Double Bind, my new performance format, premieres this week in Munich.
Double Bind pairs two speakers from different professional fields around an overlapping theme. A firefighter and a banker on risk. A psychotherapist and a cryptographer on trust. An archaeologist and a novelist on narrative. A moderator asks them identical questions. While one speaker responds, the other wears headphones and can’t hear. The testimonies unfold in parallel, and only the audience has access to both.
Behind the speakers, a live transcription and co-occurrence analysis visualises each speaker’s vocabulary, showing in real time where their accounts converge, diverge, or bypass each other entirely. The audience can follow the analytics on their phones during the performance. Afterwards, the headphones come off and the speakers take questions from the room.
Upcoming Performances
Double Bind: On Reality
15 May 2026 at
@bayerischer_rundfunk Funkhaus, as part of
@variousothersmunich
Curated by
@hannslennartwiesner
Performance I, 16:00
Julia Barthel, Investigative Data Journalist, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Helena Ernst, Freelance Conservator for Modern and Contemporary Art
Performance II, 20:15
Prof. Dr. med. Niclas Broer, Head of Department of Plastic Surgery, Klinikum Bogenhausen
@flinflanflon , Director, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Both moderated by
@heinzheinznull , Journalist, Bayerischer Rundfunk
Double Bind: On Relationships
28 May 2026, 17:00 at
@daile.lv , as part of
@rigaartweek
Tomass Pildegovičs, Advisor to the Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Kristīne Balode, Clinical Psychologist and Couples Therapist
Moderated by
@joshspero , Wealth Editor,
@financialtimes
Double Bind
20 and 21 August 2026, International Summer Festival
A collaboration of
@kampnagel_hamburg and
@markkhamburg 
