LIGNA

Moving from Freiheitsplatz to Schauspielhaus, the participants of LIGNA’s audio performance explore shifting political systems and contested ideas of freedom, getting to know how space shapes power and collective agency. Through sound, movement, and spatial transitions, the performance addresses the possibilities and limitations of freedom as a shared experience. Freiheitsplatz—renamed Freiheitsplatz in 1918 and 1938—reflects contrasting ideas of freedom as self-determination or submission. Just a few steps away, the theater offers a space where freedom can be enacted on stage, but only if this is allowed.

LIGNA (founded in 1997) consists of the media and performance artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners, and Torsten Michaelsen. In performances, urban interventions, and installations, they explore the agency of dispersed and temporarily associated collectives. Their works have been shown at institutions and festivals such as HAU, Berlin; Kampnagel, Hamburg; Mousonturm, Frankfurt; Tanz im August, Berlin; Theater der Welt; and Zürcher Theater Spektakel. In 2017, LIGNA received the Tabori Prize. The members live in Hamburg and Frankfurt.