5-10 min. interventions in public space, with one to six performers

The work was realized as a series of five to ten minute performative interventions at the subway station Universität in Munich. Between one and six performers entered the B-Ebene of the station and enacted the gestures of flag-swinging, while the flag itself remained absent. The choreography was inspired by the traditional flag-swinging competitions (Fahnenschwinger Meisterschaften) and transferred into the public context of the station.

By removing the visible flag, the performance pointed to the contradictions of statehood and nationalism. The flag as a symbol of unity and identification is reduced to its empty gesture, highlighting how the democratic and social aspects of the state are eroded, while exclusionary and nationalist structures persist.

The absence of the object created an ambivalent situation: viewers were confronted not with a material symbol but with movements oscillating between authority, tradition, and emptiness. The everyday space of the subway became temporarily charged, functioning as a stage for both the performative repetition of power-related gestures and their simultaneous destabilization.

with Aurora Biancardi, Giulia Zabarella, Stephanie Rössing, Lukas Kayl, Hannah Geisler, Veronica Vagnon