, René Michaelsen, Antje Prust. Studio Ý, Maxim Gorki Theater.
- 2015–16
- Talking Straight Will Set Us Free — Performance · Talking Straight. A simulated state ceremony asking whose freedom is actually being celebrated. Pictures: Ute Langkafel / MAIFOTO. Studio Ý, Maxim Gorki Theater.
- 2014–15
- Aussöhnen mit Deutschland 2 — Performance · Talking Straight. A national-religious ghost train assembled from original texts, haunted by the desire for national unity and a healthy national body. Talking Straight and Studio Ý. Studio Ý, Maxim Gorki Theater.
- 2014
- Talking Straight Festival — Festival · Talking Straight. A one-day parallel festival world in an invented foreign language, presenting the theatre of white Central Europeans as an exotic rediscovery. Concept: Daniel Cremer / Talking Straight. Maxim Gorki Theater.
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