WORK THE ROOM criss-crosses the field of contemporary performance art investigating critical actions and the forms they take: How can politics be performed when the public consists of those present and sharing a room?

In Installationen, Performances, Videoarbeiten und Bildern setzen sich Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner seit dem Beginn ihrer Zusammenarbeit im Jahr 2002 mit Alltagserfahrungen, gesellschaftlichen Normen und sozialen Fragestellungen auseinander.
(german/english)

James R. Murphy, a math teacher in La Guardia, New York, regarded mathematics as the most powerful and manipulable abstract language available to humans. To acquaint students who don’t “like” math with abstract and systematical thinking, he put a piece of string in their hands and taught them to make string figures.

„SSS: How to imitate the sound of the shore using two hands and a carpet“ is an in-depth manual for staging a private (or public) performance, in which one uses both hands and a carpet to imitate the sounds of water making contact with land.