hansjana

As the collective hannsjana, Laura Besch, Jule Gorke, Lotte Schüßler,
Katharina Siemann, and Marie Weich have been collaborating since 2011 to create performances, audio walks, and performative educational formats. In doing so, they challenge existing assumptions and engage with places and themes in a humorous, poetic, musical, and scholarly manner, in order to explain them to themselves and others. In their works, the audience encounters human-animal beings that open up additional layers of meaning and discourse; they hear songs about economics or ornithology, are secretly encouraged to eat in the museum, have art-historical digressions explained through aerobic exercises, and are given the opportunity to become shareholders in a performance. Her works have been presented at venues including Theater Thikwa (Berlin), the Sophiensäle (Berlin), Steirischer Herbst (Graz), the IMPULSE Festival (Mülheim), and the Lucerne Theater.

https://hannsjana.com/