With: Snejana Prodanova, Larissa Rapold, Marianna Angel, Dieter Roth, Augustin Lipp, Leon Rüttinger, Raphael Rossé, Oskar Szutenberg, Noah Rees and various versions of Ott

The Ott Orchestra assembles for the Performance Award as an open ensemble—not a concert in the traditional sense, but a situational musical intervention in which space, audience, furniture, bodies, and sound together form a provisional orchestra. It brings together not only musicians but also dancers, writers, fictional characters, a snake, and a wood sculptor. There is no fixed score; structure arises in the moment through misunderstandings, apologies, remarks, reactions, and resonance.

Listening becomes a form of active participation, transforming the situation into a fleeting exhibition space. Within the orchestra, improvisation is understood as a system balancing order and disorder, grounded in trust, risk, mutual attention, and, above all, listening. The orchestra is a field of possibilities—an open, ecological process of collective presence that continually shifts and reflects on its own conditions.