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Cologne

Angie Hiesl, Roland Kaiser
No Go

by Melanie Suchy

Who is inside, who outside? Who wants in, who is allowed, who has to, who mustn’t? Into what? Out of what, from where? A highly topical global issue. Orders from the megaphone: "Line up and I'll say, who may!", "Open your suitcase!", "Do you have a job?" The four performers repeat the sentences. Repeat, repeat, like machines. The instructions travel between speakers, overlap, change. They become even more independent via the loop machine. The performers have set aside their megaphones, yet the devices keep blaring.

Shooing away, humiliating. Angie Hiesl and her collaborator Roland Kaiser stage their performance No Go in front of Cologne-Messe/Deutz station—an unpopular interchange, a place of transit. They set up fences in the large square—four of them, but mobile ones: these ...

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