LIGNA

LIGNA comprises the media and performance artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hueners and Torsten Michaelsen.

Since 2002, through shows, urban interventions and performative installations, they have been exploring the scope for action available to dispersed and temporarily associated collectives. In doing so, they develop various models of media use: the Radio Ballet, for example, invites participants to follow a choreography of forbidden and excluded gestures in formerly public, now privatised and controlled spaces such as main railway stations or shopping centres. The audience thereby becomes a collective of producers. An association emerges that produces unpredictable, uncontrollable effects which challenge the order of the space. In plays such as Der Neue Mensch or Ödipus der Tyrann, the audience is invited to appropriate the stage space through a multi-layered gestural interaction and to question the theatre as a place of representation. More recent works such as Die große Verweigerung or Rausch und Zorn invite participants into a complex game whose rules are only gradually revealed. LIGNA’s works have received numerous international awards.