Swoosh Lieu:
Who moves?!

Boats, fences, trains, camps, the open sea, throngs of people in transit spaces – these are just some of the images of migration which dominate the media. Who produces these pictures and what role do women* play in them? What can images reveal and show us differently, if we dismantle and piece them back together? In their new production, Swoosh Lieu take a feminist look at the subject of migration: Why have women* been voluntarily or involuntarily on the move since generations and in various political contexts? Why do they traverse boundaries, what are they fighting for? Based on a mutual contemplation of images together with women* on the move, Swoosh Lieu take a seat at the assembly line of motivations, question the power of images and the privilege of the gaze, and search for means of expression and changes in perception.

BY AND WITH Swoosh Lieu CONCEPT, LIGHT Johanna Castell CONCEPT, SOUND Katharina Pelosi CONCEPT, VIDEO Rosa Wernecke SPACE Lani Tran-Duc DRAMATURGY Stawrula Panagiotaki TECHNICAL-ARTISTIC COLLABORATION Hanke Wilsmann MANAGEMENT Greta Granderath ASSISTANCE, TRANSLATIONSCaroline Froelich ASSISTANCE STAGE DESIGN Milena Wichert STAGE CREW Johanna Castell, Caroline Froelich, Greta Granderath, Katharina Pelosi, Rosa Wernecke, Milena Wichert, Hanke Wilsmann

Produced by Swoosh Lieu in co-production with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. Funded by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Frauenreferat der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, Gerda-Weiler-Stiftung, Naspa-Stiftung. Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Guest Performance Fund for Theatre, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Departments of Culture and Arts of the German federal state. Friendly supported by Kampnagel Hamburg und dem Z. Zentrum für Proben und Forschung Frankfurt. media partners: taz.die tageszeitung, Jungel World