The staged performance project PICK’n’PLACE consists of two independent performance installations built around shelving systems which form the conceptual focus of the project. The shelf units are placed in public space and filled with countless everyday objects. The performance installations present personal items, revealing in a subtle and surreal manner the externalisation of our inner selves and showing the interplay between public order and individual liberty. PICK’n’PLACE is a game about placing and displacing – a shifting of our inner and outer worlds. PICK’n’PLACE opened the URBAN-CITY-URBAN project cycle in 2010. Over the next years, Angie Hiesl and Roland Kaiser will realise the multi-part project cycle for public urban space. The works deal with urban development and structural changes, with the impact of performance and installation art on public space and vice versa.

Angie Hiesl grew up in Venezuela, Perú and Germany, and has been living in Cologne since 1975. From the 1980s onwards, the director, choreographer, performance and installation artist has been presenting her interdisciplinary works, having been awarded numerous theatre and arts prizes since then. She is one of the first choreographers in Germany to exclusively develop site-specific choreographies. Her cooperation with Roland Kaiser began in 1997. Together, they create and realise their projects which were shown at numerous national and international festivals. Director, choreographer, performance and visual artist Roland Kaiser has been living in Cologne since 1987.