Signa
Die Komplex-Nord-Methode

There is no outside in the living installations of artist duo SIGNA. Only temporary immersion into a world that seems to be outside of time. A world in which you discover your role as if by chance – a role that you are already playing even if you still refuse to accept it.

In the true-to-detail, frighteningly old-fashioned hospital rooms in the backmost recesses of the Joanneum, visitors register, set the duration of their stay (six, twelve, eighteen or twenty-four hours), become part of the hospital as patients, and the object of the “Complex North Method” for amnesia sufferers. Fragments of a fictitious identity gradually emerge until they finally gel into a figure.

In SIGNA everyone experiences his or her own performance, plays his or her own role in an ambitious and unique theatrical interaction that can be continued and added to during multiple visits with the aid of a patient’s file. The constructed reality gradually unmasks taboos regarding disease, vulnerability, dependency and power structures. And becomes a theatre that is so comprehensive that the question of fiction and reality loses all relevance.

After re-enacting a hotel, a village and other closed systems in the past, SIGNA have now been focusing above all on the world of psychiatry for a year and half. The “Complex North Method” completes a trilogy that began eighteen months ago with “Night at the Hospital” in the cellar of the Royal Danish Theatre.

Konzept / Idee: Signa Sorensen
Regie: Signa Sorensen
Konzept / Idee: Arthur Köstler
Regie: Arthur Köstler
Konzept / Idee: Thomas Bo Nilsson
Regie: Thomas Bo Nilsson
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Alice Trost
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Arthur Köstler
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Christina Scheutz
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Dominik Klingberg
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Llil Land-Boss
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Ina Mastnak
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Irma Wagner
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Klaus Jagersbacher
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Mareike Wenzel
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Peter Schoepfer
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Petra Pölzl
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Signa Sorensen
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Sophia Laggner
Künstlerin / Künstler / Gruppe: SIGNA