We are pegged into the rules and principles of a globally linked up world. Increasingly the impact of our actions becomes visible by the abundance of accessible information. And suddenly our self-perception begins to unravel: Having arranged us with a Western lifestyle, a liberal-democratic way of thinking, we become perpetrators. The awareness of standing on the proper side, to belong to the good guys, disappears.

Durational performance which plays with totalitarian and ideological mechanisms of the present in a performative way: The performer Linda Löbel – born and raised in Dresden, the place with the highest density of observation in the GDR – detains herself on the last Monday evening of Mad Hause.