Ayla Pierrot Arendt is an artist and director based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. With a background in visual arts and choreography, Ayla has a strong interest in expressing various forms of assembly, protest, and diversity through performance and video production. This involves exploring possibilities for collective thinking, rethinking, overwriting, and claiming representations of power, history, values, and ideals.

21–12–2023 interview
The Voluntary Chancellor

As the end of the year approaches, so does the time for official toasts and speeches. While state representatives draft their solemn keynotes, artist Ayla Pierrot Arendt is preparing her yearly address as Voluntary Chancellor – a figure between fiction and reality she enacts since 2021. In conversation with writer and curator Alix Di Jusco, Ayla reflects on the complexities of representation and the seizing of public discourse as a tool for political imagination.