The twins Aljoscha and Joana Tischkau set out on a journey through cultural and art historical representations of kinship. Along the way, they come up against the many projections that queer and racialized people often encounter: siblings, couples, relatives. Using the performative potentials of their bodies, they try on these projections on and cast them off again. They reproduce images of similarity and otherness in order to give us a new telling of family histories.
In this special “family feud,” they work their way through all the representations used to perform family in the mass media, supported by a cast of relatives who are all complete strangers. What we know about family, we know from television. Social ideas of kinship are formed by pop-cultural images reproduced by the media.
Nostalgic memories of childhood spent in front of the telly are examined from a contemporary perspective, shedding light on the hegemonic ideas behind the dazzling surfaces:
Who is this “we” that "Married... with Children" addresses? Who’s supposed to recognize themselves in "Alf"? And what do Beyoncé and Jay-Z tell us about couple dynamics? How are family and belonging culturally defined and narrated in popular culture?

DIRECTION Joana Tischkau PERFORMANCE Joana and Aljoscha Tischkau, as well as family members from Berlin, Frankfurt, and Düsseldorf SET Carlo Siegfried COSTUME Nadine Bakota SOUND AND COMPOSITION Frieder Blume DRAMATURGY AND CO-DIRECTION Ellias Hampe CO-DIRECTION Nuray Demir VIDEO AND 3D ANIMATION Sondi LIGHT AND TECHNICAL DIRECTION Hendrik Borowski ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Laura-Marie Preßmar ARTISTIC PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT AND GUEST PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT Lisa Gehring PHOTOS Maya Röttger & Fungi Phuong Tran Minh, Marina Hoppmann