Emergency Routine

A collective gathering in the inner courtyard of the former prison: members of Public Movement invite the audience to experience forms of touch from crisis situations, which normally only occur in evacuation situations and situations of acute threat. Together the performers and audience will create temporary formations that turn authority and solidarity into physical actions: bodies are guided, carried, carefully supported, or restrained. The site-specific adaptation of Emergency Routine enters into dialogue with the architecture of Rennelberg Prison, which is inscribed with memories of control, detainment and violence. In it, Public Movement will create new experiences of empathy and solidarity, and choreographies of care.  

Public Movement is an artistic research and performance collective that researches and stages political actions in public spaces, museums and cultural institutions. It has been creating performative actions and choreographies that investigate the historical role of public spaces in shaping of civic life, cultural identities and forms of belonging since 2026. Their practice operates on the threshold between art and history.