NO GO. Performance im öffentlichen Raum von ANGIE HIESL + ROLAND KAISER

Borders are the topic of our time. Whether it is about external borders, the relationship between the sexes or the social border between those at the top and those at the bottom - social lines of conflict are increasingly looking like fronts in a bitterly fought war. Discrimination, hate speech and exclusion as a means of fighting for social power have become part of everyday life.

As an artistic intervention in urban space, NO GO addresses the omnipresence and damaging effect of discriminatory and exclusionary practices. The central element with which the performers act is the fence. With this simple yet effective means, NO GO shows that discrimination hurts, no matter what face it wears. But NO GO also shows that you can fight back. Being a victim is not a fate!

Ottoplatz is a place of transit and as such is characterized by anonymity and isolation. The deportations of Jewish people, Sinti and Roma from the Rhineland also started from the underground platform of the neighboring Deutz train station. NO GO deliberately intervenes at this point in the urban space and makes a statement against social separation, exclusion and discrimination.

🔶 Performers: Cilai Herrmann, Mojtaba Izadizad, Bibiana Jiménez, Matthias Weiland

🔶 Concept and realization: ANGIE HIESL + ROLAND KAISER, dramaturgical collaboration: Lothar Kittstein, text: Ensemble + Lothar Kittstein, Costumes: Rupert Franzen, Assistance: Rosa Heidemann, Artistic mediation format: Uta Püttmann, Project management: Christa Morgenrath, Finances: Sabine Klement, Press relations: neurohr & andrä GbR, Film documentation: Michael Maurissens, Photo documentation: Roland Kaiser, Graphic design: Steffen Missmahl

🙏 Our special thanks go to:
Reinhard Bergmann, Suse Beschorner + Dominikus Moos (CCCC Cologne), Matthias Maubach (Office for Public Order), Nadine Kiala (Kunsthafen Köln), Andreas Schmitz, Ruth and Waltraut Hiesl, Alexandra Schlattmann + Antonia Gottesleben (HGK Cologne), Vivien Musweiler + Judith Niggehoff + the young theater makers of Theater Marabu and Schauspiel Köln, Claudia Bleier (Kölner Kulturpaten e.V.).

🔶 Supported by: Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Kunststiftung NRW.
🔶 With the kind support of: CCCC, Kölner Kulturpaten e.V.