Body Bag A marks the launch of a collaborative performance practice by Paula Pedraza and Leonie Türke, rooted in long-term research into the material and political conditions of the body after death. Drawing on bone-awareness techniques and structured role-play, the work activates figures and agencies involved in the administrative, physical, and ethical decisions surrounding death. A conversation between corpse and mortician is articulated across the threshold of life and death, extending between pre-mortem and post-mortem temporalities.

It further introduces a structured framework based on medically and administratively defined stages of death—addressing bodily cessation, post-mortem handling, documentation, custody, and transitional states—as these processes are translated into performative methodologies.

On the 30th of January (Friday), the performance-installation will open at 18:30, with doors closing at 19:00. The opening will include a welcome and informal drinks.
On the 31st of January (Saturday), a full-day workshop will take place, offering participants an in-depth introduction to the conceptual and practical foundations of our work. The workshop engages with symbols, methodologies, and embodied techniques developed within the practice, including approaches to performing death or inhabiting the position of a dead body, alongside character-building methods drawn from LARP (Live-action Roleplay). The workshop is open to the public, with a maximum of 20 participants. Contributions are voluntary. Participants are welcome from 13:30 until approximately 19:30. Registrations required.
Der Workshop ist öffentlich und für maximal 20 Teilnehmer zugänglich. Die Beiträge sind freiwillig. Die Teilnehmer sind von 13:30 Uhr bis ca. 19:30 Uhr willkommen. Eine Anmeldung ist erforderlich.

Both the performance and the workshop are situated within a thanatopolitical framework, critically examining how institutional and procedural regimes govern death and its aftermath, and how such regimes often abstract, regulate, or neutralise the affective and relational dimensions of death for family members and close relations.