The voice of silence

concept· choreography· live vocals· perfromance

BAERENZVINGER BERLIN, 2024

collaboration with Poligonal Berlin and Plummo

Created inside Berlin’s former bear enclosure, this collaborative performance inhabits a space marked by captivity, display, and enforced limitation. Working with the architecture of the cage — fur, stone, narrow ground, running water — the piece explores what it means to move inside confinement: physically, politically, and psychologically.

The performance unfolds as part of an installation by Polygonal, with a live polyphonic sound tapestry by Plummo. Distorted field recordings from the surrounding city merge with anecdotes from local voices, sonified social data, and statistics from the real estate industry, tracing urban transformation and capitalist extraction as an audible pressure.

Within this sonic environment, movement becomes a form of translation: a body responding to exploitation, enclosure, and the shrinking of space. Live vocals cut through the soundscape, turning the cage into an echo chamber of resistance, vulnerability, and survival.

A voice inside the enclosure.