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It’s a week after the so-called riot night of 18 July 2020, the day when the mayor of the Frankfurt Peter Feldmann will make his public appearance in front of the press. In the immediate vicinity Black Lives Matter activists document racist police checkpoints, while simultaneously provoking them. As with so many political interventions in recent years, the drama of these nights is played out as much on screens and news feeds as on the streets: between sweaty asphalt, fire emojis, loudspeaker feedback and spent bandwidth, washed-out pixels and the horror they are meant to express. In his solo performance, Aran Kleebaur uses the events of that week and their medialities to ask how the communication networks of digital interfaces and the forms of physical coming together on streets, squares and in front of the respective screens mutually affect and set each other in motion.