THE AGENCY is a young performance group that immersively experiments with the manifestations of neoliberalism. Their performances, in which audience members are gently involved as customers or future members, revolve around subversive options of agency under the conditions of the post-digital: How are our desires, our feelings, our identities and political movements formed in the post-digital age? And how is it possible under these conditions to create counter-emotions, counter-identities, counter-movements? The artistic works take on neoliberal connotations of formats and their aesthetic strategies such as branding and corporate identity, overturn the institutionalized technologies of the self in a critically affirmative way – and struggle for a utopian potential from a queer-feminist perspective.

THE AGENCY was founded by MAGDALENA EMMERIG, RAHEL SPÖHRER, YANA THÖNNES and BELLE SANTOS. SOFIE LUCKHARDT joined the group in 2018.

Their performances and installations have been shown at MÜNCHNER KAMMERSPIELE, PACT ZOLLVEREIN, TANZ IM AUGUST, AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE BERLIN, FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE BUENOS AIRES, KUNSTVEREIN DÜSSELDORF, GOOD FORVER and ATHENS BIENNALE.