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What is to be negotiated behind these microphones? A transcript of a conversation between two people. A long table and a strange wooden construction. Who is this person speaking of the Red Army Faction, of tenderness and militant resistance in the West Germany of the 1980s? 

There is a performer wanting to inform the audience of something. But it’s not possible to proceed: Each word changes the very circumstance it tries to convey. Each act of speaking bears the potential of complicity in flattening out its subject. 

The German histories of denunciatory abuses of language are many. This is a live study into slippages that can turn words into tools for denunciation. How closely can one trace the judgements, interpretations and alterations one performs when putting words to something?

Leon Locher is a Swiss-German performance creator, performer and writer. Entering the art world through theater and literature, they did a BA in language arts in Vienna before studying at HZT Berlin. Their practice focuses on the intersection between text, body and space, looking at different forms of text embodiment as sites of aesthetical and political negotiation. @leonluap