“Staging the World – Performing the Floor” introduces artistic positions, which address the interplay between the individual and society with the help of performance and visual media. Depicted are psychological and social courses of action as well as concealed communication features in order to highlight, how moral conceptions, rituals and conventions guide our action, how the person is confronted with expectations of the group and how it tries to fulfill them by means of adaption, rearrangement and canalization.

The floor is the perfect medium for staging this picture. As an often underestimated architectural side phenomenon it is nevertheless the way to the primarily “important” rooms of a building and therefore in its ambivalence neither the inside nor the outside, but both the interface and the indicator between these extremes.