THE AGENCY: “Medusa Bionic Rise”

How can a movement be political? And what does a body mean in the post-digital age? In their series “Movements” THE AGENCY is concerned with the potential of physical and political movements and how they interface. With “Medusa Bionic Rise” the young performance group develops a fitness cult engaged in radical trans-human self-optimisation – in the grey area between self-control and self-empowerment. Inspired by the gaze of Medusa, the artists create the fiction of an underground movement in their immersive site-specific performance in the understage of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

THE AGENCY has been immersed in the phenomenon and narratives of neoliberalism since 2015. THE AGENCY affirmatively overwinds these formats. THE AGENCY takes up the strategies of branding, atmosphere and corporate identity aesthetically. The content dealt with revolves around technologies of self and body, post-human affinity and alienation, self-optimisation. THE AGENCY is Magdalena Emmerig, Belle Santos, Rahel Spöhrer and Yana Thönnes. The group lives and works in Munich and Berlin.